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Oracle Certified Profesional (OCP) Database 11g…

I passed the Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators (1Z0-050) exam today. It’s a bit of a relief because I feel like I’ve been preparing for this exam for a year. My first OCP revision article was written about 1 year ago, when I was hoping to be ready for the beta exam. Unfortunately, all the [...]

Posted 02 September 2008 † Tim... § Oracle ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: ,

Flights, OpenWorld, VMware and stuff…

I realize I’ve been a little quiet of late, but life has been really busy and something had to give…
Flights for my conference dates are now sorted. Big thanks to Victoria, LaShon and Sylia. I better get on the case and book my hotels. The plan is:
Birmingham > Frankfurt > San Francisco > Auckland > [...]

Posted 20 August 2008 † Tim... § Oracle § Random ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

Automatic Storage Manager (ASM) Enhancements in 11g…

More OCP revision notes. This time an overview of ASM enhancements…

Automatic Storage Manager (ASM) Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1

Cheers
Tim…

Posted 08 August 2008 † Tim... § Oracle ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Resource Manager Enhancements in 11g…

I’ve just put another Oracle 11g new features article live:

Resource Manager Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1

Cheers
Tim…

Posted 30 July 2008 † Tim... § Oracle ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

11g bits and bobs…

I’ve just released an article covering the Miscellaneous New Features section of the OCP upgrade exam. It contains a rather random assortment of stuff including:

Online Table Redefinition Enhancements
Enhanced Finer Grained Dependency Management
DDL With the WAIT Option (DDL_LOCK_TIMEOUT)
Invisible Indexes
Query Result Cache
Adaptive Cursor Sharing
Temporary Tablespace Enhancements

I was toying with the idea of putting each section out as [...]

Posted 19 February 2008 † Tim... § Oracle ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,