Day 2 started with an ACE panel session. There were more ACEs than attendees, but we all had fun chatting to each other. I guess one of the difficulties with this was it ran along side regular presentations, but such is life.
Straight after that it was the second part of my PL/SQL Presentation Layers session. [...]
The day started in the normal way. First, an introduction by Francisco, the new president of NZOUG, then some keynotes, then on to the presentations…
One of the difficult things about being a speaker at so many conferences is you often struggle to see something on the agenda you have not already seen several times around the [...]
I walked off the 7 hour flight to Dubai, straight on to the 13+ hour flight to Melbourne. I got a 1 hour rest at Melbourne while they cleaned the plane, before I started the 3+ hour flight to Auckland. I got to Auckland at about 14:00 where I was met by one of my [...]
Today is the day I fly to New Zealand to present at the NZOUG conference.
I got to the airport 2 hours before the flight as usual, but I’ve been here 3 hours already and I’ve still not boarded the plane. I have a long wait at Dubai, so this delay shouldn’t affect my connection. It’s 7 [...]
I’ve been having a play around with the DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE package introduced in 11gR2. It seems pretty neat, but I can’t help thinking the suggested usage (updating large tables) would probably be better done with a table redefinition or CTAS.
It’s worth knowing about though.
Cheers
Tim…
You sometimes get questions that are easily answered by a Google search, so you give people a link to lmgtfy.com, like this.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Oracle+11gR2
As a homage to lmgtfy.com I’ve created a documentation search.
http://www.oracle-base.com/search/
If you specify your search it gives you a URL you can pass to others. When they use the URL it shows them what they [...]
Just a point-and-click guide to Data Guard setup using Grid Control.
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Data Guard Setup using Oracle Grid Control
Cheers
Tim…
I know it’s been said before, but I read this and thought, once Red Hat’s market value starts to drop Oracle could get a really good deal.
I thought the reference to the quality of Red Hat’s support was quite comical. I’ve always found their support to be terrible. To be more specific, you raise a [...]
Hopefully the title got your attention. Of course it could have read, “Real Linux Sysadmins use Cobbler and Puppet…”, or any number of comparable statements and products. The point being, there is a gradual evolution in the way we approach tasks and if we don’t move with them we marginalize ourselves to the point where [...]
I recently managed to screw up my Grid Control VM, so I was forced to reinstall it. I’d not written an article on it since 10gR2, as I’ve just been applying patches since then. Faced with a new install I decided to go x86_64 and do clean install direct to 10gR5.
Oracle 10g Release 5 Grid [...]