Just finished my session. What a nightmare… I was surprised anyone turned up as it was a late change to the schedule and there were some great sessions going on at the same time. Check out the photo. It was kinda OK, until I got to the demo, which I screwed up. That was really disappointing because [...]
I missed the OakTable day because it was the 10th birthday party of nephew number 1, but I did make it back to Birmingham in time for the ACE dinner. Mark Rittman provided evidence of my presence here. I was already full of cake and trifle before I arrived, but the waitress didn’t seem to understand, “I’m not eating”, so I [...]
A couple of slots opened up in the UKOUG schedule due to cancellations and a message came through the OakTable mailing list asking if anyone could fill them. Alex Gorbachev and myself stepped up to the plate. This means I’m now speaking about Clonedb on Monday at 11:05 in the Media Suite. See here. The [...]
Question: What happens when 12c Cloud Control runs out of disk space? Answer: It doesn’t work very well. I have a 12c Cloud Control installation on an Oracle Linux 6.1 VM and I was pushing an agent to both nodes of an 11.2.0.3 RAC, also on OL6.1 VMs. The agent installation seemed to go fine and [...]
So that’s another BGOUG finished and once again it was a great event. Every time I go I recognize more faces and my Bulgarian dancing gets a little better. I’m already looking forward to the next one I get to attend. A big thanks to Milena and the gang for organizing everything. There was literally [...]
Day 2 started with a very tired Doug Burns presenting “Performance and Stability with Oracle Database 11g’s SQL Plan Management”. As with his previous talk, this was firmly rooted in his practical experience of the feature and as such contained a mixture of positive and negative results. Essentially it boiled down to, this works great [...]
I’m at the airport waiting for my flight to Sofia (via Munich), on my way to the BGOUG conference in Hissarya. It’s early and I’m totally knackered. I had a killer tabata-style circuits class last night and a nightmare tabata-style kettlebell class the night before. I still have bruises from the latter. If only I could [...]
Fedora 16 came out yesterday and since it’s my main server OS it’s been upgrade crazy round here. All new installs and upgrades were straight forward. No real dramas at all (touch wood). As usual, I’ve done the OS installation and Oracle installation articles. Fedora 16 (F16) Installation Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Installation [...]
Day 1: The first presentation of the day was Debra Lilley speaking about 42 real life examples of Fusion Middleware with applications. When you see the markeing bumf it’s easy to believe Fusion Middleware is only for massive projects that use all its functionality. Debra’s presentation highlighted how Fusion Middleware is being used out in [...]