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Monday, June 28, 2010

Build a Simple Firewall for Databases Using SQL Net

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This article was initially published in 2003 in DBAZine.com, which has since been folded. So, you want to set up a secured database infrastr...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Webcast for Latin American Oracle User Group

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Thank you all those attended the websession today for LAOUG. It was a great honor to be the first speaker in the virtual conference series. ...
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

RACSIG Webcast on June 24th Files

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Thank you all those who attended my presentation - "Under the Hoods: Cache Fusion, GCS, GES and GRD". I hope you found it useful. ...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Mining Listener Logs

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When is the last time you looked at the listener logs? Perhaps never. Not a very good idea. Listener logs contain a wealth of information on...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

IOUG Webcast on Security

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Many thanks to those who attended my webcast "Secure Your Database in a Single Day" for IOUG's wecast series. I hope you found...
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Oracle Celebrity Seminar Tour in APAC

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For those who attended my seminars in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Kualalampur and Singapore - I thank you very much for taking the time. I ...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

My Sessions at IOUG Collaborate 2010

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Thank you for all those attended my sessions during Collaborate 2010. Two of the sessions I presented were not mine; but that of Riyaj Shams...
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Sunday, April 04, 2010

Online Materialized View Complete Refresh With Partitions

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The other day I was posed with an interesting problem regarding the refresh of the materialized views. First, a little background. MVs are n...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Difference between Session and Process

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Someone asked me the other day the difference between process and session in Oracle. Are they the same thing? Well, why then there are two p...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Thank you for all those who attended my webcast today on SQL Plan Management for All India Oracle User Group. It was a privilege to present...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Instance_Number is busy Message during Standby Instance Startup

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Recently I encountered a situation that demonstrates how, in an Oracle database, an error may stem from a very unrelated cause. A DBA was bu...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

Resolving Gaps in Data Guard Apply Using Incremental RMAN BAckup

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Recently, we had a glitch on a Data Guard (physical standby database) on infrastructure. This is not a critical database; so the monitoring ...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Sepaking at New York Oracle Users Group

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I had the opportunity to speak at the New York Oracle Users Group ( http://nyoug.org/info/metro_area_user_group/Metro_Area_User_Group_Meetin...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

RAC Perf Tuning Seminar in Istanbul, Turkey

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For those who attended my 2-day training event in Istanbul, I wish to express my sincere thanks for the participation. For me, or any speake...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

OOW09 Session#4 DBA 11g New Features

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For all those who came to my last of my four sessions - 11g New Features for DBAs - I appreciate your taking the time. It was a pleasant sur...
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OOW09 Session# 3

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I just finished the third of my four presentations - SQL Plan Management. Considering it was at 9 AM on the last day of the conference, righ...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

OOW09 My Session#2

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Today I delivered the second of my four sessions - "Upgrade Case Study: Database Replay, Snapshot Standby and Plan Baselines". For...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

OOW Day2

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Why do you come to Open World? I'm sure we will get all kinds of reasons, as many as there are stars in the sky. Some predominant themes...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

OOW09 - RAC Performance Tuning

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For all those who came to my session - many, many thanks. There is no better sight for a presenter than to see a roomful of attendees, espec...
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ACE Directors Product Briefing '09

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One of the most valuable benefits of being an Oracle ACE Director is the briefings by Oracle Product Managers at the Oracle HQ. This year th...
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