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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Feedback on Tanel Poder's AOTS #2 Class

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In my earlier post I me wrote about  Tanel Poder's Virtual Class #2 .   Tanel is a world famous expert in Oracle internals. I was fortun...
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Friday, May 06, 2011

Tanel Poder's Virtual Class #2

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On a fine day in some month in some year, a little scene is playing out in Acme Bank's IT department. Developer (with the best I-told-...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Nulls in Ordering

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You want to find out the tables with the highest number of rows in a database. Pretty simple, right? You whip up the following query: sele...
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Can I Fit a 80MB Database Completely in a 80MB Buffer Cache?

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This is in the Series " 100 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Oracle ". If you haven't already, I urge you to read the...
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Fourth Day at Collaborate 11

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Thank you to those who attended my fourth and last session Designing Applications for RAC at Collaborate 11. Considering it was at 8:30 AM o...

Second Day at Collaborate 11

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Many thanks to those attended my session RAC for Beginners despite the 8 AM timeslot. You must be really motivated. I hope you found the se...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Day One of Collaborate 11 - My Session

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Thank you everyone who came to my session which got off with a rocky start due to a recording issue in the facilities. I was also the manage...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Tanel Poder's Online Seminars

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What are good ways to learn about the inner workings of Oracle to troubleshoot performance and availability issues? Fortunately there is o...
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Speaking at a Virtual Conference #VirtaThon

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I was putting together abstracts for Oracle Open World #oow11 this year and remembered something someone had asked me earlier - to present a...
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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Review: Oracle Application Express 4.0 Cookbook

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I decided to add a twist to my usual blogs - a book review, which I have not done before. I have been reading a book - Oracle Apex 4.0 Cookb...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

RAC One Changes in 11.2.0.2 Patchset

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Oracle patchsets used to be simple - they were bugfixes only; no additional functionalities were added. Oracle added stuff quietly in 10.2.0...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

New York Oracle User Group DBA SIG Webcast

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Thank you all those who attended my webcast " Deferred Statistics and SQL Plan Management for Performance in Oracle 11g " for the ...
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Good Engineering

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It's heartbreaking to watch the folks killed, wounded and displaced by the earthquake in the Pacific Ocean. The fury of nature mostly fo...
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Thursday, February 03, 2011

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A question came up on my blog entry http://arup.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-on-interested-transaction-lists.html . I think the question warran...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

RAC Performance Tuning Seminar on Jan 25 and 26, 2011

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Thank you all those who attended my Live Virtual Class on RAC Performance Tuning on January 25th and 26th. You chose to invest your time wit...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

What Makes a Great Presentation

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What makes a great presentation? Everyone successful presenter from Steve Jobs to Tony Robbins have been studied for patterns. Some of the p...
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Friday, January 21, 2011

Advanced Linux Commands Mastery Series on OTN

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Luis Daziano from Argentina asked me about the location of the series I wrote for Oracle Technology Network on Advanced Linux commands. For...
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Thank You for the Overwhelming Response to the 100 Series

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A few weeks ago, while delivering a session at New York Oracle Users Group , I had the idea of starting a blog series with a title 1 00 Thin...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

More on Interested Transaction Lists

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How Oracle Locking Works When a Lock is NOT a Lock! In the last installment of this series " 100 Thing you Probably Didn't Know...
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