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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

AIOUG Webcast: Methodical Performance Tuning

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A big thank you to all those you attended my session today. I sincerely hope you got something out of it. Here are the scripts I used in the...
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Thursday, October 06, 2011

Migration to Exadata Session at #OOW11

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Considering it was the last session of #OOW11 I was surprised to see a sizable number of folks showing up for my 3rd and final session slate...
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Rise of the Machines

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This is the penultimate day of #OOW11 and I am here at the hotel lobby trying to put some order around the myriads of nuggets of information...
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Unicode Migration Assistant for Oracle

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When you want to convert a database created in the default characterset to a multibyte characterset, there were two basic approaches - the s...
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OOW11 Session #2 Exadata Management

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Thank you all for attending my second session in #OOW11 - Exadata Management. You can download the slide deck here. Important: DO NOT CLICK ...
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Sunday, October 02, 2011

OOW11 Presentation: Exadata for Oracle DBAs

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Thank you very much for attending my session "Exadata for Oracle DBAs" at #OOW11 (Oracle Open World), 2011. Here are the links to...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Setting Up Oracle Connection Manager

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The Problem It seems really simple. We have an Oracle database (on all nodes of a full rack Exadata, to be exact), which a lot of end-user...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Difference between Select Any Dictionary and Select_Catalog_Role

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When you want to give a user the privilege to select from data dictionary and dynamic performance views such as V$DATAFILE, you have two opt...
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Who Manages the Exadata Machine?

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For organizations that just procured an Exadata machine, one of the big questions is bound to be about the group supporting it. Who should i...
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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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