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I submitted my slides last Friday so the Hotsos Symposium countdown has really started now – I’ll be presenting in just under 4 weeks time. I’m looking forward to it even more than I was for a couple of reasons. 1) I noticed from Kerry Osborne’s blog post that he’s now doing two presentations. I… Continue reading Advert: Symposium Countdown

Charles Hooper has written a number of impressive blog posts in a fairly short space of time (the man is a blogging machine!) but I really wanted to draw attention to one in particular.Fault Quotes 6 – CPU Utilization Why? Well I seem to be spending more and more of my time talking about these… Continue reading Thinking about CPU

I know the Hotsos Symposium must be approaching because I’ve been in bed the last couple of days with a cold. Fortunately this one didn’t arrive in the final week of preparation, but it’s still been unpleasant and I could have done without it.* Anyway, I see that the word is finally out about MOTS… Continue reading Advert: More Conference News

… in the Oracle blogosphere. Well, whether all these posts were ‘today’ depends on timezones, I suppose, but it’s today that I read them. My morning started with a read of this fine post by Cary Millsap. I immediately shared it around at work because Cary uses his typically strong way with words to explain… Continue reading A Good Day …

It’s early days but I think I became the joint father of a bug report this week. This is bug number 9219636. SQL> CREATE TYPE INTEGER_ARRAY_T AS TABLE OF INTEGER   2  / Type created. SQL> SQL> CREATE TABLE V_SESSION_VALID (   2          SID NUMBER ,   3          SESSION_ID NUMBER NOT NULL,   4                  CONSTRAINT… Continue reading Bug Hunting

Some features in this post require a Diagnostics Pack license. I think there a quite a few decent Oracle blogs around. There are links to some of them over there on the right. But by far my favourite this year has been Kerry Osborne’s. I think there are a number of reasons. 1) We have… Continue reading My Favourite Oracle Blog

That’s more like it! Well yesterday was much better, although not very successful in terms of number of achievements or educational experiences, but I cheered up a hell of a lot. (Some might suggest that would be a good idea in general.) I woke up fairly late because of the previous night’s activities and just… Continue reading UKOUG 2009 – Day 2

A quick post from a hotel room in Bratislava (and very nice both are, too, although it’s difficult to judge a city in the dark) …. Tomorrow I’m teaching the 2-day performance course for Oracle University. Next week I’m giving two presentations at the annual UKOUG conference in Birmingham (Alex, Marco and Tom do that… Continue reading Advert: Busy, Busy …

I’m trying not to go on about the past weeks My Oracle Support fiasco, but surely this is Customer Relations 101 – someone senior apologises and at least gives the impression the company cares about their customers more than they do about making excuses and patting themselves on the back? Anyway, just in case Oracle… Continue reading MOS Survey

This was in my list of possible future posts but I see my mate Ilmar Kerm has beaten me to it, so you might as well read about them here ….