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Now that the move has been completed and the Blogger fiasco might be coming to an end, I just wanted to say thanks to lots of people who’ve helped out. Not necessarily by name, but The Oracle aggregator owners who ended up with a page full of spam but responded helpfully and quickly. The various… Continue reading Thanks

Sigh Look at http://oracledoug.blogspot.com Now look at http://feeds.feedburner.com/DougsOracleBlog Now look at http://oracledoug.com/serendipity/index.php?/feeds/index.rss2 Now look at http://orablogs.com

I’m not on-call any more. The blog situation is improving. Now, if only the Czechs hadn’t scored that third goal against the USA and Australia had stopped when they equalised, my life would be excellent. “Hi Doug, You’re current rank in the World Cup 2006 APEX application is 10 out of 367. Some more info:… Continue reading Enjoying it while it lasts

… through the Blogger darkness 😉 “Hi Doug, You’re current rank in the World Cup 2006 APEX application is 32 out of 347. Some more info: – Played Games: 8– Correct prediction of games: 6– Wrong prediction of games: 2– Correct prediction of score: 1– Wrong prediction of score: 7– Your points: 8Have a nice… Continue reading Dimitri Keeps Me Going …

I’m plodding away, trying to get the new blog sorted out. On the one hand, I’m fairly pleased that the bulk of the old blogs have been copied over successfully, including 1) Reader comments 2) Getting the photos moved off Blogger on to my own host On the other, there’s still a lot to do… Continue reading Harder than it should be

Well there are a lot of new templates on this blog and you can choose your own. Many of them don’t work too well with the current content. The Direct Path Reads blog is a particularly interesting template test 🙁 I’d be interested, though, to hear which are the most popular and more important, why?… Continue reading Time for a vote, I think

Hotsos has long since passed and it’s time for someone else to have a bit of recognition. This is Derek Junior. An invisible turtle called Derek lived in the bath in our last home. Invisible turtles and house moves are a bad combination and he was left behind. We have no idea what happened to… Continue reading Derek Junior

Yet Another PX Test (if only to give readers something different to comment on) Jonathan Lewis had suggested larger extents and freelist segment space management (instead of ASSM) could benefit the PX tests I’ve been running. I’m pretty sure it was Jeff Moss that suggested bigger blocks would be more appropriate for the type of… Continue reading YAPT

I’ve added a link to Dominic’s blog, which I’ve enjoyed reading since I noticed it when he commented on a blog here. He hasn’t been going long but it looks really promising. Dominic worked at Oracle for a long time and is Director of Database Engineering at Network Solutions now. I didn’t make his presentation… Continue reading Dominic Delmolino’s blog

I received an invitation to join the Oaktable Network which I’ve decided to accept. It wasn’t a straightforward decision but went something like this. (Oh, and by the way, this blog could have been much longer!) For I like the Oaktable members that I’ve met to date and found them very passionate and generous individuals.… Continue reading Oaktable Network