{"id":1259,"date":"2007-04-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2007-04-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T12:00:00","slug":"what-im-buying-tom-kyte-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/26\/what-im-buying-tom-kyte-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m buying Tom Kyte for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest mind-reading tool for Oracle questions<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Thanks to Andy Campbell<\/a> for that one 😉<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest mind-reading tool for Oracle questions! Thanks to Andy Campbell for that one 😉<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":926,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/24\/intel-isp4400\/","url_meta":{"origin":1259,"position":0},"title":"Intel ISP4400","date":"October 24, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I've wanted to carry on investigating parallel execution for a while but, unless you happen to be working on a reasonably large data warehouse with a few spare test environments kicking around, it's difficult. 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