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I suppose most readers will be aware that Oracle held a big launch for 11g yesterday, including the release of various technical docs at OTN. I’ve only managed a quick scan because I’m up to my eyeballs in some internal ASH/AWR training I’m giving later today, but what particularly interested me was this paragraph in… Continue reading Oracle 11g – Total Recall

Some of you will already know this, but …. I pointed out the following entertaining thread on one of the OTN Forums to a friend. He asked how I had noticed it. I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I don’t spend all day on the forums (and at this point I should introduce my recurring… Continue reading Jonathan Lewis Articles

Never let it be said that naked bribery doesn’t pay. Thanks, Toon. Mmm, a nice hard cover too! From the Preface :- This book is not an easy read … For those of you who lack a formal education in mathematics, you’ll have to put in an effort when reading this book … there is… Continue reading Thanks, Toon

Some blogs are fun to write, but this isn’t one of them. Unfortunately it’s been rattling around in my head for a couple of weeks, waiting to be written. I’ve become gradually more miserable and disappointed as regular comments have appeared on an earlier blog about problems with Yahoo Mail. They’ve appeared for some time… Continue reading Yahoo Mail (again)

I thought I’d wait for a few days to see how the open letter to Larry Ellison on the subject of AWR licencing panned out. I love AWR, ASH and I even have an increasing, slightly grudging and cynical respect for ADDM. In fact, I’m in the course of putting together a two-hour training/technical mind-share… Continue reading AWR Licensing

Whilst I might admire Alex G’s new BAAG party, I have less lofty ideals. My personal battle is against people who keep offering the following sage advice to the crucial question – How do I backup my database? As UNIX user oracle run: TODAY=`date “+%Y-%m-%d”` FILE=$TODAY-$ORACLE_SID.dat exp system/manager file=$FILE consistent=y full=y compress=n gzip $FILE There… Continue reading Sigh

I’m sure many people will be delighted to see that Tanel Poder has started a blog. A technical anti-dote to cuddly toy nonsense! Welcome, Tanel

A new title on the Non-Employee section of blogs.oracle.com NON-EMPLOYEE BLOGS (that we know of) …. 😉 A series of articles on learning DTrace. I think these look like a great introduction and are far more useful than any presentation slides I have. They’ve also made me reconsider some of the DTrace blogs I’d planned.… Continue reading A Few Things I’ve Noticed Recently

A problem cropped up at work this week and, whilst it wasn’t particularly tricky and didn’t take long to solve, it struck me that the story of tracking it down might be useful and you might hit the problem yourself one day. A recently-deployed Data Warehouse database at work has a series of ‘LANDING’ tables.… Continue reading Non-reusable Space?

OK, I finally have a few technical things worth blogging about, so let me get this non-technical one wrapped up first. Here’s part 1. The other part of Kevin’s blog that was very relevant to my recent musings was the section titled ‘Aristocracy or Meritocracy‘. He talks about the close contact he enjoys with some… Continue reading blogs.oracle.com … part 2