Category: Archive

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?

I actually woke up early today to write this blog as I wanted to sleep on it first and blogging on-site is a real no-no. Anyway … Many of you will remember the ongoing shenanigans around Justin Kestelyn’s complaints about how Oracle is perceived by the Web 2.0 community. I had my little rant and,… Continue reading blogs.oracle.com, Oracle Ace, OTN, does any of it matter?

What a week! It’s a long blog posting, but it feels like it was a very long week … I was so tired by the end of it that I can only imagine just how shattered Thomas Presslie must have been after all of the organisation. Having witnessed some of what’s involved in putting a… Continue reading Miracle Scotland Database Forum and an Apology

While Douglas lies sleeping, recovering from several nights of geek revelry, we’d like to take this opportunity to reveal the truth about that man’s morals and reliability. (N.B. The Dog can use the laptop and is familiar with Serendipity’s user interface, but be assured that he’s voicing our collective opinion.) Imagine how you would feel… Continue reading A Cuddly Toy Writes …

Work is a little busy at the moment, but I had time to look at this a bit more today … Many thanks for the useful follow-up comments on the last posting. They were very interesting and if I’d picked them up in some of my Google searches, we might have solved the problem more… Continue reading Listener bug – Part 2

Today I solved a nasty intermittent problem we’d been having on one of our Production servers so I thought I’d blog about it here in case it saves someone else some pain. The symptoms were 1) No-one was able to connect to the database. 2) There were two listener processes running, which was apparent from… Continue reading 10.2.0.2 Listener bug, new child listener process forked

It’s my turn again and, looking back at Log Buffer #4, I was amazed to realise that we’re up to number 45 already and that my previous attempt was last August. Good work from Dave Edwards, who bears the organisational burden every week. Sooner him than me! I’ll kick off this week with a discussion… Continue reading Log Buffer #45

Chris Muir of the Australian Oracle User Group conducted an email interview with me for their journal recently. Here’s the online version. Thanks, Chris.

… that men become more attractive with age! A very interesting read, but I particularly enjoyed that first photo of Larry, on the right 😉 Maybe it’s old news, but I enjoyed it. Thanks to Polish Paul Matuszyk for this one …

… and possibly gentlemen. I’m a little surprised that Thomas Presslie made the cardinal error of posting photos of the speakers at the MSDBF that will kick-off in three weeks time. I can only assume that he’s prepared for the rush of Oracle groupies, clamouring to register for the remaining places. Perhaps not. As usual,… Continue reading Stay Calm, Ladies …