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About a week ago, Peter Robson emailed the suggestion that I keep an eye out for the latest Vauxhall car advert. I paid attention for a few days, noticed a couple of showings of the advert and couldn’t work out what he was on about. Jeff Moss cleared up the mystery yesterday. It turns out… Continue reading Sorry, Peter 😉

Living up to his ‘Blogger of the Year‘ status, Eddie Awad has started a Flickr group for attendees to post photos from this week’s Oracle OpenWorld. Just looking at the first few pictures, it brought back a lot of happy memories. (Mmmm, *that’s* what the sun looks like!) Most of them seem to be of… Continue reading OOW06 Flickr Group

I’ve certainly hinted at it before, but if there’s one good reason for Oracle techies to run Solaris 10 (or OpenSolaris) on their home equipment, it’s this. As far as I’m aware, there is nothing available on Linux which is within a million miles of DTrace in helping you see what’s happening at the operating… Continue reading DTrace

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OK, so the title is a cheeky and irrelevant steal from here. The truth is that I’ve been so busy with non-computer stuff, work stuff that’s vaguely computer-related 😉 and lacking in inspiration lately that I’ll take whatever material comes my way! Here are a few things hanging around my Inbox. Hopefully you’ll find something… Continue reading “You can’t open an instance and you don’t start up a database”

I was surprised to realise that it’s nearly 7 months since I bemoaned the lack of availability of 10gR2 on Solaris 10 (x86). Well, it’s been out a few weeks now and I’ve been waiting since then for a free weekend to install it on the ISP4400. One of the advantages of being busy the… Continue reading 10gR2 on Solaris 10

I’ve spent all morning installing Solaris 10 and Oracle 10gR2 on the ISP4400 and configured my first ZFS filesystem. I’ll blog about that later, but I had to get this one out of the way before Scotland play France at football at five o’clock. This is from an interview with Walter Smith, Scotland’s manager, yesterday.… Continue reading Supporting Scotland

I couldn’t agree with this more. I can’t work with people who tell lies to cover up their inadequacies, no matter what the underlying reasons. In the end, someone else will share the pain so it’s utterly selfish behaviour. You can tell I’ve been burnt by this, right?

Believe me, I’m getting a bit tired of not posting anything technical but to get one last thing out of the way before I do, I mentioned in a recent blog that I might talk about Psoriasis. Now, I happen to agree with Andy C that talking about your illnesses is probably boring for anyone… Continue reading Psoriasis

It’s been back to work with a vengeance this week, but quite enjoyable as I’ve been spending time explaining to one of the vendors on a super-expensive project that RAC won’t deliver what they’re looking for. However, I feel there’s some unfinished business before I get back to the occasional Oracle technical blog, the usual… Continue reading The Very Last, Final DBF Blog, really …