Despite the unrelenting stream of data breaches reported by companies and public sector organizations, the uncertain economic climate has put a damper on data security budgets, and organizations have made little progress safeguarding their data according to the results of the new 2009 IOUG Data Security Report just completed in September. In this podcast, Ian [...]
How do data managers and professionals perceive the issues around database security? Do they feel enough is being done to protect against internal data breaches or incidents? To answer these questions, Unisphere Research conducted a study for the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG). According to the recently published results in the 2008 IOUG Data Security [...]
Rittman Mead is proud to announce our sponsorship of the February meeting of the Atlanta BI Users Group, a regional special interest group with involvement from IOUG, ODTUG the IOUG BIWA SIG, and the Georgia Oracle Users Group (GOUSER). I’d like to thank Greg Lancaster and the entire BI team at Cox Communications for hosting [...]
Rittman Mead is proud to announce our sponsorship of the February meeting of the Atlanta BI Users Group, a regional special interest group with involvement from IOUG, ODTUG the IOUG BIWA SIG, and the Georgia Oracle Users Group (GOUSER). I’d like to thank Greg Lancaster and the entire BI team at Cox Communications for hosting [...]
The Value of Community
Oracle users groups are global communities whose members are some of Oracle’s most active customers. At Oracle OpenWorld, users group members get the chance to meet up, compare notes on common challenges, share information on getting more value from Oracle, and express collective concerns to Oracle.
In this video you can hear Janney [...]
The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) today released its second annual database security study, “IOUG Data Security 2009: Budget Pressures Lead to Increased Risks”. The study conducted by Unisphere Research and sponsored by Oracle surveyed 316 members of the IOUG who oversee complex and multiple database sites, many with large volumes of data. Forty-two [...]
The Develop day is my first conference day, but I guess for most people it is Day -1. After purposely leaving my calendar empty, I ended up filling the day quite well.
What Are We Still Doing Wrong? by Tom Kyte: It’s always a pleasure to hear Tom speak. He always has a good balance of [...]
Today I have reveived a parcel from IOUG containing five copies of the current SELECT magazine.
Plus a sweater with the SELECT Journal Contributer logo:
Additionally I was granted a one year free membership for Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) for my article on DETECTING AND REPAIRING CORRUPT BLOCKS IN ORACLE DATABASE 11g …
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I’m currently sitting in the Intercontinental Hotel just across the road from the Moscone Center, here courtesy of the Oracle ACE Director program and getting ready for my first presentation at 2.00pm. I arrived in San Francisco early afternoon yesterday, stayed up for a few hours and then eventually crashed out around 7pm, and consequently [...]
That’s my first couple of sessions done and dusted, both pretty good ones too although I’m going to have to admit defeat now and try to catch some sleep in the hope it will pay off over the rest of the week.
First, though was a nostalgic trip to Lori’s Diner for some breakfast. Although not [...]