Day 4 “Analytic Functions Revisited” by Alex Nuijten was a great presentation. I’m sure lots of people left the presentation thinking, “Where has this stuff been hiding all these years?” Incidently, Alex won the $500 prize in the PL/SQL Challenge last night. Well done dude. I caught the last couple of minutes of “Why Isn’t [...]
I’m not going to write about everything, but just post a few select highlights. Day 1 There had been a timetable change that I had missed, so I arrived late for the “Messed up Apps: A Study of Performance Anti-patterns” talk by Cary Millsap. He knows his stuff, is a great presenter and he’s very [...]
OK, so I know it’s yet-another-advert but hopefully the balance between a few technical posts (finally) and adverts is ok for now. Besides, I only ever post adverts for events that I think will be good and if it’s a mate’s like Peter Robson organising them, so much the better. I think this event looks [...]
Charles Hooper has written a number of impressive blog posts in a fairly short space of time (the man is a blogging machine!) but I really wanted to draw attention to one in particular.Fault Quotes 6 – CPU Utilization Why? Well I seem to be spending more and more of my time talking about these [...]
Using Mobile Devices with Oracle E-Business Suite Quick article that answers some common questions around the use of smartphones and other mobile devices with the E-Business Suite. The Benefits of Oracle Certification – For Professionals In this segment of a two-part video series, Joel Goodman – Global Team leader of the Oracle DBA certification exam [...]
Using Mobile Devices with Oracle E-Business Suite Quick article that answers some common questions around the use of smartphones and other mobile devices with the E-Business Suite. The Benefits of Oracle Certification – For Professionals In this segment of a two-part video series, Joel Goodman – Global Team leader of the Oracle DBA certification exam [...]
… in the Oracle blogosphere. Well, whether all these posts were ‘today’ depends on timezones, I suppose, but it’s today that I read them. My morning started with a read of this fine post by Cary Millsap. I immediately shared it around at work because Cary uses his typically strong way with words to explain [...]
Instrumentation Cary Millsap has recently pointed to a couple of postings and quoted some people on the fine art of instrumentation. He quoted me (and got it pretty much 100% – dead on) a couple of times as well. I’ll add a quote/story to his list of quotes… When Oracle 10g first was released – [...]