OK, so it’s more personal stuff but I had an excellent end to last weekend so I don’t care Skip over this one if you don’t care what’s going on in my life. That’s cool. I finished work on Thursday lunchtime and then made what seemed a ridiculously long ‘short’ trip to Schiphol via the [...]
I’m excited to be teaching at Amis for one day next week and the more informal event the previous evening. Registration form is here. Showing my beloved pictures with beer in hand? Sounds perfect although perhaps I should make sure the demos are working correctly before opening the bottle Lots more technical posts to come [...]
AMIS is proud to present, in collaboration with Miracle Benelux Masterclasses: An Evening with Oracle Database Security Expert: Pete Finnigan on Tuesday 25th of May, 2010. Miracle Benelux and Pete Finnigan agreed to do an extra special on the AMIS premises the evening just before Pete’s 2 day Masterclass in Utrecht will start (for the [...]
Today I have received a comment on my last post from my friend Jean Francois Verrier. J.F. Is a courseware developer at Oracle Corporation and we have met in San Francisco and Utrecht a couple of times. He is responsible for the New Features and RAC courseware which Oracle University uses in … Link to [...]
Just a quick note to say thank you to everyone involved in making the 2-day PL/SQL workshop in Utrecht happen last week. Thanks to Miracle Benelux for staging the event, to Anjo for inviting me and to Annette for organizing everything, including Anjo. Of course the biggest thanks go to everyone who came to the [...]
I’ve been running through my demos before my PL/SQL workshop in Utrecht and I noticed a change in the behaviour of the PL/SQL Function Result Cache. In 11gR1 it was necessary to specify dependencies using the RELIES ON clause, but now Oracle 11gR2 takes care of Detection of Sources for you. Neat. Cheers Tim… Link [...]
In September I’m teaching two PL/SQL seminars for Miracle Benelux. Brussels – September 14th & 15th. Utrecht – September 17th & 18th. See you there. Cheers Tim… Link to the original site
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 – [...]