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November 17, 2011 Uncategorized

UK conference coming up

If you’re in Birmingham in the first week of December, (and you’re reading this blog), chances are you are coming

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November 15, 2011 Uncategorized

Descending index gotcha

Sometime things just leap out at you when you least expect it. Let’s say I’ve got a table that I’d

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November 6, 2011 Uncategorized

Post conference weather

Fellow Ace Debra Lilley stayed a day with us after the conference, and in true local style, we wanted to

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November 5, 2011 Uncategorized

AUSOUG conference–day 2

I didn’t get to see as much content as I liked on day 2, because I had still plenty of

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November 5, 2011 Uncategorized

AUSOUG conference–day 1

The AUSOUG conference program this year was bolstered by a number of international speakers on the tail end of the

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November 2, 2011 Uncategorized

Careful in 11.2 with dbms_utility

Its common to have an instrumentation infrastructure where you might be calling DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_CALL_STACK to record where in the code path

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October 16, 2011 Uncategorized

Oracle Certification

Is doing the OCP exams worthwhile ? Yes, but not for the reasons you may be thinking. The OCP exams

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October 9, 2011 Uncategorized

Openworld – Tuesday / Wednesday

Tuesday was dedicated to attending sessions.  Most were good, but there is that unfortunate thing when speakers are employees of

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October 7, 2011 Uncategorized

Openworld – Thursday

Spectacular organisation by the Ace Director team (Lillian and Vikki) meant that my exit from San Fran went just as

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October 4, 2011 Uncategorized

Oracle Openworld – Monday

Welll, today was a bit of a selfish day.  Didn’t really want to spend time on sessions etc, because I

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