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February 20, 2014 Uncategorized

Oracle Developer Day Perth

Well…it was a great day with over 100 people attending. I had the standard fail of trying to show people

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January 20, 2014 Uncategorized

Free developer day in Perth

Got a massive day of goodies coming to anyone in Perth..for absolutely no cost – just your time and your

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January 18, 2014 Uncategorized

ORA-65131 grrrr

So…the future is container databases ? Cool ! I’ll create all my databases as container databases….I’m so happy….until SQL> CREATE

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January 18, 2014 Uncategorized

Man…I really really like this :-)

Yeah yeah, you can argue with me about backward compatibility, but I’m so glad someone snuck this into 12c… 11.2

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December 20, 2013 Uncategorized

The challenge of optimization

With every release of Oracle, more and more power comes to the optimizer. Many of these are new features (such

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December 7, 2013 Uncategorized

Cloning databases

My friend Kyle wrote a blog piece a while back http://www.kylehailey.com/what-delphix-does-in-1-minute-22-seconds/ Now, not to criticise Delphix (in fact,the opposite –

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December 7, 2013 Uncategorized

number of set bits

declare n number := ….; tmp number; begin tmp := n – ( bitand ((n / 2) ,3681400539)) – (bitand

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November 30, 2013 Uncategorized

The cost of Oracle

It’s not uncommon for people on one hand to expound the functionality, performance and features of Oracle, whilst on the

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November 24, 2013 Uncategorized

Once you’ve done your I/O…there’s still more to do !

The world is obsessed with I/O nowadays…. This is understandable – we’re in the middle of a pioneering period for

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October 20, 2013 Uncategorized

A good day…

I work for a company that provides betting to consumers in Australia… In Australia, the three biggest days for betting

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