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Openworld day 4

Its the penultimate day at openworld First up was Gwen Shapira’s (http://www.pythian.com/news/author/shapira/) talk on Big Data and its integration into

Yesterday was another day of good quality sessions at OpenWorld. Yes its true that there are many sessions that could

Yesterday I went to a presentation on histograms in 12c. A number of good improvements made there by Oracle coming

The ACE director briefings are over and Oracle Open World has kicked into full swing. The scale of the event

When it comes to hardware, the Fusion Apps installation guide is surprisingly non-committal: 4.2.1 Hardware Requirements Consult an Oracle Fusion

Lots of goodies in 11gR2 GoldenGate. The big one seems to be “Integrated Capture”, which seems to be a moving

A thoroughly enjoyable day at the first day of ACE director briefings. Of course, all of this stuff is Non-Disclosure

….is going to be the next release. [which is about all I can say at the moment] How cool is

Check out the execution plan differences here. The fully qualified date (2nd one) gets it right, and note that the

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