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October 5, 2012 Uncategorized

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

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October 4, 2012 Uncategorized

Openworld day 3

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

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October 3, 2012 Uncategorized

Openworld Day 2

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

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October 1, 2012 Uncategorized

Openworld has commenced…

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

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September 29, 2012 Uncategorized

Fusion apps

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

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September 29, 2012 Uncategorized

Goldengate 11gR2

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

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September 29, 2012 Uncategorized

ACE director briefings

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

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September 28, 2012 Uncategorized

The next release of Oracle….

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

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September 22, 2012 Uncategorized

YY vs YYYY…It can make a BIG difference

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

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September 22, 2012 Uncategorized

OakTable World is coming

If you’re at OpenWorld…then get some awesome additional content AND beer AND real life stories   ALL FOR FREE !

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