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March 2013

Is your good plan and initial implementation being properly maintained?

Submitted by mwf on Wed, 2013-03-13 14:00

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Texas BBQ Fun with Friends after Hotsos Symposium 2013

Submitted by mwf on Wed, 2013-03-13 13:13

With some friends from the Netherlands and Estonia at the Hard Eight BBQ at 688 Freeport Parkway in Coppell, Texas (+1) for food and another (+1) for the Texas experience. What a fun way to decompress after a brain stuffing week at Hotsos!

In the queue by the BBQ pit.

In the queue by the BBQ pit.

Register to IOUG COLLABORATE 13 and Get an Hour of My Time

Submitted by alexgorbachev on Wed, 2013-03-13 01:11
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Spring is a very active conference season for me. I might be going to half a dozen conferences in 3-4 months. That’s a lot of travel, but I look forward to all of them. The conference I’m probably looking forward to the most this year is IOUG COLLABORATE. It might be because:

Webinar - Back to the Future: Oracle SQL Performance Firefighting using AWR

Submitted by KarenMorton on Tue, 2013-03-12 16:25

It's webinar time again! On March 26, Embarcadero will once again provide sponsorship for my webinar entitled "Back to the Future: Mining AWR Data for Oracle SQL Performance".

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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) : The clue is in the name!

Submitted by oraclebase on Mon, 2013-03-11 21:30

When you read the term “Total Cost of Ownership” (TCO), the word “Total” is pretty important!

Here is a paraphrased conversation I had recently…

  • Person: Product X is free!
  • Myself and others: The staff training costs to enable the long term support of product X, are not free though. Added to that, these people still have to support products Y and Z, so you are adding to their workload. You might even have to add people to the existing team, so the TCO may be far from free.
  • Person: But the product is free!

You can see where this is going. :)

Not all Deadlocks are created the same

Submitted by doug on Mon, 2013-03-11 01:53

I've blogged about deadlocks in Oracle at least once before. I said then that although the following message in deadlock trace files is usually true, it isn't always.

The following deadlock is not an Oracle error. Deadlocks of  
this type can be expected if certain SQL statements are      
issued. The following information may aid in determining the 
cause of the deadlock.

So when I came across another example recently, it seemed worth a quick blog post. Not least for the benefit of other souls who hit the same issue (and probably hit Google moments later).

But while it's easy to say - "Hey! Look! I found an exception! Aren't I clever?" - it occurred to me that actually Oracle's capabilities in this area might be underrated by raising the occasional anomaly. Because the truth is

God Emperor of Dune…

Submitted by oraclebase on Sun, 2013-03-10 17:29

God Emperor of Dune is the fourth book in the Dune series by Frank Herbert.

After the randomness of the previous book, this fourth one was a lot more on-the-money. There are a number of scenes in the book I really hooked into, including one I blogged about a few days ago. It’s far from perfect, but it kept me interested. Probably the worst part of the book was then ending, which was rather lackluster.

I’m looking forward to see if this direction continues into the next book.

Cheers

Tim…

Bitten by a Virtual Column, _OPTIMIZER_IGNORE_HINTS Doesn’t Ignore Hints?

Submitted by Charles Hooper on Sun, 2013-03-10 00:55

March 9, 2013 I had a couple of spare minutes today, so I tried a couple of experiments with Oracle Database 11.2.0.2 just to see if I could produce some unexpected results. First, I will create a simple database table with two indexes: CREATE TABLE T1 (   N1 NUMBER,   V1 VARCHAR2(20),   D1 […]

Virtual DB

Submitted by Jonathan Lewis on Sat, 2013-03-09 09:52

I’m heading off to Heathrow airport later on today to fly out to San Francisco for my week of  experimenting with Delphix. I’ve done a little preparation work, of course, including browsing around the Internet to read about related technologies. Some of the material I found was very interesting, so I thought I’d go publish a few of the links that might be useful to other people.

It’s quite surprising to see how long the necessary core technology has been around; and yet there seems to have been minimal follow-up on the possibilities the technology  makes available – perhaps because of the specific  hardware, or special skills needed to put put together a working solution.

Friday Philosophy – Level of Presentations

Submitted by mwidlake on Fri, 2013-03-08 15:28

This FF is a bit of a follow-up to the one I posted last week on PL/SQL skills and a comment made by Noons on how much knowledge you need to be an OakTable member.

I have a question to answer and I would appreciate other people’s opinion. Should there be more intro talks at conferences? If so, should the experts be giving them?