June 13 Webcast – Siebel: Solving the Next Generation of Business Challenges

Today’s customers are social, mobile, and more demanding than ever before. That’s why Oracle continues to add new capabilities to Siebel CRM – helping you keep pace with rapid technological change...
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ODA re-imaging could take anything between 20 and 120 mins

20 mins vs 2 hours Recently I have noticed that re-imaging process on the second Oracle Database Appliance node took significantly shorter time comparing with the first node. The difference was so...
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High Performance Tuning Tools

Obligatory Melodrama No matter how much time goes by I still remember it. The day my database was crippled beyond reckoning. That moment when I saw my hopes for a bright and shining future with my database...
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The sort of latency heat map you don’t want to see!

We’ve had a couple of short lived, but very inconvenient I/O latency issues recently. I’ve been using the awesome Latency Heat Map Visualization by Luca Canali as one of the tools to investigate...
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BGOUG Spring 2013 : Day 2…

How do you want to start the day? I’m guessing it’s not to be called out to the front of the room by a speaker and used as a guinea pig, while they ask you trick questions to make you look...
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BGOUG Spring 2013 : Day 1 (part 2)…

So Day 1 (part 2) didn’t go to plan because I forgot to take my camera or my phone to the party. Suffice to say, lots of food, lots of drink (for those that do) and most importantly lots of dancing....
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BGOUG Spring 2013 : Day 1 (part 1)…

Last night we all got together to eat some food and chat. Julian Dontcheff is practically a savant where Bulgarian Poetry, World Cup match results and random Oracle facts are concerned. Although Christian...
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Log Buffer #320, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

The red carpet has been laid down at this Log Buffer Edition, and you can witness and cheer the cat-walking blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL. Every one of them is chic, elegant, sensual in...
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BGOUG Spring 2013 : Day -1

It’s stupid o’clock in the morning and I’m waiting for my taxi to arrive. Considering how close Bulgaria is, it takes me a very long time to get there. I am a mix of excited and nervous....
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How We Interact with Our Environments and Our Devices Has a Fascinating Effect on Enterprise Applications

This pithy interview gives you a glimpse into our visionary UX team. The interviewee is Jeremy Ashley (left), vice president of Applications User Experience. His answers are crisp and informative. The...
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