List/Grid Tag Archives: Oracle
HP Refreshes DDMA Toolset
HP has enhanced its Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) product with Content Pack 10, which gives the software the ability to discover more public and private cloud service providers. In particular, this version adds support for Amazon Web…
Log Buffer #257, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
With new year many new projects, new technologies, new frameworks and new ideas are springing up at the speed of light and bloggers in the database arena are keeping up with this pace and this Log Buffer Edition is also living up to that pace and cover…
Subquery Factoring
It’s always worth browsing through the list of Oracle’s bug fixes each time a new release or patch comes out because it can give you clues about where to look for problems in your production release – and how to anticipate problems on the upgrade. This article is an example of a fix that I [...]
Installing Oracle VM Manager 3.0.3 under Dom0 host, or How to save resources on your sandbox
If you are wondering why anyone would possibly need to Install Oracle VM Manager in such an unsupported way, please read my previous Oracle VM 3 related blog post. In this post, I will share with you my experience installing OVMM 3.0.3 under OVM 3.0.3 …
RightNow To Help Oracle Create Raving Fans
Oracle plans to integrate RightNow’s customer experience software into its existing software portfolio to improve customer satisfaction and to turn consumers into advocates for a company’s brand. In an hour-long webcast on Tuesday, Oracle executives ex…
Understanding Storage Masterclass – Dates Available
We’ve just booked the first European venue for the Understanding Storage Masterclass. I will be presenting the Masterclass on April 24/25 2012 at Prospero House in London, tickets are available HERE. I’m pretty excited to host this training…
Bug fixes
From MOS (Metalink) a search for “Patch Set – List of Bug Fixes by Problem” is a useful search, andother is “Availability and Known Issues”. Whenever you find some behaviour that looks like a bug, it’s worth checking the patch sets for the patches or release that are newer than the version that you’re running [...]
Developer’s Toolbox
I had the privilege to be a guest blogger on the ODTUG blog. I wrote about Kscope and my role in putting together the Developer’s Toolbox track as well as why you should attend Kscope. Here is a short excerpt: This year’s Kscope is a special one to me. I volunteered to lead the Developer’s [...]
VArrays 101
From An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
Continuing on in my 101 series – I wrote about associative arrays, nested tables and
Index Hash
You might think from the title that this little note is going to be about the index hash join – you would be half right, it’s also about how the optimizer seems to make a complete hash of dealing with index hash joins. Let’s set up a simple data set and a couple of indexes [...]
