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This is a re-post I originally made on the ODTUG website on 17-Jan 2013 at the beginning of my two-year term on the board of directors… This past weekend, I attended my first face-to-face Board of Directors meeting with ODTUG. Monty Latiolais, current president of ODTUG, asked me to let him know if there was […]
As we prepare for the week of Oracle OpenWorld 2014, I look back on the 25 years I have spent within the orbit of Oracle Corporation. I joined Oracle Consulting Services (OCS) as an employee on 15-January 1990 and worked my way to Technical Manager when I resigned to start my own consultancy on 31-July […]
Where: Children’s Creativity Museum, 221 4th St, San Francisco When: Mon-Tue, 29-30 September, 08:30 – 17:00 PDT For the third year in a row at the same fantastic location right in the heart of the bustling Oracle OpenWorld 2014 extravaganza, OakTable World 2014 is bringing together the top geeks of the worldwide Oracle community to present […]
Delphix and Dbvisit will be at the OTN Lounge in the lobby of Moscone South from 3:30 – 5:00pm on Monday 29-Sept. Come join us to hear about #CloneAttack and #RepAttack, two great hands-on learning opportunities. What: #CloneAttack is your chance to install a complete Delphix lab environment on your Windows or Mac laptop for you […]
Mark Twain never said, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Instead, his comment in 1897 was less tongue-in-cheek than matter-of-fact. Confronted with news reports that he was gravely ill he responded, “James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report […]
I worked at Oracle Consulting for eight and a half years, from January 1990 until July 1998, starting as a senior consultant and finishing as a technical manager. In the summer of 1998, I was experiencing a dual crisis in my career, directionally and ethically. From the directional perspective, Oracle Consulting was sending very clear […]
According TheFreeDictionary.com, the word “deterministic” means… deterministic de·termin·istic adj. an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes According to Wikipedia, the explanation of deterministic algorithm is… In computer science, a deterministic algorithm is an algorithm which, given a particular input, will always produce the same output, with the underlying machine always passing through the same sequence […]
Abstract selection for Oracle Open World 2013 (OOW13) completed recently, and two of the eleven abstracts that I had submitted has been accepted, entitled “Scaling To Infinity: Making Star Transformations Sing” on Monday 23-Sep at 1:45pm and “RDBMS Forensics: Troubleshooting using ASH” on Sunday 22-Sep at 10:30am. Lesser known, but more fun than a barrel […]
This was fun, and I’ve been trying to remember to post about the things that are fun. I was working with a customer using a purchased application from a relatively over-bearing vendor. You know the type: they have very specific (and somewhat out-of-date) demands for the Oracle database environment on which their application is hosted. […]
It appears that, somewhere in the 10.2.0.5 and 11.2.0.2 patchsets, Oracle introduced some additional unwanted functionality to the “GATHER_*_STATS” procedures in the DBMS_STATS package. I have been working on a customer’s 11.2.0.3.0 database supporting a data-mart application where the data loading programs call DBMS_STATS.GATHER_TABLE_STATS as a concluding part of load processing, which means that the […]