I have been asked this question time and time again – “Why do you need a dedicated MDM solution now when all this time IT has been able to help businesses with product attributes as descriptive Flexfields, custom designed tables or other stitched up solutions?”
 
Well, most of us who have been working with Item Master [...]

A few years ago, my wife and I went to New York for a holiday. We got a cab from the airport into Manhattan. It was an expensive way to see, at great length, some of the more uninteresting automobile transit routes through New York. We arrived at our hotel a great deal later than [...]

Persistence Smoothie: Blending NoSQL and SQL – see user feedback and comments at http://joind.in/talk/view/1332.
Michael Bleigh from Intridea, high-end Ruby and Ruby on Rails consultants, build apps from start to finish, making it scalable. He’s written a lot of stuff, available at http://github.com/intridea. @mbleigh on twitter
NoSQL is a new way to think [...]

We had a great day with +50 customers in Perth - so thanks to everybody! We hope you'd enjoy the day as well. And thanks to Tim for the excellent organization!!!

Most of this stuff is not PHP specific, and Python or Ruby or Java or .NET developers can use the tools in this talk.
The session on joind.in, with user comments/feedback, is at http://joind.in/talk/view/1320.
Slides are at http://talks.php.net/show/confoo10
“My name is Rasmus, I’ve been around for a long time. I’ve been doing this web stuff since 1992/1993.”
“Generally [...]

Yesterday I attended and spoke at the Scotland DBA SIG. It was an enjoyable day with not one but two presentation from Julian Dyke. The second one was an overview of HA options and it in Julian mentioned extended RAC. Now I have worked at several sites which have used or wanted to use extended [...]

This week I've been working on porting the prototype MySQL storage engine developed at href="http://akibainc.com">Akiban

to Drizzle. While doing this, I discovered that in Drizzle, it is
possible to build a plugin out of tree. When I say out of tree, I mean that I can develop a plugin
for drizzle and build it without having a copy of the drizzle source code.

Comment out all "DROP TABLE" commands in my scripts.(I accidentally hit F5 when the focus was in the wrong window - which happened to contain a "DROP TABLE / CREATE TABLE" script - my Toad session goes and happily drops the table that I'd been gradually accumulating statistics into for the past 3 days - and no, there's no flashback table in 9i)At least I kept all my scripts - rerunning them all

Read Oracle expert Dan Clamage?s recommendations for PL/SQL books that allow readers to gain a basic understanding of PL/SQL, along with other places to find PL/SQL resources.

ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010, June 27 - July 1st Washington DC is a great conference for Oracle developers and architects, offering the best content by renowned experts.

In my post Deconstructing the iPod Shuffle UI, I talked a bit about the notion of a limited UI where you really only do one thing -- in that case, click the button on the headphones.Every now and then, I rediscover the infrared remote that goes with my iMac, and realize that for many mundane tasks, the remote does everything I need. (Mira lets me assign different actions for the remote button for

This is an awsome video that explains how two virtual machines can share a disk on Oracle VM Server 2.2

Filed under: oracle vm Tagged: LinkedIn, oracle vm, shared disk

I went to the DBMS SIG today {DBMS Special Interest Group meeting of the UK Oracle User Group}. Don’t worry, I am not going to run through the set of presentations and make comments on them – although I like reading such entries by others on their blogs, I generally like them due to the [...]

subtitle: Monetizing Social Media
Why is social media and social networking essential to you and your business? (because it will drive sales, but there’s very few analytics for ROI on social networking and social media)
Relying on advertising is no longer working for print newspapers and television. So why do we think it will work [...]

I am sure most of you are already familiar with these resources but sometime we all  forget where to look for quick help when is really needed.
I find these demos and tutorials very valuable .You can quickly find out what needs to be done to successfully implement particular feature without spending too much time digging [...]

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What is confoo? It is the sequel to the PHP Quebéc Conference (2003 – 2009). This year PHP Quebec decided to team up with Montreal-Python, W3Quebéc and OWASP Montréal to produce confoo.
And now, on to Mark Pilgrim of Google speaking on HTML5.

Timeline
1991 – HTML 1
1994 – HTML 2
1995 – Netscape discovers web, ruins [...]

There are two new awr reports in 11gr2, which will be helpful to dba’s in Real Application Clusters Environments (RAC).
awrgrpt.sql
This is a cluster wide awr report, so you can see a lot of the information from all the nodes in the same section, and you can also see aggregated statistics from all the instances at [...]

When I upgraded the infra 10.1.2.x to 10.1.2.3 I got an failed on Oracle Internet Directory Patch Configuration Assistant. I found out that in the $ORACLE_HOME/ldap/log/patchca.log there was an error:

Wed Mar 10 09:51:41 CET 2010OID PatchCA started..
Check if OID is configured.
oracle.sysman.assistants.util.NetAPIException: TNS-04404: no error
  caused by: oracle.net.config.ConfigException: TNS-04414: File error
  caused by: TNS-04612: Null RHS for "oaiinfra"

Thank you for all those who attended my webcast today on SQL Plan Management for All India Oracle User Group. It was a privilege to present before you and to be able to address your questions. I am sorry I couldn;t read all the questions properly; since it was extremely difficult to see the questions scrolling up in the tiny chat window. Also, as the webcast was designed, I couldn't hear anything the attendees were saying.

This day is way to nice to run an upgrade workshops :-) 32°C outside (approx 90°F) and the beaches close by sounds VERY tempting. Nevertheless a lot of people came in so we might go for a swim after the workshop as our flight to the Philipines tonight just leaves at 2am in the morning.

We refer in our upgrade talk to gather system (aka workload) statistics to give the optimizer some good knowledge about how powerful your IO-system might be. The optimizer since Oracle 9.2 takes CPU and IO costing into consideration. If you never have taken care on these stats you'll find default values in AUX_STATS$. These values have been defined a few years back. So it might be a good idea right a few days after upgrading to the new release to create them while a real workload is running.

Video fragments of my session posted at the end — read on.
I arrived at Omni Mandalay Hotel on Sunday evening with Dan Norris. I was flying through Chicago and it turned out that Dan was on the same flight and only few rows behind me. Small world.
Preparations for the conference were very chaotic on my [...]

An interesting event will take place in Düsseldorf March 17th - organized by CISS TDI and supported by Oracle Carsten Czarski as well as some guestspeakers from
- Kommunale Datenzentrale Westfalen-Süd,
- Hessisches Landesamt für Bodenmanagement und Geoinformation (ALKIS im Webgis Einsatz),
- Landesamt für Umwelt, Wasserwirtschaft und Gewerbeaufsicht, Rheinland-Pfalz.

This post is about the importance of filter statements in execution plans and how they can indicate problems that are not always apparent.
I had a problem recently with some code that had gone rogue – it had been running in a few seconds, being executed every 10 minutes or so. Now it ran until either [...]

Just came across these yesterday in the Yarra Valley Dairy (which by the way had excellent goat cheese) and still ask myself if Oracle is emerging now into new markets:Still wondering ... you'll never know ...

We had a great time today with you all - and thanks to the local Oracle folks as well who'd organize everything so well. And the view from the top floor was the best we've ever had in a workshop so far :-) Hope you all start your upgrade to 11g Release 2 pretty soon - and we'll be very happy to get your feedback once you've gone live.

If you want to migrate Oracle 9i to a Windows 64-bit O/S environment, learn in this expert tip why you may want to install Oracle 10g or 11g first.

It's cleanup time!!

When upgrading to a new database release, especially Oracle Database 11g Release 1 or Release 2, you should always remove old init.ora parameters from the init.ora/spfile when you upgrade. For instance we've had a lot of useful (and necessary) tuning parameters in Oracle 9i environments such as _always_anti_join=off, star_transformation=false or several events.