HOTSOS 2008
The new year has started and one of the most important Oracle performance conferences is about to start. The Hotsos 2008 Symposium will be held again, almost traditionally now, …
Category: DBA Oracle
Your lucky if you are in Holland – A Great Symposium Announced
Oracle The Netherlands just announced, via email, an great "RedDatabase Symposium" event / symposium on 10,11 and 12th of March, organized by RedStone Innovations. The focal points for this …
UKOUG 2007 – The Final Verdict of the Attendees
Today, I got my evaluation results for my presentation during UKOUG last year. Overall, I am not unhappy. I am a little bit perfectionist minded, but for a first …
Year 2007 Round-Up and Picture Galore
It has been a very interesting year for me. I met a lot of people of whom I only had the pleasure to mail with. Some of them are …
UKOUG – Wednesday, Thursday and Wrap-up
I met a fellow dba with 20 years of experience and I couldn’t make him understand James Morle’s presentation regarding skew and latency (f.k.a. “Every Performance Problem Is One …
UKOUG – Pictures and some not so nice stuff…
Thanks to Daniel Fink I was able to upload some pictures now. Have a look at my written posts. In the meanwhile (if you didn’t notice) a not so …
UKOUG – Running the Gauntlet
I didn’t "do" much on Tuesday regarding the attending of sessions. I saw Alex Gorbachevs’s presentation regarding "RAC connection management". I was a little bit "afraid" of the "RAC" …
UKOUG – Monday
The day started off with a two keynote session from Ian Smith and Thomas Kyte. Tom Kyte addressed more or less the same items (“30 years of Oracle”) as …
UKOUG – Monday First Impressions and The Human Lottery Show
On Sunday I left to Birmingham to attend and, for the first time, speak at the UKOUG. It started off completely wrong. I went with a taxi to the …
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part IV
The past days have been really interesting. During last Wednesday (november 24) we finished the XML topic, covering Generating XML from an Oracle Database, Managing XML data in an Oracle Database, …
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part III
Hi there! Today we continued our journey into the XML realm, by exploring the XML Schema, XPath, XSL and XML DB. XML Schemas XML Schemas are based on XML …
Oracle 11g for Windows can now be downloaded via OTN
As Laurent already posted on his site; Oracle has made Oracle 11g for Windows (11.1.0.6.0) available on OTN. So you are now able to download it if you prefer …
Custom sql scripts in OAM
I noticed Oracle Applications Manager has some very handy sql script you can use when monitoring your EBS environment. When starting up OAM, navigate to Site Map —-> Monitoring …
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part II
Today was the first day of the FM BootCamp. After a brief introduction of the program we started with our first topic of this two-week intensive hands-on Fusion Middleware Experience. …
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part I
Well,Today finally was the day. I have been looking forward a lot coming to Chicago for the Fusion Middleware Bootcamp. Getting up around 5:30am to get to the train …
MOOW 2K7 – Finishing up
After surviving the water slides the day before my colleague Gerwin and I enjoyed again a great breakfast and a lot of coffee. For me this is an essential …
MOOW 2K7 – The Friday Sessions
I stood up at 07 o'clock and after a great meal in a restaurant, I attended my first session: Tapio Lahdenmäki's presentation about "Rethink your Indexes". A lot of …
MOOW 2K7 – The drive home, Come Home- Event (Thursday)
Thursday morning, somewhere between 11.00 and 11.03 hours, the Miracle Express left from Anjo Kolk's home. From the almost 40 Dutch participants of Miracle (Oracle) Open World event, 12 …
MOOW 2K7 – The Miracle Express
It’s the day before Miracle Oracle Open World 2007. Tomorrow the (Dutch) Miracle Express will leave and will make its way from Garderen to Lalandia, Denmark. Hopefully arriving with …
XML Data – To be stored or not to be stored, and beyond…
It is nagging… I got an email from that you are able to download the handouts from ODTUG until half September (download them now, 1/2 September they will be …
In between AMIS consultancy jobs…
This (for this site) is a strange post… I am looking for a consultancy job. Nothing new here, but only a strange way to make this visible to the …
Used port numbers by the Oracle OEM agent
This is definitly a post worthy as one of the members of the BAAG. The work was extensive (setup, config, install, checking) and afterwards the outcome could have been …
My rediscovery of vi
I am sure I am one of those humans that are using something for a long long time, and suddenly find out they have been doing things in a …
DBConsole 11g (part 3) – “Transparent Tablespace Encryption and Alerting”
Triggered a little bit by a post of Christo Kutrovsky from The Pythian Group, this post will be about one of the new features on tablespace level: Transparent Tablespace Encryption Until …
DBConsole 11g (part 2) – Using the SQL Performance Analyzer
Now straight into the more interesting Oracle 11g features. Let's start using the SQL performance Analyzer and doing so make use of Replay. The Performance section of the DBConsole …
DBConsole 11g (part 1) – An introduction of the new version
Thinking about my first post on Oracle 11g (Beta) I realized that I didn't mention another great addition to the Oracle (DBA) toolset. OK, of course, it isn't new …
Oracle 11g: New sql.bsq structure
Probably one of the oldest database scripts around is the sql.bsq file. First comments described in the heading of this file date from 1994 (“anori – 11/17/94 – ADT …
Oracle 11g – First Impressions
The official launch is at hand. In less then 3 weeks Oracle 11g will be presented at the world during a, probably, great launch event in New York. AMIS …
invalid oraInventory in Oracle e-Business Suite
When running the http (CPU April 2007) patch on the Oracle EBS 11.5.9, I received some errors…It seemed the oraInventory was not valid, at least the http entry was missing. …
Countdown for release Oracle 11g has started
According to the post of Eddie Awad, Oracle 11g will be released at the 11th of Juli, 2007. So the time we actually can post about it comes near. …
Are Index Scans always good……
During my work a lot of times I have heard the same rumour. Lots of people are stating that when a system is doing index scans the system is …
Why I sometimes hate GUI’s…
Hate? Let’s say it is a love / hate thing, but I can’t help myself. I am a script nerd and probably always will be, but even I have …
Getting started with Derby – The java database bundled with Java 6
May 24, 2007
Databases, DBA Oracle, Java, Software Development, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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I often need a database to perform some quick tests. I usually start my Oracle instance. This takes some time and for most things it’s overkill. So a database …
Annoying pop-up’s (CiD adware) and the security equilibrium
I believe I am careful when I am on the internet. My personal laptop is almost a fortress regarding protecting me from internet scum, so I try to protect …
Remembering the days…
Thanks Doug, for pointing out one of the first Oracle 30th anniversary links: http://www.oracle.com/oramag/profit/07-may/p27anniv_timeline.pdf. I had the privilege to meet Mr. Jacobs in person for two times now. Two …
Autoconfig templates ?
The company I work right now uses autoconfig. No problem off course, but they also have a lot off custom templates. Autoconfig uses templates to generate the configuration files …
Brilliant use of XML in the relational database
A great example of how one could use the Oracle XMLDB functionality in a unforeseen way in your relational world, is being demonstrated by Laurent Schneider in his article …
Year 2000 problems…
Last year our firm (AMIS) celebrated its 15th anniversary. This year Oracle celebrates its 30th year of its existence. In that reflective light, I remembered a nice “Easter egg” …
EBS advanced topologies: Sharing APPL_TOP, ORACLE_HOMEs, err… heck, why don’t we share it all?
Implementing a shared APPL_TOP with E-Business Suite is common practice these days. Since 11.5.10, there is also support for a shared technology stack (8.0.6 and iAS ORACLE_HOMEs). But what …
Why you should never ever copy code – An example of complete chaos
April 18, 2007
Architecture, DBA Oracle, Java, Oracle, PL/SQL, Software Development, Software Engineering
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It seems innocent, a few lines of code used twice in the same application. But before you know know it those lines appear 272 times in your application! You …