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Personal highlights from Collaborate 2013 in Denver. Discussion of networking with old and new friends, technical sessions (performance forecasting and multi-block read internals) and the Pythian RAC Attack class.
I was recently playing with an Oracle XE database. The main benefit of Oracle XE is that it can be used free of charge. And unlike the other database editions on the Oracle Technology Network, it is free the restrictions in the OTN license agreement that restrict products to “developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your…
MAbbey’s musings and thoughts about Sunday at COLLABORATE13
As per many previous IOUG/OAUG/Quest shows, Pythian is will be in Denver next week! It was a sunny day in the fall of 1991 when I gave my first paper at International Oracle User Week (IOUW), a pre-cursor to COLLABORATE and a few earlier incarnations called IOUG-Live and IOUG-Alive! It has been a whirlwind of…
OEM 12c Cloud Control looks daily for new targets, placing them in a queue for admin promotion to managed objects. Details and troubleshooting info follow.
This post will take a look at RMOUG 2013, the events, the sessions and the great chance to meet friends and colleagues
In this post I show you how to get SQL strings transformed in a way that resembles the result of cursor_sharing.
Inspired by a T-shirt he got from Splunk, Alex shares his thoughts on Big Data, data storage and the changing landscape with emerging technologies like Hadoop.
As usual, the who’s-who of the Oracle tech space will be assembling in Denver the week of February 11 for the Rock Mountain Oracle Users’ Group. A plethora of Pythian employees with be speaking as will we also have a booth in the vendor hall. Please drop by and say “hi”. See the full detail of who is presenting and when.
Do DBAs have a role to play with Hadoop clusters? If so, what is that role and what skills they need to get there. I provide the answers to these questions in this post.

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