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		<title>RIP Flash-based My Oracle Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end is nigh for Adobe Flash at My Oracle Support. The first step will happen during this weekend&#8217;s planned maintenance of My Oracle support, when all of MOS will be down for 5 hours starting at midnight eastern, Saturday January 28. Once it comes back up, the unadvertised non-Flash supporthtml.oracle.com will come up as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gearing up for RMOUG Training Days 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 edition of RMOUG Training Days in Denver less than a month away, running February 15 and 16 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Although it&#8217;s only two days, there&#8217;s a lot of technical content there, and a refreshing reduction in marketing-oriented presentations from &#8220;product managers&#8221;. It&#8217;s not too late to register, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing the Quarterly Database Patch for Exadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of 11.2.0.3 coming out for Exadata, there&#8217;s yet another Exadata patch schedule out: the Quarterly Database Patch for Exadata (QDPE). They&#8217;re designed to being some of the predictability of Oracle&#8217;s quarterly critical patch updates (CPU) to the Exadata world. Behind the new naming, it looks like these are ordinary Exadata bundle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle 11.2.0.3 is now available for Exadata</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/29867/oracle-11-2-0-3-is-now-available-for-exadata/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Oracle 11.2.0.3 came out last September, there have been questions about Exadata availability. As of today, the patchset is now available. Reviewing the upgrade document (MOS note 1373255.1) a few things that jumped out at me: There is already a bundle patch (11.2.0.3 BP1, patch 13343057) that must be installed directly after the DB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian at UKOUG: Wednesday December 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the final day of UKOUG there are quite a few Pythian presentations. Unfortunately a lot of them happen at the same time, so it won&#8217;t be possible to attend them all live. Using Oracle GoldenGate to Minimize Database Upgrade Risk 10:10, Media Suite Marc Fielding Even the best-planned database upgrades can leave nagging questions: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian at UKOUG: Tuesday December 6</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/29427/pythian-at-ukoug-tuesday-december-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On tap for Tuesday is a 2-hour master class from Michael Abbey, along with an all-day drop-in RAC attack workshop with Alex Gorbachev and the RAC SIG. Using a Physical Standby to Minimize Downtime for Database Release or Server Change 11:25am, Media Suite (this is a full 2-hour master class) Michael Abbey The physical standby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian at UKOUG: Monday December 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you attending UKOUG today, there is a healthy dose of Pythian presentations on tap this afternoon. Actually, you can do it wall to wall 2:30pm to 6:30pm if you like. To note: Exadata Hybrid Columar Compression &#8211; Leveraging it fully 2:30pm, hall 7A Christo Kutrovsky This presentation focuses on how to maximize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exadata Memory Expansion Kit</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/29333/exadata-memory-expansion-kit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just looking at an Exadata X2-2 ordering document and noticed that it included 144GB of RAM. The sales rep pointed at the Exadata X2-2 datasheet and showed the 96GB to 144GB memory expansion option. Based on my reading of Intel Xeon (Nehalam) memory configurations, as long as each channel has a single dual-ranked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Database Cloud Services: A Few Initial Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/27477/oracle-database-cloud-services-a-few-initial-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The website for Oracle Database Cloud Services at cloud.oracle.com is now online, in conjunction with Larry Ellison&#8217;s announcement during the Oracle OpenWorld keynote going on now. It&#8217;s a hosted database service running Oracle 11gR2. The database can be accessed using a hosted Oracle application server, via JDBC across the Internet, or their own RESTful API [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exadata smart flash cache now supports redo writes</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/27373/exadata-smart-flash-cache-now-supports-redo-writes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update 7-October-2011: the log write caching capability has been officially announced as “Exadata Smart Flash Log”. I saw a few Oracle product management slides at OpenWorld presentations; one slide deck online is here on slide 30. A sample graph is provided, showing how the peak response times drop significantly with the additional cache. These peaks [...]]]></description>
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