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		<title>OSWOUG, RMOUG and Hotsos &#8211; Oh My!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwen Shapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m traveling quite a bit in the next few weeks, here&#8217;s where you can find me: On February 14, I&#8217;ll present an Exadata war story and big data introduction to OSWOUG (Oregon and South Washington Oracle User&#8217;s Group). If you are in Portland, drop by and say hello &#8211; I will be educational and entertaining. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In &#8216;Movember&#8217;, Mo Bros stand together to fight Prostate Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mohammed Mawla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gentlemen (and no Ladies), Let&#8217;s go hairy!! The 60s are NOT back but during the month of November , some gents , including myself, will grow a stache to raise the awareness of prostate cancer, an insidious disease that afflicts one in seven males. Movember Movember (a slang word &#8220;Mo&#8221; for moustache and &#8220;November&#8221;) is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trends and Data &#8211; Notes from Strata NYC 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwen Shapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve attended the Strata conference in NYC last week. Its been many years since I&#8217;ve last attended a conference without presenting in it. On one hand, attending only makes for a far more relaxed experience. On the other hand, I missed having random people come up to me and talk about my presentation. I decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incident Notification &#8211; Pythian internal &#8211; Jul 29th 3PM EDT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have incident reporting procedures at Pythian. This incident report was sent just recently internally at Pythian. We learned some good lessons from it so I hope it would be useful to the community as well &#8211; copying it below as is&#8230; As part of our incident management process, you will find below a summary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenWord Suggest-a-Sessions @ Oracle Mix</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been quite a bit written about Oracle Mix Voting (let me refer to it as OMV for short) this year and I don&#8217;t think I should waste your time restating any of this. What I wanted to do is to take a step back and try to list &#8220;stakeholders&#8221; of OMV. Before I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PgEast 2011 Day The Second</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scoles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well day two here at PgEast has drawn to a close and it was another very informative day. Today I concentrated on the more common tasks of a Pg DBA so I attended three talks (four if you count mine) that where rather heavy on the technical side of being a Pg DBA Keven Kempter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congrats to Fahd Mirza on becoming an Oracle ACE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week brought great news to Pythian &#8212; one of our DBAs in Pakistan, Fahd Mirza, has become an Oracle ACE. Fahd joined Pythian in September 2010 as the very first Pythian employee in Pakistan and thanks to his skills and ambitions ended up on the team supporting Exadata environments. Fahd is a long standing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It is the season to be Introspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwen Shapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The days are cold and wet. The nights are long and dark and full of beeping pagers. It is time to look back and reflect on the past year and plan for next year. Accomplishment of the year: I still can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m a member of the Oak Table. Big change of the year: Started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Me Reason, Take Me Higher</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/19323/give-me-reason-take-me-higher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fahd Mirza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Give Me Freedom, Give Me Fire Give Me Reason, Take Me Higher Database administrators can get rusty pretty much quickly, and then they fall in a routine. In a typical company, they install and manage the same set of database servers. Soon they know the ins and outs of those databases. They know the pulse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Papers &#8211; NoCOUG 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/18735/call-for-papers-nocoug-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gwen Shapira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North California Oracle User Group are planning their 2011 conferences and are looking for good presentations! We are a very friendly local user group, so if you live in NorCal and never presented before &#8211; this is a great place to start! We love seeing new presenters and we even have a public speaking expert [...]]]></description>
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