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		<title>Tom Kyte Video on &#8220;Why Upgrade to Oracle 11g?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Kyte speaks for about an hour on the newest features in Oracle 11g, including how many new features and enhancements there are. The presentation itself can be downloaded from Tom&#8217;s site and the video can be directly played in your browser on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25oUes-pMwI or in the embedded video below:]]></description>
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		<title>OOW Video:  Mary Matalin and James Carville Keynote</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To start off the conference, the first keynote at Oracle OpenWorld took a break from technology and veered into the world of politics. The official conference description says: Washington&#8217;s best-loved political couple Mary Matalin and James Carville entertain the crowd with a bitingly humorous look at the world of politics. Indeed, there was humor, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubiquity and Tahiti: Together At Last!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Seiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost everyone and their mum has been twittering about (or from) Mozilla Labs&#8217; newest creation, Ubiquity. You can get a quick introduction of this firefox extension via their blog post, which has a video tour. Well, after playing around with the simple stock commands (email, wikipedia search, twittering), I decided it was time for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 2008 Boston MySQL User Group &#8212; Slides and Video Are Up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, nobody from Sun showed up in person, but we got a great rendition of &#8220;Where were you when you heard THE NEWS that Sun bought MySQL?&#8221; from Mark Rubin, the MySQL Sales Engineer for the New England area, and from Giuseppe Maxia, who revealed something very interesting and riveting. From there, Giuseppe gave a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DB Basics &#8212; February 2008 Boston MySQL User Group Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the video of &#8220;Database Basics&#8221;, which I presented at the February 2008 Boston MySQL User Group meeting. The presentation goes over the basics of relations, data, the Entity-Relationship Model, how to choose data types, and how to do basic CREATE statements. You can download: the video (Large, 500 MB, or Small, 100 MB) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #85: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome the the 85th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Here we go! Oracle We start with the obscure. Eddie Awad has started the Obfuscated SQL Code Contest on his Oracle Community site, thanks to an idea by Chen Shapira. If you&#8217;re familiar with this contest&#8217;s antecedents, like the obfuscated C [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian Goodies: The Answer to Free Memory, Swap, Oracle, and Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christo Kutrovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave this talk at the UKOUG, and I have received a few requests to post the slides online. Instead of just posting the PowerPoint I took some time to give the presentation again (internally here at Pythian) and this time we recorded the session and we are posting it here in a variety of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian Goodies: Oracle Parallel Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christo Kutrovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Doug Burns already mentioned, here&#8217;s another video from the Pythian Goodies project. As usual, the Goodies are intended to be debates, so please post any questions or follow-ups with the relevant time-index from the video. Featuring Doug himself, he discusses Parallel Basics. This video is a good introduction to using Oracle Parallel features and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian Goodies: Oracle Disk I/O Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christo Kutrovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, I released a video about Flash Recovery Area as part of the Pythian Goodies project. Here is the next video in the sequence. Oracle I/O Basics This video covers: Disk I/O Concepts Async disk I/O concepts &#8211; when does Oracle use it Monitoring via vmstat &#8211; explained Monitoring via iostat &#8211; explaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian Goodies: Oracle Flash Recovery Area</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christo Kutrovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, I announced the Pythian Goodies project, and now here it is, the very first video of the series. The topic is &#8220;Flash Recovery Area,&#8221; and how can it make your life easier. Of course, we discuss some caveats too. Don&#8217;t forget, the Goodies are intended to be debates, so if you have any [...]]]></description>
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