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		<title>UKOUG 2011 Conference OakTable Sunday by Alex Gorbachev</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog post covers day 0 of UKOUG 2011 &#8212; Sunday, 4th of December, 2011. Since there were so many of us from Pythian at the conference, I&#8217;m adding my name in the blog post title. I think I will be doing it for all conference posts as I think I&#8217;ve been doing for some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Mastering Oracle Trace Data&#8221; by Cary Millsap right after the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend (and personal hero) Cary Millsap is doing a series of one day classes around the world &#8212; Mastering Oracle Trace Data. One of them is conveniently scheduled in Birmingham Thursday next week right after the UKOUG Conference. It&#8217;s not far from the Birmingham ICC where the UKOUG Technology and Business Suite Conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News from UKOUG 2010 Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now I&#8217;m sitting in the speaker lounge with Jeremy Schneider after hacking some RAC ASM stuff as a follow up to my last presentation. We were testing some failure scenarios but that&#8217;s a topic for another blog post. Dan Fink cheated with his tiny blog post which was more like a twitt-long (and so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian at UKOUG Technology and E-Business Suite Conference 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Birmingham! It&#8217;s past Sunday midnight and I&#8217;m stuck in my room in the last couple hours finishing my slides for my masterclass tomorrow. Turns out that I&#8217;m presenting the very first session of the conference at 9am. I wish there is a keynote instead so that I could grab one more hour of sleep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s Everyone Gone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that our new web-site is live I&#8217;d like to do the first blog post on it! You shouldn&#8217;t be surprised if you notice that it&#8217;s difficult to locate your DBAs in the first week of December (i.e. in just two weeks from now)! And you know why? Because you need to be looking in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UKOUG Conference Tech &amp; EBS 2009 &#8212; The Place to Be!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s almost that time of the year when one of the best Oracle conferences in the world opens its doors to attendees in Birmingham &#8212; UKOUG Conference 2009: Technology &#038; E-Business Suite. The lineup of speakers will be fantastic as usual and agenda is full of juicy bits &#8212; You will have usual troubles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UKOUG 2008 &#8211; Arrival and Tuesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I arrived to the conference at yesterday around lunch time. I was supposed to come on Sunday but I was delayed because of my UK visa renewal. In fact, I almost had to cancel it completely but the world is not without good people who were able to magically help speeding up the process. Unfortunately, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SELECT * FROM V$UKOUG WHERE YEAR=2007 AND POST=&#8217;FINAL&#8217; ORDER BY DAY DESC;</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/739/select-from-vukoug-where-year2007-and-postfinal-order-by-day-desc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mind you this was actually written more than a week ago but I didn&#8217;t have time to review and upload the photos on time so sorry for this delay. Iâ€™m on the plane back to Canada and Iâ€™m extremely satisfied with the conference this year. I should say that I found it harder to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SELECT * FROM V$UKOUG WHERE DAY BETWEEN â€˜04-DEC-07â€² and TO_DATE(â€˜05-DEC-07â€²)+0.5;</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/727/select-from-vukoug-where-day-between-%e2%80%9804-dec-07%e2%80%b2-and-to_date%e2%80%9805-dec-07%e2%80%b205/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning, I let myself to sleep longer &#8212; I had to be rested before my presentation as the previous evening went quite late. I also had to review my slides and, finally, complete them with couple finishing touches. That means I couldn&#8217;t make couple morning sessions. I decided to go to a presentation about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ORADEBUG TRACE UKOUG_EVENING STATE DUMP, DAY 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORA-600 [42]. Well, this was a nice Oracle Bloggers Meetup this year. It was less crowded compare to last year which is a bit surprising if you think about it &#8212; there are more and more Oracle bloggers around. On the other hand, it let me focus more talking to participants of Oracle blogosphere and [...]]]></description>
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