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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>R12.2 online patching – What are the hidden costs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hot topics at the UKOUG 2011 Technology and E-Business Suite Conference last December was the upcoming release of Oracle e-Business Suite R12.2. The new release will bring us lots of new features, usability improvements and new versions of technology stack components (Oracle Database 11g R2 and Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g R1 as [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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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>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>This place is so British</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/29393/this-place-is-so-british/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael S. Abbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(editor&#8217;s note: the author is talking about UKOUG, the UK&#8217;s major Oracle conference, happening this week in Birmingham) And so it should be :). The flight over was uneventful, save for my excitement about having 3 seats to myself. Then the big challenge surfaced &#8230; a 5&#8217;8&#8243; human trying to recline in a 4&#8217;10&#8243; horizontal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Gorbachev Presenting at TOUG&#8217;s DD Day on 28-Oct-2011 in Toronto</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/27571/alex-gorbachev-presenting-at-tougs-dd-day-on-28-oct-2011-in-toronto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Oracle OpenWorld is still hot in our memories, I&#8217;m going to be presenting two of my OOW11 sessions at the Toronto Oracle User Group&#8217;s DD Day 2011 on 28-Oct-2011 &#8212; in just a bit over 2 weeks. Last time I presented for TOUG at their summer meeting in 2008 which makes it a tad [...]]]></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>A NoCOUG to Remember</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/25677/a-nocoug-to-remember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Seiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is long overdue, as I was supposed to blog about my appearance at NoCOUG before I left (sorry, Vanessa!). However in my efforts to rehearse and adjust my presentation, blogging about it just fell to the wayside. However now that NoCOUG 2011 Summer Conference is in the books, I&#8217;d like to take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RMOUG 2011: Pythian Raffle Results</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/22327/rmoug-2011-pythian-raffle-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m following up on a conference almost half a year later &#8212; try to bet that! Actually, this blog post was written more than 3 months ago and was sitting in my drafts waiting the moment I understand why I really wrote it. 3 months later&#8230; I still don&#8217;t know but I thought I should [...]]]></description>
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