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		<title>A NoCOUG to Remember</title>
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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>Watch for Pythian speakers at upcoming Oracle Technology Days, NoCOUG, OOUG, SQLSaturday &amp; Pythian Australia.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a busy summer at Pythian, with our continuing wave of speaking sessions at upcoming community and regional industry events. Coming to a city near you, watch for Pythian presenting hot Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database topics: IN CANADA: Oracle Technology Days &#8211; Montreal August 9, 2011 &#8211; 8:30am &#8211; 1pm, Hilton Montreal Bonaventure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NoCOUG (My)SQL Challenge entry #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I learned about this year&#8217;s NoCOUG SQL Challenge and decided to to put the gray matter between my ears to work. I&#8217;ve been teaching a MySQL course this week and my first impulse was to use my MySQL VM to test my solution attempts. However, I eventually decided to use Recursive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NoCOUG SQL Challenge &#8211; thinking outside the padded box</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/20785/nocoug-sql-challenge-thinking-outside-the-padded-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanick Champoux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems that our André Araujo has already spilled the beans and revealed his solution to the second edition of the NoCOUG SQL Challenge. Now, I can&#8217;t let him have all the fun, can I? Unfortunately, my SQL-fu is pathetically weak, so I stand no chance against his Querying Might. Buuut I am well versed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hear ye, hear ye:  Announcing the 2nd Intl. NoCOUG SQL Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement of the Second International NoCOUG SQL Challenge sponsored by Pythian and Apress has been published in the February 2011 issue of the NoCOUG Journal. See pages 18 and 19 for rules, details of the unsolvable riddle and prizes to be awarded to the smartest wizard who can reveal the secret message. SQL commands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #211, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Log Buffer, a weekly review of the database industry. This week’s issue, Log Buffer #211 is our last for 2010, and has been published by Iggy Fernandez, editor of the quarterly journal of the Northern California Oracle User Group (NoCOUG). As always, if you’d like to host your own issue of Log Buffer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presenting at NoCOUG Spring Conference &amp; Interview in NoCOUG Journal</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/12299/presenting-at-nocoug-spring-conference-interview-in-nocoug-journal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 15:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never attended the North California Oracle User Group Conferences even though they are organized every quarter. However, I&#8217;ve been always jealous of the great agenda they put together. A couple months ago, Chen Shapira reminded me once again that the next NoCOUG conference was coming up and asked whether I would be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NoCoug SQL Challenge Entry</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2385/nocoug-sql-challenge-entry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 18:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love puzzles. So when I heard about the NoCoug SQL Challenge I felt tempted to give it a go. The Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCoug) has challenged us to find a good way to calculate the probability of getting different sums for x throws of a n-sided die using only SQL. The probabilities [...]]]></description>
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