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		<title>Oracle Exadata &#8220;technology that most changed his life&#8221; &#8211; says Oracle ACE &amp; Pythian DBA Fahd Mirza.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pythian&#8217;s Oracle ACE, Fahd Mirza appears in this month&#8217;s Community: Peer-to-Peer review &#8220;In With the New&#8220;, as published in the September/October 2011 issue of Oracle Magazine. Fahd states that &#8220;Oracle Exadata Database Machine&#8221; has most changed his life &#8211; changing the game, and setting very high standards of performance, support, scalability, reliability and unification. Shout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the First Oracle ACE Director in MySQL &#8212; Sheeri Cabral</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m excited to share the news that Oracle ACE program has been extended to cover MySQL community now and Pythian&#8217;s Sheeri Cabral has become the very first Oracle ACE Director in MySQL expertize area. It&#8217;s a special privilege for me to blog about it because I had a pleasure to nominate Sheeri in the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RMOUG Training Days 2010 Round Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RMOUG was over last week but I haven&#8217;t got back until earlier this week and I finally managed to clean up the backlog of things I missed so I could write the conference wrap up. After the RMOUG, I went skiing with a bunch of good friends and discovered a great skiing resort of Breckenridge. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, You Want to be an Oracle ACE?  Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the official Oracle acquisition of Sun, I dug out a presentation video I realize I never officially shared with either the MySQL or the Oracle community. It&#8217;s the presentation I did at the 2008 Oracle Open World conference called, &#8220;So, you want to be an Oracle ACE?&#8221; and is a good resource [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, I&#8217;m an Oracle ACE Director Now!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been just sending the abstracts for UKOUG 2009 Conference before the extended deadline is over and realized that I hadn&#8217;t spread those exciting news. Actually, the news spread via Twitter before I saw the official confirmation in my inbox. Well, I guess the blog post title says it all. It&#8217;s a pleasure to join [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #137</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the 137th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Dave Edwards is enjoying a week off, and so as part of my plot to take over the world, I am writing this week&#8217;s Log Buffer. First, the fun stuff: Josh Berkus tells us that the American English Translation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporting from Perth AUSOUG Conference 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My presentation was on the first day, right after the keynote, and following my habit of reviewing the slides before the show, I spent this keynote hour one-to-one with my MacBook. I could never underestimate the importance of this review following one fiasco I had in the past when I neglected to thoroughly review the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AUSOUG Conference 2008 in Perth &#8212; Getting Ready</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I had very pleasant experience presenting at AUSOUG Conference 2007 in Melbourne. It was a long way from Canada but no regrets. Since I moved to Sydney more than a month ago, it&#8217;s much closer to travel and this year I will be presenting on both AUSOUG conferences &#8212; in Perth and at [...]]]></description>
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