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		<title>RIP Flash-based My Oracle Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end is nigh for Adobe Flash at My Oracle Support. The first step will happen during this weekend&#8217;s planned maintenance of My Oracle support, when all of MOS will be down for 5 hours starting at midnight eastern, Saturday January 28. Once it comes back up, the unadvertised non-Flash supporthtml.oracle.com will come up as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian at RMOUG Training Days 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pythian is very excited to return to the much-awaited RMOUG 12 held in Denver, Colorado from February 14-16, 2012. Keep your eyes open for Alex Gorbachev, Marc Fielding, Don Seiler and Gwen Shapira in attendance. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers this year featuring a total of seven papers presented by Alex, Marc, Don [...]]]></description>
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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>Introducing the Quarterly Database Patch for Exadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of 11.2.0.3 coming out for Exadata, there&#8217;s yet another Exadata patch schedule out: the Quarterly Database Patch for Exadata (QDPE). They&#8217;re designed to being some of the predictability of Oracle&#8217;s quarterly critical patch updates (CPU) to the Exadata world. Behind the new naming, it looks like these are ordinary Exadata bundle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle 11.2.0.3 is now available for Exadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Oracle 11.2.0.3 came out last September, there have been questions about Exadata availability. As of today, the patchset is now available. Reviewing the upgrade document (MOS note 1373255.1) a few things that jumped out at me: There is already a bundle patch (11.2.0.3 BP1, patch 13343057) that must be installed directly after the DB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian at UKOUG: Wednesday December 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the final day of UKOUG there are quite a few Pythian presentations. Unfortunately a lot of them happen at the same time, so it won&#8217;t be possible to attend them all live. Using Oracle GoldenGate to Minimize Database Upgrade Risk 10:10, Media Suite Marc Fielding Even the best-planned database upgrades can leave nagging questions: [...]]]></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>
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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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