So it’s probably not earth shattering news to anyone but a find for me none the less… I stumbled upon this page which offers links to the best online libraries in the world. I’m thinking that my kids and I will enjoy the International Childrens Digital Library. I had a glance and see a nice [...]
So I upon return from my near week in Albany I decided to plunk my butt down and enjoy some carnage. But alas my beloved 360 has been smote by the dreaded ‘red ring of death’. Tech support was very polite and I should have a new unit in my hands in a couple of [...]
Seems that some aren’t willing to let the polaroid slip into the night without a fight. Check it out at SavePolaroid.com
Tired of the seemingly endless deluge of bad news? I know I am. I don’t listen to mainstream news at all anymore as it’s all either too freaking depressing or if there ever is any ‘good’ news it’s too bloody brief to be of any real ‘value’ to me. I know that good news is out there, [...]
Session 1: 10gR2 RMAN Enhancements – session 418 In this session Dave Anderson of Skillbuilders.com went over enhancements of 10gR2 RMAN. Dave’s presentation was well designed and he included a nice mix of live demos to illustrate the enhancements. Of interest here are the following:
Session 1: RMAN vs Oh Man – session 420 This was a hands on double session wherein Bonnie Bizarro did a commendable job trying to walk 100 dbas through a number of RMAN scenarios dealing with backup and recovery. Bottom line from this session is practice practice practice. One little tidbit dealt with adjusting the [...]
Session 1: Welcome to my Nightmare – session 512 This session given by Mike Ault dealt with lessons he has learned while tuning his clients databases. Mike’s experiences indicate that a majority of database problems stem from applications that fail to properly use bind variables resulting in the database having to spend tooooo much time [...]
Session 1: RAC and ASM Best Practices – session 222 Given by the RAC Pac themselves this double presentation (3 hours) covered 3 major areas. The first dealt with what Kirk McGowan termed IT Management 101 and stems from the RAC Packs experience when having to work with customers on ‘escalated’ problems. Basically the development [...]
University session: RAC, Dataguard and Streams – session u5 This was a full day session given prior to the official kickoff of IOUG. Given by Daniel Liu of First American Real Estate this session was a great one for me. I have a degree of RAC experience but lacked anything in the dataguard / streams [...]
Nuf said !!!!
