Posted in Life, tagged oracle, sungardhe on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of us from ITEC attended SunGardHEs Summit conference in Philly and I’m now happily recovering back home. The conference was good and the city was interesting (what little I saw of it).
Highlights of the conference include (but were not limited to):
More details revealed on the evolving UI for next generation Banner apps – [...]
Posted in WORK WORK WORK, tagged darwin, oracle, rac on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Barely more than 4 years ago – February 9, 2005 to be exact – I created our first Oracle 10G RAC database and on a whim named my bouncing baby boy DARWN.
Over the past 1461 days I’ve learned quite a bit from him but this week (again coincidental) I decided to bring his existence to [...]
Posted in WORK WORK WORK, tagged data protection, oracle on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Received a newsflash today from Oracle – looks interesting. I’m not sure that I understand in it’s entirety what it means but I think I like it
• Delivering on its commitment to advance Linux for the enterprise, Oracle today announced the contribution of data integrity protection code to the Linux community.
• The contributed [...]
Posted in WORK WORK WORK, tagged data modeling, enterprise manager, grid control, oracle, sysman on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve not done any serious data modeling for a while but now having a need to better understand the sysman schema underlying Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control I was about to fire up Embarcadero’s ER Studio and reverse engineer this puppy when I happened to notice that Oracle now has an ‘early adopters’ release of [...]
Posted in WORK WORK WORK, tagged openworld, oracle on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a bid to solve the bandwidth problem inherent between storage and server Oracle has teamed with HP on it’s first bit of hardware – storage with an imbedded database.
The basic premise is that any oracle query retrieves disk blocks from the storage and then sorts through those blocks to give the user what they [...]
Posted in Life, tagged education, oracle, students on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’d heard about the Education Foundation about a year ago and it completely slipped my mind. Basically it’s an organization (foundation actually) established by Oracle for the purpose of encouraging teachers and students in the k-12 throughout the world to use technology creatively.
A nonprofit organization funded by Oracle, the foundation delivers ThinkQuest – a widely [...]
Posted in Life, WORK WORK WORK, tagged iphone 2.0, obiee, oracle on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
2 great iPhotos
Originally uploaded by danbrint
NICE! I downloaded Oracle’s OBIEE app for iphone 2.0 (thanks for the tip Mike R) and within moments was looking at our OBIEE installation !!!
I’ll see if I can find some pretty graphs too go along with this.
FYI – Anyone familiar with OBIEE will recognize this as being data from [...]
Posted in WORK WORK WORK, tagged openworld, oracle on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For those of us fortunate enought to be attending, Oracle has posted the headliners for their annual ‘Appreciation Event’.
Elvis Costello: A master of weaving many musical genres, including pub rock, punk rock, and new wave, this consummate performer has dedicated fans on every continent.
Seal: A singer-songwriter from England of Nigerian and Afro-Caribbean ancestry, Seal smoothly [...]
Posted in WORK WORK WORK, tagged dell, oracle, rac, suny on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can preview the paper that we worked on with Dell prior to it’s physical publication in ‘Dell Power Solutions’ over at Dell.com in the ’sneak peak’ area. (The actual paper is this one).
I’m pretty pleased with ourselves and this paper does a good job of highlighting what/why/how we did it.
The source whitepaper is available [...]
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