Saturday, November 10, 2012

Log Buffer #294 Appears

Log writer process of Oracle is one of the most revered background process, a real work horse, a real charming darling who keeps the whole Oracle database system consistent and humming beautifully and many technologies in Oracle sprout from this good old process. Consistency is the key in database systems, and so in the Log Buffer Editions, and this Log Buffer #294 continues it. And yes, the coolest 2012 PASS Summit is also there.

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Hanging with Jonathan Lewis at Oracle Open World 12 San Francisco


Hanging with Tom Kyte and Malenie Caffrey at AUSOUG Perth


Oracle with 20:20 Foresight Perth Australia was awesome

Perth is far from everywhere, but not far from the Oracle technologies. Passion, knowledge, and urge to share the experience, skills, tips and knowledge brought people from across the planet to gather under one roof and learn, educate and network under the banner of Oracle with 20:20 Foresight.

The event was organized by the Australian Oracle User Group with many other sponsors and exhibitors and was a explosion of innovation. Where there is Oracle on this planet, Pythian is there, rest assured. We presented three papers during this mega conference in West of Australia. Yury Velikanov presented on Direct NFS, and I presented on Exadata Patching and Oracle IORM in Exadata. Pythian’s Warren Adkins was also present during the event.

The sessions by Tom Kyte, Malenie Caffrey, Connor McDonald, Peter Sharman, Martin Power and Paul Geurin were few of the many great presenters. From pluggable databases to Oracle Data Archive, and from R12 migrations to Exadata, the conference had everything for everyone. It also supported the great cause of cancer council in Western Australia and the passion for it was great too.