Blog Aggregator - Amardeep Sidhu

A little over a year ago I wrote a rather miserable post about the departure of one of my friends for New Zealand. Thanks to the wonders of Skype we’ve managed to keep in touch, despite the time difference.
This morning he called to say he was now a father, so I would like to take […]

Well its been a long time that 11g has released and to be frank, I really could not spend that much time which I thought would spend over it to grab the release 1 features before release 2 comes up. There were all sorts of things happening. My travel, programs, my own problems and so […]

A question I’ve often been asked over the last year or so is “what’s happening with Oracle BI Beans?” For anyone not aware of what BI Beans is/are, it’s a J2EE component set that connects to Oracle OLAP via the Java OLAP API and was used as the building blocks for the OLAP version of […]

Its been a long time since I last wrote about how things went very wrong when doing something very routine. Thankfully, this time it was on the test system.
It all started when our storage manager complained that our test system is taking too much space. Since it is important to keep a good relation with […]

Following a recent posting from Dan Fink on the “presentation” that Mogens Norgaard gave at RMOUG this year I got involved in an interesting email exchange with (amongst others) Graham Wood, who many of you will probably recognise as the “father” of AWR and ADDM.
In the course of the exchange, Graham made a comment which […]