Blog Aggregator - Amardeep Sidhu

Welcome to the 91st edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs.
For a change, let’s begin with some PostgreSQL stuff. On Tending the Garden, Selena Deckelmann gives her retrospective thanks to those who attended and presented the PostgreSQL Conference East.
On Esoteric Curio, Theo Schlossnagle gives his thoughts on the […]

I have managed, last week to update my speaking events list on my sites home page to include all the presentations I will be giving over the next couple of months. I am speaking this Thursday at the UKOUG back….[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 25/02/08 At 09:49 PM

I have just downloaded the database 10.0.2.4 patch for Windows 32bit. It is a zip file which weighs in at a cool 1,034,080,256 bytes. Opening it up reveals a single directory called Disk1. Well I suppose it’s one way of maintaining the fiction that Oracle installs fit on a single disk. This is the first time I have come across a patch which is too big to fit on a CD-R. It’s a pain, because DVD burners are not yet standard kit and certainly all our servers still just have CD drives.

Finally finally finally a small sticky has been posted on OTN Database forums homepage. But its there only on Database forums page not on PL/SQL. It reads like:
Posters, please mind these common-sense rules when participating here:
- When asking a question, provide all the details that someone would need to answer it. Consulting documentation first […]

By now everyone discovered the new alert log in 11g, XML format and all. For the 11g challenged, I’ll point at the new official way of viewing your alert log: Say hello to ADRCI and bye bye to vi, less, more, tail and grep. Except that I’m not saying bye to vi any time […]