http://amardeepsidhu.com/aggregator Blogs I read... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:17:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I realize I’ve been a little quiet of late, but life has been really busy and something had to give… Flights for my conference dates are now sorted. Big thanks to Victoria, LaShon and Sylia. I better get on the case and book my hotels. The plan is: Birmingham > Frankfurt > ... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2008/08/20/flights-openworld-vmware-and-stuff/ All RAC SIG members should have received an announcement regarding the voting that’s now in progress for new RAC SIG board members/officers. There were several nominations received in July and early August and voting is open now to all RAC SIG members. Just login to the site and use the ... http://www.dannorris.com/2008/08/19/rac-sig-officerboard-member-elections/ I’d like to share some great news — The Pythian Group and Open Query have become partners! Open Query is a leading provider of high-quality MySQL, PostgreSQL and related training in Australia and New Zealand. They offer consulting services too, and are also known for their MySQL Graph Storage Engine. ... http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1176/announcement-the-pythian-group-and-open-query-partners I’ve just come back from a couple of weeks wind-surfing - so I’ve spent the last few days catching up recovering from sundry injuries and catching up on email. One of the emails raised a point about deterministic function which made me realise that I still had a few items that ... http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/miscellaneous/ So, you have a binlog. You want to find out something specific that happened inside of it. What to do? mysqlbinlog has some neat features, which I thought we would look at here. I should first explain what mysqlbinlog really is. It is a tool that lets you ... http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1174/mysqlbinlog-tips-and-tricks This post is a follow up to a thread (”How do you conduct technical interviews?”) that carried on for quite a while on the Oracle-L mailing list (you should consider joining if you aren’t already on the list). Here is my contribution to the discussion that started with the eternal ... http://www.dannorris.com/2008/08/18/when-i-conduct-an-interview/ I got a question regarding Metalink note 296235.1 about a describe bug which causes objects to “disappear” when they are described when database is not open. It was an interesting case involving a bug, so I wrote a quite long analysis with test cases today. However when posting the entry to ... http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2008/08/18/case-study-on-some-rowcache-internals-cached-non-existent-objects-and-a-describe-bug/ Doug Burns’ posting of his Open World schedule made me think about mine yesterday evening, and so I fired up the Schedule Builder application (which now uses Oracle Data Mining to predict which other sessions you might be interested in, presumably based on what others who picked this session have ... http://www.rittmanmead.com/2008/08/18/my-oracle-business-intelligence-open-world-2008-schedule/ I had a chat with a friend of mine on the phone last night and he asked me a question. I won't reveal his name in case he doesn't want me to but he knows who he is. He asked....[Read More] Posted by Pete On ... http://www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archives/00001198.htm We have been away for the past 8 or 9 days on a familly holiday so no blog posts over this last period. This holiday was strange, [Keep reading there is some Oracle security content coming!] OK not strange but....[Read More] Posted by Pete On ... http://www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archives/00001197.htm