An Oracle blog - Amardeep Sidhu » Oracle General http://amardeepsidhu.com/blog Little bit of fun with Oracle and the related technologies... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:59:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 OTN forums – 2nd upgrade attempt http://amardeepsidhu.com/blog/2008/08/28/otn-forums-2nd-upgrade-attempt/ http://amardeepsidhu.com/blog/2008/08/28/otn-forums-2nd-upgrade-attempt/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:58:39 +0000 Sidhu http://amardeepsidhu.com/blog/?p=118 ]]> Well, as everybody has seen, last week they have again upgraded the OTN forums. And sadly it has been handled in a very poor manner. End result is that it is running terribly slow and throwing some errors many times. In my office, i cant even open it properly may be its too heavy or some issue with the internet. Also there has been lots of hues and cries about the new point system and all. That in my opinion is fine except that speed at which forums are running should be fine.

But Oracle itself handling an upgrade like this is really bad. It should have happened in a sweet manner. Or no money comes from OTN, so no experts out there ?

Since the upgrade, i am not feeling like posting and i think number of posts have also gone down.

Lets hope for some improvements…

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Is another new design on the way ? ;)

What you say !

Just noticed that there is an announcement about the maintenance in Community Feedback forum.

Due to maintenance, forums.oracle.com will be in read-only mode between 6pm PT, Aug. 8 and 6pm PT, Aug 10. Search will still be available during that time.

Thanks for your patience during this time!

Lets see when it comes up…mentioned period is over, i think.

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  • That simple editor is now rich text editor. Also supports emoticons.
  • You can add tags to a post and it displays the tag cloud (for all the posts) on right side.
  • A post can be marked as a question and then there will be some points system based on answers.
  • That list of Top users doesn’t show those users n ACEs. It display a new list of people instead.
  • Report Abuse button has been added (with each reply).

May be there are some other changes too. That is what i noticed in the very first look.

Nice change indeed ! I am not happy with the font though, it is very small :(

]]> http://amardeepsidhu.com/blog/2008/06/29/otn-forums-get-a-new-look/feed/ 2 A database – one tablespace & one datafile http://amardeepsidhu.com/blog/2008/06/10/a-database-one-tablespace-one-datafile/ http://amardeepsidhu.com/blog/2008/06/10/a-database-one-tablespace-one-datafile/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:02:24 +0000 Sidhu http://amardeepsidhu.com/blog/?p=79 ]]> Today I was checking OTN forums and came across a thread. OP’s concern was:

One of the db i am supporting has about 3.3 Terabytes capacity and the application is using only 1 huge tablespace with one big file.

the system is linux 4 , 32 bit.
oracle version is 10.2.0.4

Is there a limit of space for a tablespace when you consider insert/delete/query performance?

Single datafile of 3.3 TB :)

Awesome !

Kudos to the designer ;)

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Pretty strange…

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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 is highly recommended. (See http://blogs.oracle.com/shay/2007/03/02 for more hints.)
- When answering a question, please be courteous; there are different levels of experience represented here. A poorly worded question is better ignored than flamed – or better yet, help the poster ask a better question.

Thanks for doing your part to make this community as valuable as possible for everyone!

- OTN

That means Database forum enjoys most number of flames ;)

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Sidhu

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As other people said in the comments, personally I too like this idea very much. Earlier, many times, there were questions which started with someone asking about appropriate SGA size, then there were some other twists and discussions and then the thread ended in discussion about good or bad authors or something similar light years away from the original topic.

Now this action will make the discussions flow in a very controlled and neat & clean manner, all about the original topic. Hoping to see all the “great content” in a very orderly manner :)

Sidhu

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Sidhu

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When I had started my job and after that put the CV on few job sites. Everybody used to say: put more number of keywords in the CV as their search bots select the resumes on the basis of keywords only. Perhaps same thing applies here also. They have included each and every possible keyword in Oracle on their websites [& I think in a better way than it's been done in Oracle documentation ;) ]. If its not one of their own websites then some books website (that also their own, obviously) will come up [& the keywords matched here are from table of contents or some portion from some chapter Ctrl+C'ed and Ctrl+V'ed there] with advertisement all around imitating the big bang universe theory. Some special experience, with making websites Google friendly, they have got ;)

Sidhu

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