Oracle General

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. ...

I was just wondering what kind of maintenance OTN forums are undergoing ? It is 2nd day today and still not available. I checked it yesterday morning and now today morning still under maintenance. 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. ...

Just had a glimpse. OTN forums has got a new look. A bunch of new features has also been added. Some of the new things i noticed are: 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. ...

author: Sidhu category: oracle-general guid: http://amardeepsidhu.com/blog/?p=79 tag: database title: A database - one tablespace & one datafile url: /blog/a-database-one-tablespace-one-datafile/ 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? ...

Today I was searching for an error message in metalink and it was giving strange messages. Then i came to know that the error message contained “%” character and metalink was not really happy searching for it. Rather it showed a confusing message: Pretty strange…

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 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 ...

Howard Rogers has done a post on his blog that is the site Dizwell worth it ? Do post your opinion. If he plans to close it down, we will miss a great resource for Oracle. Sidhu Comments Comment by Aman Sharma on 2007-10-23 09:20:00 +0530 Fingers crossed that he wont do that and thats the voice of all(almost) too!Hope he takes the right decision. Cheers, Aman….

Tom Kyte did a post on his blog about posting of reviews of questions on Asktom. In a nutshell the reviews not related to the original question will be ignored/deleted (not decided yet, as Tom said). 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. ...

Today I was checking Eddie Awad’s blog. From there I came to know that Oracle has started Official Oracle Wiki hosted by Wetpaint. Check out. I just made my login. Hoping to contribute whatever little I can Sidhu Comments Comment by Frank on 2007-11-09 03:10:00 +0530 Another GREAT wiki to contribute to is http://www.orafaq.com/wiki Comment by Sidhu on 2007-11-15 07:48:00 +0530 Yea Frank Indeed this website orafaq.com is a good one. Pretty good articles and content. ...

Being a new kid on the block, I think, my post will not fire any serious and “scary” discussion as it has happened many times in the past. Just writing my experience. Whenever I search something related to Oracle in Google there are few sites that are bound to come up in the very first results ( No surety about the relevance and completeness of the content, though). Today I was searching about scheduling new jobs in oracle and I was, sort of, surprised to see the results [Though, I got from there, what I was looking for & I would like to say Thanks for that]. Many other times also, I have seen these websites pop up like anything. ...