All 3 abstracts I sent were selected to be presented at UKOUG 2006! All of them on 14-AUG - tough day!

Extending Oracle 10g Grid Control - New Metrics, Targets and Plugins

Oracle 10g Change Tracking Inside Out
Refreshing Test Databases Using Oracle Transportable Tablespaces and Veritas Storage Checkpoints

It’s going to be the first time I present to […]

Recently I noticed (in this comment) that URLs in comments are backslashed when saved (to be precise, double quotes were backslashed). After investigation and with the help of Wordpress support forum I found that Wordpress 2.0.3 Tuneup is the one to fix this issue as well as stupid confirmation window opened after comment saving.
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I was looking on the grid computing syndrome and to my surprise Google Trends “Grid Computing” shows that hype around it was actually going down since 2004:

Interesting that the Oracle Grid Index shows continuous growth:

I can only think of some possible reasons for this deviation:

People are moving from talking about it to really doing it.
Oracle […]

The second issue of  Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs is out! Oracle July CPU topic was only on the third place whereas I expected it to be on the top… Still pretty close.
I like very much that idea and hope that I’ll be able to contribute to this interesting project… since […]

Oracle histograms are often treated as devil of CBO as they cause bind variable peeking which is most of the times leads to quite nasty surprises when no one expects them. Common approach to avoid bind variable peeking is to remove histogram collection. However, it’s not true at all. Bind variable peeking can happen even […]

After moving to self-hosted blog I found quite a few spam comments coming every day. After installin Akismet plugin for Wordpress the spam disappeared and I just clean it up from special view from time to time. Bravo Akismet!
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Yesterday, I took a part in a meeting with one on Oracle product managers in security. Spoke about few technologies and Audit Vault looked quite attractive. On the other hand it’s nothing but a data warehouse that can load data from various sources including Oracle database, iAS and 3rd party tools. So if I can […]

James Foronda posted a nice note about ZFS. His primary topic was silent data corruptions but the presentation he mentioned is quite a good overview (though, smells a bit of marketing but who knows - maybe it’s all true?). In my previous post I mentioned that I am installing RAC on Solaris under VMware - […]

Big news - I’ve got an exciting opportunity in Ottawa, Canada and finaly we decided to move. Quite a change as we were thinking for few years already to move to… Sydney! So quite an opposite place in the end with rather opposite climate. Once again I can see that my family is the […]