… research the comments on online book stores and don’t limit yourself to your regional web sites. This is an example of the very detailed comment that might influence your decision to buy. You, obviously, need to pay attention how credible the author is. Of course, never forget that whatever is printed (in the books [...]

“Miracle Open World” is the right name for the conference. There is no “Oracle” in it as I expected, but it definitely is about Oracle. I think it should be called Miracle Orange World:

Poll time now — Who is that in the picture? (I first thought I would ask what that formula means, but every [...]

First of all, I should say that the Slovenian Oracle Users Group Conference (SIOUG) has exceeded all my expectations. I had been been told many times that it was a great meeting, but I didn’t really expect such a nicely organized event. The venue, presentations, food, entertainment and whatnot were all on the highest level.
In [...]

As I already mentioned earlier, I’m going to Slovenia to participate in the 12th Slovenian Oracle User Group Conference. In just few hours I’m leaving to Germany and, after few days spent with old friends there, driving down to Portorož on Adriatic Sea. The conference takes place in Grand Hotel Bernardin from 23rd to 26th [...]

I can’t resist a blog post about Miracle Oracle Open World held at Lalandia in Rødby, Denmark from 27th to 29th September 2007. I will have a privilege to attend this fine event and, boy, am I looking forward to it!

While I like a lot monitoring capabilities and extensibility of Oracle 10g Grid Control it’s lacking a lot in Web GUI usability and ease of use.
Currently we are moving from Oracle Enterprise Manager 9i to Grid Control 10g for one of our client. This client uses many features of OEM besides monitoring - job management, [...]

I’m a bit late with that “news” but I have the second article about Oracle 10g Grid Control Extensibility published in Q3 2007 issue of IOUG SELECT Journal magazine.
If you are interested in that topic I should reference you back to my presentation from IOUG where I created a sample MySQL monitoring plugin. It wasn’t [...]