In the era of consolidation, storage has not been left out. Different systems are made to share the same storage boxes, fiber-channel switches and networks. Inside a typical storage box, we have front-end and back-end controllers, cache, physical spindles shared amongst different applications, databases, backup destinations, and so on.
The impact of backup on normal database [...]

Mind you this was actually written more than a week ago but I didn’t have time to review and upload the photos on time so sorry for this delay.
I’m on the plane back to Canada and I’m extremely satisfied with the conference this year. I should say that I found it harder to keep up [...]

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What I want to draw your attention [...]

Yesterday morning, I let myself to sleep longer — I had to be rested before my presentation as the previous evening went quite late. I also had to review my slides and, finally, complete them with couple finishing touches. That means I couldn’t make couple morning sessions. I decided to go to a presentation about [...]

ORA-600 [42].
Well, this was a nice Oracle Bloggers Meetup this year. It was less crowded compare to last year which is a bit surprising if you think about it — there are more and more Oracle bloggers around. On the other hand, it let me focus more talking to participants of Oracle blogosphere and other [...]

As you probably guessed I didn’t have a chance for a nap yesterday as I mentioned. All the usual suspects gathered in the Jury’s Inn pub sipping beer. Some of us went for dinner in the Indian restaurant after which I ended up in All Bar One and then later in Tap and Spile [...]

Christo Kutrovsky and me arrived in Birmingham today - just 6+ hours direct flight from Ottawa to London and two and a half hours on the bus - not too bad compare to 30+ hours travel from Melbourne to Ottawa earlier this week. It’s cloudy with sporadic rain drops but warm. We couldn’t checking at [...]