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		<title>Bloggers Meetup @ Oracle OpenWorld 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s that time of the year again &#8212; Oracle OpenWorld time &#8212; and it&#8217;s my pleasure to announce our regular Oracle bloggers meetup again this year. We all know that Oracle community has grown this year so we expect to see folks from all the different technologies including MySQL, Java, Sun hardware folks in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan OakTable Symposium (MOTS)</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/15423/michigan-oaktable-symposium-mots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/15423/michigan-oaktable-symposium-mots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan OakTable Symposium (MOTS) is a unique event taking place just before Oracle OpenWorld &#8212; 16-17 September. Why unique? This is the first conference (is it not?) where all presenters are members of OakTable Network, a group that gathers number of like-minded IT professionals with scientific approach to Oracle database technology and to the life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exadata Technology Blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/14717/exadata-technology-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I hear lots of feedback on Exadata front asking for more and more technical information and I often refer them to some material online. I think I should reference couple credible resources for the readers of our blog in addition to our own Exadata content and Oracle&#8217;s own Exadata Technology section.
Kevin Closson &#8212; Oracle Exadata [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010: Best Practices</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/13859/odtug-kaleidoscope-2010-best-practices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/13859/odtug-kaleidoscope-2010-best-practices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: 29-Jun-2010, 30-Jun-2010.
For me, ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 started on Friday with the ACE Directors briefing. Best practices topic was touched there slightly and I twitted about it. I decided that the feedback deserves a blog post so I&#8217;m simply quoting the conversation here. If you have anything to add, you know where to find the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 ? Ready? Set? Go-o-o!</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/13587/odtug-kaleidoscope-2010-ready-set-go-o-o/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/13587/odtug-kaleidoscope-2010-ready-set-go-o-o/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is time&#8230; Time for one more very special conference for me. Why special?

I have never been to ODTUG Kaleidoscope before. I always like new conferences &#8212; new experience.
Unlike Sheeri, I do not speak! This is one of those rare conferences where I come to slack off, meet old friends and make new ones, go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got My oracle.com Account Locked ? How Do I Access My Oracle Support?</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/13531/got-my-oracle-com-account-locked-how-do-i-access-my-oracle-support/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/13531/got-my-oracle-com-account-locked-how-do-i-access-my-oracle-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The error message I received this morning trying to login at oracle.com was:
Your account has been locked for the next 3 hours due to too many invalid login attempts. Please try again later.
 This was odd &#8212; I think I used the right password and I only did it once. Oh well, SSO on oracle.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Up</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/8573/keeping-up-the-shape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I found I never published this post as it was sitting in my drafts few months now &#8212; it was written in 13th February, 2010. I&#8217;m publishing it without any changes.
I learn therefore I am!
I&#8217;ve just wrote few bits about learning a new technology and after skimming through my Google Reader, I noticed a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle UTF8 Encoding and String Manipulation Overhead</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/13431/oracle-utf8-encoding-and-string-manipulation-overhead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/13431/oracle-utf8-encoding-and-string-manipulation-overhead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For one of our customers, I&#8217;ve recently reviewed the strategy of migration from single-byte encoding to variable length multi-byte UTF8 (AL32UTF8 encoding in Oracle naming standards). These type of projects are coming up again and again so I think it must be common for many of you. Thus, this bit might be useful. I&#8217;m also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APEX ? Bulk Images Upload Using EPG</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/13383/apex-bulk-images-upload-using-epg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/13383/apex-bulk-images-upload-using-epg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently installing one APEX application and needed to upload a bunch of images. APEX was configured to use EGP (Embedded PL/SQL Gateway) so traditional options were to configure FTP or WebDAV but I&#8217;d rather not open these services on production environment.
After searching for the solution on the Internet, I surprisingly realized that there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultimate SQL Tune-off with Jonathan Lewis and Kyle Hailey</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/13037/ultimate-sql-tune-off-with-jonathan-lewis-and-kyle-hailey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/13037/ultimate-sql-tune-off-with-jonathan-lewis-and-kyle-hailey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just a short blog post to spread the word about the upcoming webinar organized by Embarcadero with fellow member of OakTable Network &#8212;  Jonathan Lewis and Kyle Hailey &#8212; Ultimate SQL Tune-off.

Kyle and Jonathan are on my list of the most respected Oracle performance experts and I could only imagine what they [...]]]></description>
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