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	<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Sydney MySQL User Group: SMUG#7 ? The Reboot</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/3192/sydney-mysql-user-group-smug7-the-reboot</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reanimating the Sydney MySQL User Group!
What: Sydney MySQL User Group meetup #7 - The Reboot
When: July 16, 2009 5:30 PM (please don&#8217;t forget to RSVP yes/no/maybe)
Where: Sydney, CBD - join the meetup for exact location.
We are back! After 3 years of being silent, SMUG (can I call it so? I know there are conflicts with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: Sydney Oracle Meetup #7 - Advanced Queuing in E-Business Suite</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/3014/announcement-sydney-oracle-meetup-7-advanced-queuing-in-e-business-suite</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What: Sydney Oracle Meetup #7 - Advanced Queuing in E-Business Suite
When:Tuesday,  June 30, 2009 5:30 PM (please, make sure to RSVP yes/no/maybe)
Where: Our standard location in Sydney CBD
Welcome to our meetup #7! This meetup will be focused on Oracle Advanced Queuing (AQ) feature and its usage in Oracle E-Business Suite. 
For inexperienced SOM members, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Open World &#8212; Public Voting is Open</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2958/oracle-open-world-public-voting-is-open</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/2958/oracle-open-world-public-voting-is-open#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt you want to cast you first vote for my abstract &#8212; Developing Plug-ins for Oracle Enterprise Manager by example :)
 Every Oracle professional knows about Oracle Enterprise Manager&#8217;s extensive monitoring capability for Oracle products. However, only few realize that Oracle Enterprise Manager can be easily extended thanks to its Extensibility framework.
This presentation starts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian Video: Oracle RAC &#8212; VIP Configuration Mistakes</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2934/pythian-video-oracle-rac-vip-configuration-mistakes</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/2934/pythian-video-oracle-rac-vip-configuration-mistakes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The first videocast was quite popular &#8212; it has more than 300 views in couple weeks and considering no Hollywood stars were starring in that video and there were no nude scenes, I think it&#8217;s fair to say that this format was very much welcomed by the audience.
Today, I&#8217;m posting the follow up session on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, I&#8217;m an Oracle ACE Director Now!</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2915/hey-im-an-oracle-ace-director-now</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/2915/hey-im-an-oracle-ace-director-now#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been just sending the abstracts for UKOUG 2009 Conference before the extended deadline is over and realized that I hadn&#8217;t spread those exciting news. Actually, the news spread via Twitter before I saw the official confirmation in my inbox. Well, I guess the blog post title says it all. It&#8217;s a pleasure to join [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing Sydney Oracle Meetup #6 &#8212; Storage for Oracle Databases</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2869/announcing-sydney-oracle-meetup-6-storage-for-oracle-databases</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/2869/announcing-sydney-oracle-meetup-6-storage-for-oracle-databases#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What: Sydney Oracle Meetup #6 &#8212; storage for Oracle databases
When: June 17, 2009 5:30 PM. Please RSVP Yes/No/Maybe.
Where: Our usual location at Sydney CBD. Level 3 this time!
Details:
We will start at 5:30PM with pizza and drinks and roll on from there as usual.
Note that we are meeting at the level 3 this time!
This meetup will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Dynamically Call PL/SQL Procedure in Oracle</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2733/how-to-dynamically-call-plsql-procedure-in-oracle</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/2733/how-to-dynamically-call-plsql-procedure-in-oracle#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got an interesting note on Twitter that you can&#8217;t call a stored procedure dynamically in Oracle from a PL/SQL block like passing the procedure name in a variable.
Well, yes we can!
And the answer is EXECUTE IMMEDIATE &#8212; it can be used to run anonymous PL/SQL blog and not just a SQL statement. However, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney Oracle Meetup #5 Report: Oracle 11g New Features Out-of-the-Box</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2687/sydney-oracle-meetup-5-report-oracle-11g-new-features-out-of-the-box</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/2687/sydney-oracle-meetup-5-report-oracle-11g-new-features-out-of-the-box#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it was the smallest group so far which is not surprising considering that Monday has been the least popular day in our internal poll. We had a tad less than 20 people but very good size for the informal discussion of Oracle 11g adoption that took place at the second half of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian Video: Oracle RAC &#8212; Why VIPs?</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2624/pythian-video-oracle-rac-why-vips</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/2624/pythian-video-oracle-rac-why-vips#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 05:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Seeing it once is better than hearing about it a thousand times&#8221; &#8212; I think this is the closest translation from one Russian proverb. I may add that hearing and seeing might be often better then reading so let me try to start a series of small videocasts about Oracle database technology.
One of the topics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney Oracle Meetup #2 Report &#8212; Visualizing Oracle Performance</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2590/sydney-oracle-meetup-2-visualizing-oracle-performance</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/2590/sydney-oracle-meetup-2-visualizing-oracle-performance#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 03:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a month has passed since Sydney Oracle Meetup #2. We shot some video, but it took me a while to process it and publish a few interesting pieces, but I finally got it all.
Ric Van Dyke&#8217;s presentation on tuning SQL queries using 10046 trace is available on the SOM website in the Files [...]]]></description>
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