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I’ve built up quite a list of upcoming events that I want to blog about, so I’ll deal with them in a single post (… then the OUGN review and then *finally*, *maybe* a technical post or three …)Chris Date SeminarI think I’ve seen this mentioned in a…

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This post is about to quickly refer to one of the most common trick you must know when you install ODI 11g on Windows Server 2008 64 bit OS.
 
64-bit JDK is just fine but once you start ODI 11g Studio from the same machine you will get “Oracle OD…

I was in a discussion recently about how to estimate the size of a bitmap index before you build it, and why it’s much harder to do this for bitmap indexes than it is for B-tree indexes. Here’s what I wrote in “Practical Oracle 8i”:
An interest…

Oracle Database has had the possibility to run Java code inside the database for a long time. It’s a very rare occasion when you need to use it but still. Here is one example I used to download content from HTTPS website that required user certificates…

Oracle Wallet Manager and orapki do not let you extract the private key associated with user certificate located in Oracle Wallet. If you need it for some reason, for example testing with external tools like wget, then its possible to extract the priva…

I just checked to find out that there has been 3,000 downloads of SLOB – The Silly Little Benchmark. People seem to be putting it to good use. That’s good.
Before I get very far in this post I’d like to take us back in time–back before the smas…

dbm_configurator.xls is needed to generate databasemachine.xml file which is needed by OEM 12c to discover an exadata cluster.Following is a step  by step process as how to generate databasemachine.xml file to be used with OEM 12c:1) Get the dbm_conf…

Forrester Consulting: Oracle Real Application Testing Delivers 224% ROI

Forrester
Consulting conducted a multi-customer study revealing customers gain
significant benefits and cost savings from Oracle Real Application Testing, an
Oracle Database 11…

The Third International NoCOUG SQL & NoSQL Challenge sponsored by Pythian—Love Your Data™ will be revealed on Monday, May 21 at 9 AM PST at http://bit.ly/JvJS46. In this challenge, the Wicked Witch of the West needs help in creating a magic spe…

This is just a quick post to share my first 3.1.1 Oracle VM Manager (OVMM) troubleshooting experience. After the initial installation I rebooted the server, tried to access OVMM https://ovmmhost:7002/ovm/console and received the following error in a…

If you’ve known me for a long time, and let’s face it, if you’re visiting this blog, you probably do, you know that I’m particularly proud of the work I was able to do at Network Solutions as the Director of Database Engineering and Development…

When you have something insightful to say about one of these topics:
Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing
Business Strategy
Development
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Middleware
Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle RDBMS
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While everyone is aware of the issues of mixing EHCC compression and OLTP type activities, I had a customer who was interested in finding out what happens upon adding a column to a table that has EHCC compression enabled on it.
As I could not see any d…

It happens to be very short blog post as installation the Oracle VM Manager 3.1.1 under Dom0 host isn’t different from installing the previous version. For all tricks that you need to use please see my Oracle VM Manager 3.0.3 under Dom0 post. Ju…

During last couple of month I was seeing some discussion and question in different online conferences and user groups about upgrade RAC and exadata to 11.2.0.3. The questions were mostly about upgrade procedure, timing, what can happen during the upg…

Just a quick note about the Call for Papers for the upcoming UKOUG 2012 annual conference to be held on 3rd to 5th December in Birmingham. I have been a speaker for the last 5 years and I think this is a very valuable conference about Oracle technology…

Infernal is the ninth book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson.
Another family tragedy has the effect of reuniting Jack with his brother Tom, the judge. It turns out Tom is not as squeaky clean has he appears and needs Jack’s help for…

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If you want to connect map network using command prompt in windows , you can use pushd command.
C:\Users\mazar>pushd \\10.1.xx.xxx\export
Z:\>dir
Volume in drive Z has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 3CF7-…

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These are instructions that allowed me to migrate over a large library of EM12c jobs from an existing, split EM console, (Linux) and OMS Repository(Windows) to…