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This has got to be one of the funniest oracle-related threads on usenet for some time.

I’m in the process of taking my Oracle 9i Database Oracle Certified Professional exams, and this afternoon passed the third of the exams, Oracle 9i Database : Performance Tuning.
I know the OCP gets a lot of stick from cynical old bearded DBAs who dismiss it as meaningless compared to years of on the job experience, but […]

Brian Duff breaks the news that Oracle Jdeveloper 9.0.5 is now going to be know as Oracle Jdeveloper 10G. It’s been his task to search-and-replace all instances of 9.0.5 with 10G in the Jdeveloper code base, but in his spare time he’s put together an article on the top ten toys for Java programmers in […]

This weekend was the hottest on record in the UK, and like most people in Brighton, I spent part of the weekend down at the beach. Here’s a few photos.

There’s a good article over at Oraclebase about putting together efficient SQL statements.
It’s easy these days to forget about the basics like these; the way in which you list tables, use aliases, and use comparisons like EXISTS rather than IN, can have a dramatic effect on query performance and it’s these sort of basics […]

I’ve had two papers accepted for the forthcoming UK Oracle User Group Conference & Exhibition, at the ICC in Birmingham in December.
The first paper is entitled “Oracle 9i OLAP Uncovered” and the presentation is at 10.45 on December 10th. The presentation abstract is as follows;
“Ever since the first release of Oracle 9i with the OLAP […]

Brian Duff, another one of the Oracle JDeveloper team, has started up a weblog on JDeveloper, SCM and user interfaces.
Brian works with Steve Muench and looks like he’s from the UK, so it’ll be interesting if we get a perspective on working for Oracle over here. He’s put a good article together on observing user interaction […]

eWeek has details of the next version of Enterprise Manager, due to be delivered as part of Oracle Application Server 10G.
Highlights include:

Single view of all enterprise databases
Dynamic HTML interface
Patch tracking for individual instances
Direct links within the interface to Metalink

As the Enterprise Manager website within 9iAS release 2 is somewhat different to the standard Enterprise Manager […]

Oracle are going to start supporting PHP, the number one web scripting language, with Oracle Application Server, according to this new PHP Statement of Direction just released on OTN.
Support will initially consist of documentation for installing and configuring PHP to work with Apache 1.3, the web server used as the basis for the Oracle HTTP Server […]

An interesting issue has cropped up with us, with a client who wishes to use OWB9.0.4 and now 9.2 on a Compaq Tru-64 platform.
Previous versions of OWB were installed firstly on a client PC (usually a Windows PC), with the user then running wizards to create the respository and the runtime objects in a target […]