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It’s almost time again for the UKOUG Conference & Exhibition, which this year is taking place a month early and is running on the 1st – 3rd November up at the ICC in Birmingham. There’s a number of presentations, workshops and panel sessions that’ll be of interest to Oracle business intelligence and data warehousing users, [...]

In this month’s article for DBAZine, put together in collaboration with fellow blogger Justin Lokitz, I look at GIS-Enabling Your Oracle Data Warehouse. "GIS" is short for Geographic Information Systems and describes the technique of combining information and maps. Almost every database and data warehouse contains an element of location data, be it customer addresses, [...]

Howard Rogers dropped me a line earlier today to say that his Windows Laptop RAC paper is available for download again. The paper can be download from http://www.dizwell.com/html/exotic_oracle.html, and Howard’s put a redirect in place so requests to the previous URL still get through.

There was an interesting question on Oracle-L the other day about system performance when CPU utilisation goes up towards 100%: "I’m not a hardware guy or sys admin person so forgive me if this is a stupid question. Leaving out all other variables(such as IO), should I expect performance to be the same in a [...]

"Performance War", Craig Shallahamer : "Every great Greek battle commander (Pausanias, Themistocles, Aristides, just to name a few) was either exiled, sacked, indicted, or fined by the very people he sought to save. Do you DBAs feel like that sometimes? We often think, "Well, why even try?" But we continue on because performance optimization is [...]