Odds and Ends

Friday, September 9th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

A quick round up of a few odds and ends. I’ve had a few responses back now about the Open World bloggers’ dinner, and it looks now like it won’t be just me turning up, or indeed held in a phone box. So far the following people have expressed an interest: Tom Kyte Steve Muench [...]

Odds and Ends

Friday, September 9th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

A quick round up of a few odds and ends. I’ve had a few responses back now about the Open World bloggers’ dinner, and it looks now like it won’t be just me turning up, or indeed held in a phone box. So far the following people have expressed an interest: Tom Kyte Steve Muench [...]

San Francisco Oracle Open World Blogger Dinner

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

I mentioned the other day that it might be an idea to have a bloggers dinner one night during Oracle Open World SF. A couple of people have come back and said that it might be worthwhile and therefore I’m offering to organise it. If any Oracle blogger wants to meet up one night during [...]

Know who your customers are – part 2

Monday, September 5th, 2005 by Peter Scott

Thanks to the readers that pointed out that some stores ask for postal code or zip code at the point of sale. Postal codes can help refine customer identification to those in living in a specific locality (or even as in the UK a cluster of houses on a street). This can be linked to [...]

Open World Paper on RAC, DW and 32-bit Linux

Monday, September 5th, 2005 by Mark Rittman

If you read my posting a couple of months ago asking whether RAC was suitable for data warehousing, and the debate beforehand on the Dizwell Forum, you might be interested in a white paper I’ve just come across on last year’s Open World download site. Entitled "20TB on a Linux Cluster Today : How To [...]

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