With only a month away from Larry Ellison’s keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2012, I thought that I would make a couple of wild guesses about new products that may or may not get announced this year. I’ll lump them into a few educated guesses and wild conjecture. Insert standard blogging disclaimer (please read this part, Oracle… Read More »
I’ve got a handful of presentations coming up in the latter part of the year, so I thought I’d add a quick post with where all I’m going to be. Seems like I’m all over the map and I couldn’t stop thinking of a game that I played way back when I was in elementary… Read More »
If you missed Andy Mendelsohn’s keynote at E4 last week, you may not have heard the hubbub that surrounded one of his last slides (tweeted by Frits Hooogland here). The mention of the write-back enticed Kevin Closson to talk about the potential ramifications of such a feature. There’s a lot of information on that slide to… Read More »
As you may have guessed, applying patches on the Oracle Database Appliance can be a little bit different from your standard Oracle environment. Oracle releases a software version that covers all aspects of the ODA – firmware, operating system, and Oracle software stack (grid infrastructure, rdbms). Versions are numbered like this (image courtesy MOS note… Read More »