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Continue reading →: Running RAC in a Virtual EnvironmentI was in a discussion at an Oracle Meetup this week, and the subject of RAC in a virtualized environment – specifically Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) – came up. Here’s a couple of points which were discussed. pingtarget There was a lack of awareness of a common problem, which has…
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Continue reading →: UKOUG Technology DayWe have organized a UKOUG Technology Summit in Leeds on 16th May. It’s really a small Conference! This is available to UKOUG Members and will cost 1 SIG Pass – even Bronze memberships come with 1 SIG pass, so all members could attend at no cost. Non-members can pay to…
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Continue reading →: UKOUG Member Advocate: sorted!I received an email from the UKOUG last week. It turns out that I have won the vote to become the next Member Advocate for the UKOUG. I will (eventually) be joined on the board by Martin Widlake – who won the vote for the position of President Elect…
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Continue reading →: UKOUG M.A. Voting Hots Up!
It’s getting hotter! After many years volunteering at the UKOUG I am standing to be the Member Advocate at the UKOUG, representing the members on the board. Do you think I will represent the membership well? Yes. VOTE FOR ME! Oh, you must be the main UKOUG membership contact, or…
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Continue reading →: I want your vote!Are you a member of the UKOUG? Read on… I’m currently standing for the role of Member Advocate. But why? I’ve been volunteering at the UKOUG for over 10 years, and speaking at the conferences and SIGs for the last 5 years or so. I’ve been deputy chairing or chairing…
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Continue reading →: KILL! KILL! KILL! (of Unix processes)
The start of this isn’t my post – I got it from here: but I wanted to reblog/repost and enhance it because as far as I can tell, 99% of all known DBA’s only use kill -9 to remove unhappy processes. Original Post: Useless Use of Kill -9 form letter No…
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Continue reading →: Oracle ACE DirectorI was at UKOUG Tech17 this week in my capacity at both Speaker and Tech Lead (organizing and selecting the agenda, drinks, parties, etc – although the heavy lifting is done by the @UKOUG office) There was rather a nice surprise waiting for me. Jennifer from the Oracle ACE Program…
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Continue reading →: UKOUG Tech17 Dec 3rd-6thI love the UKOUG Tech conferences, but then I’m biased. It was the first conference I spoke at a few years ago, but I’ve been going to see UKOUG events since the mid 1990’s. At my first event there was a DBA talk about VLDB – the database was 40GB…
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Continue reading →: UKOUG Northern Technology Summit
Here at the UKOUG, we’ve just announced that we will be holding a 1-day UKOUG Northern Technology Summit in the North of England on 18th April 2018. It will be in Leeds, at the Park Plaza! This is a 5-stream 1 day event, with around 30 talks! We’d call it…
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Continue reading →: HrOUG – The Croatian Conference
Arriving on Tuesday afternoon, directly from the Slovenia Conference and it’s straight into the 3rd Autumn conference! Conveniently, Slovenia and Croatia are timed together and are held within a little over 1 hours drive (plus a 15 minute boat ride!) apart. Well done on that one guys! A quiet beer…
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Continue reading →: SiOUG – The Slovenian Conference
So October came around and it was time for my second and third conferences of the autumn season. I had been kindly select to do 2 talks at this Slovenian User Group, but a last-minute problem with another speaker meant I found myself giving 3 talks in 2 days. Excellent…
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Continue reading →: High Five POUG: Polish Oracle User Group Conference?
I’ve just returned from presenting at the 2nd annual POUG Conference, this time in Krakow, Poland (the first was in Warsaw). This is the Polish Pint with Oracle User Group conference and is exactly what a conference should be. Educational, Informative, Well-executed and Fun. It was based in a lovely…
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Continue reading →: UKOUG RAC SIG, September 27th
There’s a UKOUG RAC SIG on the 27th of September in London. There a range of great speakers talking about topics from the new RAC Domain Clusters, 12.2 Upgrading, Patching Exadata, and much more. It’ll be great, it’s true! See you there…
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Continue reading →: Appearances 2017
and wp I’ve not written a post in a while. I’ve been a bit busy organizing several UKOUG events, including several Special Interest Groups 1-day events and Tech17 (and doing paid work for clients!) I have been accepted to speak at a number of conferences over the next couple of…
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Continue reading →: Online Index Rebuild Problem in 12C/18C/19C
When building an index in Oracle Enterprise edition using the keyword “ONLINE”, if the index build fails for whatever reason a messy set of extents can get left behind. In Oracle 12.1 [update still there in 12.2 and 18C and 19.6] there’s a job (located in DBA_SCHEDULER_JOBS) to help with…
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