Monday 3 December
Get up very early and drive to Birmingham.
09:40-10:30 '30 years at Oracle' - Tom Kyte. I own a couple of Kyte's excellent books and various sources report he is an excellent speaker.
10:40-11:00 Visit a few stands. A quick game of 'spot the colleague' and ask 27 different companies 'How can XYZ help me grow my business ?'
11:15-12:00 'Siebel Keynote' - David Mills. Possible sales and marketing fluff alert. Need to sit at the back adjacent to an aisle to allow a potential rapid escape to 'Oracle RAC versus Oracle Data Guard - which should ... Read more
I decided to save Oracle Corporation lots of money by not attending Oracle Open World in San Francisco. Initially, my manager spent a lot of time trying to dissuade me but as soon as he uttered the words 'Billy Joel' and 'Prince', I immediately volunteered for some billable work in Sunderland to help pay for Doug's complimentary red sleeping bags.
Doug Burns, Tim Hall and John Scott seem to have a real problem conquering jet lag while Mark Rittman just does 'the British thing and goes down the pub'. While I don't travel to the States that often, ... Read more
I thought it would be interesting to analyze the number of postings by month from 1997 to August 2007 to the Usenet newsgroup comp.databases.oracle.server.
However, I was wrong.
Oracle 11g has recently been released so it's time for everyone to submit their colourful screenshots into the 'Oracle 11g banner version' competition. Well, nearly everyone.
Apologies for the delay but, finally, I am proud to present my paltry, monochrome effort.
I just installed Oracle 11g onto a VMware server running Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.0. It actually took me more time to configure VMware tools and successfully share the folder staging the distribution than to install and configure Oracle.
The virtual server had a mere 512MB of memory and was hosted on a Thinkpad T43 laptop with 2GB ... Read more