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Oracle OpenWorld 2012 - the world is not enough: Larry’s keynote on Oracle...
I am pretty sure you are wondering what Larry Ellison announced in his Oracle OpenWorld keynote, especially concerning Oracle 12c! In fact there were three major announcements, which I will cover in...
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OOW Day 1: Upgrading to Oracle Cloud Control 12c
Today, we had the chance to attend interesting sessions under a perfect sunny Californian weather :-). The first one was about best practices for an upgrade to Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. The...
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OOW Day 1: Oracle 12c - Data Guard new features
What a sunny day at the Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius ... don't be jealous ;=) What should I start speaking about? Oracle Entreprise Manager Cloud Control 12c?...
View ArticleOOW Day 1: Oracle OEM Database Express 12c & Extreme Database Management
My second session today was about Oracle Extreme Database Management with the latest generation of database technology by Leng Leng Tan, Senior Vice President of Oracle Development. The new Oracle...
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OOW Day 2: Oracle Database as a Service
Another day in the San Francisco Bay discovering the Oracle Cloud, but without clouds in the sky :=) Today I went to a session describing a customer case study on Oracle database cloud with Enterprise...
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OOW Day 2: Enjoying Oracle's Real World Performance show
I have had the pleasure to go the Real World Performance presentation with the famous Tom Kyte of the Ask Tom blog, Andrew Holdsworth, Head of Oracle’s Real World Performance Team, and Graham Wood, the...
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OOW Day 2: Oracle Linux developements & news
This second day at the Oracle Open World is hotter than the previous one! Today, we focused on Oracle Linux. Oracle Linux roadmap, the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) release 3 is coming in summer...
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OOW Day 3: Playing with Oracle 12c - new features pluggable & multitenant...
For the third day at the OOW, we had the opportunity to "play" with the beta 2 of the upcoming Oracle database release "Oracle Database 12c". This was a Hands-on-Lab session with about 60 participants...
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OOW Day 3: Oracle database 12c features review
Today, we had the opportunity to follow several sessions concerning the upcoming Oracle Database 12c release. Like Apple, Oracle keeps the secret over Oracle Database 12c, but tends to deviate from the...
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OOW Day 4: Dive in, Rock out - Oracle Party & Tomy Kyte's 12 things on Oracle...
Well, this last day really was funny! We met some old friends (they will recognize themselves) and also Oracle guru Jonathan Lewis. We must confess Larry Ellison really has good friends. His America's...
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SQL Server 2012: SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) - Schema and Data Comparison
In my life prior to SQL Server, I worked with Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). The "Schema and Data Comparison" feature of SQL Server 2012 Data Tools is a direct descendant of Visual Studio for...
View ArticleJava Virtual Machine Diagnostics: Starting/stopping JVMD manager
Although the managed server on which Java Virtual Machine Diagnostics (JVMD) manager is deployed is configured to use the the Node Manager like OMS and admin server, it is not started automatically...
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Overview of Microsoft Visual LightSwitch
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new application development tool wich allows to create fast and nice web and desktop applications. The development environment is the same as the other .NET...
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Manage templates manually with Oracle Virtual Box
To create environments for testing, development, or demonstration, several identical virtual machines are required. Use a technology as VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V, for implementing a dedicated...
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Office 2013 and SQL Server 2012: an integrated, powerful BI solution
I have recently read that PowerPivot and Power View are natively present in Office 2013 and especially in Excel 2013. I found this fun and decided to install the preview of Office 2013! First, what are...
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SQL Server 2012: Service Pack 1 (SP1) now available
Since a couple of days, the first Service Pack for SQL Server 2012 is available on the Microsoft website. The SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 includes an SQL Server 2012 Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) and an...
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Unable to resize tmpfs on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 versions
I recently helped to create a lab dedicated to a training about Oracle backup and recovery, with Oracle 11g databases. While creating several databases on an Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1, I wanted to...
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Oracle Apex 4.2 now released
Oracle Apex 4.2 is now available on the Oracle Website. It is available since 12 october 2012. This new release comes with new features briefly described in this blog posting. First of all, here are...
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Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server
I recently had the chance to go through a so called Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server (SQLRAP) at one of our clients. The SQLRAP assesses your SQL Server implementations to...
View ArticleDOAG Konferenz 2012 - mein Fazit: wärmstens zu empfehlen!
Die DOAG Konferenz 2012 ist vorbei. Wie immer war sie sehr bereichernd! Wir von dbi services hatten dieses Jahr über drei Präsentationen die Gelegenheit, unser Wissen in den Bereichen Cloud Control 12c...
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