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		<title>Oracle Certifications</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DBA&#8217;s require a broad set of skills. Depending on the job they&#8217;re in, they may focus on user management, backup/restore, installation, configuration, tuning or other less frequent tasks. However these areas do make up the full skill set required to work on different projects in various settings. There are mixed feelings about the OCP certification. There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraclebitbucket.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1427178&amp;post=45&amp;subd=oraclebitbucket&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s minding the middle tier?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle&#8217;s growth and acquisitions are providing and endless parade of new products called &#8220;Oracle&#8221;. If it&#8217;s called Oracle, then surely the Oracle DBA can handle it, right? Traditionally trained DBA&#8217;s know about databases. They can install them, patch them, safeguard and tune them. There are many people working at DBA&#8217;s who don&#8217;t actually know what&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraclebitbucket.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1427178&amp;post=41&amp;subd=oraclebitbucket&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>APEX Contact Manager on Oracle XE</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[E-mail makes an inadequate contact manager. APEX was the buzz at Hotsos this year. It came up in conversation after conversation. I haven&#8217;t done anything with it in a couple years now, and sure enough it&#8217;s been growing up. I checked, and there is a small contact manager sample available on OTN for download. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraclebitbucket.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1427178&amp;post=17&amp;subd=oraclebitbucket&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Year end checkup</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Month-ends, quarter-ends, beginnings of terms, inboxes fill up with worried and worrisome threads about something gone off the rails. Applications which behave satisfactorily on a day to day basis can&#8217;t necessarily cope with peak loads. The maintenance window for one application may coincide with a heavy workload for an unrelated system that shares the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraclebitbucket.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1427178&amp;post=14&amp;subd=oraclebitbucket&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>v4 timezone files</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please be advised that many releases of p5632264 were incorrect last spring. I&#8217;ve found records on Metalink acknowledging this for Sun/SPARC and HP-UX PA-RISC for 10.2.0.3. I found a non-public note referring to 10.1.0.5 for Linux. The workaround is to find a good patch for your platform and version (but not necessarily patch level), and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraclebitbucket.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1427178&amp;post=13&amp;subd=oraclebitbucket&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11g: Extra packages</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t keep putting it off: 11g</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life intervened and technology went on the the backburner. In the spirit of New Year&#8217;s resolutions and going to the gym, let&#8217;s see what can get accomplished by trying. Yes, it&#8217;s finally time. I can&#8217;t think of anymore excuses to put off dealing with 11g. It&#8217;s full of &#8220;new&#8221; features, but I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraclebitbucket.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1427178&amp;post=11&amp;subd=oraclebitbucket&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Partition Pruning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I regularly have dev&#8217;s come to me and say &#8220;It should be fast. It&#8217;s partitioned.&#8221; Yes, well, err, maybe. Then there are the ones who know that the data they&#8217;re interested in is stored in particular partitions, so they resort to procedural code to make it &#8220;fast&#8221;. Just had a case today where some rather [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraclebitbucket.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1427178&amp;post=10&amp;subd=oraclebitbucket&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So, is it a bug?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on yesterday&#8217;s misadventure trying to find the badly behaved SQL when it didn&#8217;t show in the test plan, I wrote a simple test case. I found the problem in 9.2.0.8, but since it&#8217;s terminal, I figured I&#8217;d see what 10.2.0.3 did. The behaviour is the same. SQL&#62; select version from v$instance; VERSION ----------------- [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraclebitbucket.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1427178&amp;post=8&amp;subd=oraclebitbucket&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s always the untracked change</title>
		<link>http://oraclebitbucket.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/its-always-the-untracked-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bholgate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I need a sign for my cubicle wall. Thank you for your complaint. To save time, let us agree now that it&#8217;s not the database pfile it&#8217;s not the db block size it&#8217;s not the security patch we applied last month it&#8217;s not the network it&#8217;s not the SAN It&#8217;s something you did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraclebitbucket.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1427178&amp;post=7&amp;subd=oraclebitbucket&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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