Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)…
Funny how there is no mention of the name “Cloud Control” in the latest announcement. Does that mean we are back to calling it just Enterprise Manager again?
Anyway, the latest instalment of EM has been born. The downloads are available on OTN.
I’ve got mine downloading. The past few versions have been relatively easy to install on a clean system, but the upgrades have been a total pig. I’m hoping this one is going to be significantly easier… Sucker… 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
UKOUG have extended the deadline for the Tech14 paper submission until Tuesday 27th May, giving people an extra weekend to get their abstracts in.
This is your last chance to get involved.
Cheers
Tim…
Just a quick shout out to the 2014 OTN MENA Tour, which starts in a few days. The events are:
This is the first time this tour is happening, so please show your support and register.
Good luck to all the folks who are taking part. Unfortunately I can’t be there, but I hope to take part in a future event…
Cheers
Tim…
Registration has opened for the Oracle Midlands Event #4 on Monday July 14th.
This event includes a session on “Designing Efficient SQL” by Jonathan Lewis as well as lightning talks by Jonathan Lewis, Richard Harrison, Salih Oztop, Patrick Hurley and Martin Widlake.
The event is free, thanks to the sponsorship by those kind people at Red Gate. There is also a rumour that the Oracle Press teddy bears may return! 🙂
Please show your support by registering and coming along to see some great speakers. I’ve already registered, so I’ll see you there!
Cheers
Tim…
I really enjoyed Oracle Midlands Event #3 last night. Christian Antognini spoke on “12c Adaptive Query Optimization” and “Row Chaining and Row Migration Internals”. I certainly learnt a lot, which is the whole point of this stuff!
After the event a few of us went across to a local pub and the geek talk continued. Cool++.
Thanks very much to Christian for coming all that way to speak to us. Thanks to those good people at Reg Gate for sponsoring the event. Thanks also to the Oracle ACE Program for letting Christian come to visit us. 🙂
The next event is on Monday 14th July. Hope to see you there!
Cheers
Tim…
VirtualBox 4.3.12Â was been born yesterday. It’s a maintenance release, so a number of things have been fixed. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places.
Seems to install and work fine on Mac, Linux and Windows. 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
I’ve just filled in my Oracle ACE Director Self-Evaluation…
The way the tour dates worked this year, I got the LAOTN 2013, Nordic 2013 and Yathra 2014 tours in a single assessment year, plus all the one-off events. It looks crazy-busy… 🙂
Most of my events this year have been packed into the first half of the year, so I think next years assessment will look a little sparse by comparison…
Cheers
Tim…
I’ve been having a play with Oracle Linux 7 beta over the weekend. Not surprisingly my first thoughts were to install the Oracle database on it.
As expected, the installations were almost identical or Fedora 19.
I’ve put a warning on the front of the OL7 articles, but I’m sure it won’t stop some Muppets using it in production then trying to blame me. 🙂
I don’t know how long it will be until OL7 goes to production and I’m sure it will be a long time before anything is certified against it, but it’s always nice to see what’s coming… 🙂 I’ll update the articles when anything significant happens…
Cheers
Tim…
Nearly two weeks ago, Oracle announced the Oracle Linux 7 Beta 1. Being the Linux fanboy I am, I downloaded it straight away from here.
Oracle Linux is a clone of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. The RHEL7 beta, and therefore OL7 beta, distro is based on a cut of Fedora 19, although depending on who you ask, it’s possibly more a mix of Fedora 18, 19 and 20… Suffice to say, there are a lot of changes compared to the RHEL6/OL6 distribution.
As I’ve mentioned several times before, my desktop at home is running Fedora 20, so I’m pretty used to most of the changes, but I’ve not written much about them, apart from the odd blog post. It’s not a high priority for me, since I’m not a sysadmin, but I’ll be updating/rewriting a few of the Linux articles on the site to include the new stuff.
When Surachart Opun mentioned having to look at systemd and firewalld, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to update my firewall and services articles. You can see the new versions here.
RHEL7/OL7 is only in beta, and even after the production release I’m sure it will be a long time before Oracle actually certify any products against it, but if you are not a Fedora user, it’s probably worth you having a play around with this stuff.
Cheers
Tim…
I’ve recently put some new Oracle 12c articles on the website.
The privilege usage stuff is really cool. Normally, trying to figure out what you can remove from a user is always a complete pain in the ass. Some of the databases I’m currently working with have used GRANT like it’s going out of fashion. Trying to identify what is really necessary is a tough job. Features like this are going to be hard to wait for…
Cheers
Tim…