January 22, 2008 9:29 AM
Posted by: Derek Kuhr
Oracle applications,
Oracle database administrationI just came across what is definitely the most interesting take on Sun Microsystems' planned $1 billion acquisition of MySQL, the Swedish open source database management system provider.
In a recent...
January 22, 2008 7:19 AM
Posted by: Derek Kuhr
Oracle applications,
Oracle database administrationOracle will add Captovation -- a Minnesota-based vendor of enterprise content management (ECM) strategies -- to its ever growing list of acquired software companies.
Oracle -- which has...
January 16, 2008 11:58 AM
Posted by: Derek Kuhr
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle database administrationOracle yesterday released its Critical Patch Update fixing vulnerabilities across its database and application product lines. But do Oracle database administrators really care?
The...
January 9, 2008 11:03 AM
Posted by: Clinek
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle applications,
Oracle database administration,
Oracle developmentLarry Ellison, everybody's favorite yacht-racing former-playboy billionaire, is beloved by journalists looking for a memorable quip . . . or a blog post. Here are a few amusing ones I've come across over the years:
On business:
"A corporation's primary goal is to make money....
January 7, 2008 9:18 PM
Posted by: Derek Kuhr
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle database administrationOur favorite security blogger -- Pete Finnigan of the Oracle Security Weblog -- today wrote about an instance of data theft that should serve as a valuable life lesson to anyone.
According to
January 2, 2008 10:36 AM
Posted by: Clinek
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle applications,
Oracle careers and certifications,
Oracle database administration,
Oracle developmentYou've read about the best movies of 2007 (which you haven't seen) and the most embarrassing celebrity scandals of 2007 (which you don't care about). How about something a tad more relevant?
Here is our look back at your
December 17, 2007 12:19 PM
Posted by: Clinek
Oracle applications,
Oracle database administrationVeteran Oracle DBA Richard Foote recently posted an interesting article/diatribe about the myth of rebuilding Oracle indexes. He states:
There...
December 12, 2007 12:24 PM
Posted by: Derek Kuhr
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle applications,
Oracle database administrationOracle's acquisition of Moniforce fills a gaping hole in Oracle's monitoring technology lineup, according to one IT industry analyst who pays close attention to
December 5, 2007 1:21 PM
Posted by: Clinek
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle database administrationDon Burleson posted an interesting article today on Oracle virtualization and makes the point that it is leading us into the "second age of mainframe computing."
He writes,
It's back...
