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We are soliciting your feedback on our recently announced E-Business Suite Release 11i + 10gR2 Cross Platform Transportable Tablespaces (XTTS) database migration process. We know that quite a few of you have requested this and are curious as to how you might be faring with it. For those customers who have downloaded the controlled patch (6158038) required for this [...]

Vlamis Software Solutions, an Oracle Parner, along with NAVTEQ, are hosting a BIWA SIG (that would be the Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics Special Interest Group) web seminar – BIWA SIG TechCast – Sept 8 – Noon Eastern (US) – Information Visualization Using Maps in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g. Use this link to register for [...]

I’m very pleased to welcome John Abraham to this blog’s panel of guest authors.  John is part of the same team led by Terri Noyes, who joined this blog’s panel earlier this year.  With John’s participation, we are able to potentially double our coverage of server operating system topics. John joined Oracle in 2003 and [...]

I’m very pleased to welcome John Abraham to this blog’s panel of guest authors.  John is part of the same team led by Terri Noyes, who joined this blog’s panel earlier this year.  With John’s participation, we are able to potentially double our coverage of server operating system topics. John joined Oracle in 2003 and [...]

I’m very pleased to welcome John Abraham to this blog’s panel of guest authors.  John is part of the same team led by Terri Noyes, who joined this blog’s panel earlier this year.  With John’s participation, we are able to potentially double our coverage of server operating system topics. John joined Oracle in 2003 and [...]

There have been some changes happening on the Oracle Technology Network. As a result, the link to the Oracle BI EE 11g Certification Matrix that I had posted in an earlier post no longer works. Use this link instead: System Requirements and Supported Platforms for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11gR1 (XLS format) Bookmark this page for [...]

As Oracle OpenWorld is just around the corner and you are probably getting your session schedule together, I thought I’d pass on this (nearly complete) list of sessions of which one or more of the presenters is an OakTable member. There is no doubt in my mind that these sessions will contain some of the [...]

As Oracle OpenWorld is just around the corner and you are probably getting your session schedule together, I thought I’d pass on this (nearly complete) list of sessions of which one or more of the presenters is an OakTable member. There is no doubt in my mind that these sessions will contain some of the [...]

As Oracle OpenWorld is just around the corner and you are probably getting your session schedule together, I thought I’d pass on this (nearly complete) list of sessions of which one or more of the presenters is an OakTable member. There is no doubt in my mind that these sessions will contain some of the [...]

So, which number takes more bytes inside an Oracle row? A: 123 B:  1000000000000000000000000000000000000 And the correct answer is … (drumroll) … A! The “big” number 1000000000000000000000000000000000000 actually takes less space than the “small” 123! Let’s verify this: SQL> select vsize(123) A, vsize(1000000000000000000000000000000000000) B from dual; A B ———- ———- 3 2 WTF? Why does such [...]