October 2011

Was emailing with my esteemed college John Beresniewicz at Oracle in the OEM group. John and I worked together on OEM 10g and thank goodness he is still there as he is generally behind any good quantitative visualizations you might see in the product. Here is one cool example he sent me:

The database load, AAS, can be time selected and from the selection a load map is shown, in this case of which objects are creating the most I/O load, group by type of I/O. Super cool. Congrats JB and I look forward to exploring more in OEM 12c “cloud control”.

I was chatting with the lady doing OCP Lounge registrations at OOW11. During this chat I mentioned I hadn’t received a certificate for the SQL Expert certification. It never crossed my mind to re-request it, since my certifications are visible on certview.oracle.com anyway. Yesterday, a DHL man delivered the missing certificate, which prompted me to look though my certifications and scan this image.

First, check out the card on the bottom right. I was unaware the “Expert” certifications had a different colour card.

Second, notice anything funny about the 9i DBA OCP certification?

It’s hard to believe it’s over 12 years since I first completed one of these certifications…

Cheers

Tim…

October 14, 2011 (Modified October 15, 2011) When reading various Oracle Database books, I often perform mental exercises related to the book’s contents, asking “what could go wrong?”   That is probably why some of my book reviews have extended to record setting lengths… who knew that Amazon imposed a limit on book review lengths… I [...]

I mentioned in a previous post that I went to the OTN Night on the Monday at OOW11. I also spoke about eating far too much when I was there, but forgot to mention were the circus performers…

Anyone who knows me knows I’m obsessed with flexibility. I love stretching and I love watching anything involving flexibility. San Francisco has a famous Circus School, so previous OTN parties have had assorted circus performers to entertain the punters. In addition to the usual clowns, this year there was a contortionist with a hula hoop. She did elements of the Cirque du Soleil act made famous by Elena Lev in Alegria. You can see the original act here.

Needless to say I watched the contortionist at the OTN Night while stuffing noodles into my face.

Cheers

Tim…