The Miracle DataBase Forum (Scotland): It was Intense.
After some much needed time out (to do work, go home to do different work, and come back to do more work) I can finally enter my notes and experiences from the Miracle Database Forum - Scotland. And I prefer to call it MDBF-S, not MS-DBF, as that [...]

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Usergroups are Important.
Product-vendors will tell you how to save money by spending it on (testing of) their products.
Consultancy-vendors will tell you how to save money by hiring (and training) their rookies.
Both of them will create Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt and tell you it is imperative you spend more money on them. Now.
(eehm: User groups will [...]

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(Baylis House Conference Centre, Slough, UK)
Now I’m part of the new UK Oracle Apps practice, I wanted to post a short update (or is this a ramble?) to you regarding the days sound bytes that I thought were note worthy.
Another very useful RAC SIG and networking day….
1. Julian Dyke, the chair, kicked off with [...]

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The Annual Conference of UKOUG is always a Large event, and this year it had 16 parallel tracks. That can make it seriously hard to choose as sometimes there are 4 VIPs (Very Interesting Presentations) at the same time.
Impression
The main value of the annual UKOUG conference is that most of the presenters are not bound [...]

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Recently, I’ve had several interesting discussion on the relationship between “databases” and “systems”. It comes down to this: Should there be many databases on a single system (m:1, the traditional approach), or should there be many systems underneath one database (1:m, grid)? And when is 1:1 appropriate?
Current hardware is powerful enough to allow “supernodes” that [...]

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This SIG meets 3 times per year, and always has interesting albeit somewhat nerdy speakers with highly relevant content. It generally provides some very Refreshing and marketing-free information.
This meeting as one of the best I have visited in the last two years.
There was one particluar item with some real criticism of an oracle product [...]

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Yes, this is Yet Another Discussion on Replication (YADR). Indeed, this beast seems to pop up all the time. Today’s trigger was a discussion with some architects on Disaster Recovery in a SOA environment. I’ll try to give it a nice twist, and I will  also keep my lunch-budget in mind.Marketing Tagline: with SOA and [...]

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Every now and then the discussion about the "processes" parameter flares up.Setting this parameter too low results in ORA-00020 "maximum number of processes 1024 exceeded", but too high a setting will strangle the database-server with processes. 
My favorite application manager always wants me to increase the number of processes. For an app-server and for its end [...]

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