http://tonguc.oracleturk.org "Learning is expensive, not more than unawareness." Wed, 21 May 2008 05:12:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en nearly for a year now we have been playing hacking games -> http://tinyurl.com/4hfauk so you know where to find me from now on -> http://tonguc.wordpress.com http://tonguc.oracleturk.org/index.php/2008/04/11/at-last-wordpress-domain-is-back-in-my-country/ After all those years I still love to see I am learning lots of new stuff each day. This is what makes you fit and motivates to go deeper with Oracle I guess. In my opinion especially small things that you forget or even somehow you didn't still read about ... http://tonguc.oracleturk.org/index.php/2008/03/30/number-data-type-formating-with-sqlplus-numwidth-hint/ I saw Marco Gralike's announcement so I also wanted to make a similar one. But this time Graham Wood will visit my company and we planned to be together with Wood for a half day on 21th of April. Also on 22nd of April Jonathan Lewis will be in İstanbul, this ... http://tonguc.oracleturk.org/index.php/2008/03/30/graham-wood-and-jonathan-lewis-will-be-in-istanbul-next-month/ It is always good to have an RDA, Statspack or AWR report to let a database to introduce itself to you :) Of course usually you will be needing much more information than this, especially related to the developed applications on that database. This morning one of my colleagues asked how ... http://tonguc.oracleturk.org/index.php/2008/03/30/how-to-get-cumulative-logons-and-sessions-highwater-mark-for-an-oracle-database/ CDC is perceived like an aspirin in my organization, so why is that? Simply here the need is sharing and integration of information among a multitude of applications and databases and CDC make this data flow. Another variation of this need is instead of taking full extractions and calculating the ... http://tonguc.oracleturk.org/index.php/2008/03/21/oracle-change-data-capture-under-magnifier-async-cdc-with-10gr2/ After seeing Eddie Awad’s Oracle in 3 Minutes series I planed to play with the trial of Camtasia Player. Camtasia Player is a simple, standalone video player, optimized for playing screen recordings. I receive lots of comments on why I am not writing in Turkish, my native language. So I decided ... http://tonguc.oracleturk.org/index.php/2008/03/21/my-first-video-blog-entry-test-oracle-quality-and-performance-for-free-summary/ When it comes to Oracle Optimizer Jonathan Lewis, Christian Antognini and Wolfgang Breitling have the best resources I have ever read. And now I will add Alberto Dell'Era to above three - http://www.adellera.it/investigations/index.html ps: if you still didn't see this video presentation take a look ;) Optimising through Understanding by Jonathan ... http://tonguc.oracleturk.org/index.php/2008/03/11/alberto-dell%e2%80%99era%e2%80%99s-investigations-and-scripts-on-oracle-optimizer/ I have written on external tables before; External table’s performance for a row and undocumented Oracle functions Unload Data with External Tables and Data Pump This time last week several questions from our ETL group guided me to test a little more external tables on Solaris 10 and 10g Release 2. Some of ... http://tonguc.oracleturk.org/index.php/2008/03/11/a-little-more-on-external-tables/ When I was a kid I loved to watch He-Man, The Most Powerful Man in the Universe. Yes, R-Man is the most powerful database backup and recovery tool in the universe for today. But still there are some DBAs do not want use RMAN. They are the same crowd who ... http://tonguc.oracleturk.org/index.php/2008/03/09/hundreds-of-reasons-why-you-might-wantor-have-to-use-r-man/ Especially people who are preparing for Oracle 10g certification exams will like this quick note I guess. One of my colleagues shared this work of Mr.Ahmed Baraka on 10g New Features for Administrators last weekend and I liked it very much so I also wanted to share it here. For ... http://tonguc.oracleturk.org/index.php/2008/03/03/oracle-10g-new-features-for-administrators-by-ahmed-baraka/