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Best-of-three sailing race on course for mid-day start in Valencia, Spain
BMW ORACLE Racing is facing the Defender Alinghi in what could be a big Wednesday opening showdown. Strong winds today kept BMW ORACLE Racing from making a final pre-race sail. But, we're keeping our fingers crossed that the good winds continue as some say Oracle's boat does well in these conditions...and, of course, makes for an exciting race. We wish skipper Jimmy Spithill and his crew safe and fast days on the water.
** Race time for Wednesday will be detirmied in the morning (Valencia time) based on weather conditons. Keep posted and watch the race live at: www.bmworacleracing.com - click on "Live Stream"
A stroll through the halls of your IT department may reveal that there is no love lost between the DBAs and business analysts they support. In today's hyper competitive environment, business analysts need to perform more and more predictive analytics and they want the answers yesterday, but managing separate BI and OLAP servers and ensuring fast query performance can be a challenge for DBAs.
Watch this short video to see how the dynamic DBA duo address this challenge using Oracle Exadata, forging a truce with their new business analyst and even getting her to crack a smile - sort of. Enjoy!
This short YouTube video outlines how Oracle Database 11g can help customers address their Data Privacy, Insider Threats and Regulatory Compliance challenges - without having to make costly, time-consuming changes to their business applications.
A common question that comes up at customer visits and Oracle Database 11g events is "what are the various stages of Oracle's Lifetime Support"? And a related question is always "what type of support/fixes come with each support stage"?
Recently I caught up with Jim Shumway and Angelo Romano of the State of Connecticut's IT group for a podcast. We talked about consolidating their Peoplesoft applications on a RAC cluster of Linux servers running Oracle Database 11g. We also talked about Data Guard, ASM, and other Oracle technologies that helped them lower costs and achieve service levels they needed. Join us to hear how they did it all and recommendations for others with similar goals.
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Many of our readers will be familiar with Oracle ACE Director Charles Kim. He's been very active in the Oracle Database community over the years, and in addition to speaking at Oracle events, regularly blogs about his experiences.
Charles recently collaborated on writing the Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook with some of my colleagues here at Oracle including Larry Carpenter and Joe Meeks from Database Server Technologies. I recently caught up with Charles to find out more about his latest book. Tune in for yourself and find out what Charles has to say about Oracle Data Guard 11g.
Oracle Database 11g is helping organizations optimize the cost, performance and reliability of their storage management resources. This short YouTube video outlines the storage managment capabilities of Oracle Database 11g.
Exor Manages Infrastructure Assets with Oracle Database 11g
Oracle implementation expert Steven Feldman discusses how Exor - the world's leading provider of highways software - uses Oracle Application Express and Oracle Spatial to deliver integrated road management systems.
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