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Are You the World's Smartest Database Professional?

By justin.kestelyn on March 17, 2009 11:06 AM

Eat SQL for breakfast? We have a challenge for you. The DB-Quest Challenge is now out there in an effort to document the identities of the smartest database professionals, globally. (You know who you are.) The questions range from the...

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We Wish: Jim Gray's Accomplishments, Reconsidered

By justin.kestelyn on June 2, 2008 11:26 AM

The Jim Gray Tribute on the UC Berkeley campus last weekend was instructive to me in several ways. First of all, it made me realize how relatively small the "database science" community really is. Had you vaporized Zellerbach Hall at...

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The Passion of the Oracle Database Users, Part 2

By justin.kestelyn on March 21, 2008 11:13 AM

I stumbled upon a stupefying post from Sean McCown yesterday, he of the "Database Underground" blog at InfoWorld.com. Sean (a SQL Server user apparently), claims, for example:Oracle is still living in the old days where everything is a good ole...

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The Passion of the Oracle Database Users

By justin.kestelyn on February 29, 2008 6:41 PM

According to my friends at Evans Data Corp., a survey of 1,400 database app developers and IT managers worldwide has found that the "most satisfied" database customers are users of Oracle Database 10g or 11g. SQL Server, MySQL, Informix, Postgres,...

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Is Poor Security Hygiene Rampant?

By justin.kestelyn on January 14, 2008 3:40 PM

This on the eve of the release of a quarterly Critical Patch Update: Evidence that suggests two-thirds of Oracle DBAs may not bother themselves with applying security patches.The sample involved is a small one (some 300 people), but the alarm...

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The Oracle DBA Toolbar Gets Foxy

By blogsadmin on June 7, 2007 4:05 PM

The Oracle DBA Toolbar is finally available in Mozilla Firefox flavor. Sorry for the long wait....

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Google Toolbar Button

By justin.kestelyn on January 26, 2007 12:19 PM

As you know, we published an Oracle DBA Toolbar for IE last fall. (A FireFox version is still in the works, but not too far off.) You may also be interested in installing a custom OTN button for the Google...

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DBA Toolbar is Blowing Up

By blogsadmin on December 6, 2006 3:44 PM

I think we hit a nerve: since its release on Nov 19, the Oracle DBA Toolbar is the seventh most popular OTN download (thus far) - and we haven't even touched the Linux community yet (via the FireFox extension in...

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Return of the Oracle DBA Toolbar

By justin.kestelyn on November 20, 2006 1:30 PM

This is a good week for OTN users: on the heels of the "Greatest Hits" CD download, today we are releasing the 2006 incarnation of the Oracle DBA Toolbar.As you might expect, this IE add-in (we're working on a Firefox...

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User Forum Day - It's an Oracle 10g World (and we're living in it)

By blogsadmin on December 5, 2004 3:58 PM

User Forum Day at Oracle OpenWorld commenced on Sunday, with one of the most packed events being "How to Thrive as a DBA in an Oracle 10g World," a Tech Session/panel combo that began with a presentation from DBA trainer...

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