About Oracle

Up until now I had only installed base versions of Oracle, but this weekend I decided to install the 11.1.0.7 patch. It was a rough ride, wi...

Still in the afterglow of my Oracle OpenWorld experience, I received yet another nice Oracle surprise: an e-mail telling me I'm now an O...

Thursday morning I decided to switch sessions, Mogens Norgaard's for Tanel Poder's session. I had to queue up, because the room was ...

Before going to some sessions I had a walk around the two exhibition halls for the first time. Not very interesting for me: a lot of vendors...

Tuesday was very diverse. I missed the 9AM session called "How to hack an Oracle Application Express application", because I wante...

Monday started kind of funny. On Sunday, Chen pointed out an unconference session to me about the SQL and PL/SQL forum, saying semi-seriousl...

The first day at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 was great. I arrived early at 8.30 AM, although my first session started at 10.00 AM, so I had the ti...