Gerald on IT

Best backup advocate ever seen

Just found it in a Pythian Group Blog: It’s the best advocate for backups I’ve ever seen! You nearly get

Just found in H.Tonguç YILMAZ Oracle Blog: Test your Oracle knowledge Some questions seem to be a little bit obsolete

Yesterday I joined the Oracle partner regulars’ table in Arcotel in Linz. It was nice to see a known face

Do you know that? You want to test something and it just won’t work. You fix this, you fix that

A few days ago I had a nice discussion with one of our developers here in the office. The subject:

Yesterday was a bad day for me as DBA. All begone with two distributed transactions which had a lock held

Yesterday OOW 2007 started and I can’t join it. 🙁 It’s taking place in San Francisco. Well I hope next

Oh man, yesterday an email arrived to join a technical training provided by Oracle partner network on the 27th of

I always thought that SYS is the almighty user of the database like root on linux OS. But it seems

Since 8i you can write stored procedures also in Java. But what is the advantage of writing a procedure in

Finally the time has come. I’m currently installing Oracle 11g on a test-box (thanks to my Admin for the box!).

The more I read about BULK COLLECT and FORALL and their performance improvements, the more curious I got about how