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I spent a few hours last weekend categorizing the 300+ Oracle related blogs that are aggregated by OraNA. I tried to follow the categorization on blogs.oracle.com, plus I added a few more.

The new OraNA categories currently include the following:

Application Express (APEX) (RSS)

Applications and Apps Technology (RSS)

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Justin Kestelyn twittered and blogged about the new Oracle OpenWorld Community Guide page on OTN, and more specifically about this year’s unconference. An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants. It also means that anyone has the opportunity to be a presenter at OOW. That […]

Just published on the Oracle ACE Program homepage: Find Oracle ACEs and ACE Directors on this Google Map. Cool!

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One of the benefits of being an Oracle ACE Director is having access to a private forum where ACE Directors can share knowledge with each other. But, more importantly, they can also use this forum to “ask Oracle”, with the expectation that Oracle will respond to inquiries as quickly as possible.

I used the ACE Director […]

Here is a new puzzler from Steven Feuerstein:

Which of the following circumstances does not raise a NO_DATA_FOUND exception? (Hint: There is more than one)

A SELECT INTO statement that finds no rows A numeric FOR loop whose low value or high value is NULL An attempt to get the value of an element in a collection whose index […]

This new Oracle Database 11g feature is PL/Scope:

PL/Scope is a compiler-driven tool that collects data about user-defined identifiers from PL/SQL source code at program-unit compilation time and makes it available in static data dictionary views. The collected data includes information about identifier types, usages (declaration, definition, reference, call, assignment) and the location of […]

Links to interesting, educational, informational, or just plain fun websites…

The definition of an Oracle ACE and ACE Director has been modified on the official Oracle ACE program home page:

The old text:

Oracle ACEs and Oracle ACE Directors are known for their strong credentials as Oracle community evangelists and technical educators, with candidates nominated by anyone in the Oracle technical community. The baseline requirements […]

It looks like forums.oracle.com has got a new look:

Here is a snapshot of the old version:

In addition to the obvious change in the UI, new forums were added for Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and more:

I have also noticed that there is a new forums RSS page. I like the changes, however, they introduce more page […]