The following is a video presentation about how Oracle Coherence capabilities function, such as in-memory caching, dynamic data partitioning, and parallel query and process execution.

Watching a video on how to use Skype for interviews http://snurl.com/1vwi5 # Has http://getsatisfaction.com/oracle been abandoned in favor of https://mix.oracle.com/ ? It looks like it. # AOL has killed Netscape Navigator! Was it alive in the first place?! Too bad, when I first experienced a […]

Hello everyone. I’m back from my Orlando vacation. I Arrived home today at 2:30 AM after a 3 hour delay at Chicago O’Hare. Glad to be home. # Even though we had fun in Disney World, we wasted hours just waiting in line. There was a line for […]

and the vacation continues. Now in MGM studios watching The Fantastic with…oh…50000 other people. # it’s very hard to twitter or blog while you’re on vacation. I’ll be resuming my normal online activities after Xmas. Have a merry one. # @mkrigsman thanks. I will. It’s […]

at PDX waiting to board my flight to LAX. # let’s see if I can survive the next 7 days without a computer. I still have my iPhone though. It’s the next best thing. # in LAX now. It’s one huge airport. But I like […]

@marshallk looks like you have an HTML error in the link to Oracle AppsLab blog. # Off to my interview at the USCIS in downtown Portland. It’s a pretty wet day today. # thanks all for the good luck wishes. Now at the USCIS waiting […]

@yourdon twhirl has been very stable on my PC and laptop. So far, it’s my twitter client of choice. # @OracleJulio Good to know. Thanks Julio and congrats to your mom. # @oemperor Ah! impeachment did not come to my mind when I read the […]

I was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Northwest Oracle Users Group (NWOUG). My official title is: membership coordinator, which means that I will be responsible for monitoring and maintaining the NWOUG membership database, answer members’ questions, send out email communications and follow-up on expired memberships, among other things. And, to bring […]

Here is something interesting. Oracle converts this outer join query

SELECT T1.d, T2.c FROM T1, T2 WHERE T1.x = T2.x (+) and T2.y > 5;

and its ANSI equivalent

SELECT T1.d, T2.c FROM T1 LEFT OUTER JOIN T2 ON (T1.x = T2.x) WHERE T2.y > 5;

into this inner join query

SELECT T1.d, T2.c FROM T1, T2 WHERE T1.x = T2.x and T2.y > 5;

That’s according to […]

Here is the second episode of Oracle in 3 Minutes. I titled it A Ticking Bomb, but you can also call it A Sleeper Bug.