I pre-launched OracleCommunity.net as a private, invite only social network this morning. If you follow me on Twitter, you probably got the scoop first.

Now, I’m officially launching OracleCommunity.net and making it public and available to everyone in the Oracle community. If you are an Oracle developer, DBA, customer, employee, or just interested in Oracle databases, […]

That’s what Stephane Faroult claims in the third part of his three part video series about SQL database performance best practices (shown below). Do you agree with him?

For sure, there exist young database developers whose level of expertise is still very shallow. But, isn’t that how we all started? As you grow older and learn […]

Recently, reddit added a new feature: the ability for users to create their own reddits. This new feature is currently in closed beta, but I was lucky enough to be one of the handful of users to get an invitation to play around with it (Thanks Alexis).

First, for those of you who do not know […]

Do you want to know which Oracle related blogs are the most linked to? Do you want to know which Oracle related blog posts are the most viewed? Just visit the following two pages on OraNA.info:

OraNA Technorati Ranking: I published a similar list twice before, once in May and once in July 2007. This time, […]

Just woke up. Checked my Twitter and boom! two hot news:

Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire BEA Systems, Inc. Sun Microsystems announced that it has agreed to acquire MySQL for $1 billion in cash

What a lovely database themed morning. Expect more coverage from the blogosphere today.

Update: But wait, here is a […]

Last Sunday the geek in me wanted to learn something new. So, I went ahead and got started with iPhone development. I wanted to build something simple yet useful. I started at 4:30 PM and by around 8:15 PM an iPhone optimized version of OraNA.info was born.

The following is a short video demonstration of OraNA […]

There is at least one person who is not happy with Jake’s old-fashioned game of blog tag. Howard Rogers has shut down his website in protest against this latest blog tag craze. Right now, it’s a madhouse I want no part of, Howard writes on his, now one page, site. He also expressed his frustration […]

Jake Kuramoto has tagged me to write eight things about myself in an effort to “learn more about the people you interact with using New Web”. Without further ado, here I am personally telling you 8 secrets about my personal life:

Now, the next tagged victims are: Tom Kyte, Doug Burns, Mark Rittman, Ameed Taylor, Alex […]

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

Kevin says “Oracle Database is the Most Difficult Product to Install”, Howard says “Quite the silliest”, I say watch for yourself: