Seems like most Australians do not know about Oracle, at least as of the date this video was shot. Of course, it depends on whom you ask the question: Have you heard of Oracle Corporation before?

After the huge success of their first video, Mogens and Morten demonstrate an Oracle database installation, again wearing a straitjacket:

(via Kevin)

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 […]

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

I am back home. I left San Francisco yesterday evening. I am very impressed with Oracle OpenWorld. It was the largest concentration of Oracle and Oracle related professionals ever. All of the sessions and keynotes I attended were very good and useful. It was also very nice meeting many fellow bloggers and Oracle gurus in […]

The following is a video of the first three minutes of Tom Kyte’s session at Oracle OpenWorld 2006: Things you think you know.

Watch Shay Shmeltzer performing a JDeveloper magic trick at the start of his session: Oracle JDeveloper treasure hunt: the hidden Oracle JDeveloper gems.

Watch Bryn Llewellyn struggling with his microphone before the start of his session: PL/SQL Performance, Debunking the Myths.

Here is, in summary, what Oracle Develop at Hilton San Francisco and the Oracle DEMOgrounds looked like today:

After Steven Feuerstein’s session - 10 things you should never do with PL/SQL - Andrew Clarke and I went for a walk around the Moscone center and the exhibition halls:

Check out the new photos at the Oracle […]

Before heading to the appreciation dinner hosted by Oracle Magazine, I went to register for Oracle OpenWorld. The “full conference” registration lines were long but I managed to blend in with the “Alumni” registration line which was a lot shorter. Still, it took them quite a bit of time to find my registration record and […]

I’m in San Francisco now. Here is a short video about my short trip from Portland. I’m planning on posting a few more Oracle OpenWorld videos during the next few days (in other words, I’ll be video blogging).