Datasheet: Oracle Exadata 'expansion' rack

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/exadata/exadata-storage-exp-rack-ds-v1-425092.pdf

Exadata MAAAAAAA

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availability/exadata-maa-131903.pdf

AUTO DOP !

That little AUTO DOP rascal :

http://uhesse.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/auto-dop-differences-of-parallel_degree_policyautolimited/

Superb posting by Uwe Hesse - always the best !

Performance Tuning - Tracing

http://hoopercharles.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/dumping-trace-events-what-you-see-is-not-necessarily-what-you-get/

Good discussion on Voting disk / OCR location for ASM

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/11203-RAC-voting-ocr-disk-3156190.S.87100486

https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2328266&tstart=0

UEK

http://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/new_beta_drop_of_the

Virtualization fun stuff

Would love to lay my hands on the Solaris 11 VM & learn !
This is the Virtual Box prebuilt-page:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/developer-vm/index.html

Oracle VM for Oracle Virtual Box !!
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/vm/template-1482544.html

Should try that out one of these days.

Oracle Database Appliance

https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=365140&sessionid=1&key=C1E14A704BF9A7206BBE878B545040CC&partnerref=DBProd&sourcepage=register

ODA

On patching schedules for 11.2.0.3

Another new acronym, that will become popular: QDPE: Quarterly Database Patch for Exadata !

And another: QFSDP  (Go figure !)


http://www.pythian.com/news/29911/introducing-thequarterly-database-patch-for-exadata/


A Colvin blogged about it also:
http://blog.oracle-ninja.com/2012/01/new-exadata-full-stack-patches/

THE Rene Kundersma:
http://blogs.oracle.com/XPSONHA/entry/first_quarterly_full_stack_download

Great 'POCKET REFERENCE' from Oracle

http://www.oracle.com/webapps/dialogue/ns/dlgwelcome.jsp?p_ext=Y&p_dlg_id=9575302&src=7027600&Act=54

WHAT IS BIG DATA

http://blogs.oracle.com/oracleretail/entry/what_is_big_data?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+orana+%28OraNA%29

http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/01/what-is-big-data.html

http://oraclestorageguy.typepad.com/oraclestorageguy/2011/05/what-is-big-data.html

Much awaited - ZERO DOWNTIME MIGRATION USING GOLDENGATE !

https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=364395&sessionid=1&key=B3A84869E9A93690E50B2E3C4F4F573A&partnerref=dbblog&sourcepage=register

On Voting Disk & node eviction logic

Terrific deck of slides:

http://www.linkedin.com/osview/canvas?_ch_page_id=1&_ch_panel_id=1&_ch_app_id=17224180&_applicationId=1200&_ownerId=0&appParams={%22from%22:%22unknown%22,%22view%22:%22canvas%22,%22page%22:%22slideview%22,%22slideshow_id%22:%2210771668%22,%22ownerless%22:%221%22}


http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/oracle-clusterware-11grel2-owp-1-129843.pdf

Make Your Cubicle a Better Place to Work

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/how_to_make_a_bad_workspace_wo.html