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We had another great user group meeting this past Thursday! We had two excellent presentations by two very well known speakers! Our 1st presentation was by Oracle Ace, Biju Thomas. He did a great job going over a lot of…
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How many times have we had to execute a CREATE TABLE AS SELECT or INSERT INTO…SELECT that involved a large amount of data then wondered why queries against this table are slow? Did we forget to gather statistics after the…
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We had another great user group meeting this past Wednesday! We had 2 excellent presentations. Our 1st presentation was by Oracle Principal Sales Consultant Omar Amad on Oracle Linux, Oracle VM and Oracle Cloud. This also included a live demo…
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The Problem I recently ran into an issue when performing a RMAN duplicate on a server with a fresh installation of OEL 6.4 x86-64 using a brand new SAN (NetApp Data ONTAP 8.2). The database version is Enterprise Edition 11.2.0.3. The…
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As of February 2014, I feel fortunate and honored to be put in charge of running the Chicago Oracle Users Group (COUG). I really feel like I’m doing our user community a great service by coordinating these periodic meetings to…
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After years of working with Oracle technologies I finally made it to one of the big conferences. Last week I attended Collaborate 2015 in Las Vegas. I was very excited to attend and there were so many presentations that I…
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