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		<title>Oracle to acquire SUN?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Oracle going to buy Sun? On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems (Sun). The proposed transaction is subject to Sun stockholder approval, certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently, and it is business as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAID and Oracle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RAID is the acronym for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks, and there are many different types or RAID (called RAID “levels”), and each has its own relative advantages and disadvantages. For Oracle9i databases, many of the RAID schemes do not posses the high performance required for an Oracle database, and moist Oracle professionals choose a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shrink table segment that experienced large delete</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Segments that undergo significant data manipulation language (DML) activity, such as UPDATE and DELETE operations, can become sparsely populated, with chunks of free space within their data blocks. Besides simply wasting space, sparsely populated segments can also lead to poor performance, because operations such as a full table scan will need to scan more blocks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Oracle with an iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My next (personal) project will be managing my Oracle databases with an iPhone. Yes I do need to still buy an iPhone first, but that is just a small detail. I already built and Oracle DBA application that I can use from my current phone so I will just take some tweaking to work on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ReiserFS vs. ext3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today while waiting for a new server to be setup I received a call from the system admin. He was at the point of setting up some storage shelves on the new server and had a question. ReiserFS or EXT3? In my experience, EXT3 has been the most stable and easy to recover file system. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving tables between database</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I needed to move a table from a 9i database to a 10g database. What do you suppose is the quickest way to get the move completed? The table is 59+ million rows with 2 indexes. The indexes were easy. I knew I would not move the indexes and simply rebuild them on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make your data warehouse not scalable.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got 10 of them. Just in case you are wondering, you should avoid these. Unfortunately some DBAs find their data warehouse suffering from performance problems, not because there is a platform issue, but often because the features are not used or are not used correctly. The following is meant to be sarcastic and read [...]]]></description>
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