Pythian Group Blog » An Open Letter to Larry Ellison on AWR and ASH Licensing

June 29, 2007

 
Mark Brinsmead brings up an interesting point and  i would like say that i concur with Mark Fully. This is a really  interesting situation that ORACLE has put on its customers  and ASH and AWR are marvellous tools which would help sell ORACLE more if only people were  allowed to use it without buying the  OEM packs. Please sign [...]

Cursor Attribute changes from Oracle 8 onwards

June 25, 2007

There was aPl/sql change in the way oracle handles cursor attributes.A colleague of mine at work had this issue and i decided to look this up.Below is the test case (Oracle Always wants one ).
–CREATE TABLE DDLcreate table test (test1 varchar2(1));
set timing onset time onset echo onset serveroutput onDECLARE v_test1 VARCHAR2(1) [...]

Oracle 11g . The Future is Database

June 7, 2007

Eddie Awad is reporting here the fact that Oracle 11g is all set to launch on July 11th.Oracle 11g has been in beta testing for about a year and a half now and had a list of highly awaited features.I do like the data caching features as well as the trial playback feature.