Fuad Arshad’s Blog

 
This week  there been a lot going on the blogs
Sergio mentioned the fact that Oracle Now has officially released and Oracle Linux test Kit .  This will be helpful to those people who want to want the stability of the linux kernel for their database.
Alejandro Vargas has  a very nice How to on the implementation of [...]

 
Looking around at the Oracle Blogosphere . it seems more and more people are blogging which mean more and more information is available  for people to digest.
Kevin Closson in his post discusses the fact  there is only one LGWR process in the Oracle Database.
The Logica CMG Blog has started a 11g info  compaign here. This article [...]

Pete Finnigan’s Blog just mentioned the fact that the Latest Oracle CPU(Critical Patch Update)  is out.
one quote i found really interesting in the article was  the fact that they had broken up the patches into molecules.
 
“The napply CPU is an enhanced CPU format for Oracle Database Server for Unix and Linux platforms version 10.2.0.3 and onward [...]

It is interesting how VOIP is changing the way people make calls. Services from Viatalk and grancentral are making it more easier for people to make calls and connect peopleThere is no sign-up required, just simply goto www.viatalkfree.com and enter in your phone number and the number you wish to call, and you are [...]

I’m listening in on the Oracle 11g Webcast and heard Charles Phillips referring to scott/tiger as an initial system administration logon.I’ve always thought of that account as the demo schema for schema .personally i never used it for any administration.Am i wrong or did i hear wrong .

 
I’m on a list ranked 178 on Eddie Awad’s list. Not bad for a blog thati  think i read and write on my own
Hopefully i can start writing more interesting things and maybe get people’s attention(Just kidding).
Writing a blog  has been a very nice experience for me sharing stuff i learn on my [...]

 
Oracle 11g Launch is on Wednesday at 9:00 am Central.
you can Watch the Live Webcast Here.

 Jaffar at this blog has a detailed explanation of   a change in behaviour in the way data result sets are retrieved in 10g. This is interesting to learn since i’m working on a couple of upgrades and i know Oracle has never guaranteed results in an ordered but people have gotten it in an [...]

Al little offtopic but i thought i’d share.
I was at six flags great america and the ride Deja Vu had a temporary malfunction.
Some pictures to look at that moment.

from What i understand Oracle has now officially released a method
to disable AWR for people without the Diagnostic Pack license. It seems this was done after Mark Brinsmead’s wonderful attempt in asking  ORACLE for providing this framework as part of the database.
One thing that Paul Valee pointed  out is that ORACLE still wants people to keep [...]