http://www.dannorris.com Wed, 14 May 2008 19:06:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As some of you may know, I've been working on a deployment of BEA Weblogic these past couple of weeks. We were doing some testing today and found an interesting side effect that was positively unexpected. Let me first say that the issues we encountered were with IIS configuration, not ... http://www.dannorris.com/2008/05/09/configuring-multiple-weblogic-iis-plug-ins-on-same-iis-server/ The Oracle ACE program is one way that Oracle recognizes community members that make significant contributions to the Oracle community through blogging, forum participation, user group presentations, and other similar volunteering activities. As one of the Oracle ACE Directors, I have tried to promote the program by raising awareness of ... http://www.dannorris.com/2008/05/07/you-want-to-be-an-oracle-ace/ I'm thinking of organizing a 2-tank (or more) scuba dive down in Monterrey, California, a little ways south of SF for the weekend prior to OOW 08. You can't really scuba in San Francisco Bay--not much there, murky, ships, etc. In Monterrey, it's a whole different story and there are ... http://www.dannorris.com/2008/05/06/who-wants-to-scuba-pre-oow08/ I have been working on a customer project involving new installations of Oracle Database (a two-node failover cluster using Oracle Clusterware--good stuff) and two load-balanced BEA Oracle Weblogic servers for the middle tier. The middle tier environment runs on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition and is managed by an ... http://www.dannorris.com/2008/05/06/configuring-weblogic-for-restart-after-reboot-on-windows/ I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 tonight and also found a new theme that I like better than my dull old one (hat tip to BAAG and Alex for the theme). I'll be working out the kinks with the word wrapping and updating some tags (I was foolish and used spaces ... http://www.dannorris.com/2008/04/24/updated-wp-and-new-theme/ This is a quick note about upcoming major events on my Oracle event calendar. June 15-19, ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008, New Orleans, LA September 21-25, Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco, CA December 1-5, UKOUG Conference, Birmingham, UK February, 2009 (TBD), RMOUG Training Days, Denver, CO March 8-12, 2009, Hotsos Symposium, Dallas, TX April 20-24, 2009, RSA Conference, San ... http://www.dannorris.com/2008/04/24/future-oracle-events/ I took a few extra days to decompress from last week's events at Collaborate 08 before writing up a summary of my thoughts. I didn't think it was really possible to be more busy than I have been in previous years, but I think I matched my previous year's schedule ... http://www.dannorris.com/2008/04/23/collaborate-08-thoughts/ Collaborate 08 is here and I'm in Denver already to prepare for the start of the conference. This year, I won't be blogging a day-by-day accounting of my whereabouts and happenings. Instead, I'll save up for a summary of what I saw, heard, and vibes I felt during the week. If ... http://www.dannorris.com/2008/04/12/collaborate-08-rac-sig-other-sessions-of-interest/ I recently had an opportunity to do a deeper dive into a performance issue related to the performance of a PIPELINED function. The results weren't quite what I had expected, so I thought they may be of general interest. As with many performance issues, the issues encountered here are likely ... http://www.dannorris.com/2008/04/11/pipelined-plsql-function-performance/ For those that didn't bother to install the OS, Oracle or other DST patches (to handle the adjusted DST change schedule) last year and elected to just change the time on your servers by hand twice a year, get ready to do that again this weekend. Personally, I'd rather burn ... http://www.dannorris.com/2008/03/07/230am-will-never-happen-on-sunday-morning/