http://www.dannorris.com Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:41:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a week since I started my new job at Oracle Corporation. I'm a remote worker which means that the first day of work wasn't the usual event since I just went to my home office and got on a concall with my new manager. After getting connectivity and ... http://www.dannorris.com/2009/05/26/new-job-lots-of-exciting-stuff/ I'm very pleased to report that I will be able to meet up with ODTUG Kaleidoscope attendees at both the ODTUG Community Service Day (2nd Annual!) and my own scuba dive outing as well. If you can, I'd love for you to attend both events. If you're not a certified ... http://www.dannorris.com/2009/05/26/scuba-diving-pre-odtug-kaleidoscope-monterey-21-june-2009/ I'm definitely the type of person that gets excited by new opportunities and always loves a new challenge. Without challenge, I get bored quickly and boredom makes me a little crazy. So, this new opportunity came along a little while ago and I thought it sounded just perfect for me. Many ... http://www.dannorris.com/2009/05/03/oracles-latest-acquisition-me/ Collaborate 09 starts on Sunday, May 3 (a few days from now!) in Orlando. I've been offline for several weeks (more on that later), but will be returning to the world of computers and technology in full force in Orlando. I've had a few inquiries about whether or not I'll ... http://www.dannorris.com/2009/04/30/collaborate-09-dont-miss-these-sessions/ The RAC SIG, Oracle and IOUG are thrilled to present the hands-on event dubbed "RAC Attack!" at Collaborate09 in Orlando, FL. It is a half-day University Session in the IOUG Forum scheduled for the morning of Thursday, May 7th. Each participant will have their own private RAC cluster to use. You'll ... http://www.dannorris.com/2009/03/30/adv-rac-attack-hands-on-event-at-collaborate09/ Just in case you were like me and did not tune in for Oracle's quarterly earnings concall, there were some interesting highlights. As many of you (well, there aren't that many of you that read this, but...) know, I've been very interested in Exadata since its announcement at Oracle OpenWorld ... http://www.dannorris.com/2009/03/19/exadata-front-and-center/ I'll be the first to offer a large congratulations to Jeremy Schneider on being the most recent appointment to the Oracle ACE program. He certainly deserves it (I nominated him, so I suppose I would think so) and I continue to look for great things to come. Jeremy is the main ... http://www.dannorris.com/2009/03/18/congratulations-new-oracle-ace-jeremy-schneider/ Those of us that have dealt with RAC environments for a while are familiar with the behavior of Oracle Services in an Oracle Cluster. Services are an essential component for managing workload in a RAC environment. If you're not defining any non-default services in your RAC database, you're making a ... http://www.dannorris.com/2009/03/12/start-database-services-automatically-after-instance-startup/ This has been an interesting week, but not really that surprising. I was called back to a previous client site where I had previously helped with some Oracle Application Server (10.1.2.2) post-install configuration. In that previous visit, I got oriented to the environment they use and the packaged application they were ... http://www.dannorris.com/2009/03/06/install-to-go-live-3-days/ It seems to everyone that I travel a lot. I guess I do compared to most people, but I enjoy traveling, seeing new places, new people, and old friends about as much as I enjoy anything. It's usually part of my job anyway. So, with a once-in-a-lifetime chance to visit ... http://www.dannorris.com/2009/02/13/diving-in-iceland-june-2009/