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Oracle Exadata machine

McNeely Tech sponsored the Dallas Oracle Users Group meeting last week, which was a presentation by Oracle Corporation about their souped-up Exadata product.

The first generation of Exadata was a combination of an HP hardware/operating system and Oracle software, each modified to work well with each other.  That Exadata box pumped out some impressive performance […]

March 21st, 2010 | Category: Oracle | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Hotsos Symposium and the Dallas Oracle community

I attended the Hotsos Symposium last week, which, as usual, was an excellent conference.  It’s a small conference, relative to OpenWorld and Collaborate, but yet it’s still sophisticated and prestigious enough to attract some of the best minds in the Oracle industry.

Great location – the Omni Mandalay.  Great staff, great food, beautiful venue.

Every […]

March 15th, 2010 | Category: Oracle | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Don’t break my heart!

An oldie, but goodie, from the McNeely Tech archives:

It was a sickening moment.

“We should have listened to you, Mary Elizabeth,” the client said.  He didn’t look well.

I had been pestering this client for quite a while to remedy their inadequate database disk mirroring and backup/recovery practices.

A few hours ago, his production […]

February 28th, 2010 | Category: Oracle | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

History in the making

Sun-Oracle post merger press conference summary […]

January 29th, 2010 | Category: Oracle | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
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