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Oracle clamps down on multicore licensing
I was reviewing Oracle’s Processor Core Factor Table, which lists the multiplier used to calculate the Oracle Enterprise Edition CPU license
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Adding Columns with Default Values and Not Null in Oracle 11g
Oracle 11g has a new performance enhancement when adding columns. In the pre-11g releases, adding a new not null column with a default value would
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Log Buffer #140: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
This is the 140th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Welcome.
Let us begin with Oracle this week. Dan Norris illustrates
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pythian: Check out Alex Gorbachev's white paper on Oracle RAC Workload Management at http://tinyurl.com/clxlpb
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pythian: @alexgorbachev The Sydney Oracle Meetup is now up and running. For networking and informal discussion, join today http://bit.ly/95bJJ
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pythian: Looks like our founder Paul has been blogging about enterprise database systems a long time: http://tinyurl.com/b7kdzd (from 1998)
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Nicklas and Gerry did exceptional work for us, reacting swiftly to our production problems and restoring order to our... more
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