You probably know the feeling. Its Monday and you know what you have to do that week. On Friday you realize that the whole package shifted to the next week because you did got to it… That is what happened to me the last two weeks. Instead of cleaning up some duties, I was presented with such an amount of extra work that I didn’t come to it.
I wanted to write a decent post on the AMIS technology blog about how to “equipartition XML data making use of nested tables“. A feature that will see the light in 11.1.0.7.0, the first patch for Oracle 11g. Although my test scripting has finished, I just didn’t come to it. I wanted to do some research on the presented XMLTable Index introduced by one of Mark Drake’s presentation during Oracle Open World 2007. It had to wait as well. I had to do some work regarding setting up standards for AMIS concerning OFA complaint database VMware project environments and VMware Oracle Application Server environments. Alas…