Monthly Archive: May 2008

May 26 2008

By Dutch DBA’s – For Dutch DBA’s

Your last chance to enlist for the DBA Conference in Holland, which will be held tomorrow in Zeist. I was honored to meet them all during an informal dinner in Zeist. All off them see forward to the event tomorrow and probably, like me, the adrenaline level starts rising with this foresight. Tomorrow our presentations …

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May 20 2008

UKOUG Deadlines…

I just read Doug’s, hopefully first (I am interested how it is to present on a boat), blog post called “Conference Activities“. I didn’t realize that the deadlines are almost up for UKOUG. It feels like just the other day that I presented for the first time on UKOUG last December. You really missed something …

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May 19 2008

First Experiences with Ubuntu 8.0.4 DE (Hardy)

While being in Greece (2, 3 weeks ago), my nephew asked if I could install Ubuntu on his desktop. His desktop already contained Windows Vista Home Edition and I was not so sure if it would work to install a dual boot environment. I had ordered, a while ago, via the Ubuntu web site 2 …

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May 19 2008

DBA Conference Holland & Whitepaper

Given by Dutch DBA’s for DBA’s: The DBA Conference in Holland next week, the 27th of May 2008, Zeist. Related posts: AMIS Query with Toon Koppelaars (RuleGen) Another Presentation Coming Up Graham Wood will be presenting in Holland

May 14 2008

XML Posts After One Year

I once started this website because of the steep learning curve regarding XMLDB functionality. After one year of existence the following posts were written by mean , for me as a notepad to remember what I have learned and or checked, tested or figured out and to pass it on to all those who are …

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May 11 2008

PGstatspack – Great initiative started by Frits

Frits Hoogland posted a blog presenting “pg”statspack: Introducing pgstatspack, a statistics package for postgresql, a first initiative for a statistics package called statspack for ProsgreSQL. Initial work was once done by Glenn Fawcett of Sun Microsystems and as Frits describes in his post, he found a way to recover and extent it for the newer …

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May 08 2008

The Status After One Year

It is funny. I just realized that my website is over 1 year in existence. I started it as my personal XMLDB notepad on the 9th of April 2007. I wanted the site to be anonymous, but Doug blew the whistle on me, after we had met during Hotsos 2007 and somehow he found the …

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May 06 2008

My Presentations Out There…

Just back from Greece. I read that a lot of things can happen in 10 days, at least, the list on Eddie’s aggregator orana.info is long. I saw that there is an alternative way to submit some presentations to Oracle Open World this year, so I also made an attempt. Two new presentations will hopefully …

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