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Welcome on my webpage, I want to share my knowledge about linux, oracle and useful tools which make your administrative job easier and more effective.

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A few times a year, I'm asked to update the Oracle Database Reference Booklet. Each time, the number of customers benefiting from upgrading to the Oracle Database grows. Read for yourself how an airline cut analysis time for travel partner bookings from 10
hours to 10 minutes, helping staff develop better informed partner
sales and marketing strategies. Or how a bank completed their database upgrade without disruption to
their day-to-day operations and minimized system downtime for more than 2
million customers, who expect around the clock services.

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We have an application where delete statement is taking a long time. When I see the v$session_longops the sql statement is doing a full table scan. But when I do an explain plan on the delete statement it uses the index. The statement is "delete tablename where column_name =:B1". I am new to Oracle any ideas how I should proceed.

Thanks,
SK

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For too long, the state of the OpenStack Chef world had been one of duplicative effort, endless forks of Chef cookbooks, and little integration with how many of the OpenStack projects choose to control source code and integration testing. Recently, however, the Chef + OpenStack community has been getting its proverbial act together. Folks from lots of companies have come together and pushed to align efforts to produce a set of well-documented, flexible, but focused Chef cookbooks that install and configure OpenStack services.

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Java EE 7 has been approved, and the final bits with be available soon. We'll have a live webcast on June 12 to kickoff Java EE 7in style. The Java EE team will provide an overview of the release, and lots of technical details from the experts. 

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Eigen is a C++ template library for linear algebra: matrices, vectors, numerical solvers, and related algorithms.. The current version is 3.1.3
To use the Eigen libraries, just untar and enter the source the directory
# tar -xvf eigen-3.1.3.tar
Copy the whole Eigen directory found in “eigen-eigen-2249f9c22fe8″ folder to the /usr/local/include directory

I ran some SLOB tests over the weekend using the new SLOBv2 kit and noticed some interesting results. I was using SLOB to generate physical I/O but the “anomaly” is best demonstrated by putting SLOB in “Logical I/O mode”, i.e.

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Java EE 7 has been approved, and the final bits with be available soon. We'll have a live webcast on June 12 to kickoff Java EE 7in style. The Java EE team will provide an overview of the release, and lots of technical details from the experts. 

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Who doesn’t love “Before and After” home improvement shots? It’s always amazing to see how just a couple of changes, like a coat of paint or a quick do-it-yourself project, can transform a living space dramatically. It’s no different when it comes to WordPress.com blog themes, in which a little customization can go a long way.

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Who doesn’t love “Before and After” home improvement shots? It’s always amazing to see how just a couple of changes, like a coat of paint or a quick do-it-yourself project, can transform a living space dramatically. It’s no different when it comes to WordPress.com blog themes, in which a little customization can go a long way.

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Recently, there was a discussion on forums about when a Snapshot controlfile is created.  It is known that the snapshot controlfile is created to re-synchronise with the Catalog.

But in my test database environment, I don't use a Catalog.  I only use the controlfile (and backups of it).

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This is just a quick note to you all, to outline the transition and timetable from the old xen.org main website to the new xenproject.org site. Other sites, such as lists.xen.org, blog.xen.org, wiki.xen.org and others will follow.

The xen.org site, will be moved to www-archive.xenproject.org and all pages will clearly be marked as archived. We will redirect:

Unable to get new digital marketing initiatives to market as fast as you would like?  Tired of dealing with IT bottlenecks that prevent you from making routine site updates or launching new digital marketing campaigns quickly?  Your customers have little patience for a brand that fails to meet their expectations for a contextually relevant and interactive digital experience that supports their journey as a customer.  As a result, speed-to-market and business agility are more important than ever before when it comes to gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage.  Are your existing web ex

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Unable to get new digital marketing initiatives to market as fast as you would like?  Tired of dealing with IT bottlenecks that prevent you from making routine site updates or launching new digital marketing campaigns quickly?  Your customers have little patience for a brand that fails to meet their expectations for a contextually relevant and interactive digital experience that supports their journey as a customer.  As a result, speed-to-market and business agility are more important than ever before when it comes to gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage.  Are your existing web ex

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I wanted to read a new book for new idea. Maybe, it's about something startup. Yes! For something new, that's a good idea.

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2,298 people now follow the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page to stay connected with the latest technical content created by and for members of the Oracle Technology Network IT architect community. Here's the list of the top 10 most popular items for the week of May 12-18, 2013.

There are 2 PL/SQL packages for performing data mining/predictive analytics in Oracle. The main PL/SQL package is DBMS_DATA_MINING. This package allows you to build data mining models and to apply them to new data. But there is another PL/SQL package.

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Big Data – The New Information Before asking the crystal ball what can Big Data do for you, sit back and think about these four questions: Where’s the new information? Where could it be? If it was in the right place, what could happen? (Challenges of the main industries) What are the New Technologies and the role […]