http://blogs.ioug.org IOUG blogs - Blogs by members of the Independent Oracle Users Group Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:58:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the time for Oracle OpenWorld approaches (Sept 19 to 23rd) I started to think about knowledge and learning. This is a fundamental right and gift that I hope to have instilled in my children and what I hope we have all done for our own. So then this ... http://blogs.ioug.org/http:/blogs.ioug.org/mysql I realize that it has already been a few weeks since Oracle officially announced the availability of the new Oracle BI 11g, but today was the launch event in the Toronto area and was it ever well attended. This is the version of a BI suite which will allow Oracle ... http://blogs.ioug.org/http:/blogs.ioug.org/mysql This past weekend I got to attend the annual IOUG Summer Board meeting. It is at these meetings where we plan the strategy for the user group in the near and long term. This meeting was no different and some great work happened. I believe that the IOUG is the ... http://blogs.ioug.org/http:/blogs.ioug.org/mysql As the summer continues and I continue to struggle with a golf game that continues to elude me I start to think about the user group. The IOUG is the user group that I know the most about but it follows for any user group member of an independent user ... http://blogs.ioug.org/http:/blogs.ioug.org/mysql The COLLABORATE10 has come to close and it is time to reflect on the week that was and how the user grow has and will grow in the future. It is great to be part of a user community where people and ideas come together to improve how we ... http://blogs.ioug.org/http:/blogs.ioug.org/mysql The conference started with a number of deep dives. I was involved with the "Virtualization for Oracle Professionals". Lots of great quotes and best practices for implementing virtualization for Oracle. Steve Lemme, Sam Brunacini, Bob Netherton and Brian Leonard and George Trujillo combined to present on ... http://blogs.ioug.org/http:/blogs.ioug.org/mysql As I pack my bags for Collaborate 2010 in Las Vegas, I am looking forward to the great presentations at the conference but also to the networking, friendships, exchanging of ideas and sharing within the user community. Regular attendees of the conference to the person all place extremely high value in ... http://blogs.ioug.org/http:/blogs.ioug.org/mysql From the MySQL keynote today by Edward Screven. The Oracle LAMP Stack is looking pretty impressive. The stack includes: - Oracle Enterprise Linux - Oracle VM (Xen-based) - Apache, Glassfish - MySQL - Java, PHP, Perl, Ruby, C, C++ More details of MySQL 5.5 new features can be found at http://mysql-dba-journey.blogspot.com.   Highlights of MySQL ... http://blogs.ioug.org/http:/blogs.ioug.org/mysql As Oracle has pointed out, bringing together all the Sun, Oracle and MySQL technology is definitely exciting (i.e.  Exadata).  The upcoming Collaborate 2010 conference is going to have some great presentations on Sun technology surrounding Oracle environments down to the closing keynote which includes MySQL.   Anyone interested in MySQL should ... http://blogs.ioug.org/http:/blogs.ioug.org/mysql It's been exciting this week to see all the pre-activity for the Collaborate 2010 conference. All the Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Oracle Mix, Text Chats, Blogs and Email activity on the conference next week is allowing the networking part of the conference to take on an entirely new level. ... http://blogs.ioug.org/http:/blogs.ioug.org/mysql