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OTN Yathra 2015 just got over!!

Quite well said – Investment in knowledge is the gives you the best returns. It was a great fun last week to be the speaker at OTN Yathra 2015, organized by All India Oracle Users Group (AIOUG). The OTN tour covered seven cities and I was the part of it at three cities i.e. Hyderabad, Bangalore … Continue reading →

Lets catch up at OTNYathra 2015

All, Its time to be at AIOUG stage once again and the event would be the OTNYathra 2015. The event has been a great success in the past and has been able to generate/receive wide recognition and appreciation. OTNYathra focuses to evangelize the Oracle technologies to a broader and passionate audience. OTNYathra is a grand tour which is conducted … Continue reading →

AIOUG Tech Day at Hyderabad (Aug 23rd)

Hi there, Last week, I spoke at AIOUG Tech Day at Hyderabad. All India Oracle Users Group (AIOUG) in association with TechMahindra organized one full day of techtalk event. Believe me, the Danube auditorium was a state-of-art facility with 500 capacity. Fabulous venue and huge crowd with similar interest. I thought of sharing my experience … Continue reading →

Multitenant Validation lab program for ISV partners

Hi Guys, As you all might have noticed from my social moves, we were running Multitenant Validation lab for ISV partners. Briefing on the program, the 2-day guided lab will enable the partners to test and validate their products/applications on Oracle 12c Multitenant architecture. Partners would be able to visualize and get hands-on with Multitenant … Continue reading →

Oracle 12c Multitenant workshop – Bangalore chapter

Thanks to all folks who attended Oracle 12c Multitenant workshop in Bangalore. It was really a great session and well received by all the participants. I appreciate all your interests to know about Multitenant, play with the new architecture and explore the changes. Few points to make note from this event – 1. The question … Continue reading →

Oracle 12c Technical Hands-On Workshop

I have been running many tech events and briefings on Oracle 12c for India Partners. This time around, I thought of posting my latest event reviews. This week, I wrapped up the Oracle 12c Technical Hands-On workshop in Oracle facility, Gurgaon. It was a 2-day event from Oracle Database Product Management. The focus of the … Continue reading →

Oracle Database 12c PRAGMA UDF and WITH clause enhancements

Here are two interesting enhancements in Oracle database 12c PL/SQL. PL/SQL subprogram defined using WITH clause of a subquery – Oracle database 12c allows PL/SQL declaration section in the WITH clause. One can define PL/SQL function or procedure into a WITH clause. Functions declared in the PL/SQL declaration section can be invoked instantly in the … Continue reading »

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Exadata Smart Flash Cache – a note of understanding

I thought of publishing this post to serve as a note of understanding on Smart Flash Cache in an Exadata database system. It outlines the general behavior and working mechanism of flash in co-ordination with storage intelligence. Here we go - Exadata Smart Flash Cache The Oracle Exadata is meant to deliver high performance through … Continue reading »

Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression

The basic idea behind the Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression (hereby referred as EHCC) is to reprise the benefits of column based storage while sustaining to the fundamental row based storage principle of Oracle database. Oftentimes  the databases following column based storage claim that comparatively they needs less IO to retrieve a row than a row based … Continue reading »