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Welcome ! Welcome to the OakTable. The OakTable network is a network for the Oracle scientist(1), who believes in better ways of administering and developing Oracle based systems. The network is an informal organisation, which will get together at various Oracle events, for instance the Database Forum run by Miracle every year in Denmark, OracleWorld events and EOUG forums.
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Trivadis Availability Days in Zurich and Munich
Christian Antognini | 19:45:03 | 2007-04-20 -
Continuing the tradition of bringing together Trivadis and guest top specialists, Trivadis organizes this year another high class seminar. Based on the ´markets demand’ for reliable and flexible IT-infrastructure, this year focus will be on data and service availability. Zurich on Jun 25-26th, Munich on Jun 28-29th.
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Oak Table at RMOUG "Training Days 2007" 14-15 February 2007
Tim Gorman | 22:55:57 | 2006-10-05 -
For the fourth year, the Oak Table will be represented some 6,000 km from Malov at the RMOUG "Training Days 2007" conference in Denver Colorado USA at 1.6 km altitude.
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Steve Adams presents Data Layer Internals and I/O Optimization in Ann Arbor, MI, USA on Oct 18-19th, 2006
Mark Bobak | 09:24:33 | 2006-08-14 -
Steve Adams, renown Oracle Internals Expert, will be presenting his two-day seminar, Data Layer Internals and I/O Optimization, in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, on Oct. 18-19th, 2006.

Steve will also be speaking at the AADOUG (Ann Arbor Detroit Oracle User Group)
fall conference on Oct. 17th.
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CBO Days
Christian Antognini | 17:09:59 | 2006-04-24 -
Trivadis organizes together with top class guest speakers an intensive seminar on Oracle cost-based optimization. (21/22 June 2006, Zurich)
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So long my friend...Lex De Hann...I hate to say goodbye!!!!
Gaja Vaidyanatha | 20:09:37 | 2006-02-04 -
Lex De Haan was(is) one of the most brilliant Oracle practitioners that I have encountered in the past 14 years. February 1st 2006 will go down as a solemn day for many, not only because I (and many others) lost a very dear friend, but also that the Oracle community lost a world-class "SQL Optimization Champion".
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Goodbye to Lex de Haan from the UK
Joel | 18:33:44 | 2006-02-03 -
A heartfelt Goodbye to a Great Man
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Goodbye to Lex de Haan
James Morle | 16:00:00 | 2006-02-01 -
At 16:00 on Wednesday 1st February, our good friend and OakTable colleague Lex De Haan passed away. After a long, determined and highly successful fight against his cancer, it finally became too widespread and painful to continue. Lex managed to outlive the best estimates from the doctors by about seven months, which in itself tells a story about Lex's character.
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Cary Millsap in Copenhagen
Kirstine Bjerre Bergholdt | 09:56:01 | 2005-11-21 -
During the dark and cold month of January, Cary Millsap is coming to Denmark to brighten up out every day life and give a: "Three-days Seminar Addressing Topics of Oracle Performance." The Seminar takes place in Copenhagen on the 25th to the 27th of January
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OakTable Day in Birmingham
Kirstine Bjerre Bergholdt | 08:43:50 | 2005-10-26 -
The OakTable Network has gathered some of its members for an OakTable Day prior to the UKOUG in Birmingham. Join them for their "mini-conference" on Sunday the 30th of October.
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Jonathan Lewis Seminar
Mr NULL | 19:32:24 | 2005-10-24 -
Jonathan Lewis is coming to The Netherlands in February 2006 for a three-day seminar, organized by Natural Join B.V.
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Articles Of Interest
RAC synchro reader - beta
Michael Möller | 19:15:21 | 2007-04-24 -
A "small yet powerful", or "simple and cheerful", utility to read several alert logs from a RAC database, side by side. Scrolling one alert log will scroll the others, too, such that any visible timestamps are (as close as possible) showing the same time. Ie. scroll by timestamp, not by line number.
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Investigation of collecting Cost Base Optimizer statistic
Peter Bach | 06:39:01 | 2005-01-19 -
This article looks at some of the questions and challenges you need to consider when you are planning statistics collection for Oracle's Cost Based Optimizer.
This investigation is based on Oracle RDBMS release 9.2.0.3
and 9.2.0.5 running on HP-UX and RDBMS 10.0.1.2 running on XP professional.
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Brewing Benchmarks
James Morle | 06:35:25 | 2003-12-04 -
Creating an accurate simulation of your own application can be a difficult task. This paper details methods and software that can make this process considerably more straightforward and much more accurate that many other methods.
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Locally managed tablespaces
Connor McDonald | 19:24:08 | 2003-02-17 -
A quick look at the ins and outs of locally managed tablespaces
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Sane SAN
James Morle | 13:30:17 | 2002-10-22 -
In a world of SAN-based insanity, seek refuge in a few logical thoughts on how to regain predictable, measured performance, and simple maintenance of your SAN.
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The New Rules of Solid-State Disks
James Morle | 12:20:05 | 2002-10-22 -
Solid-State disks have been an intriguing possibility in Oracle-based systems since their inception. However, a lot has changed since they first hit the streets, not least SANs, cached disk arrays and large memory support. So where do SSDs sit in the new order of I/O hierarchy?
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(1) Oracle Scientist: an individual who chooses to apply the methods or principles of science to enhance his or her knowledge of the Oracle RDBMS