Thursday Twitter (Turkey Leftovers) - 12/01/13

I've obviously missed a few weeks of my Twitter updates, so today you get a massive update following the same format as last time, and we'll see how it goes!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/cwarticki/status/401353337796182017 - Larry Ellison inducted into the Business Hall of Fame, but the real "announcement" here is his tribute to Steve Jobs.

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/402869160679833600 - What are the recommended quarterly upgrades for the EBS system?  Well, now you can find out!

https://twitter.com/OracleCert/status/404004307579592705 - Last chance to take the Exadata 11g Essentials exam!

https://twitter.com/Oracle/status/405019657796464640 - 25 MORE Twitter feeds that Oracle thinks we should be following, and while I'm not on there right now; I will be, I will be.

https://twitter.com/JonathanGennick/status/405760725391380480 - Going to skip Cyber Monday?  If you like Apress/Alpha books, you might not want to.

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/405869112456663040 - The new EBS 1099 patches have been released!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/401246600011317250 - Kyle Hailey shares a great way to absorb a lot of TED information in one gulp.

https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu/status/401434403030581249 - Oracle University wants to help us learn more about EBS end user best practices.

https://twitter.com/oraclebase/status/402811650610188288 - Tim Hall clues us in on the free e-book Multitenant for Dummies from Oracle.

https://twitter.com/OraclePress/status/403563714814951424 - Oracle Press shares a free chapter of the R12 EBS book on Oracle Enterprise Repository.

https://twitter.com/stevefeuerstein/status/403979711354634240 - The Power of Names recorded by Steve Feuerstein for Dell.

https://twitter.com/oraclehardware/status/405003036449583104 - Want an introduction to the Oracle SuperCluster M6-32?  Sign up for this webinar!

https://twitter.com/Oracle_EBS/status/405364087858941952 - EBS team lets us know that there are free webinars for R12.1 and R12.2 on how to upgrade.

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/405709613837713408 - There is going to be an Oracle Innovation Forum in Denver, which gives you a chance to pick Kellyn Pot'Vin's brain!

https://twitter.com/OracleDatabase/status/405788137156538368 - Did you miss the first DBaaS webinar?  Well there's going to be another one on the 3rd, so go sign up.

https://twitter.com/oraclemagazine/status/405801388137267200 - A free subscription to the Oracle magazine!

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/Oracle_EBS/status/401346372756312065 - EBS team helps us learn about FSG Signal 11 errors.

https://twitter.com/Oracle_EBS/status/401366502588567553 - The EBS team again comes through with a new analyzer for iProcurement items if you are on R12.

https://twitter.com/bobevansIT/status/401394584233590784 - Bob Evans shares with us that SalesForce is having some issues lately.

https://twitter.com/OCPrep/status/401841556979605504 - Do you know what order to take certifications from Oracle?  Matthew Morris offers us a primer on it!

https://twitter.com/vjswami/status/402117374108639232 - A scary thought.....is Google what Skynet began as?  :}

https://twitter.com/devops/status/402240592752951296 - A great bit on DevOps cycle on the humanity side of things.

https://twitter.com/OTNArchBeat/status/402493505647685632 - Where are you going with your career?  Is an architect role in sight?  This might be worth a read!

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/402535834328387584 - All too often Jeff, all too often.

https://twitter.com/devops/status/402648530046951424 - There's a DevOps conference?!?!

https://twitter.com/ericries/status/402967122118443008 - I think this is a bit harsh, but having experienced the waterfall method a bit I can say I see his point.

https://twitter.com/oraclehardware/status/403129516463489024 - What does Oracle think availability best practices are?

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/403133092572831745 - Allan Robertson tell us that Facebook's VP of hardware thinks we are close to open source switches.  That's pretty interesting.

https://twitter.com/leight0nn/status/403203127568261120 - Leighton Nelson is interested if you are running Exadata with a ZFS backup device.

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/403558860373229569 - Allan has a corrupted LOB to deal with, and found MOS notes 833635.1 &  253131.1 useful in identifying the issue which looked to be a ORA-1555 error initially but was actually an ORA-22924 error in the end.

https://twitter.com/Seth_M_Miller/status/403742348078632960 - Seth has a "problem" with Exadata, and you won't believe what it is!

https://twitter.com/S_Trallori/status/404385548225093632 - Great way to visually show the difference between object and relational databases.

https://twitter.com/fritshoogland/status/404728333466095616 - What does Frits Hoogland think when the wait interface is not good enough?

https://twitter.com/martinberx/status/404939120532672512 - Martin Berger asks a VERY thought provoking question, and with 30+ replies by some of the best in the game it's a good thread to read up on!

https://twitter.com/OAUG1/status/404986743168196608 - OAUG wants to help us learn from some failures on implementing R12.

https://twitter.com/RMOUG_ORG/status/405383027565395970 - This could fall in the announcements category, but I just thought it was interesting that Apple purchased this company.

https://twitter.com/Oracle_EBS/status/405744091746828289 - Did you know there was a Concurrent Analyzer for EBS?  Grab it today!
 

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/UKOUG/status/403179392874319872 - In or near Ireland?  Well the call for papers for OUG Ireland 2014 closes on the 13th!

https://twitter.com/COLLAB_OAUG/status/403227880601042944 - 575 abstracts were selected by OAUG for COLLAB 14 and here https://twitter.com/COLLAB_OAUG/status/403981499386437632 is the lineup!

https://twitter.com/Enkitec/status/403271073052884992 - The E4 call for papers closes at the end of the year!

DOAG:  There was a LOT of information coming out of this conference, so it gets a section all to itself!

https://twitter.com/uwehesse/status/402728736250167296 - Uwe Hesse shares words from Graham Wood about ELAPSED_TIME in v$sql, as does Benedikt Nahlovsky about ASH sample timing https://twitter.com/bnahlovsky/status/402729446752649216.

https://twitter.com/bnahlovsky/status/402778795943292930 - Benedikt also shares what Craig Shallahamer presented for wait events, which is worth some time absorbing.

https://twitter.com/db_inmemory/status/403069574213795840 - Maria Colgan let's us know that she's presenting the In-Memory and Bjoern Rost shows us https://twitter.com/brost/status/403131628106829825 how packed the room was for it!

https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/403089649318785024 - Uwe tells us that PDB cloning will be available with a future patch, https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/403095393778823168 a limit on memory consumption hasn't been reached yet, https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/403096839626719232 that there is some hazy alert.log issues with PDB as well, and https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/403470105742700544 that creating a PDB clone on ZFS is easy as pie.

https://twitter.com/bnahlovsky/status/403134768948477952 - Benedikt tells us that Maria shared a new column required in Oracle 12c.

https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/403141180508364800 - Uwe shares with us that an 11g instance running on version 12 needs to be on at least one ASM instance.

https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/403434903192502272 - Uwe also keys in on the new Backup, Logging and Recovery Appliance and that a full backup is taken only once and then incremental after that.

Social Media:

https://twitter.com/sql_handle/status/401235075200999425 - A way to map out your Twitter followers!

https://twitter.com/ClickTips/status/404959417952522240 - A good tip for bloggers, one I learned about a year in and I wish I had known sooner.

https://twitter.com/Oracle/status/405415164989538304 - Oracle shares The Power of Peer Networks.

https://twitter.com/ClickTips/status/405731473648386049 - Ten steps to successful blogging.

There are a few more days that I could add to this post, but I'll just make a promise instead to be a better blogger and give you a week's worth of Twitter this Thursday!

EDIT: I noticed a few of the hard returns didn't come out exactly right, so I've corrected that.