Thursday Twitter - 5/29/14

After deciding not to do a Twitter post last week, I'm trying a new tactic by giving you a 24 hour snapshot of posts that I enjoyed or found interesting!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/Seth_M_Miller/status/472027037549338625 - Oracle buys ZFS technology team GreenBytes!

https://twitter.com/Oracle_EBS/status/472029626093817857 - Flattery?  A few days ago I posted about customizing OAF pages, and today the official Oracle EBS account posts the exact same MOS article!

https://twitter.com/Oracle/status/472116707461722113 - A chance to join Larry Ellison live on June 10th for an introduction of 12c In-Memory Options.

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/oracleace/status/472155893136908288 - Sign up for a free webinar on DB locking!

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/471925191325401088 - Kellyn gives us an article from Harvard Business Review about data analysis for those that do not like math.

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/471884924513812481 - Are you using these Analyzer tools from Oracle to enhance your EBS application?

https://twitter.com/CondeBond/status/471953034432770048 - Xavier shares a post from Lucas Jellema on creating charts from SQL!

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/471968218748551168 - We get a list of Linux performance monitoring tools from this post by Kellyn, and I'm looking forward to using some of these!

https://twitter.com/FirstLiberated/status/471971869072322560 - Bob Doyle shares advice from the CEO of Delphix to CIOs that just care about keeping the lights on.

https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/471979275223326721 - Uwe shares something from Richard Foote about estimating index sizes via explain plans.

https://twitter.com/IOUG/status/472025314441572352 - IOUG shares a post from Leighton Nelson about DBs and storage, and it even links to the first part of the series too; so you get 2 articles for one mouse click here!  :}

https://twitter.com/CondeBond/status/472031959686717441 - Xavier asks if DNS is our Achilles heel in a MySQL installation, and I would turn the question back into what could be an Achilles heel in ANY kind of installation?  Food for thought.

https://twitter.com/OracleDatabase/status/472032132026875905 - Steven Feuerstein's list of recommended resources for people getting into PL/SQL.  I think this post will be favorited so I can come back to it time and time again!

https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/472051060413308929 - Uwe points out Jonathan Lewis' list of articles on execution plans, which I'm looking forward to taking time to read this weekend!

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/472067444056809472 - Oracle Fixed Assets RPC.  'Nuff said!

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/472067444186836992 - Oracle MAA: When one size (solution) doesn't fit all.

https://twitter.com/FranckPachot/status/472073696358989824 - Franck Pachot on Exadata not handling FIRST_ROWS well.

https://twitter.com/delphix/status/472107671324491776 - Kyle Hailey from Delphix on the 5 DB issues that are costing you time and money.

https://twitter.com/MartinKlierDBA/status/472107884017635328 - I need to get that shirt!

https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/472109415802613760 - Kellyn has a great post on unknown targets in EM12c.

https://twitter.com/OracleMiddle/status/472178100252708864 - What is the role of SOA Suite in the integration space?

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/472184033351172096 - Like a detective story?  Follow this one as Kellyn troubleshoots/investigates some issues in 11g regarding stats, bind peeking and histograms.

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/471989278327984128 - Allan promises that Oracle sessions from EMC World are available, but I'm just not seeing them right now.  Am I missing something?

https://twitter.com/brost/status/472002040067928064 - A great picture of Jim Czuprynski teaching a room full of people in Riyadh attending the OTN MENA Tour!

https://twitter.com/JLOracle/status/472028210142916608 - Jonathan Lewis will be attending the CBO Days 2014 from Trivadis in a few weeks!

https://twitter.com/oracleace/status/472047445653090305 - Did you know that 55 Oracle ACEs will be speaking at the KScope conference this year?  Amazing!

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/471984918583463936 - Filing Allan's post under this heading as it has a strong social media concept in keeping on top of emerging technologies.

https://twitter.com/TheGrahamHussey/status/472017141148172289 - Graham Hussey has launched a blog!