Thursday Twitter - 12/26/13

Taking a break from the 10 days of Blogging past feature to bring you an armload of Twitter presents!  I have a lot more tweets to share with you, but it looks like that will happen next year.  :}

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/virtualbox/status/413414240058224640 - Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.6 is now available!

https://twitter.com/myoraclesupport/status/413509006746210304 - Become a part of the Accreditation Program for My Oracle Support!!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/oraclemagazine/status/413375622225088513 - The newest edition of the Oracle magazine is now available, and you can sign up for it too!

https://twitter.com/enkitec/status/413379697334968321 - Karen Morton is having a SQL tuning class soon!!

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/413661820915027968 - Oracle SOA Black Belt cheat sheets available for download!

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/413699469717155840 - Kyle Hailey gives us his UKOUG presentation!!

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/413707743707811840 - SQL Analytics Part 2, which is interesting enough you should review part 1 as well!

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/413724437486534656 - A $5 e-book bargain sale!!

https://twitter.com/enkitec/status/413755922645671936 - Carlos Sierra is offering training on the SQLTXPLAIN tool.

https://twitter.com/oracledbsupport/status/413774510132056064 - Oracle SuperCluster webinar.

https://twitter.com/oracle_edu/status/413783212440453120 - Oracle University reminds about the trainings they have available.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/413858083358932992 - Virtual Sysadmin Day is happening again!!

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/413963485262135296 - Oracle Solaris Hands-On Lab is now available!

https://twitter.com/oraclepress/status/414072989794435073 - Learn the difference between SQL and NoSQL in this free chapter download!!

https://twitter.com/enkitec/status/414087457689202689 - Do you want 20% off your training from Enkitec?

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/martinberx/status/413359352167161856 - Martin Berg comments on a tweet, which brings out some good information about PGA limits.

https://twitter.com/oaug1/status/413378853743374336 - OAUG asks what your big accomplishments were for the year.

https://twitter.com/oracle/status/413387158309724161 - Oracle Excellence Award winners!!

https://twitter.com/yvelik/status/413399207819501568 - Yury Velikanov was interviewed by IOUG!

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/413426722739351554 - Oracle beats Q2 estimates!

https://twitter.com/oraclehardware/status/413624773118550016 - Oracle Migration Factory!

https://twitter.com/leight0nn/status/413708214010929152 - Leighton Nelson asks a question about redo log threads, and starts a good conversation.

https://twitter.com/oracleexalogic/status/413715374077902850 - I've shared that the new Exalogic server has been released, but 720 cores per rack?!?

https://twitter.com/infosecuritymag/status/413781605950312449 - Who hasn't heard about the incident with Target?  This article makes it sound like it was an inside job.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/413812675127566336 - Installing Oracle Ops Center.

https://twitter.com/arupnanda/status/413898079784669184 - Arup Nanda became a published author 11 years ago!!

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/413902779028361216 -Introduction to SOA!

https://twitter.com/oraclecloudzone/status/413930527700553728 - The cloud conversation is changing.

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/413931786386038784 - Get help when Procurement performance is bad even after Purge Obsolete is run.

https://twitter.com/chrisantognini/status/413993990984564736 - See what parameter Christian Antognini thinks should be set as default in 11.2.0.4.

https://twitter.com/hdeiby/status/414047794115014658 - Latin America, Oracle and Exadata!

https://twitter.com/oracle/status/414059552212910080 - Oracle's Technology Year in Review!!

https://twitter.com/leight0nn/status/414063377632096257 - Leighton has a good insight about working with MOS!

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/414073992426053633 -What is your request for SQL Developer training videos?

https://twitter.com/uwehesse/status/414081777222049792 - Uwe Hesse got some feedback from a class which is pretty awesome!

https://twitter.com/oracledatabase/status/414093757567758336 - A podcast on SQL Developer 4.0 featuring Jeff Smith!

https://twitter.com/kevinclosson/status/414097632106016768 - Kevin notices that Exadata's Flash Cache Compression needs a software license.

https://twitter.com/chrisantognini/status/414101153014890496 - Christian tells us that there is a new 12c feature with PL/SQL invoker's rights.

https://twitter.com/acolvin/status/414135945987108864 - Andy Colvin shows us a very confused Exadata V2!

https://twitter.com/oraclebase/status/414144703437996032 - Tim Hall has a very Christmas-y picture for us.

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/inoug_org/status/413754074803081216 - INOUG has a kick off meeting!

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/413763961331662848 - Jeff Smith shares the top 4 KScope sessions he wants us to go to this year.

https://twitter.com/richardfoote/status/413779281450258434 - Richard Foote will be presenting at ODTUG's KScope as well!!

https://twitter.com/hotsosgg/status/414062842812182528 - Register for the Hotsos Symposium this year and see ME!!

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/clicktips/status/413710489764368384 - Melinda Samson shares some tips about Google Analytics and benchmarking.

https://twitter.com/clicktips/status/414045737056354304 - Get to page #1 on Google without using/thinking about SEO.

https://twitter.com/clicktips/status/414086367417602048 - I didn't know you could segment your blogging traffic this way!

https://twitter.com/dbakevlar/status/414090449431715840 - Kellyn reminds us about getting an about.me page.