Weekend Learning: Oracle Database - Information Centers

Do you enjoy finding new Information Center documents on My Oracle Support?  If so, tonight is your night!  I introduce not just a single Information Center, but a bevy of them if you follow article "Index of Oracle Database Information Centers" via document ID 1568043.2!  This document has many different facets about Oracle's flagship database product in addition to many different things like Engineered Systems such as Exadata, Exalytics, Exalogic, Big Data, and SPARC plus Embedded Database systems like TimesTen or NoSQL!  Looking for GoldenGate, Audit Vault, or MySQL?  You are in luck!  Documents for these are found here too!

Blog roll update: Iggy Fernandez

Lately my blog roll updates have been pretty technical and many related to Exadata specifically, but today I bring you a different kind of blog!  If you need to brush up on your SQL (or NoSQL) skills and then take them to the next level, you need to check out Iggy Fernandez's blog!  My SQL/NoSQL skills are just fine, there is no reason I need to visit Iggy's page you say?  Wrong you would be!  Not on does his blog cover this subject, but he is an Oracle ACE, regular contributor with the NoCOUG, and author of the Beginning Oracle Database 11g Administration book.  Do you really want to miss out on the posts of an experienced DBA about the subject of SQL or NoSQL?  I would not if I were you!

Arup Nanda on the topic of Big Data

In his article on Big Data, Arup starts by showing us how recent events can spark thoughts of a professional nature and gets our minds on a completely different track than most people when discussions start happening about something "big". Speaking of big, I learned what the "Three V's of Big Data" are in this introduction to Big Data and it's associated concepts like key-value pair, NoSQL (and why that's not really the best term for it), Map/Reduce, Hadoop, and HiveQL.  Fantastic read, and it really did demystify a lot of what I didn't know about Big Data!