Thursday Twitter - 3/12/15

Returning to Twitter this week, I am changing up the format and instead of several different categories I am going to focus on just one: Conferences.

RMOUG:  Of course, we cannot forget about the awesome Training Days conference from the Rocky Mountain group and you can still catch up on everything with #TD2015!

HOTSOS:  While I did not get to go this year, it was still good to follow along with #HotSym15 attendees and presenters!

OUGN:  Ever wonder what it would be like joining an Oracle conference on a boat?  Follow along with #OUGN15 for a Norwegian conference cruise!!

UTOUG:  Get a lot of information flowing out of the Utah group's own Training Days which is also going on right now and can be found at #UTOUGTD15!

OAUG:  Join in with the #C15LV hashtag to connect with thousands of Oracle users leading up to and during COLLABORATE!

GLOC:  Prepare to follow along with the Great Lakes conference by adding #GLOC15 to your list!

Was there a recent conference that I missed?  Let me know in the comments!

Thursday Twitter - 2/26/15

The last few weeks I have been sharing 10 tweets with you, but after the RMOUG Training Days conference last week I want to share just one link with you to open up a whole world of tweets that I know you will find interesting!  Follow the link for #TD2015 learn a lot, and make a lot of connections by adding the presenters to your timeline!

Thursday Twitter - 2/12/15

With as much time I am spending preparing for the next conference or two I am not on Twitter as often as I would like, but here are 10 of the best tweets I have seen this week!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/hdeiby/status/565856114856980481 - I know the first OCM in Latin America!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/enkitec/status/563719512248164352 - Martin Bach shares installing 12.1.0.2 RAC on Oracle Linux.

https://twitter.com/sql_handle/status/565230132898844672 - Tanel Pöder has some thoughts about an "ORA-08103: object no longer exists" error message.

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/pythianjobs/status/565921767538315265 - Pythian shares how to duplicate an active DB using RMAN.

https://twitter.com/ahmed_aboulnaga/status/565583300933480450 - Learn how much data was used in a recent hack attack!

https://twitter.com/dtseiler/status/565581780775100416 - I've learned this lesson about storage before, but always good to get somebody else to remind us!

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/565259288646787073 - Learn how to use connection folders in Oracle SQL Developer from Jeff Smith!

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/neooug/status/565978073527767042 - Yet another reason to visit Ohio in May is the GLOC conference featuring Steven Feuerstein!

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/2ndhalf_oracle/status/565920499885408258 - I'm putting this piece of advice here under social media because it really is an extension of it by learning how to be social.

https://twitter.com/oaug1/status/565583266049454080 - There is still time to get a great discount from OAUG for COLLABORATE 15 if you join now!

Thursday Twitter - 2/5/15

Another week, another 10 tweets that you should check out!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/krisrice/status/562314147333808128 - Did you hear?  There is a new command line interface for the Oracle Database!  Get the scoop from this link Kris Rice, Product Manager for Oracle SQL Developer (and Jeff Smith's boss!).

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/yvelik/status/562521227827228672 - How can you pass up a SlideShare from Cary Millsap?  Thanks for sharing Yury!!

https://twitter.com/OraclePress/status/560870108705611776 - Get some free exam questions/answers for the Java Programmer Study Guide from Oracle Press!

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/562309505950556160 - Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman shares a link about Oracle's claims of Exadata being the fastest platform out there.

https://twitter.com/Oracle_EBS/status/562309490880811008 - Check out the AP Payments Assistant!

https://twitter.com/biju_thomas/status/562203782558543874 - Biju Thomas gives us an Oracle tidbit about SRVCTL commands that deserves a checking out.

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/560867518529556482 - Find out what Mark Hurd said in this interview Kellyn shares with us!

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/EastCoastOracle/status/563409600935124992 - Make sure you register for the East Coast Oracle conference in September!

https://twitter.com/IOUG/status/562665678428450816 - Do not miss out on the Exadata Virtual Conference on February 11th.

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/563001836794556416 - Jeff Smith mentions a good book to pick up to get up to speed on Twitter.

Thursday Twitter - 1/29/15

After forgetting about Thursday Twitter last week, this week is the grand return and next week I plan on expanding to covering a lot more tweets for you!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/oracleace/status/559839847725432833 - Learn how to get in touch with 500 Oracle ACEs!  The other page that is displayed by default has great profile snapshots on several Oracle ACEs too!

https://twitter.com/MarkVHurd/status/558699716213350400 - Check out the 10 point plan Oracle has to dominate the Cloud, via Mark Hurd.

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/sfonplsql/status/560817252836990976 - Get the latest free Oracle Learning Stream by Steven Feuerstein on using packages to build APIs.

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/560854284028612609 - Look at the face lift that Oracle SQL Developer's performance viewer has with release 4.1!

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/560844918537854976 - Check out these tips to monitor your Linux system!

https://twitter.com/Oracle_EBS/status/559795431581175808 - Find out how to stay current with R12.2 courtesy of the Oracle ATG team!

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/COLLAB_OAUG/status/560860727594860544 - Find out who is coming to the COLLABORATE conference this year!

https://twitter.com/RMOUG_ORG/status/560860191210885120 - Just THREE weeks until the RMOUG Training Days conference!

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/virtdata/status/559802325682774016 - Kyle Hailey shares 5 tips to boost your career with social media.

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/559772811623796736 - Find out who at Oracle is on social media!

Thursday Twitter - 1/15/15

Thursday Twitter my old friend, I have not seen you for quite a while!  Of course I am trying to get back to a regular feature here as part of my New Years resolutions, but I figured I would try tonight with at least a little bit of what has been in my feed over the last week.

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/Exadata/status/555440480356691969 - Sure this could fall in other spots on the list, but did you know we are getting another OTN Virtual Technology Summit coming up next month?

https://twitter.com/oracledatabase/status/555809222571466754 - New!  12c!  Whitepaper!

https://twitter.com/otn_garage/status/555770692613201920 - Join the Solaris Customer Advisory Board to work with Oracle!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/IOUG/status/555820614691594240 - Did you know that IOUG is offering several seminars this month?

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/sharmanpete/status/555835535759925250 - Pete Sharman reminds us that 11.2 enters Extended Support on February 1st!

https://twitter.com/epm_queen/status/555738482337804290 - Some EPMA tricks and tips from Sarah Zumbrum!

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/NEOOUG/status/555824913584779264 - Do not miss the Great Lakes Oracle Conference in May!  Kerry Osbourne is giving the keynote!

https://twitter.com/Enkitec/status/555760161516560384 - Enkitec is having their E4 conference again for Exadata and other large system topics.

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/uwehesse/status/555706012192501760 - Uwe Hesse shares an interesting graphic about how to share older social media information!

Thursday Twitter - 7/3/14 (Part I)

Going into the American holiday of July 4th, I am splitting up a very long week of reading Twitter into multiple posts which I do not think you will mind at all!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/Pythian/status/482196590770552832 - Did you know that Pythian bought Blackbird?  Looks like they are stacking up data experts!

https://twitter.com/OTNArchBeat/status/482506468332429312 - Oracle SOA Suite 12c is now available!

https://twitter.com/dhaimes/status/483661723686035456 - David Haimes tells us about Oracle's newest $5+ Billion deal.

https://twitter.com/OracleLL/status/483678882181423104 - From Oracle Learning Library (if you aren't following, do it now!) is a post on the release of Oracle Business Process Management Suite 12c.

https://twitter.com/OTNArchBeat/status/483684723064315905 - The Oracle Mobile Application Framework is now live!

https://twitter.com/Oracle/status/483735007367016449 - The newest OS for ZFS has set a world record!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/lakshram/status/482238780510728192 - Lakshmi is having a webinar hosted by OAUG on SLA lessons learned.

https://twitter.com/sfonplsql/status/482541951409860608 - Who would want to pass up getting demo files from Steve Feuersteien on PL/SQL?

https://twitter.com/OraclePress/status/482551577669271552 - Free 15 questions from the OCA 12c SQL Fundamentals I Exam Guide!  I printed these out and learned something from trying to go through them!

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/483629087311679488 - Join Kellyn Pot'Vin for a webinar on the new 12c AWR Warehouse.

https://twitter.com/OracleDatabase/status/483675102551101440 - Have you signed up for the OTN Virtual Technology Summit?

https://twitter.com/OraclePress/status/483682778752352256 - Another set of 15 Q&A's from Oracle Press, this time from the 12c Installation and Administration Exam Guide.

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/TanelPoder/status/482265163664736257 - Tanel has an enhancement request he would like to see go through.

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/482492718271037441 - Allan Robertson reminds us about Pete Finnigan's blog with this article on 12c SQL translation as it relates to security.

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/482492838614020096 -Allan is on a roll as he shares with us a post he found about converting SCNs to timestamps and vice versa.

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/482502841840324608 - Again Allan comes through for us with this article on how to map back Linux processes to DB processes.

https://twitter.com/OTNArchBeat/status/482534579132461056 - A new feature of Oracle SOA Suite 12c is Native Format Translation!

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/482604709870452736 - Kyle Hailey helps inform us that 97% of world's fastest supercomputers run Linux.

https://twitter.com/sql_handle/status/482614917552283648 - A great question is asked about if an HBA goes crazy/bad, do you notice beforehand?  Good discussion in here!

https://twitter.com/CondeBond/status/483579443990908928 - Xavier Picamal shares an old article from Pythian about ACLs, but it is still relevant if you are new to using (or coping) with ACL setups!

https://twitter.com/CondeBond/status/483598425171443713 - Another article shared by Xavier, this time from David Fitzjarrell about the team that it takes to support a "slow DB".

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/483666611493027840 - A tip from Jeff Smith on using multiple monitors with Oracle SQL Developer.

https://twitter.com/OracleMiddle/status/483667553789964288 - Check out all the features of SOA Suite 12c!

https://twitter.com/SOAScott/status/483688882081263616 - Oracle University has created SOA Suite 12c upgrade videos!

https://twitter.com/OracleDatabase/status/483691459917647873 - Did you know there is an Oracle DB Resource Portfolio Home Page on MOS?

https://twitter.com/MarkVHurd/status/483699041671585794 - Mark Hurd has joined Twitter, and releases a post on 5 reasons CEOs should love the cloud.  He had more than 2,000 follows in just 24 hours!

https://twitter.com/mmilella/status/483715133722468352 - A Smart View presentation from KScope14, along with several different links that might be useful learning for you!

https://twitter.com/ChrisAntognini/status/483723511744462848 - Christian Antognini has published his files for the newest edition of Troubleshooting Oracle Performance.

https://twitter.com/dhaimes/status/483742020750417920 - Plan for Cloud?  Mark Hurd wants Oracle to be #1.

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/483750739236618241 - June Oracle Security newsletter.

https://twitter.com/sfonplsql/status/483751259128606720 - Steve Feuerstein's part 2 of a new series on the "joy" of PL/SQL.

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/483771063981981697 - Whitepaper for developing a WebLogic 12.1.3 server.

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/483779042290982912 - Elke Phelps (via Steven Chan's blog) shares a great idea and webinar for creating a proactive strategy for Oracle EBS maintenance.

https://twitter.com/biju_thomas/status/483783852528115712 - Don't miss out on Biju Thomas' "Oracle Tidbits".

https://twitter.com/lucasjellema/status/483831556688347136 - If you are at all interested in SOA Suite 12c, you need to hit this link to add Lucas Jellema and others plus a great read about releasing blog posts after the announcement.

https://twitter.com/TanelPoder/status/483844622721224704 - Tanel Poder's "Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting Guide, Part 6" about execution plans and https://twitter.com/TanelPoder/status/483844623438458880 an interview with him too!

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/EastCoastOracle/status/483596191330889729 - Don't forget that the deadline to submit to the East Coast Oracle conference is July 14th!

https://twitter.com/UKOUG/status/483619029572415488 - A sneak peek of the confirmed speakers for UKOUG Apps14!

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/IOUG/status/483663916044935168 - Join a Special Interest Group (SIG) to widen your audience and meet others with your skill/mind set.

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/483615166886457344 - A great article from Jeff Smith of Oracle SQL Developer fame, with tips on how to increase your chances to be accepted to a conference.

Thursday Twitter - 6/19/14

Yes, there was something besides World Cup tweets on Twitter this week.  :}

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/Exadata/status/479662416889126912 - Announcing the Exadata X4 platform!

https://twitter.com/ddfdba/status/478990788060135424 - David Fitzjarrell shares that Apress/IOUG press is now online.

https://twitter.com/lakshram/status/478948781639995392 - Laskhmi Sampath lets us know that MS Office 2013 is now certified with EBS R12.1.3!

https://twitter.com/RaghuSripada/status/478903134795087873 - I don't know how, but Raghuram found my tweet from a few days ago and added it to his daily EM paper!

https://twitter.com/BW_Contract/status/478894158883454976 - OAUG creates a new SIG and GEO!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/479632864330674177 - Did you know that the Developer Relations YouTube channel is a year old now?  It even has more than 100 videos up too!

https://twitter.com/OraclePress/status/478957839785132033 - Here are 23 FREE Q&As from the OCP Upgrade to 12c exam guide!

https://twitter.com/OracleDatabase/status/478937644869898240 - A whitepaper on Oracle Partitioning!

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/OracleSecurity/status/479674988006752256 - Oracle Security posits that organized crime is as powerful as some countries.  Agree or disagree?

https://twitter.com/JLOracle/status/479674719705133057 - Jonathan Lewis on the costs for DELETE operations.

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/479651586869059584 - Kellyn Pot'Vin shares a post from a WebLogic blog on analyzing a stuck piece of code.

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/479623095917899776 - Allan Robertson shares the first part of Service Reliability and Pythian shares part two here https://twitter.com/Pythian/status/479626536023121920.

https://twitter.com/CondeBond/status/479608920101896193 - Xavier Picamal shares a LinkedIn debate about log file sync wait.

https://twitter.com/OracleSecurity/status/478986709028589569 - What are 5 things you can learn from security threats?

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/478831701406535680 - Do you support Oracle Fusion Middleware?  Then maybe this pretty new Oracle blog on practical experience with the application might be your cup of tea.

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/478821132628262912 - Kyle Hailey shares more insights from Andrew Holdsworth: if you are updating 1 row per ms, do you know how long it takes for 1 trillion rows?

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/478810546649968640 - Do you need to present data?  Here are 50 ways to do it!

https://twitter.com/PrasannaPeshkar/status/478777801684688896 - Prasanna Peshkar found this post from Tanel Poder to be pretty awesome.

https://twitter.com/oraclemagazine/status/478766616420040704 - Oracle shares trends in data center consolidation.

https://twitter.com/OraTweets/status/478614088105201664 - Iggy Fernandez has part 2 of a series about the EXPLAIN PLAN.

https://twitter.com/leight0nn/status/478338159596421120 - Leighton Nelson tells us how MTTR setting changes the DBWR work profile.

https://twitter.com/fuadar/status/478129331060101120 - Fuad Arshad shares a take on the Oracle 12c In-Memory Option.

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/debralilley/status/479615019702046720 - Why does Debra Lilley present at user groups?

https://twitter.com/JLOracle/status/478990049632325633 - Don't miss an opportunity to learn from Jonathan Lewis!

https://twitter.com/odtug/status/478962428865425409 - Not going to KScope?  You can view it remotely!

https://twitter.com/pythianpartners/status/478952837154877441 - Pythian was at the ECRUG conference this year and so was Subhajit https://twitter.com/DCSubhajit/status/478909515287764992!

https://twitter.com/debralilley/status/478934279217745921 - Debra was at the BGOUG conference!  It's nice to be an ACE Director!

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/478880636888154112 - In a few days, I'll tell you why this tweet from Andrew Holdsworth at the AOUG Vienna is SO funny!

https://twitter.com/martinberx/status/478840663489146880 - Martin Berger got to see Christian Antognini at the AOUG conference speak about adaptive query optimization!

https://twitter.com/martinberx/status/478810733481041920 - Martin also shares this slide from Andrew Holdsworth about performance that people get.

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/478878378821304320 - THAT Jeff Smith shares a post about why you should start presenting.  Sure it's not about Social Media or DevOps, but it is about getting out of your comfort zone and interacting with people; both of which are tenants of these two headings!

Thursday Twitter - 6/5/14

I might not have been on Twitter a whole lot this week, but I was on it enough to get you some very good articles/information to read!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/SharmanPete/status/474261937555914752 - Application Management Pack for EBS 12.1.0.2 has been certified with EM 12c R4!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/474212161494188032 - Get accredited on EBS with My Oracle Support!

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/474287840336302080 - Interested in Oracle Multitenant?  Visit these useful links!

https://twitter.com/oraclebase/status/474286245665722368 - Tim Hall is in the 12c manual!

https://twitter.com/OracleDBsupport/status/474283211850518529 - Tips from the Database Networking Community on MOS.

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/474258312192864257 - Have you signed up for the Oracle Database Insider?  No?  Here is the June edition and a good opportunity to sign up for it!

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/474242229754949632 - Top 10 Architect Community articles of May!

https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/474232576090316800 - Speaking of the Top 10, here is the author of the #1 link for May!

https://twitter.com/TheGrahamHussey/status/474184731945607169 - Take a break from the day, and Oracle related content, with this 10 minute recipe.

https://twitter.com/UKOUG/status/474113661871865856 - Several reviews of the latest edition of the Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Handbook.

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/Enkitec/status/474227468283289603 - E4 was a big hit this year!

https://twitter.com/EPM_Queen/status/474218675869065217 - Join Sarah and submit for ECOUG!

https://twitter.com/jczuprynski/status/474191977819287553 - Jim Czuprynski's post on the MENA tour!

https://twitter.com/brainsurface/status/473554062458486784 - OTN MENA tour was so great, it's going to be an annual event!

Social Media/DevOps:

Nothing interesting this week, better luck next time.

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!

Thursday Twitter - 1/2/14 (Part 3)

Finally all caught up on Twitter, following yesterday's post, and I must say that as I follow more people and it takes me a bit longer to digest the week that went past, it is becoming crystal clear just how much I learn from all the people in my circle!  I would encourage each and every one of you to start following as many people as you can, starting with those I pass along that you see sharing things along your interests week after week so you can get more out of social media.  For about a year my blog was the only output, and other blogs the only input but the addition of Twitter has really lead to a lot of great interactions both ways!

Announcements:

Sorry folks, no real announcements this week!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/416911420278984704 - Uwe Hesse shares a bunch of OLL tutorials on DBAs for beginners.

https://twitter.com/oraclebase/status/417648281263427584 - Tim Hall has an incredible series of articles on public speaking that are well worth your time to read!!

https://twitter.com/MHBusiness/status/417717543709978624 - Want to get a free eReader preloaded with 25 McGraw-Hill books?

https://twitter.com/oraclepress/status/418062881981485056 - Want another free book chapter, this time on Fusion?

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/416829087953723392 - Kyle shares Goldratt's 1980s theories and how they have changed.

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/416857335920082945 - Kellyn provides a list of 5 deadly Linux commands that you should NOT run.

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/416900379692269568 - Interested in a plan for optimizing performance?  Follow these steps!

https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/417041540276817920 - Do you know why you shouldn't set OPTIMIZER_FEATURES_ENABLE?

https://twitter.com/climagic/status/417065756832985088 - An interesting way to monitor more than 1 log file with the tail command!

https://twitter.com/mnorgaard/status/417240381651439616 - Mogens has a great point here, and I've seen it way too many times!

https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/417273817799860224 - Uwe shares a YouTube video of Maria Colgan talking about the Optimizer changes with Oracle 12c.

https://twitter.com/dbasolved/status/417492587235127296 - Bobby Curtis has an article about restarting 12c.

https://twitter.com/OracleCloudZone/status/417611045830938624 - A short video about how California State University, Northridge is using Oracle technology to help their students!

https://twitter.com/dbasolved/status/417719988556800000 - An article by Bobby on OEM 12c and GoldenGate pending.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/417768994800955393 - A retirement from Oracle!

https://twitter.com/mariselsins/status/417792581888520192 - Maris Elsins shares a Linux script that he's designed to download patches from MOS!

https://twitter.com/fritshoogland/status/417956325591482368 - Do you know what is behind the ORA-19821 error message?

https://twitter.com/dbakevlar/status/417987526050459649 - Ten tips to become a master programmer.

https://twitter.com/jloracle/status/417993330476060673 - Ever have it happen where a problem stops when you trace it?  So has Jonathan Lewis!

https://twitter.com/uwehesse/status/417998600128716800 - What URL should you memorize if you are a DBA?

https://twitter.com/brost/status/418024386075975680 - Bjoern Rost has some acronyms from Oracle to share with us.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/418040813088948224 - Some tips on Concurrent Processing!

https://twitter.com/uwehesse/status/418070327332450305 - Uwe and Oracle Data Guard posts.  Lots, and lots of posts!!

https://twitter.com/leight0nn/status/418118714500730881 - Nice to see that others are thinking about support and historical activities for OEM12c…even if Oracle isn't!

https://twitter.com/otn_garage/status/418151131492413440 - A catchup on OTN Garage articles from the year.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/418371955713392640 - What is the Payables #1 document?

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/yvelik/status/416905360151420928 - Yury would like to get some help proofreading his presentation for Collaborate!

https://twitter.com/dbakevlar/status/417734692075356160 - Don't forget to register for RMOUG in February!

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/ClickTips/status/417316587822014464 - An idea on how to add excitement to your blog posts!

https://twitter.com/UweHesse/status/417636201953517568 - A listing of Oracle User Group events worldwide.

https://twitter.com/clicktips/status/418388574417846272 - What is a Twitter landing page, and why should you use it? 

Thursday Twitter - 1/2/14 (Part 2)

The first follow up to Thursday's post to catch up on all of the awesome information coming out of Twitter over the past few weeks!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/otnarchbeat/status/415471074756022272 - There is a new ACE Director out there!  Congrats to Danilo Schmiedel!

https://twitter.com/acolvin/status/416347832564469760 - Andy Colvin tells us that a new version of Exadata Storage Server has been released and also it has new cell-to-cell communications too https://twitter.com/acolvin/status/416370394535178240.

https://twitter.com/rmoug_org/status/416390992908926976 - If you didn't know, Oracle made a 1.5B move towards the cloud.  Adobe, Salesforce: your move.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/416591893469077504 - Premier Support ended for several products with the new year!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/oraclepress/status/415526159552884736 - Want a free chapter of the Oracle Fusion Applications Development and Extensibility Handbook?

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/415527311623352320 - Learn about SLA and Procurement in this webinar.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/416106991166431232 - A good article bringing together a lot of OpenWorld presentations for SOA/BPM!

https://twitter.com/enkitec/status/416317137188188160 - Learn Exadata Offloading efficiency in Optimization courses from Enkitec!

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/416610593408172032 - Kyle Hailey shares a post about Harvard data visualization course lectures and slides being online!

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/tmmdv/status/415381725938585600 - Timur Akhmadeev shares his Pythian blog post on how to calculate if you have enough redo space.

https://twitter.com/alanc/status/415385339394412544 - Want to read a really great detective story about trying to find out why power supplies were dying on the same day in a data center?  You do, it's got an awesome ending too!

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/415512212791640064 - Having some problems in R12 with incorrect depreciation on member assets?

https://twitter.com/dbakevlar/status/415512465766883328 - Kellyn Pot'Vin shares 10 productivity sites/apps for working remote.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/415563869617389568 - Clean up your SOA QA environment!

https://twitter.com/agonen/status/415866934266052608 - Learn from the Oracle documentation about the UTL_CALL_STACK procedure!

https://twitter.com/gokhanatil/status/416094191455055872 - Here is a script for looking at your ASM information.

https://twitter.com/oratweets/status/416114989754097664 - Iggy Fernandez starts a really good series of articles on NoSQL.

https://twitter.com/gokhanatil/status/416137525376602112 - Do you know the history of Exadata?  Are you sure you know the whole story?

https://twitter.com/yvelik/status/416181102064435201 - Yury Velikanov gets EBS 11i forms to run on Windows 8 64-bit due to his secret weapon!

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/416267256809947137 - Have you used the PO Approvals Analyzer tool?

https://twitter.com/leight0nn/status/416294888473251840 - Leighton L. Nelson identifies a bug with R3 of EM12c which wasn't there in R2.

https://twitter.com/flashdba/status/416335285547708418 - Did you know Oracle has changed Smart Flash Cache Compression to be part of the ACO license?

https://twitter.com/moh/status/416438130099494912 - What do you think about programming late into your life?  Great response here for young versus old!

https://twitter.com/bertranddrouvot/status/416501692453367808 - Bertand Drouvot believes that this is a must for any DBA toolkit!

https://twitter.com/osamaoracle/status/416547091562119168 - Really love this comment from Osama Mustafa!!  I think this could fill an entire volume for a book on support!

https://twitter.com/uwehesse/status/416559874508464128 - Uwe Hesse recommends a post from Jonathan Lewis on random slowdowns, and it is a very good article!!

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/416591831733133312 - Have you looked at the BI Publisher Consolidated Reference document on MOS?

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/416591893238386688 - Do you know why there hasn't been a new R12.1.3 RUP for Procurement?

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/416613245236281344 - Kyle has a post about ZFS fundamentals for throttling!

https://twitter.com/oracle_edu/status/416640773065416704 - What were the top 13 classes for Oracle University in 2013?

https://twitter.com/chrisantognini/status/416650737779605504 - Did you know that the parameter _px_xtgranule_size controls the size of block range granules when accessing external tables?

https://twitter.com/leight0nn/status/416669705051443200 - Configuring F5 equipment for use with OEM 12.1.0.3?  There looks to be a surprise waiting for you, but Leighton had your back with details!

https://twitter.com/RaySmithAce/status/416687245504950273 - Ray Smith shares a post about a new option in OEM12c R3 direct from Oracle!

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/416778286744608769 - Kyle has an awesome point here, that we need to automate or die.

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/416666891185557504 - Get an advance look at Mark Rittman's presentation for BIWA14!

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/clicktips/status/415504739741093888 - Did you know Google has some free tools for seeing where your visitors are?

https://twitter.com/alyssaebs/status/415590381913243648 - A good presentation on modeling DevOps!

Thursday Twitter - 1/2/14 (Part 1)

Since I have almost a full TWO weeks to catch up posting from Twitter, I've decided to break the posts up this week so you can get some weekend reading materials on the actual weekend.

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/oracleace/status/415243703301980161 - The oraclenerd has become an OracleACE Director!!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/415080969201537026 - Fusion General Ledger Beta test available!

https://twitter.com/oraclepress/status/415161431613800448 - A free chapter about NoSQL and BigData!

https://twitter.com/enkitec/status/415166133461725184 - Learn how to troubleshoot Exadata from Enkitec!

https://twitter.com/oakies_blog/status/415346338369650688 - Want to learn something from Christo Kutrovsky's Oracle, Linux and memory presentation from OakTable World?

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/hdeiby/status/414148843811258368 - Ever wonder how much Exadata infrastructure really costs?

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/414355870676697088 - have you used iperf to measure network performance before?

https://twitter.com/deirdres/status/414642845182476289 - Speaking of measurements, here's a good article on benchmarking.

https://twitter.com/fritshoogland/status/414862141363982337 - Want to see some deep dive information about Oracle?  Look no further than Frits Hoogland's tweet and following conversation!

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/415113430731726848 - Sizing and capacity planning when you don't know the system.

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/415158260808048640 - Reminder about Concurrent and Workflow analyzers, and I can vouch for the benefits of both of them!!

https://twitter.com/csierra_usa/status/415170853668933632 - Carlos Sierra shows how to do some tracing on legacy PL/SQL.

https://twitter.com/dbakevlar/status/415180543001505792 - Kellyn tells about a problem she's having with 12c EM queries and then tells us what the cause was too!

https://twitter.com/orafaq/status/415232079589175297 - What is the LREG process, and why should you learn about it?

https://twitter.com/oraclemagazine/status/415281661954514944 - Part 3 of Tom Kyte's series on 12c!

https://twitter.com/timothyjgorman/status/415330700628205570 - Is the DBA dead?

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/collab_oaug/status/415132671782563840 - Did you know that a MythBuster is going to give the keynote address at Collaborate 14?!?

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/clicktips/status/414398457105760256 - I have a friend that swears by using MailChimp, so I know if a newsletter is what I want to be doing this is probably what I'll be using!

https://twitter.com/clicktips/status/414779066118463488 - New to Twitter?  Here are some tips!

https://twitter.com/potus98/status/415025214745874432 - Can't disagree with this picture explaining DevOps!

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/415116171424198657 - What is a DevOps Toolchain?

https://twitter.com/clicktips/status/415177227995582464 - A great reminder that sometimes the title is just as important as the article!

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.

Thursday Twitter - 12/19/13

Getting ready for the holidays, I'm starting the gift giving early with these tweets!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/JLOracle/status/411837449820585984 - Wikipedia is asking for donations, and Jonathan Lewis asks us to think of giving to them.  Who out there doesn't use this site, even for looking up the most trivial things?  Not a bad idea, not bad at all.

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/412665332550361089 - EBS 12.2.3 has been released!!

https://twitter.com/OracleCloudZone/status/412958425195499520 - Oracle Exadata Elastic Cloud X4-2 has been released too!!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/brost/status/412309649983942656 - Bjoern Rost asks a simple question about what people think the 3 more important things to learn about RAC, and starts a pretty good conversation!

https://twitter.com/OraclePress/status/412623407742980096 - Download a free chapter of the Applications Development & Extensibility Handbook from Oracle Press!

https://twitter.com/OracleDatabase/status/412633239141232640 - Oracle WebLogic and Cloud 12c Integration webinar.

https://twitter.com/Enkitec/status/412655775706652672 - Learn how to patch Exadata from the experts at Enkitec!

https://twitter.com/IOUG/status/412718833242484736 - A very high level break down of 12c basics courtesy of IOUG and Enkitec.

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/412770111221948416 - Kellyn comes through with 29 free books on several hot topics right now!

https://twitter.com/OTNArchBeat/status/412940274881802240 - This post on ADF mistakes is a. really good and b. has links to other conference papers/articles presented at UKOUG Tech this year!

https://twitter.com/ORCLGoldenGate/status/412987323140550656 - A new interactive e-book has been released to showcase Oracle Data Integrator 12c and Oracle GoldenGate 12c entitled "The Path to the Future".

https://twitter.com/fritshoogland/status/413019131621814272 - Part 2 of "When the Oracle wait interface isn't enough" by Frits Hoogland.

https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu/status/413044880420524033 - Oracle University makes a good observation while including a Pinterest link?

https://twitter.com/OracleCert/status/413074326737276928 - Oracle Certification wants to help you gift this holiday season!

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/413094643027279872 - Join RMOUG!

https://twitter.com/Enkitec/status/413314367875067904 - Learn more about GoldenGate memory usage.

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/413362562861133824 - A teaser for the new ebook on Securing Oracle 12c.

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/oraclehardware/status/412145026240888832 - Oracle and optical links?

https://twitter.com/History_Pics/status/412315576565235713 - Netscape Navigator 1.0 turned 19 this week.  Wow.

https://twitter.com/Oracle_EBS/status/412478466605735936 - Are you on 11.5.10?  Here are the Extended Support required patches!

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/412590181217484800 - Do you know why OPTIMIZER_FEATURES_ENABLE should not be set?  Find out!

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/412600012120793088 - Kellyn Pot'Vin wins the tweet of the week award.  :}

https://twitter.com/BrianPardy/status/412630143568728064 - Brian Pardy is seeing some odd behavior from 12c.  Have you seen this too?

https://twitter.com/grantunez/status/412838659516162048 - How good does your profession look for the future?  Rene Antunez shares some projected growth figures from the US Department of Labor.

https://twitter.com/karlarao/status/412935409492979712 - Karl Arao shares a way to easily forecast Exadata storage space.

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/413015970966302720 - Learn how Oracle offers some built-in savings with the database.

https://twitter.com/OracleMiddle/status/413096300633411584 - Want to learn more about double blind identity?  Read the latest blog from Oracle Middleware.

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/413104084686995457 - The most used Payables Knowledge Content this year!

https://twitter.com/DBAKevlar/status/413150739708407808 - Kellyn was interviewed in the Oracle Magazine!

https://twitter.com/grantunez/status/413165917543997440 - Tips for how to change the language in Grid Control.

https://twitter.com/brost/status/413263470759772160 - I wonder.  Do you think Fujitsu ordered enough pizza from this place?

https://twitter.com/OracleCloudZone/status/413310257063272448 - Rex Wang breaks cloud myths!

https://twitter.com/OracleBlogs/status/413331881082773504 - A new Oracle ACE!

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/413353208979787776 - Kyle Hailey has an insight which expands on something I stumbled upon earlier this year, and brought forth in my presentation in Pittsburgh!

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/Enkitec/status/412708626780803072 - Don't forget to register for Enkitec Extreme Exadata Expo 2014!  Call for papers is still open too!

https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/412910273667039232 - The Rittman Mead BI Forum has opened their call for papers too!

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/ClickTips/status/411853783925133312 - What are Twitter's 7 deadly sins, and how do you avoid repeating them?

https://twitter.com/potus98/status/412077379037573122 - Mainframers interested in DevOps?  That's awesome!  Everybody should be interested!

https://twitter.com/ClickTips/status/412594044045258752 - Using Google Analytics Trackbacks!

https://twitter.com/ClickTips/status/413031600658460672 - Additional tips for generating content?  Yes please!

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/413236225940520960 - Allan Robertson shares a site trying to build the learning base for SysAdmin.  He also shares another link that has a scorecard with 32 topics where a SysAdmin/group should excel.  How well do you do?  https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/413242744853626880

Weekend Twitter - 12/14/13

Sure I could've waited until Thursday for this, but there are a LOT of announcements worthy of getting ahead of the game on the weekend!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/oraclehardware/status/410772285940056064 - Oracle Exadata Database Machine X4-2 is officially released!  Frits shares the data sheet for it too: https://twitter.com/fritshoogland/status/410778894636032001.

https://twitter.com/mfild/status/410836882251980800 - Speaking of Exadata, Marc Fielding is on the bleeding edge of 11.2.0.4.2 just being released!

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/411135593566175233 - The official release of Oracle SQL Developer 4!  Jeff Smith shares some reasons to upgrade https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/411135921946656768 and Rika Ng posts another release from Oracle on this topic https://twitter.com/rikang/status/411137923367849984.

https://twitter.com/oraclecert/status/410510231295127552 - The Upgrade to Oracle 12c Administrator exam is now available!

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/410837660882984960 - Procurement RUP on top of R12.1.3.

https://twitter.com/oraclehardware/status/411088060294889472 - The newest version of Oracle Key Manager is now out!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/jloracle/status/409335966285828096 - Jonathan Lewis shares his presentation on HCC from UKOUG this year!

https://twitter.com/oraclehardware/status/409608311605321729 - Deep dive on Oracle VM.

https://twitter.com/oraclecloudzone/status/409608318324604929 - Cloud to on premise weekend reading.

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/409696029387132929 - Allan Robertson shares an Oracle whitepaper on Unstructured Data Management with 12c!

https://twitter.com/oracle_edu/status/410151090567782400 - Oracle Education is having WebLogic training.

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/410483106307932160 -Jeff Smith will be having a webinar on Oracle SQL Developer!

https://twitter.com/msewtz/status/410503167067971584 - In the New York area?  Get some training from NYOUG on Oracle SQL Developer.

https://twitter.com/oraclepress/status/410835357127942144 - Oracle Press shares another free chapter, this time "Using and Managing Large Databases".

https://twitter.com/enkitec/status/410886569289973760 - Only a few seats open for Enkitec's Exadata Optimization class.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/410898700161277952 - Get trained on the Sun ZFS Storage 7000 Appliance!

https://twitter.com/jloracle/status/411106006819540992 - The Jonathan and Maria double act from OpenWorld this year on the Optimizer.

https://twitter.com/otnarchbeat/status/411154187255578624 - Interested in a free book on WebLogic?

https://twitter.com/oraclemagazine/status/411206411574861825 - A Security webinar for 12c!

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/yvelik/status/409077294268178432 - Yury shares a great interview response!

https://twitter.com/hdeiby/status/409886716216877056 - Deiby Gómez tells us more about ASM and REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE.

https://twitter.com/chrisantognini/status/409987591887675392 - Christian shares a tip that you need to know for a multitenant environment!

https://twitter.com/lucacanalidb/status/410100966667472896 - Luca Canali learned a new trick from MOS in dealing with AWR.

https://twitter.com/seth_m_miller/status/410235897108389888 - Seth Miller shares something that I've thought a LOT over the last few years!

https://twitter.com/jloracle/status/410439191697182720 - Jonathan shares some really good feedback that he got from the conference.

https://twitter.com/oraclealchemist/status/410487435747803136 - Steve Karam has a tweet that reflects a feeling I've seen a lot over the past few months from several people.

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/410534657936347136 - Do you know how to get to the last row in an Oracle SQL Developer resultset?

Have you seen the #FiveWordTechHorrors?  Here are some of the better ones I've seen:

https://twitter.com/thatjeffsmith/status/410566779413331969

https://twitter.com/gregrahn/status/410617820670459904

https://twitter.com/gregrahn/status/410618419805835265

https://twitter.com/martinklierdba/status/410703263504551936

https://twitter.com/jamesmorle/status/410706085100933120

https://twitter.com/ludovicocaldara/status/410720010848333825

https://twitter.com/martinberx/status/410732732717617152

https://twitter.com/eaviles94/status/410755440684068864

https://twitter.com/galobalda/status/410623059662348288

https://twitter.com/eaviles94/status/410757672557113344

https://twitter.com/jeffreykemp/status/410759458621382656

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/410793618895818752 - MOS article on R12.1 asset workbench errors where you get ORA-20001/XLA-95103.

https://twitter.com/leight0nn/status/410825738493759488 - Leighton has run into an issue with EM agents crashing in 12c on RAC nodes due to memory leaks.

Andy Colvin has several new things to share about the new Exadata:

https://twitter.com/acolvin/status/410939788540141568

https://twitter.com/acolvin/status/410958632797216770

https://twitter.com/acolvin/status/410959558861795328

https://twitter.com/jarneil/status/411057674848333824 - It looks like Oracle Advanced Compression Option comes with some new licensing.

https://twitter.com/oracle_edu/status/411061036025151488 - Uwe Hesse has some detailed insight for the new Oracle Database.

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/411159578395439104 - More Exadata cores, more licensing?

https://twitter.com/enkitec/status/411214888535470080 - The last part in Kerry Osborne's series of answers on 12c Adaptive Optimization!

https://twitter.com/sql_handle/status/411492974967541760 - Good advice about your career!!

https://twitter.com/jloracle/status/411509606800560128 - Jonathan Lewis shares a explanation by Martin Priess of some pre 12c limitations on dynamic_sampling.

https://twitter.com/raysmithace/status/411525118670557184 - Ray Smith tells us not to bounce our DB, and why this post saved his life.

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/411534754652368898 - Certification and reference information for MS Office 2007 and 2010 for R11 and R12.

https://twitter.com/tanelpoder/status/411573919871946752 - Tanel shows us a bloom partition pruning post from Vishal Desai.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/411624116035530752 - Oracle Linux spotlight on Ksplice.

https://twitter.com/kahnan/status/411646553007198208 - A great endorsement for Jonathan Lewis' work!

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/pfierens/status/409288474513379328 - Some post UKOUG conference thoughts from Philippe Fierens.

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/oracle/status/409062924842311680 - Members of the  OracleACE program share their experiences with Oracle User Groups.

https://twitter.com/dba_hba/status/410151267692863489 - Allan shares 7 DevOps habits.

https://twitter.com/clicktips/status/410393600216674304 - Three tips on making your blog/website better.

https://twitter.com/clicktips/status/410813927811854336 - SEO tips for getting traffic from Google!

Thursday Twitter - 12/12/13

I may have missed some tweets during the week, and may not have caught up entirely yet, but here's a lot of new stuff for you!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/408406878159659008 - A reminder that IE7 is no longer a supported browser.

https://twitter.com/pythianbabbey/status/409003586295955456 - Pythian is receiving an award from the Toronto Board of Trade.  Pretty cool!

https://twitter.com/oraclecert/status/409037163511037952 - MySQL 5.6 beta test for only $50!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/oracleweblogic/status/408640779574599680 - WebLogic in practice, SSL configuration.

https://twitter.com/oracleotn/status/408663333429338113 - A webcast giving you five reasons to go to Oracle VM.

https://twitter.com/enkitec/status/408669106557030400 - Frits Hoogland's presentation on multiblock reads!

https://twitter.com/enkitec/status/408708598718414848 - Get training from Enkitec!

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/408995794952658944 - Some Exadata training and resources from Oracle!

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/408616771101659136 - Getting rid of additional HZ_PERSON_PROFILES data.

https://twitter.com/chrisantognini/status/408621424551936000 - Christian Antognini starts a good conversation about PDB logging.

https://twitter.com/oraclealchemist/status/408702334928027648 - Steve Karam starts a good conversation on DB compatibility options and you should visit the MOS note listed here: https://twitter.com/mihajlotekic/status/409003140634013696.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/408723416649580544 - Laptops turn 25!

https://twitter.com/grantunez/status/408801100372799489 - Rene Antunez shares a few quotes from Nelson Mandela and this one too https://twitter.com/grantunez/status/408801125802835968.

https://twitter.com/leight0nn/status/408972404275167234 - Leighton Nelson shares a good use of 12c.

https://twitter.com/ukoug/status/408988239748689921 - UKOUG shares their Tech13 conference.

https://twitter.com/dbakevlar/status/408995658549301248 - Kellyn makes a good point that bloggers everywhere should take to heart.

https://twitter.com/chrisantognini/status/409026459865341952 - Christian with another great point to make!

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/409035785112150016 - R12.1.3 AR Receipts form issues relating to Customer name.

https://twitter.com/grantunez/status/409057232332926977 - Rene asks why he is getting an ORA-01017 error message after changing the dbsnmp password.

Conference News:

A series of tweets about Collaborate14 this year:

https://twitter.com/collab_oaug/status/409006549483274240

https://twitter.com/collab_oaug/status/409006672086958080

https://twitter.com/collab_oaug/status/409006940895719424

https://twitter.com/collab_oaug/status/409007212678217728

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/kelloggs_ville/status/408937687194693633 - Is it worth joining an OUG (Oracle User Group)?