Arrived at Redwood Shores

I just arrived at the head quarter of ORACLE in Redwood Shores (CA.). There is a “traffic sign” showing a family of Linux Pinguines crossing the street at Dolphin Drive.

I will attend the pilot class for the 10gR2 Real Application Cluster Course this week.

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SQL Server World Wide Usergroup want money from me to read my own article!!!

I cannot believe it!
I just found a link to my article about flashback any error in oracle 10gR2 on the web.
It leads you to the site of the so called “SQL Server Worldwide Usergroup”.
There you can pay to have access to my article,
which you of course can access for free an my blog, it is right here.
I had written this article for the Swiss Oracle Usergroup Newsletter where it was published at the beginnig of 2006.
Is it legal anyway, to just copy my article? Can I screw them?
If you know anything about the legal situation with such cases pls inform me through this blog by comment or email.

What a strange habit!
These people take my article and try to make money with it.
I guess that you can find almost any article they have there for free on the web,
but only if you know how to browse the web of course.

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My New York class

Have just finished my 10gR2 New Features for Administrators class in New York.
Again we squeezed five days in to three which was a tough time for everyone of us.
And again these very highly skilled and experienced people challenged me a lot wioth their hands on questions like their collegues in Chicago an New Jersey had done before.

These are the attendants of my class this week:

Ram

Kalyan

Navin, never had an attendant
who could ask so many questions
in such a short time!

Winarko

Nitin

Eugene

We have had a lot of fun with each other.

And again I got to know a very nice collegue
of mine from New Jersey.
Wonjun Choi

Thanks a lot for
helping me out
when I felt so
left alone and locked out!

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