Oracle ACE award

Yesterday I received my Oracle ACE reward from Oracle Technology Network.
The picture shows me with Ralph Bellinghausen from Oracle University Switzerland.

OTN sent me a plaque with my name and a pullover.

Thanks OTN!

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New Demos on 10gR2 RAC available on OTN

There is a series about Oracle 10gR2 in Oracle By Example on OTN which provides us with a large number of really brilliant mini lessons in the form of little java viewlets which you can run in your browser.
Specially the RAC demos appletts are very handy.

The man behind this is Jean-Francois Verrier. He works as a course developer for Oracle University and puts a lot of effort into this series.
Here is a list of this brilliant collection on OTN which has been updated just recently with a number of new demos.
It is worth checking it out definitely!

This is what you can find there at the moment for Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and especially Oracle 10g RAC:

Manageability:
Using SQL Baselines
Using Metric Baselines
Transport a tablespace version to another database
Automatic Storage Management (ASM):
Install ASM single instance in its own home
Install ASM single instance in the same home
Migrate a database to ASM
Setup XML DB to access ASM
Access ASM files using ASMCMD
Real Application Clusters (RAC)
RAC Deployment Series (Beta):
Setting Up RAC Storage
Setting Up Openfiler Storage
Setting Up iSCSI On Client Side
Using fdisk to Partition Storage
Setting Up Multipathing On Client Side
Installing and Configuring ASMLib
Setting Up Storage Permissions On Client Side
Installing Oracle Clusterware
Installing Real Application Clusters
Configuring ASM Storage
Installing Oracle Database Single Instance Software (Part I)
Installing Oracle Database Single Instance Software (Part II)
Creating Single Instance Database
Protecting Single Instance Database Using Oracle Clusterware
Converting Single Instance Database to RAC Database
Adding a Node to Your Cluster
Extending Oracle Clusterware to Third Node
Extending RAC Software to Third Node
Extending RAC Database to Third Node
Rolling Upgrade Your Entire Cluster
Creating a RAC Physical Standby Database
Installing and Configuring OCFS2
Setting Up RAC Primary Database in Archivelog Mode
Backing Up RAC Primary Database
Configuring Oracle Network Services on Clustered Standby Site
Creating RAC Physical Standby Database Using OCFS2 Storage
Checking RAC Physical to RAC Standby databases Communication
Converting RAC Physical Standby Database to RAC Logical Standby Database
Rolling Upgrade Oracle Clusterware
Rolling Upgrade Oracle Clusterware on Clustered Primary Site (10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2)
Rolling Upgrade Oracle Clusterware on Clustered Standby Site (10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2)
Upgrading your RAC Standby Site
Upgrading RAC Standby Database From 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2 (Part I)
Upgrading RAC Standby Database From 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2 (Part II)
Switching Primary and Standby Databases Roles
Upgrading your old RAC Primary Site
Upgrading RAC Old Primary Database From 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2 (Part I)
Upgrading RAC Old Primary Database From 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2 (Part II)
Switching Back Primary and Standby Databases Roles
Miscellaneous:
RAC scale example
RAC speedup example
Use Transparent Application Failover (TAF) with SELECT statements
Oracle Clusterware:
Use Oracle Clusterware to protect the apache application
Use Oracle Clusterware to protect the Xclock application
RAC Voting Disk Multiplexing
Patch Oracle Clusterware in a Rolling Fashion
CSS Diagnostic Case Study
RAC OCR Mirroring
Services:
Runtime Connection Load Balancing example
Basic use of services in your RAC environment
Installs and Enterprise Manager:
Install ASM in its own home in a RAC environment
Convert a single-instance database to a RAC database using Grid Control
Push Management Agent software using Grid Control
Clone Oracle Clusterware to extend your cluster using Grid Control
Clone ASM home to extend your cluster using Grid Control
Clone database home to extend your cluster using Grid Control
Add a database instance to your RAC database using Grid Control
RAC Concepts:
RAC VIP Concepts
RAC Object Affinity Concepts
Rolling Release Upgrade (Beta): 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2:
Upgrading your Standby Site
Upgrading RAC Standby Database From 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2 (Part I)
Upgrading RAC Standby Database From 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2 (Part II)
Switching Primary and Standby Databases Roles
Upgrading your old Primary Site
Upgrading RAC Old Primary Database From 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2 (Part I)
Upgrading RAC Old Primary Database From 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2 (Part II)
Switching Back Primary and Standby Databases Roles

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Oracle DBA Toolbar

Sorry, do not install the Oracle DBA toolbar!!!
It seems to have problems with the up to date internet explorer!!! (see comments!!!)

A few weeks ago there was a download link on OTN for the
ORACLE DBA toolbar, a little plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

After I got a new maschine I had to search for a while to find it again:
I like this little tool very much. so I got it again.
It is an .exe file you download of 880 k size, which installs th toolbar into the browser.

After the installation you have links in the browser which you can use to access the software downloads from OTN, Metalink, your local SQL*PLUS and a little collection of favorites and other usefull links.

I hope that it will be fixed and available for firefox soon!!!=;-)

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Got the I-Pod with an Oracle course

tzerland to find out
Today one of my customers received a 4GB i-Pod nano
since he had booked two Oracle courses in Switzerland
between Dec. 1st. 2006 and Feb. 28th. 2007.

This is a really cool promo!
And it is still running!
You can contact the toll free number
0844 844 822 in Switzerland to find out more about it.
Or ask per email: info@digicomp.ch,
or use this link

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