tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122675882011-11-27T16:13:50.883-08:00Musings and journal of an average joe who works in IT, deals with Oracle and Enterprise Architecture.Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.comBlogger1681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-8258062463945810812008-09-30T08:12:00.000-07:002008-09-30T08:20:56.179-07:00

Hi there,It's been busy. I couldn't even made it to OOW this year (even though I was given the approval to attend). I looked at the various draft post that I have had (never did get a chance to finish) over the last 12 months, it has been horrendous. Anyhow, just wanted to put in a couple of points re: $700b bailout asked by the Bush Administration. Wow! $700b! That's more than the GDP (Gross

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-55313063620746525012008-07-26T10:57:00.001-07:002008-07-26T11:07:36.298-07:00

I read in my newspaper that Randy Pausch has passed away yesterday from pancreatic cancer which he has been battling for many months. He was a Computer Science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and in Sept 2007, he gave a "final lecture" to over 400 students at the University.A "Final Lecture" is an academic traditional which say that if you know that you have a few months to live (

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-88258207654323042152008-06-28T13:00:00.000-07:002008-06-28T18:00:22.813-07:00

Wow! Time flies. It's been six months since I last posted. I had no intention of leaving the blogging world that long but the days, weeks and months sure went by fast. We are now heading into the later part of the year and OOW is only less than 3 months away with its early bird dateline of July 18th.It has been a very busy six months for me with numerous challenges in the new position. Our

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-43108957585634743862008-01-27T10:22:00.000-08:002008-01-28T16:39:00.428-08:00

It's Day 3 of our Order Management implementation (Oracle E-Business Suite) weekend. The team started on Friday and we expect to have the business folks in this afternoon to do validation and verification. There is a whole bunch of IT, business and of course, our implementation partner working really, really hard to ensure that the implementation goes well. It is complicated by the fact that

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-35966865882818520302008-01-13T18:02:00.000-08:002008-01-18T20:15:36.422-08:00

So, the recent Blog Tag should be almost over by now and the debate over whether one should or should not participate is over. It's interesting to see how a simple thing like this can become such a sticky point for a number of folks. Jake K obviously didn't expect such a reaction to starting the blog tag.For me, it's an exercise in team building. I find that folks tend to work and get along

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-61308946203837562502008-01-10T21:49:00.000-08:002008-01-10T23:49:48.158-08:00

Apparently the blog tagging thing is still going strong. Doug Burns tagged me early this week. Thanks Doug, now I got two problems: a) figure out 8 things that people don't generally know about me and b) figure 8 other bloggers to tag. You can see Howard Rogers' comments to this blog tagging at the above mentioned Doug Burns' blog entry. I don't agree with Howard's comments but he has every

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-26663444812288333692008-01-04T20:57:00.000-08:002008-01-05T11:57:06.672-08:00

I hoped that 2007 has been good to you all both in your professional and personal lives. 2007 has been eventful and lots of stuff happening. We are now almost just 2 years away from the 2010 Olympics (Feb 2010) and construction of the various venues and transportation systems are chugging along full steam. In my own suburb, Richmond, we have the Canada Line (a light rail system linking the

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-77034610932501296442007-10-20T11:37:00.000-07:002007-10-21T22:50:09.242-07:00

With the recent "can of worms" that Jake blogged about on his Blog, I thought that Mary Ann Davidson kind of hit it on the nail when she blogged about "Disclosure".I've blogged about this previously but thought that it is worth mentioning again.

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-54830349112022252132007-10-15T20:18:00.000-07:002007-10-15T20:31:17.987-07:00

Today is Blog Action Day where each blogger is to blog about the environment related to their topic/theme.I am in IT so what can I blog about which would be relevant. Well, I recently attended Gartner Symposium ITxpo where "Green IT" is a key theme for the Symposium and Gartner expects this to be an ongoing theme for the IT industry for the next 3 to 5 years.Michael Dell as one of the keynote

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-12946274870264723552007-10-10T05:27:00.001-07:002007-10-10T05:38:06.163-07:00

Sorry about the lack of updates but been busy with the Gartner Symposium. Last evening (Tuesday), it was the "Attendee Appreciation Event" which was held at Disney's Animal Kingdom where the park was partially opened for the attendees to partake. Obviously the event was "pitiful" compared to Oracle OpenWorld where last year, Oracle had Elton John as the headliner and Billy Joel for this year's

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-41699215541319194992007-10-08T09:50:00.000-07:002007-10-08T10:00:54.501-07:00

Here I am at the Gartner 2007 IT/Expo Symposium in Orlando, Florida. This is my first Gartner Symposium and I'm struck by the age of the attendees who would be in the older group. This is not surprising as Gartner is geared towards the CIOs and IT Excutives/Managers group but it was something that stood out where you don't see a lot of the younger folks (under 30). The weather is hot and muggy

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-52026976669734141882007-09-21T09:33:00.000-07:002007-09-26T17:38:30.296-07:00

Most of the news last week in Canada has been on the fact that the Canadian dollar is almost at par with the US dollar. The last time that it was at par was in 1976 (more than 30 years ago). What is so special about it? Well, depending on which perspective you are coming from, there are ramifications. For example, as a consumer there are savings to be had depending on what products are being

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-73987215078779165422007-09-08T23:38:00.000-07:002007-09-08T23:48:54.622-07:00

I found this news very interesting indeed. The latest supercomputer is here and it is not controlled by government or private agencies. Instead, it is under the control of (most likely) criminals and the question being asked is "what do they planned to do with it?"It's scary but just imagine the possibilities and none of them are good at all. I think it might be prudent for the white hats to

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-35183167994572563582007-09-08T14:52:00.000-07:002007-09-08T21:09:50.839-07:00

Blogger seems to have lost the last entry that I posted earlier this week. I didn't check and now I can't even remembered what it was that I posted about.Anyhow, there was a number of stuff to post but I thought I would focus on a current technology issue that we are facing with our Oracle E-Business project. Our test lab has been running some performance scripts on our E-Business test

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-63701345910634587632007-08-29T23:26:00.000-07:002007-08-29T23:57:35.944-07:00

Some of the recently added postings caught my interest and I thought I should point them out in the event that you might not have seen them.Coskan's post on recovery, "When you lose your controlfile backups". This would be a good interview question.Tanel Poder's posts on "Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting Part 1 and Part 2".Laurent Schneider on "Cascade Delete".

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-65694729338660739202007-08-29T10:02:00.000-07:002007-08-29T10:04:52.948-07:00

It looks like I won't be attending this year's OOW as my role within my organization has changed. One of the other managers will attend instead. Darn! I might end up going to Orlando for the annual Gartner Symposium instead so if any of you readers are planning to attend, drop me a line and maybe we can organize for a meetup.

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-17225196757774646022007-08-25T16:09:00.000-07:002007-08-26T00:41:48.028-07:00

So, Monster.com (one of the world's biggest online job seekers site) suffered a huge security breach. Now what? I've registered with Monster years ago (around 2000) but have never gotten any responses from them over the years other than notifications from alert agents that I'd set up years ago.Obviously like everything else, if someone from Monster.com or other company contact you regarding

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-45919585277998240742007-08-22T17:14:00.000-07:002007-08-24T14:03:34.442-07:00

Recently I attended a half-day 11g launch locally in Vancouver where the local Oracle office invited a couple of Oracle Directors from San Francisco to talk about 11g. Obviously there are too many 11g features to talk about so a few were highlighted and it dawned on me that a number of these highlighted features requires additional licenses on top of the usual RDBMS Enterprise Edition. A way to

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-66821319105714585752007-08-19T10:25:00.001-07:002007-08-20T10:11:46.239-07:00

It has been a blast for me, taking two complete weeks off work and with "limited" access to the Internet although I have my Blackberry. I came back to over 2000 email messages in my work inbox with around 440 of them being meaningful, the rest were either alerts or notification messages.I'm now busy trying to catch up on news (the pile of newspaper) and also what is happening in the Oracle

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-80957738572653680352007-08-04T08:54:00.000-07:002007-08-04T09:27:37.496-07:00

You know with the recent revamping of the Oracle ACE program and the recent spat between a couple of well-known individuals in the Oracle community and subsequent related blog entries in the Oracle Blogsphere, I wonder where these two individuals fit within the Oracle ACE program. A quick check to the Oracle ACE site reveals that one of the individual is already an Oracle ACE but not the other.

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-77586526754890148412007-07-27T15:49:00.000-07:002007-07-30T23:35:42.762-07:00

Earlier this week, a private contractor working for the City of Burnaby (a suburb of Vancouver) dug their backhoe into a high pressure oil pipeline (a video of incident) sending about 1,400 barrels of crude oil high into air covering the neighbourhood and eventually leaked out into the Burrard Inlet. It took half of an hour before the pipeline was switched off and two hours before the oil boom

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-64752193481914952032007-07-25T18:10:00.001-07:002007-07-25T18:20:08.198-07:00

Back in April of this year, I bought a new Dell AMD desktop which comes with Vista installed. I gave that a twirl for a month and thought maybe I should go with Linux so that I can install Oracle on a "proper" OS and also Vista applications are tough to come by.I am finding that Linux (I chose Ubuntu) has similar problems where I was not able to use the software that comes with my various

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-30398578625389280102007-07-23T22:00:00.001-07:002007-07-25T08:11:01.112-07:00

In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to blog about the spat between Burleson and Lewis but decided not to BUT I left a comment on Kevin Closson's blog referring to the spat. This is definitely the wrong thing to do as if I was not willing to use my blog to comment on, why should I use someone's blog to comment.Kevin, my sincere apologies (please remove all comments I left pertaining to

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-49784761517959527742007-07-21T11:53:00.000-07:002007-07-21T12:11:52.836-07:00

I was going to blog about the current spat between Jonathan Lewis and Don Burleson on the OTN forums over LGWR and LGWR_IO_SLAVES but then decided that it wasn't worth the web space that it occupies. So, I will blog about a non-technical subject, managing people.People management is a complex subject and there are numerous books published by folks smarter than I on the subject. Here's my take

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-40101666403249512182007-07-19T21:35:00.001-07:002007-07-21T16:20:56.458-07:00

I recently received an e-mail from Ziff-Davis for a free webinar to take a look at EnterpriseDB which is quoted as the "World's Leading Oracle-compatible" database. It went on to describe that FTD (the flower company) save 83% in Oracle licencing costs and got a 400% improvement in performance by moving their reporting database from Oracle to EnterpriseDB Advanced Server.That got my interest but

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-40546495558578114112007-07-16T23:24:00.000-07:002007-07-19T21:17:11.558-07:00

Now that Oracle 11g has been officially launched, the big question is "Would you upgrade and if so, why?".Remember that this is still 11g R1, sure it has been through an extensive beta testing phase but it has not being in the real world yet :0.Let's look at the top then reasons (according to me) that you might want to upgrade:You want the latest and greatest toy to play with;There's one neat new

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-51816241141059005002007-07-07T00:56:00.000-07:002007-07-07T15:05:48.500-07:00

It's the end of the first week for me in my new role as the Manager of Application Services with my employer. I spent the last three years managing the Database & Midrange group with the same employer before given this opportunity to take over the application development & support group. It was a short week for me as I took a day vacation in conjunction with Canada Day and went camping with the

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-42880344886902051352007-06-16T16:00:00.000-07:002007-06-16T16:02:30.259-07:00

Tim DiChiara over at Eye On Oracle has a post titled "Database Administration is for suckers" where one of his reader posted their disillusion with being a DBA. Stephen G, the DBA in question, basically complains about being a DBA and the bad hours (on standby, lack of appreciation, excess hours, etc) that comes with it. He went on to say that if he has the opportunity to start all over again,

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-64839565244266299212007-06-09T10:16:00.000-07:002007-06-09T17:58:50.121-07:00

I blogged briefly about my organization looking for contract DBAs and interviewing candidates and recently Eddie Awad spoke about "Why resumes are useless" and reference Andrew Wulf's "The Stupidity of Interviews". Both blog entries received a fair amount of comments from folks who largely concurred with Andrew's assessment. I would agreed that resumes/interviews are not prefect and is a "hit &

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-81942918383357999652007-06-06T19:30:00.000-07:002007-06-07T00:08:46.932-07:00

I attended a one-day workshop (hands-on lab) at the local Oracle office here in Vancouver today learning about Oracle RAC and try some hands-on labs to install, configure and maintain a RAC environment. One of the things that struck me was how many acronyms were being used in this one-day workshop.RAC = Real Application ClustersFaN = Failover Application NotificationASM = Automated Storage

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-34766514601226959302007-06-04T22:20:00.000-07:002007-06-04T22:45:09.725-07:00

I have been with my current employer since August 2004 and originally I was hired as the Data Architect but unfortunately I did not end up doing any data architecture work. Almost immediately I was given the DBA team (2 DBAs) to manage and that grew to 3 before the end of the year. Most of my time was spent on assessing and managing the team plus the database environments. In fact,

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-25304958291178982772007-05-31T00:15:00.000-07:002007-05-31T00:47:22.546-07:00

We are currently looking for contract DBAs and also a permanent full-time Senior DBA and I spent a good part of last week and this week reviewing resumes and conducting interviews.Thankfully, there are a lot of interview questions out on the Internet. One of my senior DBA's favourite was "What was the most dangerous thing that you have done as a DBA?" and we get a wide ranging and variety of

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-19549009750565627852007-05-30T23:49:00.000-07:002007-05-31T00:12:26.494-07:00

You all are probably thinking "How could that be?". Well, it wouldn't work all the time because the action is on "people" who are as dynamic as anything.The background to this was that a supervisor in another group sent out an email thanking a couple of her employees for their hard work and effort. One of my DBA was also heavily involved working with these guys on the same task and the email

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-72247669301017162292007-05-25T00:04:00.000-07:002007-11-04T17:59:58.475-08:00

It is really interesting to see that no two projects are alike even if the project objectives are the same. For example, implementing Oracle E-Business, depending on the organization and the project manager in question, things are done differently and even if things are done the same, the results might be totally different!The challenge has always been to ensure that the project team understands

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-77208784224044353212007-05-19T13:02:00.001-07:002007-05-19T13:19:53.480-07:00

In a couple of days, it would be the 20th anniversary of Rick Hansen's "Man in Motion" world tour where Rick Hansen, a paraplegic in a wheelchair decided to go around the world in a wheelchair to raise money and awareness for spinal cord injuries research. I remembered the event as I was about to finish my final examination for my degree in Toronto. It was inspiring to see this 27-year man

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-4501028323592706022007-05-18T10:01:00.000-07:002007-05-18T10:09:14.280-07:00

Recently I got an email inviting me to download the 2007 IT Salary & Skills Report from Global Knowledge. Although the report did not indicate whether it is specific to a country/region, I have to assume that given that the company is headquartered in the US, that the report is specific to the US IT industry and that salary figures are in US dollars.It is an interesting read but even though the

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-21647829079444382782007-05-12T10:54:00.000-07:002007-05-12T15:15:13.853-07:00

I was attempting to post a comment on Pete Finnigan's blog when it comes back and showed me a preview of the post and a confirmation button to post it.Clicking on that button gave me:I tried it again and got the same thing. Maybe it's me ;)

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-66859547286860149752007-05-12T09:50:00.000-07:002007-05-12T10:11:46.399-07:00

My guys at work came across a very obscure bug in one of our Oracle 9.2.0.5 databases the other day. A SQL Loader script that has been working for a long while started failing with an ORA-03114 and the corresponding SQL Loader error was "SQL*Loader-941: Error during describe of table". A quick look at the script to verify that nothing has changed and that everything looks good with the correct

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-17579800435357345172007-04-21T13:30:00.000-07:002007-05-12T09:50:14.722-07:00

I just wanted to blog about this experience with ordering a PC from Dell. As many folks know or should know, Dell sells online and through the telephone directly to the consumers. There are no storefront or retailers hawking Dell products (maybe not entirely true as Dell have kiosks in some shopping malls) but the main sales channels for consumer products are through their website and telephone

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-71898246704857428522007-04-21T09:56:00.000-07:002007-04-21T13:01:31.340-07:00

The other day a colleague talked to me about the temporary position that he is hiring for. The position is at intermediate level and has been advertised and the deadline has closed. He was going through the stack of resumes to shortlist qualified candidates. He was asking about what to do with resumes that obviously doesn't qualify and those that are questionable and wondered why folks would

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-80738890009150903792007-04-02T22:20:00.000-07:002007-04-02T23:14:52.152-07:00

The other week I was chatting with one of my colleague and the topic turned to work and work environment. Basically my colleague asked me if I can see myself working for my current employer 10, 20 years down the road and my reply was that I am not even looking that far down. It seems that he was getting pretty frustrated with some of the stuff that are inherent in the organization. We are a

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-82849819061023416162007-03-29T22:59:00.000-07:002007-03-30T00:28:28.993-07:00

Most of you would have heard about Kathy Sierra by now. If not, then I urge you to check out her blog entry where she wrote about receiving death threats and demeaning comments from various unknown persons. Some of said comments were posted on her site and some on other sites that may or may no longer exists. My best wishes to her and hope that she will make the decision to carry on blogging

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-89901208149559253572007-03-23T14:46:00.000-07:002007-03-24T10:21:52.197-07:00

The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) is currently running a series on "Test the Nation IQ" and they have a website dedicated to the show (I have not seen the show) where they have a Test Your IQ quiz which consists of 60 timed questions broken up into several categories. I was curious and took the test. Apparently it collects some information like age, gender, location, etc just to get a

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-12515062447724505022007-03-23T14:15:00.000-07:002007-03-24T10:35:35.137-07:00

The other day a migration request came across my desk. We usually get migration requests to migrate code changes, etc. from Application Services for fixes to our production environment. This one, in particular, is an Oxymoron (in my opinion). The title of the request was "Purge Test Data from Production." which is like "WTF?, why are they testing against a production database anyhow?". I was

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-26406605321147038102007-01-25T17:04:00.000-08:002007-03-07T20:07:12.364-08:00

It's has been a busy January for me. In December 2006, we had severe issues with our SAN (and just before the Christmas holidays too) where we suffered outages that spanned a week with the root cause being the Fibre Channel switches resetting themselves at the same time. This caused our Storage Management servers to attempt to take over from each other causing a never-ending loop.Apparently

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-38110205250505061182007-01-09T13:14:00.000-08:002007-01-09T13:23:02.766-08:00

Just in case this has not been emphasized enough, it is critical that IS organizations in Canada and the US start to look at the upcoming DST changes (scheduled to be in effect March 11, 2007) and seriously start the planning for the patches/upgrades that needed to be applied. At my organization, we have multiple databases and versions, application servers, E-business Suite, PeopleSoft and other

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-44802824802455838142007-01-07T22:18:00.000-08:002007-01-09T13:14:09.451-08:00

I've been following the "scandal" surrounding the Microsoft-Acer-AMD giveaway to various bloggers. There have been a lot of negative reaction to this giveaway with some bloggers actually receiving "death threats"! The gist of these negative reactions was that the blogger has been offered a bribe and taken the bribe. Well, things are not as black and white as it seems.If the blogger is able to

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-31346790188654854802007-01-01T12:47:00.000-08:002007-01-02T12:36:33.876-08:00

As the number of blogs and websites that I frequent grows, I am finding it tedious to keep my blog roll up to date and thought I would take a page out of Mr. Kyte and use an entry posting instead which I can edit easily and have my blog template point to that entry.In no particular order:Oracle-related BlogsTom Kyte's Blog - No further introduction needed.AskTom - Not a blog but a Q & A and

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-64041556533327260132007-01-01T10:29:00.000-08:002007-01-01T11:32:51.192-08:00

This is a multi-entry post dealing with three points:a) the Dizwell site. Most of you, if you don't already know, Howard Rogers decided to shut down his Dizwell site citing time constraints and also frustration with readers who seems to either can't follow directions or who seems to be demanding that they be spoon-fed with knowledge and refusing to learn/experiment on their own. There were

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-52828301523352095542006-12-21T22:19:00.000-08:002006-12-21T22:21:13.116-08:00

With only a few days left to go before Christmas, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and the family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.May the New Year bring you and the family good health, happiness and success.Take care.Peter.

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-71661868929405085972006-12-16T09:49:00.000-08:002006-12-16T12:41:48.898-08:00

Well, the storm of the century has passed and thankfully there were no fatalities with trees being toppled. The news media said that the winds exceeded 157km/hr and the last record was at 143km/hr back in 1962 when a freak typhoon hit the West Coast of BC. Our neighbours and friends south of the border didn't fared as well with a few fatalities reported in Washington State. Best wishes to my

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-14802973990882875592006-12-13T11:52:00.000-08:002006-12-13T13:34:27.653-08:00

According to the Register's article, two eBay traders were found guilty of selling pirated software and one of the defendent were quoted as "If I had known that SIIA was checking eBay for software piracy, and if I had known the software was pirated and that I'd have to pay such a high fine, I would have never sold the pirated software to begin with." which I thought was a pretty silly statement

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-14538220494269907872006-12-09T19:16:00.000-08:002006-12-10T00:14:26.168-08:00

It's that time of the year again where you will be invited to vendors' parties as well as your own organization's. You have seen those advice columns giving tips and advice on how to survive the parties without making a fool out of yourself or damage your career opportunities. It's true as I have seen many people who have gone overboard during this time of the year thinking that it is okay to

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-29561289155403737982006-11-29T23:01:00.000-08:002006-12-08T16:37:16.246-08:00

While perusing the Internet and doing a search, I came across an old Usenet posting of mine dated Nov 1990! Back then, I was doing some project work for an organization that no longer exists using Ingres 6.2 on HP-UX 7.0. I was looking at providing an User Interface where the user can enter dynamic SQL and be able to search through the resulting set using search strings. A "simple" thing to do

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-33491033987277663212006-11-21T16:44:00.000-08:002006-11-21T16:57:25.150-08:00

Argeniss Information Security has announced on their website that they planned to release a Day-zero Oracle bug per day for a whole week in December. Their reasoning was that "We have 0days for all Database software vendors but Oracle is "The #1 Star" when talking about lots of unpatched vulnerabilities and not caring about security."Now I don't agree with Argeniss as I see Oracle being serious

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-64029660311874373342006-11-15T21:58:00.000-08:002006-11-15T22:05:21.729-08:00

I came across Fairlie Rego's blog via Jonathan Lewis' blog. I looked through some of his entries and they are interesting and worthwhile. Check out his blog.

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-88237508096166155152006-11-12T10:24:00.000-08:002006-11-12T10:34:41.093-08:00

One of the things that I like about travelling is the ability to take in local newspapers and see what's of interest to the local community.This weekend, I'm in Seattle and looking through, not a local paper but the Wall Street Journal (weekend edition), I see that one featured article is on suits and how suit makers are trying to revive sales by using S-numbers to identify the quality of their

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-35208258059910855812006-11-11T11:11:00.000-08:002006-11-13T10:27:12.384-08:00

...it's Remembrance Day in Canada...on this day at the 11th hour and 11th minute, we stand in silence as a tribute to those brave souls who gave their lives so that we live in a world of freedom......Edit: Thanks...I've corrected it...I had called it Veterans' Day

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1162632029713087022006-11-04T01:02:00.000-08:002006-11-09T01:08:28.900-08:00

In one of my previous post (earlier this year), I talked about our implementation of Oracle Financials and how we migrated the infrastructure from PA-RISC servers to a split configuration of PA-RISC and HP-Itanium servers. We are now in the process of implementing some Supply Chain modules including Order Management and iStore. One of the requirements is obviously for our iStore module to be

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1162530264048789262006-11-02T20:51:00.000-08:002006-11-09T01:08:28.756-08:00

Steven Chan posted a series of Fusion Application screenshots on his blog but those have been retracted over concerns about intellectual property and/or liability about screenshots not matching actual product, etc. I wondered if they censored the recorded video of John Wookey's keynote address when these screenshots came up. Maybe they will come up with a way to wipe the memories of those

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1162447814629728052006-11-01T22:02:00.000-08:002006-11-09T01:08:28.584-08:00

Hmm...I checked my blog and noticed that my latest entry on "Oracle Unbreakable Linux" has somehow not being published although I have received comments on the entry and it had shown up on the Oracle News Aggregator site. For some strange reason, the latest entry being shown is "Jonathan Lewis - Weblog".If this keeps up, then I will have to consider moving the blog to Wordpress or some other

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1162270380077304902006-10-30T20:24:00.000-08:002006-11-09T01:08:28.412-08:00

Everyone who's involved with Oracle in one form or another has heard about Oracle Unbreakable Linux v2.0 which basically has Oracle Corporation making a hostile overtune to Red Hat. Now, it's v2.0, so what was v1.0?I did a search on "Unbreakable Linux" and found the following article dated June 2, 2002 (more than 4 years ago) when Larry Ellison (Oracle), Michael Dell (Dell Computers), and

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1162158646485464812006-10-29T13:47:00.000-08:002006-11-09T01:08:28.282-08:00

I saw from Tom Kyte's blog that Jonathan Lewis finally bit the bullet and decided to give blogging a try. So far he has three interesting entries and he is definitely one that you would want to track if you are involved in any Oracle technologies. Having said that, his regular website is still a must for Oracle pundits.Welcome Jonathan!

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1162144088255369512006-10-29T09:27:00.000-08:002006-11-09T01:08:28.110-08:00

Swag or freebies or spoils of the conference. Actual meaning was "Goods acquired by unlawful means"...but in this case, goods obtained from OOW.For those alumni attendees, if you are the first 3,000 registrants, you will get an alumni jacket. which I think looks great (at least on the folks wearing them as I have not worn mine yet). If you are registered in one of the X-treme programs, you

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1162057163280788392006-10-28T09:55:00.000-07:002006-11-09T01:08:27.971-08:00

Thursday was the last day of the Conference and there were no keynotes scheduled other than sessions. The exhibit halls opened at 10 and closed 3 hours later at 1 pm. Most attendees were all checking out of their hotels and getting ready to go home, some will stayed and enjoy playing tourists.The highlights at OOW for me are:the release of E-Business Suite Release 12 with its new look;the

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1161883697936076762006-10-26T10:14:00.000-07:002006-11-09T01:08:27.793-08:00

Boy, it sure is getting harder to keep track of the days and my apologies for the delay in getting this entry off.The big news, obviously, was Larry Ellison's keynote and in a nutshell, Oracle will now offer Enterprise class support for RH Linux and this is applicable to all RH customers not just Oracle customers running RH. Please check the following blogs for more details (no point in me

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1161795718781188672006-10-25T09:20:00.000-07:002006-11-09T01:08:27.645-08:00

Wow! Elton John was fantastic but now I got "Rocketman" running through my head even the next morning...Urgh! Tuesday was a very productive day as I found the sessions to be extremely informative and to top it off with the Blogger Meetup followed by seeing Elton John perform is just the icing on the cake.The day started off with Thomas Kurian's keynote and it was very informative although

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1161705774735850342006-10-24T08:43:00.000-07:002006-11-09T01:08:27.473-08:00

I guess that it is officially day 2 of OOW 2006 as Sunday was considered to be the first day with Charles Philips kicking off the opening keynote. I didn't managed to make it for Hector de J. Ruiz's (AMD) keynote but caught the last part of it. I was interested in Chuck Rozwat's keynote and I gotta tell you that he usually peppered his keynote with hooky videos usually of him and other Oracle

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1161562372369502672006-10-22T17:08:00.000-07:002006-11-09T01:08:27.295-08:00

Today's session is much, much better than yesterday's. The focus today was on DataGuard and the hands-on lab repeats but in a good way as things are shown and done via Grid Control and then done via the Dataguard command line utility. I like it.We had to configure and set up the Primary database for standby with the various failover, switchover scenarios utilizing fast-failover and so on. It was

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1161531755369019242006-10-22T08:42:00.000-07:002006-11-09T01:08:27.107-08:00

Arrived in San Francisco around 6pm local time. Took longer as the flight didn't get out of Vancouver until 3:55pm and my colleague's luggage actually made it to SF before he did and we didn't know until all the luggage from our flight were taken leaving us standing around the baggage claim area wondering what's going on.The Hilton @Fisherman's Wharf is a nice hotel and the room is big but

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1161141910649740912006-10-17T20:22:00.000-07:002006-11-09T01:08:26.940-08:00

I see on Steven Chan's blog that Oracle has a number of free passes for OOW attendees to take one of the X-treme program (scheduled for Sat/Sun before the official openning of the conference). For government/public sector employees, it's a little bit tricky as most of them do have a policy against receiving goodies from vendors. I am already registered for one of the X-treme program and for

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1160750515447627432006-10-13T07:36:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:06.309-08:00

8.4 billion hours. That's a huge number of hours. According to the US Accountability Office, that was the estimated number of hours that US citizen spent in filling out paperwork (such as tax returns) required by the government for 2005. That's just plain wasteful. If you think about it, assuming that each hour is worth $5.00 (very low end), you are looking at $42 billion just in filling out

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1160698308642943052006-10-12T17:09:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:05.674-08:00

You will see that I have added some of the regular blogs that I check out every so often. For me right now, the one that I keep on top of is Steven Chan's blog which deals with the Oracle E Business Suite and Technology Stack since my organization is busy implementing the application for our Supply Chain folks.

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1160298940705335062006-10-08T02:08:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:05.187-08:00

No, I was not the one going for interviews but rather was doing the interviewing. We were looking for a Senior Oracle DBA on a 7-month contract to come in and back-fill for one of our DBA (who will be almost full time on a project). Anyhow, I had hope for someone who has more than 5 years of solid Oracle DBA experience supplemented by 2 to 3 years of Oracle Application DBA work.Anyhow the

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1160254651930925062006-10-07T13:45:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:05.007-08:00

Seems that I never managed to get solid time to sit down and get this blogging going again. Things have been crazy at work with a new Supply Chain implementation project starting and we actually lost complete power to our server room twice in Sept. This is on top of the one on July 5th, details here. On Sept 11th (yes, 9/11 - talk about karma), an electrician working on installing new power

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1158950645553395022006-09-22T11:42:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:04.830-08:00

I haven't blogged for a while but I have thought about all the topics and so on and never got time to do anything with them.Anyhow, just want a quick shout out to Tim Hall who has been named Oracle ACE of the year (2006).Congratulations Tim!

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1155855274519982592006-08-17T09:05:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:04.681-08:00

So it's official. I'm heading to OOW2006 this October and looking forward to it. I've been before and if you are new, it's a bit overwhelming as you get this sea of people frocking from one session/building to another.There are over 1300 sessions this year and with each session averaging one hour and a break of 15 minutes in between. The last time I was there, it took almost half an hour to

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1152453496097389132006-07-09T06:57:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:04.132-08:00

Well, it had to happen. We lost complete power to our server room Wednesday morning. Kaput! Wished I could say that we were prepared and the failover process kicked in and we were humming along just fine.Nope. No such luck. We do have a newly installed centralized UPS which replaced our individual server UPSes. The problem was that the new UPS was not fully configured to gracefully do a

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1151212633982809282006-06-24T21:58:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:02.873-08:00

Surprise, surprise. I received an email claiming to be from Janet Burleson with regard to my account on their DBA Forums (http://dba.ipbhost.com/index.php). The title of the email was "HACKED (Oracle DBA Forums)" and here's the text of the email.Received: from server19.systemips.com ([207.44.232.13]) by ;Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:44:12 -0700Received: from nobody by server19.systemips.com with local

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1149212257099515692006-06-03T15:31:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:02.516-08:00

In one of my previous entry, I talked about the licencing pricing that we had to get in order to ensure that our Oracle Financials implementation is properly licenced and for the future, our Supply Chain components too.So, as a result, we had to migrate our existing Oracle Financials environment from a two server box to new servers (properly sized to meet current and future needs). Well, you

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1149212828682360732006-06-01T18:37:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:02.679-08:00

What's with the yellow whiteboard markers? You can hardly see them on the whiteboard and who ever came up with that colour schema should be taken out back and shot!Most of the time, all the darker colours (black, blue, red, green, orange, purple) are used first leaving Mr. Yellow all by himself and full.On a different topic, I see that Pete Finnigan has spent about 6 blog entries talking about

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1148881710683740042006-05-28T22:28:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:02.314-08:00

Arup Nanda has written a four-part paper on securing your Oracle environment using a phased approach, Project Lockdown as it is called is available on OTN. I have not yet finished going through all four parts but so far, it is a pretty good write up although there are sections that I thought Arup could expand a little bit more and some that I don't totally agree with.For example, changing

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1148069333434066922006-05-19T12:39:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:02.139-08:00

For those of you who are Oracle DBAs (in fact, if you deal with Oracle RDBMS), you know that by default, the SYS and SYSTEM accounts are created when a database is created. You know (or should know) too that Oracle Corp recommends that these accounts should not be used for daily administrative tasks:"It is suggested that you create at least one additional administrator user, and grant that user

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1147575383807155792006-05-13T17:45:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:01.952-08:00

Haven't blogged for a long while as I've been pretty busy and actually needed some down time after work. Anyhow, just wanted to pay a tribute to Cecilia Zhang. Cecilia Zhang was a 9 year Toronto girl who was murdered over two years ago. She went missing from her home (taken in the middle of the night from her bedroom) by a very selfish young man who wanted to ransom her for $25K in order to

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1144535102938167272006-04-08T15:05:00.000-07:002006-11-09T00:21:01.625-08:00

In one of my previous post, I mentioned about eye-opening licencing negotiations with Oracle with regard to their E-Biz suite of applications. My employer recently implemented Oracle Financials (11.5.10) and the project proceeded in two phases with the first phase being an package evaluation and selection followed by implementation. Well, in the first phase, Oracle E-biz was chosen over another

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1143835116527253452006-03-31T11:21:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:21:01.464-08:00

How do you deal with non-production databases at your current place of work? Currently we have a mix of Commercial-Off-The-Shelves (COTS) and in-house applications and we are going the route of COTS instead of custom build. For example, our HR/payroll is PeopleSoft and those guys have 5 or 6 different environments beside Production and we are being asked to provide more environments for future

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1142902773414759822006-03-20T10:35:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:21:01.305-08:00

Our union, the BCGEU (BC Government Employees Union), finally came to a tentative agreement with the government on a new four year deal. As an added initiative to settle, the Finance Minister has set aside a billion dollars for signing bonuses for unions who settle before the March 31st deadline. A number of other public sector unions have settled in order to take advantage of the signing bonus

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1142527346148240502006-03-16T07:43:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:21:01.166-08:00

My apologies for such a wide gap in between posts. There were really no excuse other than the fact that it was procrastination and I just recently finished reading a book, The On-Time, On-Target Manager by Ken Blanchard, on procrastination too!There are a lot of stuff going on right now both in terms of work and personal life and Bill S was kind enough to check up on me to make sure that things

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1139964400872414272006-02-14T15:35:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:21:01.034-08:00

Oracle included a new section listing weblogs of employees/executives and other non-Oracle employees who blogs about Oracle technologies.It's interesting to note who's there and who's not. For example, no links to Burleson Consulting (e.g. Mike Ault, Don Burleson, Robert Freeman) but other noteables are Jeff Moss of Oramoss. Technically, Jonathan Lewis's site is not a blog so that's not

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1139879176207799702006-02-13T16:25:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:21:00.892-08:00

I promised to write about one of the sessions that I attended at the Security & Privacy conference last week. This particular one was put on by a lady by the name of Linda from Microsoft. She's in charge of product safety and her topic was on how products are not designed to provide the user community with safe usage. For example, lots and lots of folks are blogging on the Net but yet privacy/

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1139532477076880032006-02-09T16:43:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:21:00.760-08:00

Recently I blogged about the fact that George W Bush has signed into law a bill that has implications for anonymous posters/bloggers (see New US law slipped through under unrelated bill ). Today ZD News has an article on a service provider filing a lawsuit to challenge this particular legislation, Lawsuit challenges new 'e-annoyance' law.Anyhow, I'm at a Security and Privacy conference this week

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1138985913972148132006-02-03T08:39:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:21:00.634-08:00

In his rush to publish an unfixed vulnerbility in Oracle E-biz suite, David Litchfield cobble together a quick workaround/fix that he claimed is easy to apply and work. Oracle, predictablely, said that the "fix" will break the E-biz suite and should not be applied. Oh boy, who do believe? Along came Stephen Krost with a detailed analysis of the vulnerbility and Litchfield's "fix" and Stephen

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1138517080513063822006-01-28T22:16:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:21:00.482-08:00

Happy Chinese New Year...the year of the dog. I would guessed that most folks would have followed the debate between David Litchfield and Oracle. It's a shame, really. I don't like the fact that the security researchers are releasing details of vulnerbilities immediately after a patch release much less before they are fixed.Yeah I know the logic behind it and that the hard-cored hackers

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1137718649017879162006-01-19T15:36:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:21:00.338-08:00

As many of you very well know, Oracle released its Jan2006 CPU on Jan 17th and almost immediately after, Alex of Red Database Security released details of exploits of 5 of the bugs fixed in the latest patch plus Impreva also released details of another exploit of a bug fixed in the patch.Okay, it's fine to release the exploits in get credit or whatever knowledgement but come on, we (Oracle

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Eddie Awad recently launched his new Oracle Q & A site which generated some strong opinions from Howard Rogers and others but Tom Kyte and others are for the new site.I, myself, think that it is great that there is yet another resource for the Oracle community to go to for answers but I can see validity in the points that Howard had made. It would be nice to able to identify the versions that

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ZDNet News has an interesting article on a new bill just signed into law in the US. Apparently this was bundled in with an unrelated bill and now make it a criminal offense to "annoy" someone online without divulging your real identity and is punishable by up to two years in prison.If true, then Google is going to be busy with legal requests/subpoenas asking for the identities of various folks

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Looking back on 2005 (Wow! 5 years after the Y2K fiasco), it seems to be the year of natural catastrophic disasters (the Tsunami, Katrina, South Asia Earthquake) but there's more.On the Canada front, we were faced with politic scandal and corruption under the Liberal government which eventually led to a political first (the Opposition tabling a vote of non-confidence) and the Liberal minority

Peter Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14068944101291927006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12267588.post-1135672072463949342005-12-27T00:17:00.000-08:002006-11-09T00:20:59.642-08:00

I came across this site, Textbook Revolution whilst browsing for freebies. Tom Kyte wrote about free stuff that he uses and I went and browse through my own free stuff.Anyhow, I have not yet browse thoroughly through Textbook Revolution yet but some stuff already look promising. For example, the following free online course on Enterprise Security is something that I'm interested in and over the

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I want to take this opportunity to say "Thank you" to all who visited my blog over the year and to wish you all a very festival and safe holiday season with best wishes for the upcoming New Year.

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This blog entry was started before Christmas but never got around to finishing it until now.Sorry that it has been a while. Been busy at work with all these projects basically sreaming for resources. I wanted to talk about an incident that happened at my place of work. Last Friday (Dec 16th) at 5:30 pm (past working hours), a colleague sent an email cc'ing my manager and the Manager of

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