I still remember with fondness when “You Probably Don’t Need RAC” came out. A
colleague and I (at the time I worked for Oracle) were given the technical task
of proving Mogens wrong (always a difficult task!), and we went through that
paper saying “No, he’s right, he’s right, he’s right …”. Eventually, I think
they gave it to Marketing to come up with a response to. 😊
I also had the grand distinction of being the person to introduce Mogens to the
SVP of RAC Development (before that paper was written IIRC), and I still ended
up with a job in RAC Dev for a couple of years!
Ah, those were the days! 😊 😊 😊
Pete
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Subject: Chuckle-worthy issue of the NoCOUG Journal
Hopefully chuckle-worthy
Click on the cover picture to download the latest issue of the NoCOUG Journal
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This issue of the NoCOUG Journal is the funniest ever but is still chock full
of useful information as always. Please forward it to your friends or
colleagues who will benefit from it.
Funny bits:
* Page 7: The founder of the OakTable Network, Mogens Norgaard, calls the
NoCOUG Journal editor an “old, bitter, twisted idiot” for bad-mouthing NoSQL.
* Page 9: Mogens claims that “NoCOUG is dead as such. Just like user
groups for mainframe operators or typesetters.” P.S. Please prove him wrong by
registering for the February 22 NoCOUG conference
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!
* Page 7: Mogens admits that “whenever he recommends or doesn’t recommend
something, most people go out and do exactly the opposite, so in that sense he
has a great deal of influence.” Please prove him right by registering for the
February 22 NoCOUG conference
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!
* Page 27: Season 31 Episode 4 of “Where in the World is Kerry Osborne?”
Useful information about Oracle Database:
* Page 21: Always-fresh materialized views without using “refresh on
commit” in Oracle 12c Release 2 (no way!)
* Page 24: Converting a non-partitioned table into a partitioned table
with one click in Oracle 12c Release 2 (finally!)
* Page 24: Automatic list partitioning in Oracle 12c Release 2 (finally!)
* Page 14: The series on licensing Oracle Database in the cloud continues
with a look at Oracle Corporation’s own database cloud service (finally!)
