Oracle PodCasts

Today I was strolling around on the OTN website and found those Oracle TechCasts.

Keeping Up with Reading Blogs, Websites and Mailinglists

I frequently read blogs, websites, forums and mailinglists. It takes me quite a bit of time to keep up with filtering and reading, about an hour a day. Most of this one hour is time which is lost anyway, for example during boring meetings, at the busstop etc.
It would be time consuming to check all [...]

Learning the vi Editor

I know basic commands of vi, and would like to learn advanced editing. I found Learning the vi Editor to be the best book on the subject.

Most IT books outdate rather quickly. The last edition of this one is from 1998, and it still is very useful. Table of contents can be found here, sample [...]

Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions

The book Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions, written by Tom Kyte, is an excellent introduction to Oracle architecture. It is not only a great book for developers, but for DBAs as well. Many a DBA might find a thing or two new to him. Tom Kyte doesn’t only walk [...]

OCP Certification - What for?

Some time ago I received my OCP certification. It doesn’t mean I am an expert now, it probably also doesn’t mean I have better chances on the job market, there are more important criterias to that.

What I gained through OCP certification and preparation for it:
Familiarity with documentation and other books
Every morning before going to office [...]

DB Designer 4

DB Designer 4, an open source DB design tool developed by fabFORCE.net, compares according to their website with tools like Erwin, Rational Rose and Oracle Designer.

For MySQL databases this is true. In conjunction with Oracle, DB Designer 4 still has some shortcomings. For example it is not possible to select “Oracle” as the default database [...]