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		<title>Top 12 reasons why you should NOT attend the next NoCOUG conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[#12 All NoCOUG emails automatically go to your spam folder, including this one. You rely on Outlook for career guidance. #11 They won’t send a stretch limousine to pick you up and take you back. #10 They talked up SQL for 25 years but now, they’re all, like, “No SQL.” I mean, really! #9 You’re [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iggyfernandez.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6627161&#038;post=5416&#038;subd=iggyfernandez&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief History of Exadata Time by Juan Loaiza</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 16:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iggy Fernandez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The full article is available in the 106th issue of the NoCOUG Journal. “we leveraged our 20–30 years of database experience to determine what would be the ideal platform for running the Oracle database. That’s the thinking that produced the Exadata platform as we know it today.” “Exadata V1 used HP hardware. Exadata V2 used [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iggyfernandez.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6627161&#038;post=5408&#038;subd=iggyfernandez&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle 12c Gives Fresh Life to the Relational Database Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 17:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iggy Fernandez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from So Many Oracle Manuals, So Little Time: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Francisco (April 1, 2013) – In a dramatic move calculated to give fresh life to the moribund relational database movement, the latest version of Oracle Corporation’s flagship database has eliminated the famous “join penalty” by making it possible to store rows from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iggyfernandez.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6627161&#038;post=5405&#038;subd=iggyfernandez&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s so sacred about relational anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iggy Fernandez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dedicated to NoSQL and Big Data expert Gwen Shapira for forcing me to think. Bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day—American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay on Self-Reliance. First, a short but fun quiz. The answers are at the end of Page 4 or [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iggyfernandez.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6627161&#038;post=5346&#038;subd=iggyfernandez&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s your take on RDBMS and NoSQL?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iggy Fernandez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My take is that application developers have belatedly but correctly concluded that an RDBMS is not the best tool for every application. For example, relational algebra, relational calculus, and SQL are not the best tools for graph problems. As another example, weblogs are non-transactional and don’t benefit from the ACID properties of the RDBMS. Amazon [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iggyfernandez.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6627161&#038;post=5331&#038;subd=iggyfernandez&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NoSQL and Oracle, Sex and Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a post entitled “NoSQL and Oracle, Sex and Marriage,” Cary Millsap asks why NoSQL technologies are suddenly so popular. My take is that application developers have belatedly but correctly concluded that an RDBMS is not the best tool for every application. For example, relational algebra, relational calculus, and SQL are not the best tools [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iggyfernandez.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6627161&#038;post=5314&#038;subd=iggyfernandez&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle 12c Gives Fresh Life to the Relational Database Movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iggy Fernandez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Francisco (April 1, 2013) – In a dramatic move calculated to give fresh life to the moribund relational database movement, the latest version of Oracle Corporation’s flagship database has eliminated the famous “join penalty” by making it possible to store rows from multiple relational tables in the same database block. There [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iggyfernandez.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6627161&#038;post=5298&#038;subd=iggyfernandez&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be Very Afraid: An interview with the CTO of database security at McAfee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As published in the 105th issue of the NoCOUG Journal (February 2013) Slavik Markovich is vice president and chief technology officer for Database Security at McAfee and has over 20 years of experience in infrastructure, security, and software development. Slavik co-founded Sentrigo, a developer of leading database security technology that was acquired by McAfee in April 2011. Prior [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iggyfernandez.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6627161&#038;post=5272&#038;subd=iggyfernandez&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The golden rule of NOT tuning SQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iggy Fernandez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear NoCOUG members and friends, The golden rule of not tuning SQL is &#8220;operate with as little information as possible.&#8221; Not only will this increase your chances of failure but it will make it difficult for others to help you. Every exercise in problem solving &#8211; no matter how little &#8211; has exactly six stages: [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iggyfernandez.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6627161&#038;post=5267&#038;subd=iggyfernandez&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We don’t use databases; we don&#039;t use indexes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iggy Fernandez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from So Many Oracle Manuals, So Little Time: Whenever salespeople phone Mogens Norgaard, he puts them off by saying that he just doesn’t use the products that they are calling about. When the office furniture company phones, he says “We don’t use office furniture.” When the newspaper company phones, he says “We don’t read [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iggyfernandez.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6627161&#038;post=5233&#038;subd=iggyfernandez&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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