First set of pictures from Oracle Open World, Oracle Develop, and JavaOne 2010 in Brazil ...

And a picture from dinner with local Java champions and JUG leaders of Brazil ...



Looking forward to meet many others over the next 3 days.

And the evolving album so far:




JavaOne Brazil starts in a few more hours and here are some pointers …

First set of pictures from Oracle Open World, Oracle Develop, and JavaOne 2010 in Brazil ...

And a picture from dinner with local Java champions and JUG leaders of Brazil ...



Looking forward to meet many others over the next 3 days.

And the evolving album so far:




JavaOne Brazil starts in a few more hours and here are some pointers …

First set of pictures from Oracle Open World, Oracle Develop, and JavaOne 2010 in Brazil ...

And a picture from dinner with local Java champions and JUG leaders of Brazil ...



Looking forward to meet many others over the next 3 days.

And the evolving album so far:




JavaOne Brazil starts in a few more hours and here are some pointers …

Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly round up of news and happenings in the database world.

We’re planning our publishing calendar for 2011. Happy to announce that we’ll have a few guest hosts in the New Year. Don’t forget if you’d like to host or edit a future edition of Log Buffer on your own blog, send a note to the Log Buffer coordinator.

We’ve had several contributions of favorite reads from the team this week. Enjoy this issue, Log Buffer #208.

Gwen Shapira’s picks:

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New CEOs for Funambol and Openbravo. Funding for 10gen. And more.

Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca, and daily at Paper.li/caostheory
“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.”

# Funambol appointed Amit Chawla as its new CEO.

# Openbravo appointed Paolo Juvara as its new CEO and raised a new funding round.

# 10gen raised $6.5m in third-round funding led by Sequoia Capital.

# Microsoft has reportedly invested an undisclosed sum in TurboHercules.

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As part of the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld/Java One in São Paulo, Brazil next week (which will also include MySQL-related sessions), there will be a free MySQL Community event, which will take place on December 8th, from 13:00-18:00.

Here's the (translated and abbreviated) description from the events page:

Oracle invites you to attend the MySQL Community Forum! Don't miss an evening filled with technical sessions led by engineers and leaders of the MySQL open source community. You will have the opportunity to learn more about MySQL, Glassfish and what innovations to expect from MySQL 5.5.

This …

Oracle hasn't won many friends in open source communities since its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Sun's array of open source assets, including MySQL, Java, and OpenOffice. Oracle seems bent on continuing this trend with the growing Hudson open source project.

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Hello Birmingham!

It’s past Sunday midnight and I’m stuck in my room in the last couple hours finishing my slides for my masterclass tomorrow. Turns out that I’m presenting the very first session of the conference at 9am. I wish there is a keynote instead so that I could grab one more hour of sleep (it’s going to be deep into the night back home in Canada). Strange that the keynote was moved to Wednesday — I hope UKOUG has really good reason for that!

My two hours masterclass will start at the same time as Tom Kyte’s a-la keynote session — what a competition. On the other hand, there is no other sessions in server technology so I expect that folks without interest of database development will automatically end up in my session. I’m in Hall 5 – quite large room. Is it the second biggest room after the Hall 1?

I will need to work hard to keep the audience… maybe I shouldn’t plan for any breaks to make …

Everyone loves the colorful and easy lighting fire logs you can buy in the store for between $3-5, and from our feedback we are savoring the fact that everyone also adores the vibrant and flamboyant Log Buffer.

Winter has started and the holiday season is approaching fast. With the chillness of winter and festive mode induced by the holidays, bloggers across the planet are coming up with more and more exciting ideas. Let’s start with sizzling Log Buffer #207.

Oracle Jewels:

Discussing the common errors by the DBAs, Hemant K Chitale from Oracle …

Before launching into this, I must give due deference to Mogens Nørgaard’s landmark article, You Probably Don’t Need RAC (YPDNR), available here, but originally published Q3 2003 in IOUG Select Journal.  Mogens showed that you can be a friend of Oracle without always agreeing with everything they do.

At Blue Gecko, many of our remote DBA customers have been asking us about Golden Gate.  In July 2009, Oracle bought Golden Gate Software, just one of several companies that have developed log-based replication mechanisms for Oracle and other databases.  This was one of many major acquisitions by Oracle in 2009, including Sun and Relsys. But unlike most of Oracle’s acquisitions, …