RE: Chuckle-worthy issue of the NoCOUG Journal

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  

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Iggy Fernandez Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 10:52 AM
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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 <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnocoug.wildapricot.org%2FEmailTracker%2FLinkTracker.ashx%3FlinkAndRecipientCode%3DziW0WRf%252bMdHo14JmdsOx6b%252bt7urN%252bz%252fgtaWJRT32RMpt3%252fGbL0%252fkL89c8gQ4GCvsEvJnECyTgX5AhqxlfTt644bldyRkWijBUX9mh69r4Fw%253d&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cabb72d207994453cf30d08d56f4e5e2d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636537304727481858&sdata=zR6uTKKXNctyowhdW3VLm0ih%2FlXAgRDXbQZRUvf2rWo%3D&reserved=0> !
• 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 <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnocoug.wildapricot.org%2FEmailTracker%2FLinkTracker.ashx%3FlinkAndRecipientCode%3DziW0WRf%252bMdHo14JmdsOx6b%252bt7urN%252bz%252fgtaWJRT32RMpt3%252fGbL0%252fkL89c8gQ4GCvsEvJnECyTgX5AhqxlfTt644bldyRkWijBUX9mh69r4Fw%253d&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cabb72d207994453cf30d08d56f4e5e2d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636537304727481858&sdata=zR6uTKKXNctyowhdW3VLm0ih%2FlXAgRDXbQZRUvf2rWo%3D&reserved=0> !
• 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!)

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