Useful Links

IMPORTANT NOTE: For the past few months I was able to subscribe to a huge amount of feeds, and it will take a lot of time to put them all here in a neat and categorized manner. Instead of going through the painful way, I just shared them all on my “Google Reader Shared Items” which you can view/subscribe here https://www.google.com/reader/shared/karlarao. BTW, topics of interest are categorized into “Buckets” so you can opt to subscribe just on the topic that you want (example: Oracle Blogs, Storage, Servers, etc..)

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Oracle Blogs and Sites - Last Updated: March 30, 2010

Below are some blogs and sites I recommend.. I hope you could get some links you find interesting and put ‘em in your RSS reader (most of the links shown are on my Google Reader). People listed here (in my opinion) are one of the best in the community, I follow the blogs/sites of these people to get/make some new ideas and I update this page regularly with new links that I find useful I’ve categorized them already!

General DBA Aldo Fadalti http://www.fadalti.com/oracle/database/aa_index.htm Amit Bansal, Saurabh Sood, LeoSanil http://askdba.org/weblog Amit Poddar http://www.oraclegeek.net/joomla/ Andrew Barry http://www.shutdownabort.com Arul Arogyanathan http://arulselvaraj.blogspot.com Arup Nanda http://arup.blogspot.com Bert Scalzo http://www.bertscalzo.com, http://www.toadworld.com/Community/QuestExpertsBlogs/tabid/67/rssid/14/Default.aspx Bradley D. Brown http://bradleydbrown.blogspot.com CERN Physics Services Support wiki https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/PSSGroup Chen Shapira http://prodlife.wordpress.com Connor McDonald http://www.oracledba.co.uk Coskan Gundogar http://coskan.wordpress.com Dominic Delmolino http://www.oraclemusings.com Eygle Gai http://www.eygle.com Feng Tai-fai http://www.dbanotes.net Fred Coulson http://www.phlonx.com/blog/fred/, http://www.phlonx.com/resources/nf3/ Geert De Paep – DBA Village http://www.dba-village.com, http://geertdepaep.wordpress.com Hans Forbrich http://hansforbrich.blogspot.com Husnu Sensoy http://husnusensoy.wordpress.com Iggy Fernandez http://iggyfernandez.wordpress.com, http://www.dbspecialists.com/blog Jared Still http://jkstill.blogspot.com Jason Arneil http://jarneil.wordpress.com Jeff Hunter http://www.idevelopment.info/data/RSSFeeds/rss_iDevelopment_News.xml Julien Gabel http://blog.thilelli.net Joel Goodman http://dbatrain.wordpress.com Kellyn Pedersen http://dbakevlar.blogspot.com Laurent Schneider http://laurentschneider.com Lutz Hartmann http://sysdba.wordpress.com Marco Gralike http://technology.amis.nl/blog/7621 Martin Berger http://berxblog.blogspot.com Martin Decker http://www.ora-solutions.net/web/ Mike Dietrich – Database Upgrade Development http://blogs.oracle.com/UPGRADE Miracle Benelux http://www.miraclebenelux.nl Mogens Nørgaard http://wedonotuse.blogspot.com Paul Gallagher http://tardate.blogspot.com Pythian Group Blog http://feeds2.feedburner.com/PythianGroupBlog Ramasundaram Perumal http://perumal.org Robyn http://adhdocddba.blogspot.com R. Wang http://oraclepoint.com Sandeep Redkar http://sandeepredkar.blogspot.com So What Co-operative http://marist89.blogspot.com Syed Jaffar Hussain http://jaffardba.blogspot.com Tim Hall http://www.oracle-base.com/blog Tom Kyte http://tkyte.blogspot.com Asktom http://asktom.oracle.com Toon Koppelaars http://thehelsinkideclaration.blogspot.com, http://web.inter.nl.net/users/T.Koppelaars Vitaliy Mogilevskiy http://www.dbatoolz.com William Robertson http://www.williamrobertson.net Werner Puschitz http://www.puschitz.com Performance, Capacity Planning, and Internals Alberto Dell’Era http://www.adellera.it/blog Andy Rivenes http://www.appsdba.com/blog, http://www.appsdba.com Anjo Kolk http://blog.miraclebenelux.nl ASH Mastershttp://ashmasters.com Cary Millsap http://carymillsap.blogspot.com Charles Hooper http://hoopercharles.wordpress.com Christian Antognini http://antognini.ch/feed Christian Bilien http://christianbilien.wordpress.com Christopher Lawson http://www.oraclemagician.com Craig Shallahamer http://www.orapub.com Confio Performance Blog http://support.confio.com/rss_feed.php Dan Tow http://www.singingsql.com Danisment Gazi Unal http://www.ubtools.com, http://www.unal-bilisim.com, MRPP Dennis Yurichev http://blogs.conus.info Dion Cho http://dioncho.wordpress.com Dominic Giles http://www.dominicgiles.com Doug Burns http://oracledoug.com Edward Whalen http://ewhalen.blogspot.com Egor Starostin http://www.oracledba.ru/orasrp, http://oracledba.ru/blog Fuyuncat http://www.hellodba.com/blog/rss.php Gary Little http://super-user.org/blog Gints Plivna http://www.gplivna.eu/papers_e.htm Glenn Fawcett http://blogs.sun.com/glennf, http://glennfawcett.wordpress.com Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org Guy Harrison http://guyharrison.squarespace.com/blog, http://guyharrison.typepad.com Hemant Chitale http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com Hotsos Happenings http://hotsoseducation.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default H. Tonguc Yilmaz http://tonguc.wordpress.com James Koopmann http://www.jameskoopmann.com James Morle http://jamesmorle.wordpress.com, http://www.scaleabilities.co.uk, http://www.scaleabilities.co.uk/index.php/Whitepapers Jeremiah Wilton http://www.bluegecko.net, http://oradeblog.blogspot.com John Brady http://databaseperformance.blogspot.com Jonah Harris http://www.oracle-internals.com Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com Karen Morton http://karenmorton.blogspot.com Kerry Osborne http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com Krishna Manoharan http://dsstos.blogspot.com Kurt Van Meerbeeck http://www.ora600.be, http://www.ora600.be/rss/blog Kyle Hailey http://oraperf.sourceforge.net, http://www.perfvision.com/tools.php, http://ashmasters.com, http://db-optimizer.blogspot.com, http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo, http://sites.google.com/site/youvisualize, http://sites.google.com/site/oraclemonitor/kyle-hailey, http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/db_optimizer/ Martin Widlake http://mwidlake.wordpress.com, http://www.ora600.org.uk Miladin Modrakovic http://oraclue.wordpress.com Monty Orme – Hotsos http://montyorme.blogspot.com Neil Gunther http://perfdynamics.blogspot.com Optimizer team http://optimizermagic.blogspot.com Peter Stalder http://pstalder.blogspot.com Randolf Geist http://oracle-randolf.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Rick Minutella – Hotsos http://rickminutella.blogspot.com Ric Van Dyke – Hotsos http://ricramblings.blogspot.com Richard Foote http://richardfoote.wordpress.com Riyaj Shamsudeen http://orainternals.wordpress.com, http://www.orainternals.com Steve Adams http://www.ixora.com.au Sun BestPerf http://blogs.sun.com/BestPerf Tanel Poder http://blog.tanelpoder.com Wolfgang Breitling http://www.centrexcc.com Yaping Chen http://yaping123.wordpress.com Yong Huang http://yong321.freeshell.org/computer.html RAC and Infra Alejandro Vargas http://blogs.oracle.com/AlejandroVargas Bhavin Hingu http://www.oracledba.org Dan Norris http://www.dannorris.com Fairlie Rego http://el-caro.blogspot.com Jakub Wartak http://vnull.pcnet.com.pl/blog/?feed=rss2 Jeremy Schneider http://www.ardentperf.com Julian Dyke http://www.juliandyke.com Kevin Closson http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com Oracle XPS The Netherlands on HA http://blogs.oracle.com/XPSONHA/xml/rss.xml Rajeev Ramdas Thottathil http://dbastreet.com/blog Ronny Egner http://blog.ronnyegner-consulting.de Simon Thorpe http://blogs.oracle.com/simonthorpe Steve Shaw http://www.sourceora.com Wim Coekaerts http://blogs.oracle.com/wim Security Alexander Kornbrust http://blog.red-database-security.com/feed David Litchfield http://www.davidlitchfield.com/blog/davidlitchfield.rss Oracle Global Product Security Blog http://blogs.oracle.com/security/xml/rss.xml Paul Wright http://www.oracleforensics.com/wordpress/index.php/feed Pete Finnigan http://www.petefinnigan.com Stephen Kost http://www.integrigy.com/oracle-security-blog/rss.xml Enterprise Manager Porus Homi Havewala http://enterprise-manager.blogspot.com Enterprise Manager Widgets http://blogs.oracle.com/emwidgets BI and Data Warehouse Mark Rittman http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog Tim Gorman http://www.evdbt.com Kavin Mehta http://blogs.oracle.com/kavinmehta Oracle BI Publisher Blog http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher BIWA SIG http://oraclebiwasig.blogspot.com BI Blogs http://www.biblogs.com/feed Development Adrian Billington http://www.oracle-developer.net AppsLab http://theappslab.com Eddie Awad http://awads.net/wp Steven Feuerstein http://feuerthoughts.blogspot.com Michael McLaughlin http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com Yun Feng http://blog.codingnow.com Kevin Dalton http://www.toadworld.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/67/rssid/30/Default.aspx Noel Portugal http://noelportugal.blogspot.com E-Business Suite Advait Deo http://advait.wordpress.com E-Business Suite Blog http://feeds.feedburner.com/OracleE-BusinessSuiteTechnology Online APPS DBA http://feeds.feedburner.com/OnlineAppsDba PeopleSoft David Kurtz http://blog.psftdba.com, http://blog.go-faster.co.uk Knowledge Depot PSOUG http://psoug.org/library.html OTN RSS link http://www.oracle.com/rss/index.html SQL Best Practices with humor http://www.roughsea.com/vids/SQL_Best_Practices.html Akadia http://www.akadia.com/html/ora_scripts.html, http://www.akadia.com/html/publications.html The Guerrilla Manifesto http://www.perfdynamics.com/Manifesto/gcaprules.html Yong Huang’s Computer Page http://yong321.freeshell.org/computer.html Basic SQL Join Semantics http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com/oracle-sql-programming/basic-sql-join-semantics http://www.konagora.com http://www.konagora.com/tutorials/courseintro.php?id=1, http://www.konagora.com/tutorials/courseintro.php?id=2 Michelson Awards http://www.cmg.org/national/michelson-awards.html DOAG http://mydoag.doag.org/rss/get_rss.xml AAS & ASH http://sites.google.com/site/youvisualize/active-session-history Wait Event Documentation http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo/wait-event-documentation Graphics vs Text http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo/graphics-vs-text Visual SQL Tuning http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo/tuner/graphic-sql SQL Topology http://sites.google.com/site/youvisualize/sql-topology DB Optimizer for Oracle http://sites.google.com/site/embtdbo/oracle-specific-functionality ORASNAP http://www.oracle-books.com/orasnap Other Oracle Tools http://www.oracletool.com/othertools.html ORAFAQ SQL Tuning Guide http://www.orafaq.com/tuningguide Tutorial on Database Normalization http://www.phlonx.com/resources/nf3/ Database Journal http://feedproxy.google.com/DatabaseJournalNews Database Journal – Tools http://products.databasejournal.com DBAzine http://feeds.feedburner.com/Dbazinecom-DbazinecomAudioInterviews Oracle-Database-Tips.com http://oracle-database-tips.com Community Sites Oracle-l http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/feed.rss OTN Forums http://forums.oracle.com Oracle Mix https://mix.oracle.com

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Tools and References:

Benchmarks TPC http://www.tpc.org Hammerora http://hammerora.sourceforge.net SwingBench http://www.dominicgiles.com/swingbench.html Simora http://sourceforge.net/projects/simora

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Linux:

. RedHat News http://press.redhat.com/feed RedHat Magazine http://magazine.redhat.com/feed RedHat Knowledge Base http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/community/feeds/documents?community=2001 Fedora People http://planet.fedoraproject.org/rss20.xml RedHat Truth Happens http://truthhappens.redhat.com/feed Linux Magazine http://feeds2.feedburner.com/LinuxMagazine Linux Developer Network http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/rss.xml Ubuntu Geek http://feeds.feedburner.com/UbuntuGeek Jeremy Garcia http://www.linuxquestions.org, http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org Gustavo Duarte http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog Humble Joseph http://humblesblog.blogspot.com Vivek Gite http://www.cyberciti.biz LinuxJournal http://www.linuxjournal.com Kang http://www.insecure.ws RedHat Webinars http://redhat.ziftsolutions.com/channel/8a7c9fef1efc3bb9011f00bd40510649 ufsdump.org http://ufsdump.org .

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Solaris:

. Adrian Cockcroft http://perfcap.blogspot.com, http://millicomputing.blogspot.com, http://millicomputer.blogspot.com Brendan Gregg http://www.brendangregg.com, http://www.brendangregg.com/Perf/solarismetrics.html, http://blogs.sun.com/brendan, http://bdgregg.blogspot.com Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall http://www.solarisinternals.com, http://blog.richardmcdougall.com Robert Milkowski http://milek.blogspot.com BigAdmin http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/home/index.jsp BigAdmin Wiki BigAdmin Wiki DTRACE portal http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/index.jsp Sun Microsystems RSS Feeds http://www.sun.com/rss/ Bryan Cantrill http://blogs.sun.com/bmc Systemtap http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki Yonah Russ http://www.yonahruss.com Dominic Kay http://blogs.sun.com/dom .

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Windows:

. Sysinternals http://blogs.technet.com/sysinternals/rss.xml Mark Russinovich http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich .

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Technology Sites and Blogs:

. Delicious Blog http://blog.delicious.com/blog/feed Fritz Mesedilla http://www.mesedilla.com Joel on software http://www.joelonsoftware.com On Storage http://www.on-storage.com Robin Harris http://storagemojo.com Real World Technologies http://www.realworldtech.com Super Computer Sites http://www.top500.org Slashdot http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot TED http://www.ted.com, http://blog.ted.com, http://feeds.feedburner.com/tedtalks_video DBMS2 http://www.dbms2.com http://www.developertutorials.com/blog http://www.developertutorials.com/blog Google Blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com CMG http://cmg.org, CMG news http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml Communications of the ACM http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm.rss Mind Map http://manilamindmappers.blogspot.com StatCounter Blog http://blog.statcounter.com Adaptec Storage Advisors http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com Unixmen Tutorials http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials VMware VirtualReality http://blogs.vmware.com/virtualreality Peter Learmonth http://getvirtical.blogspot.com Jos van Dongen – Tholis Consulting http://tholis.webnode.com Indexed http://thisisindexed.com Dilbert Daily Strips http://dilbert.com/strips HowToForge http://www.howtoforge.com Tom’s Hardware http://www.tomshardware.com Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat http://blog.fosketts.net AWS http://aws.amazon.com/rss/whats-new.rss Nati Shalom http://natishalom.typepad.com Engadget http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml Google Code http://feeds2.feedburner.com/GoogleCodeNews Hackaday http://hackaday.com/feed Instructables http://www.instructables.com High Scalability http://highscalability.com PSIA Blogs Jon Limjap http://dotnet.kapenilattex.com Deng Ching http://blogs.exist.com/oching g2ix http://g2ix.com/blogs Visualization Contextures http://www.contextures.com/feed.xml Tom Gonzalez http://www.twgonzalez.com/blog Michael VanDaniker http://michaelvandaniker.com/blog GNUplot Tricks http://gnuplot-tricks.blogspot.com Capacity Planning John Allspaw http://www.kitchensoap.com .

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Download sites:

. http://www.51cnnet.net http://www.itpub.net/search.php (Use http://translate.google.com to read the Chinese) http://www.scribd.com http://www.oraclefans.cn (Use http://translate.google.com to read the Chinese) .

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Non-tech Blogs:

. http://ialman.livejournal.com http://tonetcarlo.wordpress.com Fr. Stephen Cuyos http://stephencuyos.com Team Timex Philippines http://teamtmm.wordpress.com Matt Mullenweg http://ma.tt Anton Diaz http://www.ourawesomeplanet.com Tunay na lalake http://tunaynalalake.blogspot.com The Professional Heckler http://professionalheckler.wordpress.com EntrepBuff http://www.entrepbuff.com i am a documentary photographer http://estancabigas.com Jaypee Online http://jaypeeonline.net .