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..)

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:

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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:

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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:

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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) .