November 4, 2011
Database | Oracle
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The 11.2.0.3.0 patchset for the Oracle Database came out recently. Quickly there are numerous blog posts about the installation demos and any gotchas. People are just so quick in putting it out I couldn’t believe it.
One thing I noticed during the installation of the 11.2.0.3.0 patchset was that ASM got turned on by default. This may not be a surprise to many, since Oracle has been pushing for ASM since 10g. And even the Standard Edition(SE) database software installation requires that you use ASM.
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July 26, 2011
Computing | Life | Money
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Okay, so Peer-to-Peer(P2P) lending is not today’s news. It’s been around for quite a few years already. But that doesn’t mean I cannot share my fresh experience here. I just hopped on to Lendingclub.com like 2 months ago. And I’m finding it very good to recommend to others. When the stock market is based on a weak economy, gold and silver are at their all time highs, oil/energy is stagnant, and Savings and CDs pay peanuts, P2P Lending provides an excellent investment alternative with a return easily above 9%.
Long story short, P2P lending is a lending platform on which people who have extra cash can lend to needy borrowers at a very favorable rate. Investors reduce their risks by lending the smallest amount allowed to each individual borrower($25), reducing the overall risk of defaults. Borrowers save money on interest borrowing at rates lower than their credit cards’. The P2P Lending company makes the money by cutting out the middleman(namely, the blood sucking banks) and charging members fees on transactions.
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investing, Lendingclub, P2P Lending
April 8, 2011
Database | Oracle
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For quite some time I’ve been bothered by the latest Oracle Database 11g Release 2 patchset of 11.2.0.2.0.
In the past, using DBUA to do the upgrades wasn’t really reliable, so I’ve always done upgrades using manual scripts. The new 11.2.0.2.0 patchset, however, requires that the upgrade be done in an out-of-place manner, meaning that different versions of the software will co-exist until you’re happy with the upgrade and you remove the older version. With this, the manual upgrade approach really breaks a lot of things. There is also no documentation clearly describing what extra needs to be done in a manual upgrade.
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DBUA, Oracle, patchset, upgrade