How The Oracle Database Processes SQL Statements � Eddie Awad�s Blog

Eddie Awad has an interesting article onn how oracle processes statements . For all People New and old thisis an interestign flow chart
How The Oracle Database Processes SQL Statements � Eddie Awad�s Blog

First sighting of 11g!

Andrew Clark in his blog mentions a sighting of 11 in a metalink doc. Hey we arent even on 10 and now we have to start thinking about 11 and as andrew mentioned its still a G. Who knowswhats its going to when it released . maybe its going to be N and this database requires no DBA's :)
Radio Free Tooting: First sighting of 11g!

Winter Corp's Spotlight on Oracle White Paper

Abhinav's blog has a link to WinterCorp's Paper "Spotlight on Oracle"
This has come very interesting facts but i would like to know and i'll probably find out by reading the whole paper to who besides oracle.
Oracle Business Intelligence Blog: Winter Corp's Spotlight on Oracle White Paper

TOAD Wiki

Being a Huge Toad Fan i thought u'd add a link to this. the asktoad.com has a lot of questions answered that common users have.
As far as oracle is concerned Toad is a fabulous toad. Oracle is playing catchup with sql developer .

faq:questions - TOAD Wiki

Luca Canali and ASM Metadata Internals - Radoslav Rusinov's Oracle Blog

A very interesting blog post by radoslav pointed me to a paper on asm. asm is something i've stayed away so far but as it starts getting more mainstream and we start working with more linux based servers i guess we'll have to understand the tecnology and how it can be used
Luca Canali and ASM Metadata Internals - Radoslav Rusinov's Oracle Blog