So it’s the first blog post of 2015 and what better can be than this that you can start 2015 with buying any e-book or video from https://www.packtpub.com/" in just $5 till 6th January 2015! I believe this is a great chance to grab your favorite book(s) or video(s) at a really really good price! … [Read more…]
Yes, that’s correct! Packt Publications is celebrating 10 years of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. To make us part of this celebration, the good guys are offering all eBooks and Videos at just $10 each until July 5th. So this would be a really good chance to get any e-book or Video … [Read more…]
I received an email from Packt Publication that they are celebrating the release of their 2000th publication. And to include everyone in this celebration, Packt Publication would be giving an awesome offer to the readers to buy one (any from their catalogue) and get along with it one book, FREE!!!! Now, how cool is that, … [Read more…]
Writing a book is a long, tiring and tough journey. The journey gets complete once you see that your work-the writing that you have spent so much and time effort upon, is now complete and is available for anyone. Three years ago, I was asked by my dear friend Kamran Agayev that whether I am … [Read more…]
EM12c is the latest and greatest tool from Oracle to manage data centres. If you haven’t used it (or even the previous release 11g Grid Control) by now, you are missing a great way to manage and monitor your enterprise systems and databases. And if you are planning to go for a deep dive into … [Read more…]
I got an email from a marketing executive of Packt Publications mentioning that its going to reach its 1000th title being published soon and on this event, they are asking you, the reader, to be a part of the celebration and win gifts. The complete detail are given below. So don’t wait and join the … [Read more…]
This is an advert post to mention that my friend and former ACE Director Porus Homi Havewala’s new book on Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control, will be available in September 2012 or earlier, perhaps the First EM 12c Cloud Control book in the world. If you are interested in learning about the capabilities of Enterprise … [Read more…]
Packt publishing has become a very renowned name when it comes to publishing books and within that, Oracle related books. I myself have done reviews of books published by Packt (there is a newer one which I hopefully would talk about soon here). If you haven’t checked already, you should give a look at the … [Read more…]
I have done couple of book reviews for Packt Publication in the past and so far the experience has been always very good for me. Once again, folks at Packt have contacted me to do a book review for Oracle 11gR2 Performance Tuning cookbook which I have accepted to do. Hopefully, I shall be able … [Read more…]
Oracle’s Real Application Cluster(RAC) is database’s industry’s most innovative, popular and (obviously) complex technologies. Using RAC and with a careful planning and proper design of the application, a shop can achieve immense scalability and performance without going for a very high end hardware. This is the reason, now a days, almost every shop that runs … [Read more…]