DST in Russia

Daylight Saving Time in Russia has been changed last year. Oracle published a FAQ on the support site about this: Russia abandons DST in 2011 – Impact on Oracle RDBMS [ID 1335999.1].

RuOUG in Saint Petersburg

On February 10th I was in Saint Petersburg on a seminar organized by Russian Oracle User Group. Actually, it was mostly prepared by company called Devexperts. Seminar took place in their office, with most presentations done by their people.

ASH Viewer

If you like Top Activity page of the Oracle EM console, but don’t have it up and running or want to simulate the same in 8i/9i, then here is an open-source standalone program to do that: ASH Viewer.