Finally – free tool for Oracle Data Modeling

Thos who know me know that I am not only e DBA, but also a developer (DBA-Village, PLATO, …). I have always been looking for a tool for data modeling, ERD creation, DDL generation etc… My additional wishes were that is should be good, and free. You can imagine how glad I am that now Oracle himself releases such a tool, that until now, fulfills all my wishes.

Improve the world, start with yourself.

Today I wanted to open a Metalink SR for a high availability problem (in a RAC + Dataguard environment), and guess what I got.

It seems like theory is still different from practice.

The Oracle Enterprise Linux story of the master himself: Wim Coekaerts

Yesterday I had the uniqe opportunity to attend a Q&A session with Wim Coekaerts, the father of the whole linux story within Oracle. I agree completely with what Freek already posted in his blog (he attended as well). On top of that I want to add some personal thoughts as well.

It’s my turn to tell 8 things about myself

I was tagged by Freek so I’ll do what is expected from me.