Hello Everyone,

I would like to use this quite time to congratulate everyone and wish all the best in the following 2010 year.
As a small gist from Santa please run the following SQL in any Oracle database using any username :)

set pages 0
set lines 151
select decode(sign(rownum-24),-1,
replace(replace(lpad(' ', 25 - rownum+trunc(rownum / 8) * 3, ' ') ||
rpad('^', rownum * 2 - 1 - trunc(rownum / 8) * 6, '^') ||
rpad(' ', 25 - rownum+trunc(rownum / 8) * 3, ' '),' ^^^',' ^o^'),'^^^ ','^o^ '),
lpad(' ', 23, ' ') ||
rpad('^', 3, '^') ||
rpad(' ', 23, ' ')
)
from dual
connect by rownum <= 26
/

As a New Year coming and our Sydney Oracle Meetup break is coming to the end I would like to let you know on several development in sessions agenda planning for the beginning of the year:

-- ~12-14 January Is a vacant slot. We are opened to any proposals (?Any development related topic?). If nothing else we might handle RMAN 2 session with BITMAP index discussion
-- ~25-29 January we do have an experienced guest speaker talking about very popular topic nowadays - Virtualization
-- ~11th February we do have Development focused topic "How to Build Fast, Secure Web Applications with the PL/SQL Gateway and Oracle Multimedia" by Oracle ACE Director based in Canberra, Australia Marcel Kratochvil

All date are preliminary and to be confirmed.

Stay tuned,
Yury