It’s over, kind of

(No, not the blogging.)

The fact that I’m writing this post from my new home in London, rather than a hotel room or an airport lounge, should mean that the move from Edinburgh to London is done. If only it was that simple. As with any move, new things to take care of keep popping up like I’m playing an unenjoyable version of Whack-A-Mole.

Blogging is not the only activity that I’ve neglected for the past month or two so it’s going to take me a while to clear my growing To Do list before I get back to it. Whilst the blog might appear to have dried up in recent times, I have a massive list of things to blog about when I find some time and energy. In the meantime and to help clear a couple of reminders in my Inbox (yes, I know it’s the wrong place for reminders), here are a couple of resources I’ve been meaning to blog about.

For those of you who haven’t been fortunate enough to attend one of the Real World Performance days, there are two opportunities to see what you’ve been missing. First, you could simply enjoy a nice trip to Edinburgh to see the real thing, which is bound to be better with the Q & A opportunities. Alternatively, you can sample a taste of Andrew Holdsworth on video here (Note that you’ll need an Oracle SSO account to view them).

I also want to draw attention to Robin Moffat’s blog. We have very similar interests in data warehouses and optimiser statistics (the two often go together) and we discussed his interesting post on Global Statistics and copying stats. With useful input from Maria Colgan of Oracle, I think the post captures as many strategic points – what should we be using this stuff for and how – as it does technical ones. Good stuff.

Maybe at some point I can come up with a blog post all of my own! 😉