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… in the Oracle blogosphere. Well, whether all these posts were ‘today’ depends on timezones, I suppose, but it’s today that I read them. My morning started with a read of this fine post by Cary Millsap. I immediately shared it around at work because Cary uses his typically strong way with words to explain… Continue reading A Good Day …

I’ve been a bit busy recently because I’ve had a rolling 4 week cold (like lots of people in the office – obviously several colds in quick succession), a couple of presentations at UKOUG (where I’m sure the additional beer didn’t help recovery) and then I was in Vienna on Monday and Tuesday this week,… Continue reading Performance on my mind …

So having dashed out of Peter Scott’s analytics presentation, I headed back to my hotel to drop my laptop off and find some food! At least when your conference is in Brum, you can find a chippy! There are some strange moments at these conferences, you know. As I walked back to the Blogger Meet-up,… Continue reading UKOUG – Day 1.6

One of the reasons I moved over to Blogger was because Jeff had problems posting a comment. When I started work at a new site recently, I bumped into an old colleague who had mentioned that he’d posted a comment on the old blog. I was surprised because I would never fail to notice a… Continue reading An Apology

The past two years have seen a lot of change in my life :- I moved to Singapore thinking it would be for a year or two at least and is now looking like it will be longer. I started my first role as a permanent employee of someone else’s organisation for the first time… Continue reading Moving Sideways

I used to be a Star Alliance Gold card holder from my extensive travel with BMI and other *A carriers. Eventually my travel tailed off a little and I dropped to Silver *just* before BA took over BMI and my *A status was converted to One World. Which was ok, because a BA Silver is in… Continue reading A Love Letter to Singapore Airlines

Last week I had a small adventure and wanted to record some of the events before I forget them and to take the opportunity to praise both the good people of Chennai and the stellar staff of Singapore Airlines. You’ll find nothing about Oracle here and unless you’re a friend or my family, probably not much… Continue reading My Indian Adventure – Part 1

Yes, it’s that time again although I decided we should delay it a little while when I realised we could take advantage of the visit of Lucas Jellema to Singapore! The date is set for 14th July so there’s only a couple of weeks to go. Here is the agenda (SingaporeOracleSessionsIII.pdf) and a map (SOSMap.pdf) to help you… Continue reading Announcement: Singapore Oracle Sessions III

Last Monday evening we had the first Singapore Oracle Sessions – an informal meetup of Oracle professionals thrown together at the last minute by a few of us. Morten Egan (or as I believe he is called in Denmark now – The Traitor 😉) mentioned to me months ago that if there was no user… Continue reading Singapore Oracle Sessions – Beginnings

When I knew that the ACE Director, Bjoern Rost of Portrix Systems was coming to Singapore on his way to begin the OTN APAC tour, I suggested he stay at mine for a few days and sample all that Singapore has to offer. Then a thought occurred to me. While he was here, why not… Continue reading Announcement: Singapore Oracle Sessions