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Better than half-way distance, but not time. Having paid my $6.95 for wireless access in Newark Terminal A, I figured I might as well blog. That’s my second Continental experience in two months and I have to say I’m not too impressed. Direct from Edinburgh is good, but that’s about it. Still, I hate moaning… Continue reading Half-way there

Including the time spent on Tripod’s blogging tool (the one that didn’t record comments properly), I started this a year ago today. I could do a review, but my head is still full of matters parallel and I’ve just had to stick a flowery shirt in the washing machine when I discovered that Monday’s Gala… Continue reading Happy Birthday Blog

Prompted by Mark Rittman’s blog, I downloaded the interview with Jonathan Lewis from DBAZine. I have an iPod-compatible hi-fi in the car. Once I’d got over the shock of DBAZine displaying in my car and stopped wondering where my life was going, it was a very interesting and forthright interview as I expected. Just one… Continue reading I just drove to work with Jonathan Lewis

I’m a bit surprised how excited I am about going to Dallas for the Hotsos Symposium next week (have I mentioned it yet?). I’ve already worked my personal agenda out but it hasn’t been easy with two streams of equally high quality presentations. The full schedule is here and here’s what I’ve settled on for… Continue reading My Hotsos Agenda

This proves a couple of things …. 1) I’m not the only one – you can blame Peter Robson for this one. 2) Some animals are more adventurous than others. I can’t imagine my lot posing in front of old Communist dictators in Hungary!

I’ve had to draw a line under the Hotsos paper (not least because I’m supposed to be going out tonight to someone’s birthday celebration meal). So I’ve uploaded the first proper version to both the Symposium website and here. For those poor souls who have had a look at earlier versions, most of the changes… Continue reading OK, I’m done!

This is mainly for anyone who has read the early versions of the Hotsos ‘How Many Slaves’ paper. It won’t make as much sense if you haven’t. I was doing some more work on multi-user tests at the weekend. I reduced the size of the tables to eliminate disk i/o (as described in the paper)… Continue reading Something for V2

…. that deadline I’d fretted over and rushed to meet seems to have been extended by a week! It’s nice to be early and prepared, but I could have done with the time. Still, it gives me a little more time this weekend to play around with some of the other ideas I had or… Continue reading But the punch-line is …

It’s the lessons you learn or the things you discover when you make mistakes that can be the most useful. Here’s an example of that and also of why you shouldn’t try to take too many shortcuts. (It might be an interesting exercise for you to see how long you can read through this blog… Continue reading Mistakes

http://blogs.oracle.com/member/login I wonder what’s going on there?