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… has a link to Pete Finnigan’s blog again.

Deadlines are great because without them I might never finish anything. The down-side, however, is that the deadline sometimes appears before me (like I’d never seen it before in my life!) at a point when I’d like to go in a new direction with something I’m looking at or even start all over again, using… Continue reading Deadlines

The Rabbit has had his time, I reckon. (He doesn’t agree, naturally) Bearing in mind I’m going to be at Hotsos 2 weeks today, it’s time to put a picture of me back on my blog profile so that anyone who does want to say hello doesn’t spend all their time bothering any cuddly toys… Continue reading It must mean there’s a conference coming up

It looks like blogs.oracle.com is growing to include more Oracle Executive blogs. I’m pleased about this because it’ll add a little variety to the blogs I read. I’m sure they’ll be fairly sanitised, though 😉

I wanted to highlight a couple of blogs that I’ve added to the links on the right of the page. Yas’ blog was already familiar to me because of a couple of posts I particularly enjoyed, including his SQL*Net Message from Client idle event blog. I just hadn’t got round to adding the link. I… Continue reading The Embarassingly High Quality of other Oracle Blogs

Look what I found! (or was pointed to, to be more accurate). This is a copy of a BBC documentary called ‘Commercial Breaks’ that had earned somewhat mythical status in the Spectrum fan scene. I do have a copy of it on VHS in my house and had been planning to get it online at… Continue reading One for the ZX Spectrum Fans

Just when I was about to hit the Hotsos submission deadline (or rather, it was about to hit me), I managed to catch a cold from my other half, so I’ve been laid up in bed for the past couple of days. It hasn’t been too bad actually – thank goodness for laptop computers and… Continue reading Typical Timing

I just heard some rather unfortunate news. Andy Campbell from Sun, who I’ve relied on for material now and again (and is a trusted technical reviewer from time to time) has gone and started his own blog. Expect to get much more useful information there than from me because Andy’s one of the best (among… Continue reading What am I going to do for material now?

Just a couple of small updates on some previous blogs. The database that was suffering from network latency problems between it and the app servers was moved down South last week. It all went very smoothly and that particular problem has been resolved. The 20+ hour job runs over night very easily and other areas… Continue reading Updates

I had an interesting day at work yesterday. We’ve run into major performance problems when upgrading a number of Production databases from 8i to 9i. How could that happen, when we’ve performed regression tests to ensure that the applications perform as well as or better than they did on 8i? Probably because we didn’t! In… Continue reading We Never Learn, Do We?