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At 5pm BST today, Germany kick off the 2006 World Cup Finals against Costa Rica. I’ll be a bit late for this first match because I have to finish work and stop off on the way home to pick my new TV up from a delivery depot. I tried to go for a balance between… Continue reading World Cup Fever!

For anyone with specific experience and interest in Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence issues, here’s your chance to build up that community a little. Mark Rittman’s looking for more people to get involved with the forum he runs. I’m in no position to lecture anyone about community involvement, but I would have thought it was in your… Continue reading Data Warehouse / BI Community

Mr. Ellison

When I restored an old template recently to cure a formatting problem, I lost the most recently added links, which I’ve now restored. Although I use Thunderbird to stay up to date with most blogs, I sometimes use these links to browse around a bit, so that’s their main purpose and I’m glad their back.… Continue reading Updated Links

Lisa’s uploaded her (pre-haircut!) photos, Which include yet another photo of one of my graphs! Cheeky minx 😉 I’m definitely going to have to give those graphs a rest for a while … Thanks, Lisa!

At the end of a horrible 24 hours consolidating Test/Development servers here are a couple of Scottish links. I’ve been holding back this blog because of a cow but I’m still waiting to get my camera back from my daughter. All will become clear later. First, in a comment to an earlier blog, Joel Garry… Continue reading Scottish Round-up

I only noticed when I woke up this morning that paragraph breaks have disappeared on this blog. I haven’t been working on the formatting, so it’s pretty annoying to say the least. Then I realised what probably caused it. I was experimenting again with importing this blog to wordpress.com because I was going through my… Continue reading Formatting Apology

According to a survey, watching football helps men express their feelings 😉 (Although I think one or two people might have been less than honest when the crying issue was raised!)

After one of my Hotsos Presentations, I had a discussion with one of the delegates about how his site used parallel execution for some jobs purely to take advantage of Direct Path Reads. He suggested that he thought that was why the parallel 2 tests I ran were always significantly faster than serial. I spoke… Continue reading Direct Path Reads

That Peter Robson chap is taking over my blog again. I do wish he’d get his own sorted out 😉 but, in the meantime, I’ll let him squat here for a while. Over to you, Peter … In an earlier guest submission, I made reference to following up a rather critical review of the presentation… Continue reading Ambler the Agile