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My thanks to Peter for sending this through. Hopefully he’ll keep up the good work throughout the conference, but he’s unlikely to keep up with Mark Rittman’s dedicated blogging 😉 (Peter, it’s a war – you have to report back in the middle of the night!) —————————– Yes, hot, humid, affluent, excessive. The Gaylord is… Continue reading Collaborate ’06 – Day 1 – by Peter Robson

I’ve stolen both the link and the blog title from Daniel Fink. As an ex-Sun employee with colleagues still working there, he has a personal interest, but I have a huge soft spot for Sun, too, both in general industry terms and the fact that I enjoyed my contract there so much. http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/24/technology/business2_sun/

The more observant among you will have noticed that Derek Jr. has taken temporary leave, to be replaced by my ugly mug again. It must mean that there’s a conference coming up. I’ll be presenting the Parallel Execution Slaves paper at the UKOUG Northern Server Technology Day this Thursday. I might change one or two… Continue reading UKOUG Northern Server Technology Day

I’m pleased to be able to use that as a blog title. Shrek (as he seems to be known by most people in the Oracle Community) is actually Bill Thater. His blog lives here. I met Shrek for the first time at the Hotsos Symposium last month and he’s a lovely guy and been doing… Continue reading Shrek!

The Battle Against Huge Disks for Databases

This email arrived a couple of weeks ago and had the rare effect of rendering me temporarily speechless. I haven’t edited a word, apart from removing the name of the sender to protect the all too guilty. Dear Sir, I want to persue career in Oracle-Pl/sql.But I do not have any recognised degree in computer… Continue reading Nearly Speechless

I noticed this interesting article on the BBC’s website. Perhaps I shouldn’t joke about such a serious story, but imagine having to pretend you’re Canadian!!! 😉 (That one was for Mr. Spence) I’ll leave it to my previously erudite readers to comment.

You don’t need to look hard to find commentary on the boundaries between blogging and ‘real’ (for which you should probably read ‘print’) journalism. It’s not something I spend much time thinking about usually because I see blogging as a few random current thoughts (or belly-aching) and don’t feel I have a responsibility to anyone… Continue reading Book Review: The Art of SQL

Well, not quite, but here are a few blogs I’ve noticed over the last week or so. Probably my favourite source of new blogs is comments left on this blog. As well as being easy 😉 it almost ensures that the authors have good taste :-> Paul Vallee had mentioned to me that he hoped… Continue reading Blog Frenzy!