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Well I wasn’t expecting such a response. Thinking it over :- A) I have some very generous friends.B) I have some very mischevious friends who are looking forward to 4 weeks of fun 😉C) Several donors mentioned pictures. Yes, definitely. It’s all ‘trust but verify’ round here.D) I kind of knew the ORA-DUDE would insist… Continue reading OT: Movember Update

Lord help me and eternal hell on Graeme Pitt for badgering me into this … “This Movember I’ve decided to donate my face to raising awareness about prostate cancer.  My donation and commitment is the growth of a moustache for the entire month of Movember, which I know will generate conversation, much laughter and ritual… Continue reading OT: Movember

Note – using ASH and the Top Activity screen require the use of the Diagnostics Pack License. This post was prompted by yet another performance problem identified using pretty pictures and Active Session History data. Although, as you’ll see, some pretty old-fashioned tools played their part too! ASH entries only exist for certain SQL*Net events.… Continue reading Network Events in ASH

Note – features in this post require the Diagnostics Pack license Not long after I’d finished the last post, I realised I could reinforce the points I was making with a quick post showing another one of the example tests supplied with Swingbench – the Calling Circle (CC) application. Like the Sales Order Entry application,… Continue reading Alternative Pictures Demo

Note – features in this post require the Diagnostics Pack license With so many potential technical posts in my pile, it was initially difficult to decide where to start again but I figured I should avoid the stats series until I’m back into the swing of things 😉 Instead I decided to fulfill a commitment… Continue reading That Pictures demo in full

Some of the boys and girls have been very busy over the summer, fulfilling a life-long ambition, visiting Las Vegas but, more important, the magnificent Grand Canyon. But Gerald had a pretty narrow escape when he was almost left behind.

Wow – almost 4 months since my last post that could be described as vaguely technical. It’s amazing how time flies when you’re having fun. (Although there may be a hint of irony in that statement.) Work has been insane for various reasons and personal life has been unusually involved too so I’ve really had… Continue reading Swing!

Had a few beers in London with Carl Dudley last week. As well as being old Learning Tree ‘colleagues’ he’s one of the Directors of the UKOUG. When discussing the Call for Papers for the 2010 UKOUG Tech & EBS conference, it occurred to me that I’d only seen one low-key announcement of the Call… Continue reading Advert: UKOUG 2010 Call for Papers Closing

I only just noticed because I’ve fallen behind on my blog reading, but this is one of my favourites, so it’ll mean some catch-up reading.

OK, so it’s more personal stuff but I had an excellent end to last weekend so I don’t care 😉 Skip over this one if you don’t care what’s going on in my life. That’s cool. I finished work on Thursday lunchtime and then made what seemed a ridiculously long ‘short’ trip to Schiphol via… Continue reading A Good Weekend