{"id":821,"date":"2006-04-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2006-04-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T12:00:00","slug":"blogging-from-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/blogging-from-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging from work"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wouldn’t typically blog from work ( … probably too busy having a smoking break<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

It’s something I do in my spare time, so future employers or clients need not worry on that score. In this case I’m going to make an exception because I am working on an extremely<\/strong> quiet 12 hour night-shift that runs from 7pm until 7am. It’s the middle one of three in a row. The Trainer vs DBA argument certainly became more complicated this week! Training might have been hard work – but at least I could outlast the students 😉<\/p>\n

The reason for the shifts is that We went live with a complex, mission-critical and extraordinarily expensive system last week and so we’re working around the clock to make sure it’s a success. I’m often on-call as a DBA – phoned at 3am when something needs to be fixed – and sometimes work strange hours to get the job done, but long night-shifts are a different experience. There’s not much reward in refreshing screens waiting for something to happen.<\/p>\n

There’s work to be done and it gives me a little more space to think than a day shift but knowing that you have 12 long hours ahead of you is pretty soul-destroying and the part between 4am and 7am has to experienced to be believed. I’m pretty tired as a result, but I’ve noticed a few interesting articles while surfing as I was trying to get to sleep this morning.<\/p>\n

I noticed recently that Mike Ault had blogged about a strange parallel execution problem<\/a> he’d encountered. I raised some concerns with Mike over the blog because I’d never seen anything like it, but Jonathan Lewis has written a much more useful note<\/a> that I think you should read in conjunction with the blog.<\/p>\n

Mark Rittman has written an extremely interesting (and timely, from a personal perspective) blog on technical publishing<\/a>. I remember the first night I met Mark he talked to me about some of the articles he’d written and the relative financial rewards and I can see where he’s coming from. It’s well worth checking out the blog and some of the related articles because I think how we consume technical information is changing constantly, for the better or worse.<\/p>\n

I also noticed what looks like another good Oracle blog, via Jeff Hunter’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, well 5.5 hours down, 6.5 to go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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