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
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Inside the Oracle Optimizer has moved
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.
Random Memories of Jof – part 14
I have no idea how many parts, so let’s just pick a random number. One thing that surprised me when I had the occasional burst of contact with Jof recently was just how well he remembered the past but I’ll stick to what I can remember so it might be a bit more limited. –… Continue reading Random Memories of Jof – part 14
Sob, Sob
Sob, Sob! That’s how I finished this brief announcement. “Sob, Sob” was a character that Jof invented in his teens. He was a gifted cartoonist. He was a gifted film-maker, artist, human being and games programmer as well and, although I never heard him, I’m sure he was a gifted DJ too. Jof excelled at… Continue reading Sob, Sob
Joffa Smifff – One of a kind. I’ll miss you
Stupid statement, given that we had very little contact in the past 20 years, but we had plenty before that that I’m thankful for (you changed my world, man) and I know a true original and a special person. I’m glad so many others do, too and, although you might take the p*ss out of… Continue reading Joffa Smifff – One of a kind. I’ll miss you
A Good Weekend
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
Marco Update
Regular readers will remember that my daughter and I sponsored a guide dog puppy called Marco. In that post I highlighted my daughter’s sinister plan :- “… she seemed most interested in the section that explained that not all puppies make the grade but then they are re-homed. I had visions of her following the… Continue reading Marco Update
Advert: See you in Utrecht next week
I’m excited to be teaching at Amis for one day next week and the more informal event the previous evening. Registration form is here. Showing my beloved pictures with beer in hand? Sounds perfect although perhaps I should make sure the demos are working correctly before opening the bottle 😉 Lots more technical posts to… Continue reading Advert: See you in Utrecht next week
Advert: UKOUG Scottish Conference next week
Is it really that time already? I’ll be working in London, but for those of you who can make it, this just in from Thomas Presslie … “The annual Scottish Oracle Conference is being held in Glasgow on 27th May 2010. Now with five streams and keynote by David Callaghan, Senior Vice President Oracle, UK,… Continue reading Advert: UKOUG Scottish Conference next week
Resource Manager and 11g
I will get back to the stats stuff at some point, but I’m quite busy at the moment working on something that I can’t talk too much about, but which is throwing up enough generic issues to talk about. This is one that I meant to blog about ages ago when I first noticed it… Continue reading Resource Manager and 11g