Author: user

Here’s a code example with <pre> tags around it. There should be extra spacing between the query and the result than the two lines of the query. SELECT ‘Spiders are deadly’FROM DUAL;Spiders are deadly And here is the entire HTML fragment from above <p>Here’s a code example with <pre> tags around it. There should be… Continue reading Test Code Examples

The week after next, I’ll be heading over to Denmark for the Very Last Miracle Database Forum. Registration is still open and it looks like pretty good value to me – accommodation, meals, parties and three streams of technical presentations for a couple of days for 1280 Euros (about £900). With Hotsos being so far… Continue reading Very Last Miracle Database Forum

Having experienced a minor panic about not having sufficient material for my presentation, I decided to stay at home yesterday morning to work on some 9i examples to go with the existing 10g ones and put together some additional slides. In the end it took longer than I expected and by the time I’d got… Continue reading OUG Scotland 2006 Conference – Day 2

I originally tried to post this yesterday but lost my internet connection at a crucial moment 🙁 On Sunday evening I met up with Jeff Moss, Julian Dyke and Tom Brown in the bar of the Radisson. A few beers later, we left to meet Thomas Presslie and some of the Miracle guys for a… Continue reading OUG Scotland 2006 Conference – Day 1

I think that has a nice ring to it, particularly if you have both a pilot’s licence and an Oracle Ace Award. Thoroughly deserved, too.

Yesterday was the developer training/seminar that I mentioned in an earlier blog. It was okay I suppose but I made a bad decision to drop analytics because I didn’t feel I could do them justice in the available time. Then I finished half an hour early 🙁 Based on verbal feedback it appears that the… Continue reading Presentations completed and to come

As someone pointed out to me, everyone of these reviews is a 5-star. You won’t be surprised that it doesn’t change my opinions of that book one jot. However, it’s only fair for people to see a range of opinions. What I find a little disconcerting is that I distinctly remember a more negative review… Continue reading The Art of SQL

I’m on late shift today and this was the sight that greeted me when I walked through the door. The poor guy couldn’t take it any more. It was the suicide note that brought a tear to my eye …

In spite of the tone of some of the comments on my previous blog, the tragic bear incident was absolutely nothing to do with me. I made it clear that he was hanging from the ceiling when I turned up to work. Fortunately, Paolo in the office suggested that we get him down and treat… Continue reading RIP Bear

http://conference.ukoug.org/default.asp?p=252