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Through a combination of dragging my content out from under Google’s nose and not having the Statcounter code implemented across the blog, things aren’t looking so good 😉 Hopefully both situations are resolved. Just a bit more tidying up to do and then I can get back to the World Cup Oracle.

I’m concerned. There have been a couple of occasions since the start of the World Cup when a player has been tackled heavily (or hardly touched) and, in addition to flying several feet into the air, performing a double twist with pike and coming crashing to the ground in apparent agony, he has yelled out… Continue reading Aiiiyyyeeee!!!!

Although a work in progress, I’ve taken Howard’s advice and reintroduced the template chooser, but with a much reduced number of options, including one I’ve tweaked myself. I plan to improve this as time passes but, for now, there are four options including one serif font option. Nothing too exciting, but hopefully one of them… Continue reading Templates

Well, only one new blog really. Stephen Barr is a guy who I’ve been dealing with at work. He’s a Data Warehouse specialist, part DBA, part designer, part developer. (There’s a blog coming some time soon on the various Oracle roles in the modern business.) He’s a contractor, too and we’ll be going in our… Continue reading More blogs

I’ve received at least four emails and blog comments that amount to ‘Why on earth would you choose Serendipity when WordPress is the best’. So, because I want to nip this in the bud and hopefully never comment on it again, here goes. 1) It wasn’t a big decision where I evaluated the possibilities. I… Continue reading Serendipity

On Saturday morning, we ran into a problem on one of our 9.2.0.7 Production databases during an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) batch process. I was called at 5:15am to look at a job that normally runs in a few minutes but had failed after 30 or 40 minutes when trying to allocate an extent… Continue reading Production Call-out

Now that the move has been completed and the Blogger fiasco might be coming to an end, I just wanted to say thanks to lots of people who’ve helped out. Not necessarily by name, but The Oracle aggregator owners who ended up with a page full of spam but responded helpfully and quickly. The various… Continue reading Thanks

Sigh Look at http://oracledoug.blogspot.com Now look at http://feeds.feedburner.com/DougsOracleBlog Now look at http://oracledoug.com/serendipity/index.php?/feeds/index.rss2 Now look at http://orablogs.com

I’m not on-call any more. The blog situation is improving. Now, if only the Czechs hadn’t scored that third goal against the USA and Australia had stopped when they equalised, my life would be excellent. “Hi Doug, You’re current rank in the World Cup 2006 APEX application is 10 out of 367. Some more info:… Continue reading Enjoying it while it lasts

… through the Blogger darkness 😉 “Hi Doug, You’re current rank in the World Cup 2006 APEX application is 32 out of 347. Some more info: – Played Games: 8– Correct prediction of games: 6– Wrong prediction of games: 2– Correct prediction of score: 1– Wrong prediction of score: 7– Your points: 8Have a nice… Continue reading Dimitri Keeps Me Going …