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I’ve had to draw a line under the Hotsos paper (not least because I’m supposed to be going out tonight to someone’s birthday celebration meal). So I’ve uploaded the first proper version to both the Symposium website and here. For those poor souls who have had a look at earlier versions, most of the changes… Continue reading OK, I’m done!

This is mainly for anyone who has read the early versions of the Hotsos ‘How Many Slaves’ paper. It won’t make as much sense if you haven’t. I was doing some more work on multi-user tests at the weekend. I reduced the size of the tables to eliminate disk i/o (as described in the paper)… Continue reading Something for V2

This proves a couple of things …. 1) I’m not the only one – you can blame Peter Robson for this one. 2) Some animals are more adventurous than others. I can’t imagine my lot posing in front of old Communist dictators in Hungary!

…. that deadline I’d fretted over and rushed to meet seems to have been extended by a week! It’s nice to be early and prepared, but I could have done with the time. Still, it gives me a little more time this weekend to play around with some of the other ideas I had or… Continue reading But the punch-line is …

It’s the lessons you learn or the things you discover when you make mistakes that can be the most useful. Here’s an example of that and also of why you shouldn’t try to take too many shortcuts. (It might be an interesting exercise for you to see how long you can read through this blog… Continue reading Mistakes

http://blogs.oracle.com/member/login I wonder what’s going on there?

… has a link to Pete Finnigan’s blog again.

Deadlines are great because without them I might never finish anything. The down-side, however, is that the deadline sometimes appears before me (like I’d never seen it before in my life!) at a point when I’d like to go in a new direction with something I’m looking at or even start all over again, using… Continue reading Deadlines

The Rabbit has had his time, I reckon. (He doesn’t agree, naturally) Bearing in mind I’m going to be at Hotsos 2 weeks today, it’s time to put a picture of me back on my blog profile so that anyone who does want to say hello doesn’t spend all their time bothering any cuddly toys… Continue reading It must mean there’s a conference coming up

It looks like blogs.oracle.com is growing to include more Oracle Executive blogs. I’m pleased about this because it’ll add a little variety to the blogs I read. I’m sure they’ll be fairly sanitised, though 😉