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Lisa’s uploaded her (pre-haircut!) photos, Which include yet another photo of one of my graphs! Cheeky minx 😉 I’m definitely going to have to give those graphs a rest for a while … Thanks, Lisa!

At the end of a horrible 24 hours consolidating Test/Development servers here are a couple of Scottish links. I’ve been holding back this blog because of a cow but I’m still waiting to get my camera back from my daughter. All will become clear later. First, in a comment to an earlier blog, Joel Garry… Continue reading Scottish Round-up

I only noticed when I woke up this morning that paragraph breaks have disappeared on this blog. I haven’t been working on the formatting, so it’s pretty annoying to say the least. Then I realised what probably caused it. I was experimenting again with importing this blog to wordpress.com because I was going through my… Continue reading Formatting Apology

According to a survey, watching football helps men express their feelings 😉 (Although I think one or two people might have been less than honest when the crying issue was raised!)

After one of my Hotsos Presentations, I had a discussion with one of the delegates about how his site used parallel execution for some jobs purely to take advantage of Direct Path Reads. He suggested that he thought that was why the parallel 2 tests I ran were always significantly faster than serial. I spoke… Continue reading Direct Path Reads

That Peter Robson chap is taking over my blog again. I do wish he’d get his own sorted out 😉 but, in the meantime, I’ll let him squat here for a while. Over to you, Peter … In an earlier guest submission, I made reference to following up a rather critical review of the presentation… Continue reading Ambler the Agile

I noticed a post on the Oracle-L list by Connor McDonald, who is a UKOUG stalwart and Oak Table member, about FreeNAS. It struck me how often I’ve been in a situation at work when I’ve been touting around storage vendors to get some very low cost, very high capacity storage for disk backups. It’s… Continue reading FreeNAS

Thanks to Mike Scott for this one.

… that just keeps on giving. Cheers, Henrik 😉

It’s another long one, but at least there’s nothing about Oracle in here. Tonight is the Champion’s League Final . I’ll leave the small matter of why only one of the teams were champions of their national league last year for another time but, as I watched the supporters milling around in Paris on this… Continue reading Rotterdam