Category: Archive

I’m pleased to be able to use that as a blog title. Shrek (as he seems to be known by most people in the Oracle Community) is actually Bill Thater. His blog lives here. I met Shrek for the first time at the Hotsos Symposium last month and he’s a lovely guy and been doing… Continue reading Shrek!

The Battle Against Huge Disks for Databases

This email arrived a couple of weeks ago and had the rare effect of rendering me temporarily speechless. I haven’t edited a word, apart from removing the name of the sender to protect the all too guilty. Dear Sir, I want to persue career in Oracle-Pl/sql.But I do not have any recognised degree in computer… Continue reading Nearly Speechless

I noticed this interesting article on the BBC’s website. Perhaps I shouldn’t joke about such a serious story, but imagine having to pretend you’re Canadian!!! 😉 (That one was for Mr. Spence) I’ll leave it to my previously erudite readers to comment.

You don’t need to look hard to find commentary on the boundaries between blogging and ‘real’ (for which you should probably read ‘print’) journalism. It’s not something I spend much time thinking about usually because I see blogging as a few random current thoughts (or belly-aching) and don’t feel I have a responsibility to anyone… Continue reading Book Review: The Art of SQL

Well, not quite, but here are a few blogs I’ve noticed over the last week or so. Probably my favourite source of new blogs is comments left on this blog. As well as being easy 😉 it almost ensures that the authors have good taste :-> Paul Vallee had mentioned to me that he hoped… Continue reading Blog Frenzy!

For anyone who’s wondering what’s happened to that follow-up CBO blog, I’ve been glued to the settee for the past couple of days, ill again. That must be about the fifth or sixth bout of various flu variants in the past year. My theory is that my partner, who meets many delightful members of the… Continue reading Ill Again

This blog arrives four days later than I expected to post; apologies for that. First, I’ve been ill and whilst my brain is functioning at the level of casual browsing, any deep or determined thought is off the agenda. (I’m still not back at work, but I’m so bored that I’ve mustered half an hour… Continue reading Topsy Turvy II – The plans

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It’s been a topsy-turvy couple of days. I had my last night shift on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, which was the busiest of them all, although there was only one small problem in the last 8 hours of it. My favourite bit, earlier in the evening, was improving the performance of one of the weekly batch… Continue reading Topsy-Turvy