FIrst of all, kudos to Tim Hall. This is one of the great times of the year when all these thankful blogs are posted in a day. If you read nothing else in the blogs all year, picking some of them would not be a bad choice. Speaking of which, I will talk about being…
After I moved my blog to self-hosting, it has attracted more and more spam. It started slow and very manageable. After my last blog post it got really bad. What started as a few spam messages a week, culminated with 30-40 spam comments per day. At that point I had completely lost any ability to…
The community is the greatest feature of any Oracle product.
The world is moving to https, but that was not the reason for the move. Initially I was happy to use whatever Digital Ocean (DO) supplied in the WordPress droplet. But as I explained in my last post, I had some problems with moving from wordpress.com to my self hosted site at DO. In short the problem…
I had decided to move one of my blogs to a self-hosted model to get more control over plugins and other things. After reading up a bit on different vendors I found Digital Ocean to be my choice. What’s not to like with a place that can spin up a complete Linux with WordPress installed and…
So calling Google Reader dead may be a bit premature, but Google’s announcement of their intention to kill their baby all but killed it. On monday it is RIP for the reader. I’ve gone through disbelief to mourning the loss to a search for a replacement that best emulates what Google Reader does. In the…
That was essentially reader Gabriel posted on my post Suppressing repeating values in SQL. At first my reaction was just to ignore it as I felt it was too odd. But then use FarMan posted a complete opposite “Dude, you just saved my life. Thanks so much!”. Could the same post really get so different…
OK. This blog has been dormant for longer than what should have been possible. Having moved across the world, started a new job, and returned career focus to Oracle specialist (from more or less forced management roles) it’s definitely time to start writing again. The first step has been to move it to a proper blog platform,…
Reading this post about why the average Oracle IT worker doesn’t read blogs got me thinking. Does the average IT worker read blogs? I’m not sure. In what I have observed, it is something a segment does. I’d contend that the average blog reader is more advanced and more thirsty for more knowledge that the…
It’s time to start a blog and write down some ideas, findings, and general commentary about development with the Oracle database. This blog will be a place where I write about things related to Oracle development and performance that interests me. I have been a DBA for longer than I really want to admit as…
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