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December 9, 2019 Uncategorized

2019-what grabbed your attention

Here are the blog posts that you hit on most this year, with the most viewed entry on top. Unsurprisingly

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May 7, 2019 Uncategorized

Nostalgia and choosing your in-flight movie

First thing to note on this post. No tech content in this one. Just some nostalgia. Couple of days ago,

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March 11, 2019 Uncategorized

All of my Oracle Magazine articles

Generally my blog is just snippets of tech content that take my interest as I encounter them (most commonly when

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February 10, 2019 Uncategorized

Work Life Travel balance

I thought about writing a post on juggling work commitments, travel with my job and time at home with children

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May 21, 2018 Uncategorized

You need scaling huh? Maybe it’s just ego

I’ve just come back from OracleCode Singapore.  It was a great event – the venue was awesome and the attendees

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April 17, 2018 Uncategorized

When you screw up … make it positive for your users

Yesterday I was caught up in an interesting SNAFU at my local Supermarket.  All of the checkout registers shut down,

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April 2, 2018 Uncategorized

TO_DOG_YEAR

Some members of the Oracle community got well and truly into the April Fools Day spirit this year. There were

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February 16, 2018 Uncategorized

AskTOM Office Hours for DBA’s

We had the first AskTOM Office Hours Q&A for Database Administrators yesterday.  Thanks to everyone that showed up, and thanks

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December 31, 2017 Uncategorized

It’s not about ego … it’s about knowledge

Take a quick look at this blog post by Jonathan Lewis https://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2017/12/30/nvarchar2/ Anyone that has been working with Oracle for

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December 19, 2017 Uncategorized

2017–what grabbed your attention

Here are the blog posts that you hit on most this year.  Thanks for supporting the blog, and always, there

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