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August 19, 2016 Uncategorized

A bumper OpenWorld 2016 for me…

My first OpenWorld was in the Australia in ..well… I’m not sure when but it might have even been the

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August 10, 2016 Uncategorized

Uber’s move to MySQL

I was reading a very interesting article on Uber’s move from Postgres to MySQL. I really like it when IT

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July 12, 2016 Uncategorized

OpenWorld 2016 is not far away

OpenWorld is just around the corner, and the Ask Tom team will be involved in a number of panels where

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April 26, 2016 Uncategorized

OTN Yathra– scenes from Bangalore and Hyderbad

It’s sad that I could not capture in pictures the amazing sights and sounds from both inside the conference and

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April 25, 2016 Uncategorized

OTN Yathra Chennai

Rather than try to convey in words the first couple of days in India, I thought I’d share some of

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April 8, 2016 Uncategorized

Technology debates

As always happens from time to time, we had the following request on AskTom today: Could you list down 2

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January 21, 2016 Uncategorized

A old story from the past

My own personal hell story was back in the late 1990’s, when moving database from one server to another.  We

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January 20, 2016 Uncategorized

Certification exams

This is an update of a blog item I made nearly 15 years ago … but I think it still

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December 24, 2015 Uncategorized

Merry Christmas

To the tune of “Let It Snow” Well, the response of the app is frightful, and users are getting spiteful.

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December 14, 2015 Uncategorized

The art of describing a problem

Now that I’ve been answering AskTom questions for a while, there is obviously a huge amount of variety in the

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