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Oracle Error messaging system is often forgotten but can become a staple for many DBAs

Who will Oracle acquire next? Take a look at how the votes were distributed.

I'm giving two presentations this year at OOW. One is technical for performance tuning, and the other is a case study on a really cool project I'm leading right now.

...and the dangers thereof.

Now, that we've qualified the universe of customers that might consider JD Edwards to be great software, let's return to the original question: Is it great or not?

On September 21, IBM will be presenting a no-charge Webcast "TCO news: Optimizer in DB2 10 for z/OS Beta" featuring optimization expert Terry Purcell. Here's an opportunity to find out what the enhancements and additions to DB2's optimizer in DB2 10 will do for you.

Describing our bad habit of only attacking symptoms and not problems.

From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology I have been crazy busy at my new job. A fun project (real time analytics) and other projects are already in the pipeline. One of the projects just might turn into the coolest thing I have ever worked on. Unfortunately, I can't talk about it. I can't even talk about the hardware that we might (or

How different is a customer life cycle from a project life cycle? Or, said another way, how similar are these two cycles? I’ve been working on a concise management model for a customer life cycle, and I invariably compare this to it’s relative, the project life cycle. Here’s a visual of the customer version:

The cat is out of the bag.