Data Conversion

This week my tutorial is a review of "PRIDE"-ISEM, Phase 1, System Study & Evaluation (Feasibility Study); includes discussion on specifying Information Requirements. This is Part X of our series on the "PRIDE" METHODOLOGIES FOR IRM (special broadcast). My "Pet Peeve of the Week" is "The Attributes of a Tough Task Master" and we also have our "Letters to the Editor."

VictorF here, first off let me thank my "Partner-in-Crime" for allowing me to share, and more importantly, gain some insights regarding the "lives we've chosen". I've spent some time reviewing the previous Blog posts, and must admit that the story describing this case study is very accurate. It has been one wild ride! The strangest I've seen in 30 years of my IT profession. And it's been quite

This week my tutorial is an introduction to the construction and navigation of the "PRIDE"-INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY (ISEM), Part IX of our series on the "PRIDE" METHODOLOGIES FOR IRM (special broadcast). My "Pet Peeve of the Week" is "Going it Alone?" and we also have our "Letters to the Editor."

This week my tutorial is an introduction to the concepts and principles of the "PRIDE"-INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY (ISEM), Part VIII of our series on the "PRIDE" METHODOLOGIES FOR IRM (special broadcast). My "Pet Peeve of the Week" is "Death of the Business Letter" and we also have our "Letters to the Editor."

This week my tutorial is on PHASE 4 of the "PRIDE"-ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY (EEM) - ENTERPRISE INFO STRATEGY, Part VI of our series on the "PRIDE" METHODOLOGIES FOR IRM (special broadcast). My "Pet Peeve of the Week" is "The SFB Quotient" and we also have our "Letters to the Editor."

The last time I wrote here about MySQL, I began with what I assumed were some very simplistic server side commands and left off with creating a table. Some of the response I received with the last post was phenominal to say the least. The reason for the response, I believe, was the fact I gave command line examples and didn't use a GUI tool. Now I don't want to get into a debate as to whether GUIs

This week my tutorial is on PHASE 3 of the "PRIDE"-ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY (EEM) - PHYSICAL ENTERPRISE ANALYSIS, Part V of our series on the "PRIDE" METHODOLOGIES FOR IRM (special broadcast). My "Pet Peeve of the Week" is "Making your problems mine" and we also have our "Letters to the Editor."

This week my tutorial is on PHASE 2 of the "PRIDE"-ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY (EEM) - LOGICAL ENTERPRISE ANALYSIS, Part IV of our series on the "PRIDE" METHODOLOGIES FOR IRM (special broadcast). My "Pet Peeve of the Week" is "How much do we really use our head?" and we also have our "Letters to the Editor."

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology Oracle does not guarantee that multiple triggers on a table will fire in any particular order. Well, they do guarantee some things. For example a BEFORE trigger will fire before an AFTER trigger and ROW triggers fire before STATEMENT triggers. But

This week my tutorial is on the