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Like baseball, hot dogs, and .... it's MySQL, Pizza, and sodas.

This last week I took the DEEP dive to learning and picking up some MySQL skills.

Hi all - Temporarily sidelined by my project implementation and should get that promised post out to you with everyone's input in a couple of days. In the mean time here is a MUST READ! Thanks for you patience. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/decisioncentral/?p=129&tag=nl.e106

Describes how to identify the attributes of the Peter Principle.

©Gaetan Lee Most of us by now, unless you are new to Oracle, are aware of the two memory areas: the System Global Area (SGA) and the Program Global Area (PGA). What I didn't realize, as I read through the Oracle

To be able to accomplish the goals set forth in the "mission statement" that I wrote the other day BA's have to communicate in business speak in the setting of a high level meeting. If you're going to be at the product management level at any corporation you're going to need to understand the Finance people. We'll get into what kind of product management and building a product vs. using a product

Let's put a definition out there for ourselves. Semantics and language are everything: We are BA's who recommend the right solution in the right place at the right time in order for business to exceed expectations for competitive edge. We implement on time and within budget. We lead but we don't manage (we don't want to manage). We are experts in the application of technology to business problems.

As I mentioned in my previous posting, Tim Vincent presented a spotlight session at the IDUG North American conference on the Top 10 DB2 Best Practices for Linux, UNIX, Windows. These best practices were actually taken out of a series of whitepapers that are now available on Developerworks. There are currently 11 best practice papers available on developerworks with more on the way so check back often

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This is always one of my favorite Oracle conferences to go to. But if you want to present this year you better get your submissions in soon. There are just seven days remaining to submit your abstract for the UKOUG 2008 Conference & Exhibition, taking place from 1st – 5th December at the ICC,