The Sin of Band-Aids

Let’s take a trip to the past…we weren’t actually there, but we can pretend. Let’s look into a conversation between a DBA, developers, and management at some time ‘way back...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet Hellraiser

Sometimes you just need to take a moment and appreciate the things you have in life. And while I always appreciate my lovely wife and my darling kids, this time my appreciation is for something a little more...

Comments Fixed

To anyone who has tried to post comments to my blog entries, I greatly appreciate it and I am sorry that the comments did not go through! I recently updated the mod_security parameters on my server, and it...

An Oracle Schema Filesystem

I’m one of those types that always needs a project. If I run out of projects using the things I know, I take on a project that involves something I don’t know whatsoever. For instance, building a...

Hey Guys, Does Size Matter?

Last night I was called in on an unfortunate problem. A client has an update that they must run (unfortunately) which updates ~830,000 rows, setting one column equal to the other (two column table). On their...

Undone by Undo

It has been quite a long time since I posted here. However, all I can say is that I’ve been very busy, and I’m happy that work is so plentiful that I barely have time for blogging! Yesterday I got...