Overall news on database, content, and data management technology.
Here’s one for the “neato” category. This weekend I decided to try making a filesystem with FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), a package which allows mountable filesystems to be customized and modified with a source other than disk. The data can come from anywhere, and it will take the traditional appearance
A while back (2007 to be exact, an eternity in Internet years), Google released a product called Google 411. You could call either 1-800-GOOG-411 or 1-877-GOOG-411 and search for businesses by city and state, category, or other criteria. It was a direct competitor to the local expensive 411 services, and
— The Problem: Moving data outside of a database offers multiple options, each with their own pros and cons. The Solutions: XML (Extensible Markup Language): What it is: A markup language designed for full featured data exchange Info:
The book that has changed my perception of business and the IT professional’s role in it is not about Oracle, or Hadoop, or NoSQL, or any development framework. In fact it has absolutely nothing to do with technology and was written only a year after Alan Turing’s famous Turing Machine
I noticed yesterday that I was still getting hits for my Oracle Ace comics, but since the site for them is long gone viewers were justing getting errors. So I’ve brought them here for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! And yes, I’m a big xkcd fan. I’m also aware that my
I’m sure we’ve all dabbled with VMs a time or two (and if you haven’t, you should). However, I had a specific goal of creating a robust purely virtual environment for training, labs, and testing. While a plain old Linux VM loaded over Windows, Linux, or Mac would have been
You have to love software marketing. Imagine buying a new car. In the new car comes leather seats, A/C, and a killer sound system. After driving it around for a few days, you get a reminder from the dealership: The leather seats, A/C, and sound system are separately licensed products.
Recently I posted that I was teaching a class in Switzerland. I’m home now in good ol’ Virginia, over the jet lag and ready to blog. Class went very well. I taught the Burleson Consulting 3 day Oracle RAC course, one of our most popular courses which I am called
Important Note This article was published in 2008. For more informative, up-to-date content on Oracle Database 12c, check out the huge directory of Oracle 12c Community Content! Previous Article A colleague sent me an interesting note today. Specifically, Metalink Note 578455.1, which announces that Oracle 12g 12c will not support
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 when.’ Management: Our system has been performing poorly for months now. Developers: We didn’t change anything. DBA: I didn’t change
