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cd has written an introductory article on regular expressions in the 10g database. As he doesn't have a blog (imagine!) he has posted ...

When I introduced the agenda yesterday morning I said I thought it was quite forward-looking, all about new stuff - new features, new tools...

First law: For every situation there is an equal and apposite Dilbert cartoon. Second Law: The number of meetings required for any process...

or "Sisyphus Revisited" or "Where Have All The Oracle Developers Gone?" Finally the full agenda for the Development Engi...

I've been really impressed with the schedule for Open World this year. I know some people regard the conference as a marketing exercise...

Quest have added Toad Data Modeler to their product set. They've given it the rather boring acronym TDM (try saying it aloud). As far...

Sun have just published a benchmark comparing the performance Oracle 10g on one of their CoolThreads servers against a four-way Xeon server...

The Indian government is blocking access to blog sites, apparently because terrorists use blogs to communicate. As somebody commented on Bo...

I am going to San Francisco this year, courtesy of OTN's complementary Open World passes for ACEs. Fortunately my Technical Director ha...

Someone in the OTN forums wants to know whether they can nominate themselves to be an ACE. Quite recently one of my Dutch colleagues asked...

Not C shells, seashells. The offline version of the Guardian is giving away wallcharts of flora and fauna and yesterday's was Seashells...

A colleague was showing me a Metalink note (#4463574.8) he was reading whilst trying to diagnose PLS-0123. The thing that grabbed me was t...

So Bill is reprioritising his life . He's swapping his failure to stem the tide of computer viruses for vaccination programmes against ...

Well, the Development Engineering SIG has survived Birmingham once more. I must admit there was a point when it seemed cursed. I had two pr...

Whilst on holiday in Corfu last week I took the opportunity to visit the site of Butrint in Albania. This is a world heritage site , being...

I received my first spam e-mail wholly in French. Diappointingly it wasn't for a classy French pr0n site, just a variant on the Nigeria...

The May BCS SPA had a presentation from Sean Hanley of Exoftware on Agile development. The presentation was called "The Story of a S...

Whilst clearing out my Inbox I stumbled across an notification of a recent article by Sean McGrath on software analogies . After discussing...

Actually released is putting it a little strongly. OTN has a page about Data Vault which includes some viewlets. There's no sign of w...

Prompted by a question in the OTN forums I have been having a little play around with the Password Verification functionality. It's qui...