Category: Oracle
Oracle is my focus profession and the big kahuna among transactional databases on the market today. This category features in-depth technical posts regarding Oracle, musings, projects, and Oracle related news.
The Adventures of Ace, DBA
NOTE 02/04/2013: I noticed that this page seems to get a lot of hits, but the site I created for the comic is long gone. I have decided to upload the comics I had created here so everyone can see them. Enjoy! So I was reading through some of my
This Bug Brought To You By The Letter “U”
One silly bug. Ah ah ah ah! Bugs come in all shapes and sizes. Big bugs, little bugs, bugs that crash your database, bugs that make a query run oddly. Some believe there are even bugs in human existence. There is a running joke that has been around forever regarding
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 when.’ Management: Our system has been performing poorly for months now. Developers: We didn’t change anything. DBA: I didn’t change