Mother’s Dictionary

APPLE: Nutritious lunchtime dessert which children will trade for cupcakes.

BABY: 1. Dad, when he gets a cold. 2. Mom’s youngest child, even if he’s 42.

BATHROOM: a room used by the entire family, believed by all except Mom to be self-cleaning.

DUST RAGS: See “DAD’S UNDERWEAR.”

EAR: A place where kids store dirt.

EYE: The highly susceptible optic nerve which, according to Mom, can be “put out” by anything from a suction-arrow to a carelessly handled butter knife.

HANDI-WIPES: Pants, shirt-sleeves, drapes, etc.

HEARSAY: What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word.

See Mother’s Dictionary for more definitions.

This continues the blog began in Part 1 of A Day with Ralph Kimball.

So, on to the seminar! Please remember that this isn’t what Ralph said as much as it’s my interpretation of what Ralph said. I’m trying to explain what you’ll get from his seminar but it’s through my eyes not yours. That’s why this is not a replacement for his seminar. Hopefully, I will induce you to attend if he makes it to your town. You should go just so that you can tell me where I got it wrong if for nothing else.

When we last saw our intrepid heroes they were devouring their lunch and asking Ralph inane questions.

I know I said “A day with Ralph Kimball, Part 2″ would be next but I wanted to get this tech note out there while it was fresh in my mind. I’ll post items like this periodically as they occur to me to do so.

I upgraded our Oracle Designer repository from 9i to 10g. It looks like the little things that annoyed me in 9i will continue to do so in 10g, at least in the short term. I don’t see any dramatic changes and my problem child ERD still can’t be transformed to tables.