Thought I would share a few links that I read this morning. I don’t do a lot of link posts but these three came off my RSS, one after the other, and all three are worth sharing.

The first is Will Oracle kill MySQL? Come on people! I can’t believe people are still stuck on this FUD. Ronald gives some good reasons why that is not likely. The only thing this kind of FUD really does is drive people to Postgres (and that postgres derivative that starts with an E and ends with a DB). I’m glad Ronald was able to set the record straight.

As developers, analysts, adminstrators, etc, I think most of us tend towards perfectionism. We want to do the job right and we want to do the job right the first time around.
Agility means being able to move forward with less than perfect information. Sometimes it means moving forward with information that is known to incomplete or even potentially inaccurate.
So what does that mean for analysis? Analysis, by definition, is the separation of individual components from the whole. The goal being, at least in my universe of activities, to be the understanding of a business proccess’s basic feature set and the relationships between those features.

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• Interesting (dated) stat: oracle ebs 11i used hints on .3% of its 270000 queries.

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