So a Data Architect and a Biz Guy walk into a bar. is a post from: Database Geek Blog

Biz Guy (BG): What do you do?

Data Architect (DA): I’m a data architect.

BG: What’s a data architect?

DA: Well, a company is like a big hill and the business people are at the bottom of the hill. Data starts at the top. It looks and smells a lot like poop. As a matter of… Read the rest!

Agility and Analysis is a post from: Database Geek Blog

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… Read the rest!

Cool Tool Of The Week – Open Modelsphere: Open Source Data Modeling is a post from: Database Geek Blog

From The Database Geek

I like playing with new tools and software so I thought I would start a new weekly series, Cool Tool of the Week. I will just cover a tool that I have used or discovered that I think is cool. I’m not necessarily endoring it, just giving it a little publicity so… Read the rest!

Oracle INFORMATION_SCHEMA is a post from: Database Geek Blog

From the Database Geek.

Part of the ANSI SQL standard calls for an INFORMATION_SCHEMA. This schema contains a standardized data dictionary that is (or is supposed to be) common across various databases. Most database vendors offer a native data dictionary and a sub-set INFORMATION_SCHEMA (called info schema from this point on). Oracle is the only major database vendor (that I know of) that doesn’t even offer… Read the rest!

ORA_Tweet Now Does Short URLs is a post from: Database Geek Blog

Paul Gallagher, of the Tardate blog, emailed me this morning (or I guess it was last night) and sent me some code to enhace ORA_Tweet.  He wrote a package to call out to an is.gd API to convert a long URL to a short URL.  The really cool thing is that he used a regular expression to find matches INSIDE the comment body. … Read the rest!

Private vs Public Global Variables is a post from: Database Geek Blog

Recently I posted an article about ORA_Tweet, an Oracle Twitter Client. I was asked by someone reading the code why I put several variables in the BODY of the package rather than the SPEC. The question was posed something like this:

Why not put the variables in the package spec where they are modifiable? That would involve less maintenance.

I specifically put… Read the rest!

Catching Up – Email, PL/JSON, Oracle Open Source, ORA_Tweet on oracle.com is a post from: Database Geek Blog

Hi all.

This post is just a catchup of what I have been doing recently.

I cleaned out my email inbox. I had 5000 unread emails. I have a problem that if I get an email that is not spam but is not critical, I put it aside “to read later”. Sometimes, I actually do go back… Read the rest!

View PDFs on a BlackBerry is a post from: Database Geek Blog

I have been in search of a good PDF viewer for my BlackBerry. I tried out several different readers and even use MobiPocket to convert them. I wrote up my experiences in Mobile PDFs – 4 Way to Read PDFs on your BlackBerry.

In that post, I am review 3 native PDF viewers for the BlackBerry: PDF to Go, Repligo Reader and BeamReader.… Read the rest!

DBAs and Developers, Do you suffer from Performance Dysfunction (PD)? is a post from: Database Geek Blog

Posted by the Database-Geek.

DBAs and developers, do you suffer from PD? PD, performance dysfunction, is not a topic that many like to discuss. A few people do but they mostly hang out together at conferences and talk about the size of their tuples. For the rest of us, PD is an evil, evil thing.

There are as… Read the rest!

I apologize for the state of the code formatting is a post from: Database Geek Blog

This is very frustrating to me. Apparently a change was made here at ittoolbox that is screwing up the HTML PRE tag. Posts that used to look good now look like crap. If I allow line breaks, it is somewhat readable but doesn’t keep spacing. If I don’t allow line breaks, which I usually don’t, it is pretty unreadable.… Read the rest!

Comment by ting zhang on Oracle Modernization Solutions is a post from: Database Geek Blog

Thank you very much for sharing the information of the book,in fact i was depressed by SOA..when boss told me that the new project needed SOA,in my mind,there is a big question…why ?what and how? boss said to me,you must designed it,and big questions appeared…but i cant say that boss,i dont know how to do it and why it is… Read the rest!

Oracle Modernization Solutions is a post from: Database Geek Blog

Oracle Modernization Solutions
A practical guide to planning and implementing SOA integration and Re-architecting to an Oracle platform
Authors: Tom Laszewski, Jason Williamson

Co-Authors: Mark Rakhmilevich, Michael Oara, Prakash Nauduri

Publisher…

Comment by HelenWei on YOU Should Write a Blog! is a post from: Database Geek Blog

Hi, experts, and coders,

I am looking for the groups those discuss the methods and procedures that can make the oracle data extraction and integration at the oracle CRM database interface client section. Please add me to any tools using discussion, such like Visual basic, Java, or SQL server, or Oracle Siebel CRM itself, or any similar… Read the rest!

Comment by Darla Sycamore on YOU Should Write a Blog! is a post from: Database Geek Blog

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Comment by LewisC on What Should I Learn? 6 Things That Will Make You better! is a post from: Database Geek Blog

Cathy,

Thanks for the comment.

I think 4 is the hardest for many people. It was the hardest for me. 6 is hard for many people too.

Good luck in 2009!

LewisC

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