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What's on Your Hard Drive?
A recent study shows that people do not take proper care of their personal data.
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
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Embedded databases are useful for managing the data needs of systems requiring "set it and forget it" operation. In this entry we review the capabilities of Empress, a leading embedded DBMS.
Friday, May 20, 2005
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In today's blog entry we look for inspiration in some non-standard places as we progress happily through our day-to-day IT jobs.
Monday, May 16, 2005
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Some folks think that DBAs and application developers inhabit different universes. At times this may seem true, but the successful DBA must understand application development and the issues involved in programming and design.
Monday, May 02, 2005
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The MySQL Users Conference was held the week of April 18-21, 2005 and there was a lot of activity at the event.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
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I just wanted to use this blog entry to list out some general thoughts I've had this past week. I'll blog a general interest entry like this every now and then.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
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Are DBAs hyper-skilled technicians able to handle multiple tasks while keeping the company's database systems up-and-running at the same time? Or are they dummies?
Monday, March 28, 2005
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Every IT professional should have a library of the classics in their field. This blog entry offers a short list of books that belong on every computer professional's book shelf.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
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Once again, Oracle is fighting an acquisition battle. No, this is not old news. I am not talking about the gargantuan battle for PeopleSoft that Oracle waged for over a year. This time Oracle is fighting it out with SAP for the right to buy another application software vendor, Retek.
Monday, March 21, 2005
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Data quality is an elusive goal. The more we try to keep accurate records in database systems, the more it seems that at least some of that data is just plain wrong. Why is this so?
Friday, March 18, 2005
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