My First Triathlon?
Not sure why I felt this post-worthy... A friend and co-worker of mine is doing her first triathlon this weekend. I think she saw some of my posts about my first (in a million years) being in October,...
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Not sure why I felt this post-worthy... A friend and co-worker of mine is doing her first triathlon this weekend. I think she saw some of my posts about my first (in a million years) being in October,...
View ArticleOracle OpenWorld – Swim in the Bay 2012
Last Monday at 7:30 AM PST, 17 brave souls joined me in the First Annual Oracle OpenWorld Swim in the Bay, a refreshing swim in San Francisco waters. To be precise, it was at the Aquatic Part near the...
View ArticleOracle OpenWorld – Swim in the Bay 2012
Last Monday at 7:30 AM PST, 17 brave souls joined me in the First Annual Oracle OpenWorld Swim in the Bay, a refreshing swim in San Francisco waters. To be precise, it was at the Aquatic Part near the...
View ArticleFun with Date Math
(First off, sorry Mike, I'm hoping this will break my writer's block...) On Friday I was asked to look at a report that wasn't returning all of the data. Sample: Year/Month Total Sales Total Sales...
View ArticleRun Scripts in SQL Developer
I finally decided to save a script that cleans out a couple of tables for me. Now I have a script, how do I run it in SQL Dev? In SQL*Plus, I would run it like @clean_tables. Two things to note there,...
View ArticleThe Internet
Have you seen this State Farm ad? I think it's hilarious. Riding to batting practice with LC, he starts up with me... LC: (in response to some statement I made) "Where'd you hear that?"Me: "The...
View Articlecaveats
I always find myself putting an asterisk (if only mentally) next to certain statements. I shall now put all those statements here and link back. I don't know everything I'm not the best developer in...
View ArticleFun with SQL – My Birthday
This year is kind of fun, my birthday is on November 12th (next Tuesday, if you want to send gifts). That means it will fall on 11/12/13. Even better perhaps, katezilla's birthday is December 13th....
View ArticleKscope 2012 Recap
The VenueThe event took place this year in hotter-than-Hades San Antonio, Texas. Fortunately for all of us, the hotel and conference were in a single (Texas-sized) building; the JW Marriott San...
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