I just heard from the author of The Secret Language of Birds! A friend of a friend of a friend, she said, mentioned my post about finding her book. :) She's working on a bird tarot herself, due out next spring or maybe even winter. :) In other news, Finn had an awesome nap this morning, but is alrea...

Remember a month or so ago, when we asked whether Oracle’s critical patch updates (CPU) were all that critical? The answer from many (outside of Oracle) was no. In fact, many DBAs considered it too much trouble. Responses ranged from “security ‘experts’ drumming up business t...

Ron Markezich corporate VP of Microsoft Online Services taking a swipe at Google says that Microsoft maintains its services at four-nines availability, while backing up its three-nines SLA with financial penalties: “We don’t just give service credits, we give hard......

The Much Anticipated Annual Letter From Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway - It Was A Rough Year To read the full report click here. For media reaction and the headlines that are typically raves, this year is a little different. To view some of these headlines click here . Some Of The Points Made ...

This is the 137th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Dave Edwards is enjoying a week off, and so as part of my plot to take over the world, I am writing this week’s Log Buffer. First, the fun stuff: Josh Berkus tells us that the American English Translation of the Mang...

Recently, a lot of new non-relational databases have cropped up both inside and outside the cloud. One key message this sends is, "if you want vast, on-demand scalability, you need a non-relational database". If that is true, then is this a sign that the once mighty relational database finally has a...

Day One at RMOUG in Denver is now over. There were quite a few interesting presentations. Unfortunately, the very first I went to was canceled due to car trouble. I also found that several sessions of similar interest to me overlapped, so I had to choose my spots. Advanced Oracle Troubleshooting Thi...

You see, there is a really nice latex dress in it and I want to find out where it is from so that I can buy one. Let me know if it is appropriate or not. Its a lesbian scene and you cant really see that much. I spose i could fuzz out anything to explicit Thanks Mike...

Oracle Europe has scheduled what is being billed as the first Virtual Enterprise 2.0 Conference focused on Europe on 19 February 2009. Although I am sure most of the content will focus on Oracle’s Enterprise 2.0 technology solutions, the conference should be interesting in that the keynote by ...

By Barbara Darrow, Senior News Director19 Jan 2009 | SearchITChannel.com A big chunk of Oracle Corp.'s recent layoffs came in the company's channel-facing groups, according to Oracle partners. Oracle cut between 500 and 800 jobs this month, and it appears that a big chunk of them were in channel man...