NoCOUG Networking Game #1: Name That Winner!
“Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name And they’re always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see Our troubles are all the same; You wanna be where everybody knows Your name.”...
View ArticleFreedom from unread books
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them” —Lobel, Arnold. Whiskers and Rhymes. William...
View ArticlePlease Ma’am, What is Big Data? Gwen Gives Good Guidance
These pictures of Gwen Shapira giving her popular presentation on Big Data at the Monthly NoCOUG Beer and Pizza Nite are themselves an example of Big Data. Don’t store pictures and images inside a...
View ArticleHow Not to Interview a Database Administrator (The Google Way)
As suggested by the following story, Google would have preferred to hire my teenage daughter as the manager of their database team instead of me. I was on a long drive with my family so—to pass the...
View ArticleIf the Cost Based Optimizer was a car, what would its bumper sticker say?
And look what I have with me http://t.co/Fr9vNTbq— Maria Colgan (@SQLMaria) October 01, 2012 Also see: The Great Optimizer Bumper Sticker Competition Filed under: Oracle
View ArticleWhich data belongs in a relational DBMS? Asking Gwen Shapira, Thomas Kurian,...
Loving this tweet by Oracle ACE Director Gwen Shapira who is loving a comment made at the Oracle ACE Director Product Briefing at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 by Oracle Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian...
View ArticleSolve the SQL mini-challenge and attend the November 15 NoCOUG conference for...
SQL comes in two distinct flavors—“relational calculus” and “relational algebra.” Without sweating the technical details, let’s just say that the relational calculus flavor is characterized by...
View ArticleResults of the Third International NoCOUG SQL Challenge
As published in the November 2012 issue of the NoCOUG Journal The Third International NoCOUG SQL Challenge sponsored by Pythian—Love Your Data™ was published in the May 2012 issue of the NoCOUG...
View ArticleSpectacular front cover picture (and articles) in the NoCOUG Journal
The front cover of the November issue of the NoCOUG Journal features a spectacular picture of a Bigleaf Maple in blue and purple fall colors taken by NoCOUG member Dave Abercrombie. Who knew that fall...
View ArticleAttention Looney Tuners and SQL Sinners everywhere
Do you write or tune SQL statements in your job? Are you a Looney Tuner? A SQL Sinner? Do you yearn to learn the secrets of SQL performance? Are you looking for a guru to dispel the clouds of...
View ArticleTwo instances with the same ORACLE_SID on one Unix server
You may have encountered the problem where you can connect to your Oracle database through the listener but cannot connect locally even though the value of ORACLE_SID in your environment is correct...
View ArticleTwo instances with the same ORACLE_SID on one Unix server
Reblogged from So Many Oracle Manuals, So Little Time: Follow @Oratweets You may have encountered the problem where you can connect to your Oracle database through the listener but cannot connect...
View ArticleDilbert likes Hadoop clusters
Here are some old Dilbert cartoons with the references to SQL databases—the hot technology of the 1990s—replaced with references to Hadoop clusters—today’s hot technology. On a more serious note, I...
View ArticleWe don’t use databases; we don’t use indexes
Whenever salespeople phone Mogens Norgaard, he puts them off by saying that he just doesn’t use the products that they are calling about. When the office furniture company phones, he says “We don’t use...
View ArticleWe don’t use databases; we don't use indexes
Reblogged from So Many Oracle Manuals, So Little Time: Whenever salespeople phone Mogens Norgaard, he puts them off by saying that he just doesn’t use the products that they are calling about. When the...
View ArticleThe golden rule of NOT tuning SQL
Dear NoCOUG members and friends, The golden rule of not tuning SQL is “operate with as little information as possible.” Not only will this increase your chances of failure but it will make it difficult...
View ArticleBe Very Afraid: An interview with the CTO of database security at McAfee
As published in the 105th issue of the NoCOUG Journal (February 2013) Slavik Markovich is vice president and chief technology officer for Database Security at McAfee and has over 20 years of experience...
View ArticleOracle Corporation Gives Fresh Life to the Relational Database Movement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Francisco (April 1, 2013) – In a dramatic move calculated to give fresh life to the moribund relational database movement, database technology leader Oracle Corporation has...
View ArticleNoSQL and Oracle, Sex and Marriage
In a post entitled “NoSQL and Oracle, Sex and Marriage,” Cary Millsap asks why NoSQL technologies are suddenly so popular. My take is that application developers have belatedly but correctly concluded...
View ArticleWhat’s your take on RDBMS and NoSQL?
My take is that application developers have belatedly but correctly concluded that an RDBMS is not the best tool for every application. For example, relational algebra, relational calculus, and SQL are...
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