Lewis Cunningham

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I wrote the other day about how recruiter's and it folk can work together. Tonight I was contacted by a recruiter looking for Java programmers. Besides me already taking another job, I'm not a java guy. I'm a database guy who does some java. So, I wrote hi

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I've dropped off this topic for a while but I want to pick it back up before 2009 gets here. ;-) I'm changing my approach a bit. In an effort to be as fair and accurate as possible, I will be discussing the database and company (where that applies) with the company that produces the database. I'll revisit my earlier posts when I have a chance to talk

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology

Do you know what a tag line is? It's those nifty phrases that come after a product or brand to get your attention. Like "Quality is job 1" or "Have it your way". Some of those tag lines really become part of the universal meme. Here are a few tag lines I'd like to see.

Oracle - Expensive. Because we can be.

Oracle - If it's not part of o

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology

Do you know what a tag line is? It's those nifty phrases that come after a product or brand to get your attention. Like "Quality is job 1" or "Have it your way". Some of those tag lines really become part of the universal meme. Here are a few tag lines I'd like to see.

Oracle - Expensive. Because we can be.

Oracle - If it's not part of

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology

Larry Ellison is a technology leader. I think that's generally accepted. Some people might not like him, but you can't really deny what he has done with Oracle. Larry apparently has one giant weakness though. He's way ahead of his time. I ran across this

I'm a productive, tax paying citizen again!

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology

As you might know, last week I published an entry saying that I was looking for a job. I have to say I got a great response, both here on the blog and direct emails. I got great

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I will be presenting at the Virginia Oracle User Group (VOUG) user conference on Oct 9 & 10. The conference is being held at the Omni Richmond Hotel in Richmond, VA. It looks like it will be a good conference with plenty of good speakers. Steven Feuerstein is the keynote speaker. I'm not sure how many separate tr

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology

I know I promised to write about my ideal job but I decided to continue the thought stream I started the other day in ACID vs BASE, I decided to do a little bit of research on the subject of eventual consistency (since I have some time on my hands. heh).

I think my ideas

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Yesterday, I wrote Recruiters: How to work with techies. A few hours later, I got laid off. Irony? You betcha!

Yep, fired. Given the old heave ho. Downsized. Placed into a career transition. Restructured. Pinched while dangling. My services are no

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I was contacted by a recruiter a few days ago. I wasn't interested in the job but I noticed this recruiter had a blog in her signature. That's the first time I've seen that from a recruiter so I went to check it out. The blog had at least one entry that was written by someone else and that is the entry I am addressing here. That entry is

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology

I'm just thinking out loud here. If you don't like technical ramblings, don't continue reading.

Ok, we all know what ACID is right? In databases I mean, not at woodstock. ;-) Don't take the brown ACID!

• Atomicity - all parts of a transaction succeed or none of then succeed. Integrity.
• Consistency - Nothing in your trans

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Update: Justin Kestelyn just tweeted a link on Oracle to the DBA 2.0 event.

My friends at the Suncoast Oracle User Group sent an email last night about an Oracle Developer Day event coming to town in a couple of weeks. The last Developer Day I a

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IBM Developerworks has posted a new article, Evaluating XPaths from the Java platform. This is a really detailed article for those of you doing XML from java. The little title blurb says:

No data format is harder to sea

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology

If you started in IT in the last 10 years, the odds are good you've never programmed in COBOL. If you started between 10 and 20 years ago, it's possible that you missed that particular language. Over 20 years, you've probably had to at least do a little COBOL. I did about 3 years of it in my early days. Ma

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September is just around the corner. If you're going to OOW this year, I would suggest you get registered now and get a hotel. Last year there were more than 45000 attendees. I wonder what the estimate is for this year? With BEA in the mix, I would guess well over 5

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology I recently did a Q&A about my views on cloud computing and cloud databases for the Race Talk Blog. This is the company blog for the Race Point Group, a global PR firm. I met the interviewer, Ginger, at the

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I mentioned a while back, during ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008, that SQL Developer would add support for data modeling.

Sue Harper me

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology

My head seems to be in the clouds these da

I've been working with EnterpriseDB's cloud offering recently and started looking around at what other databases are doing in the cloud. Amazon is the 500 pound gorilla. The market leader in cloud computing also offers a very simple database called, appropriately, SimpleDB.

Hi all. This will be a short one. I'm on a plane on the way to New Jersey. I just recently started using Opera-mini and wanted to see if I could post. I couldn't with the default blackberry browser. It appears to be working. Now I can blog from anywhere! My wife will love that. ;-). She already hates it. She hates twitter too. Opera-mini is a nice little browser. Excellent support for most of the pages I frequent. Take care, LewisC