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Hurry – Only 24 Hours Left to Get a Free Conference Registration
As I have written before, I love Oracle User Groups. My two most favorite groups are the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG) and the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG). These two groups...
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Have you lost your keys?
Has this ever happened to you: You are starting a new project working on an existing database or data warehouse. Being the great data architect that you are, you of course ask to see the data model....
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2012: Year in the Life of an Oracle Data Warrior
Hard to believe it is nearly the end of the year. But…it is here. I will be taking time until the end of the year so I am doing my “year-end” post now. It was a significant year for me with many new...
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Happy 2013! What will you do this year?
Happy New Year! Welcome to year #2 of the Oracle Data Warrior. I hope everyone is looking forward to a bright, happy, and successful year (however you measure it). For me it will be a year of figuring...
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Tech Tip: Connect to SQL Server Using Oracle SQL Developer
I spend a lot of time reverse engineering client databases to see what kind of design they are working with or to simply create a data model diagram for them (so they know what they have). Along the...
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Rocky Mountain High and Some Chi Gung
Are you ready? Are you coming? The annual Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group Training Days kicks off next Monday, February 11 at the Denver Convention Center. I can hardly wait! I love the beautiful...
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RMOUG Training Days 2013 – OTN Lab Day
Today I arrived in Denver to attend the annual Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) Training Days conference. It is one of, if not the, most successful local Oracle user group events in the...
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RMOUG Training Days 2013 – Day 1
Unlike many conferences, today started off not with the keynote but with an actual session (probably some advanced psychology at work here). I started off with John King’s session on Oracle 11g...
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RMOUG Training Days 2013 – Day 2
So on this 2nd and final day of the annual RMOUG Training Days event, I started out by attending an excellent session on Exadata for Oracle DBAs. Even though I am not a DBA these days I thought it...
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Data Vault and the Oracle Reference Architecture
Thanks to Mark Rittman and Twitter, I found out just before RMOUG that Oracle had published a new reference architecture. It used to be called the Data Warehouse Reference Architecture, now it is...
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Get thee to KScope13!
Jeff Smith (@thatjeffsmith) just posted a great little piece about why you can’t afford to miss this year’s ODTUG event in New Orleans: KScope13. As usually I will be speaking there as well and running...
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Oracle Designer Lives!
Amazing as it seems, I picked this article up on Twitter today. An up to date, current, and NEW article about automating builds of applications from the Oracle Designer repository. How very agile…...
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Another First at ODTUG’s #Kscope13
Those crazy kids at ODTUG have done it again! At this year’s KScope in New Orleans this user group is introducing an evening of crossover sessions. Over the years the event has grown and actually...
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The 1st Tip is Free: Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
This year’s ODTUG KScope conference is less than a month away and I am ready to get to New Orleans and meet up with all my friends and colleagues to talk shop and learn some new things. So in hopes of...
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Another Free Tip for SQL Developer Data Modeler (and a Challenge)
So here is another tip on using Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler – but this time it is one I will NOT be showing during my session at #KScope13. In SDDM there is a really nice wizard for building...
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See you at KScope13!
Are you ready? It is almost time for the annual ODTUG KScope conference in New Orleans. It starts with the Community Service Day on Saturday June 22nd and runs through Thursday June 27th at the...
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Welcome to the Biggest KScope Conference Ever!
Day one at ODTUG’s KScope13 was awesome as always with a great set of symposiums and networking events. At the speaker meeting we learned that there are 1,400 registered attendees, 30 countries...
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KScope13 Day Two: Wine to Water and Other Transformations
So day two in New Orleans at the ODTUG KScope13 event was another big day. I am gong to start out at the end of the day with the General Session update so if you don’t have time to read the whole post...
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KScope13 Day Three: Crossing Over in New Orleans
Well Tuesday was another fun and fact filled day at the annual ODTUG KScope conference in New Orleans. As we do each morning, the first event is Morning Chi Gung. This morning the group grew again to...
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KScope13 Day Four: Agile, Big Data, and a Very Special Event
Mid-week. Hump day. The day of the BIG event for KScope13. Lots of anticipation for the annual Special Event… (which I will write about in a minute or so) Morning Chi Gung as usual, but with 24 people...
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