I’m sure that this topic will be irrelevant to most people. Usually, when your organization needs you to develop a new application they say to take as long as you want. Rarely do we actually have timelines or due dates. But I guess there might be one or two people out there who need to [...]
Six Steps to Effective RAD
March 9th, 2007 Comments Off
Consistent Reads and Multiversioning
March 8th, 2007 § 2 Responses
Came up with this demo for a class last week and I think that it’s useful. The demo illustrates one of the most important foundational concepts in an Oracle database: how Oracle provides isolation and consistency. For my favorite technical illustration of undo and redo check out slide #22 of the Redo Internals presentation on [...]
Life Requires a Sense of Humor
March 3rd, 2007 Comments Off
Aris, my roommate, just now left for work. He’s working a full day even though it’s a Saturday. He just reminded me that this is another reason he’s not paid enough… Here’s a snippet of the conversation we had right before he walked out the door: Jeremy: Why are you renaming your windows domain? That’s [...]