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 out my long term business model (maybe?), writing a few more short ebooks (stay tuned), doing my Oracle ACE Director thing, continuing to work as [...]

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. The response: Data model? What data model? Or maybe: Why do you need to see that? Sigh. So you fight your way through getting [...]

After writing about creating a new fitness habit yesterday, I had my own little ah-ha moment today about a bad habit I had formed.. For lunch today, I went downstairs to the building cafe and got a pretty healthy sandwich and some steamed broccoli (instead of fries) and headed outside to eat. There are a few shaded tables outside [...]

With my new assignment comes new opportunity. One of those opportunities is the time to exercise a bit more (I just eliminated a rather long commute). What to do and when to do it? How to arrange my new schedule efficiently to get in a work out , do my job, do my user group activities, write blog posts, [...]