It’s almost here: the best education event for Oracle developers – the Oracle Development Tools User Group KScope12 conference. It starts Saturday June 23rd with the annual community service day helping out the Boy’s and Girl’s Club of San Antonio. Then things really get rolling on Sunday June 24th with the famed all-day, in-depth symposiums. One Monday, the [...]

As most of my readers know, I use Oracle’s SQL Developer Data Modeler to do all my data modeling. It has a lot of great features that are documented online in various places. One of those is Design Rules. Design Rules (Tools -> Design Rules -> Design Rules) include a host of predefined quality checks [...]

You bet it is! Years ago I wrote an article about Agile Data Warehousing and proposed using Data Vault Data Modeling as a way to get there. Dan Linstedt recently published an article with more details on how it fits. Here are the good parts: 1. Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools The Data [...]

This has been a hot button for me for some time – if we don’t find a way to fit exercise, fitness, and some healthy eating into our sedentary lives (like we in IT tend have), we will not live as long as we hope. And life will not be as enjoyable as it could [...]