Archive for July, 2008

DBJ: Useful PL/SQL Packages

In our latest database journal piece, we cover some useful Oracle-supplied pl/sql stored procedures to help you instrument and debug your code, dump metadata descriptions of your database objects (a la MySQL dump –no-rows) and much more.

Take a look at  DBA Insider – Useful PL/SQL Packages.

Contractualities: Open Insights 45

Hard to believe we’ve reached our 45th issue of our monthly newsletter.  Time flies, that’s for sure.

This month’s topic is fixed fee contracts.  We tell a story of a recent business experience, the trouble, the challenge, and the resolution.  Hopefully it’ll help folks out there who are also looking at fixed fee project-based billing, and how to manage scope, and client expectations.

Open Insights 45 – Contractualities

DBJ: Oracle Automatic Storage Management

What is ASM, and why do we need it?  In this piece, we cover the impetus for it’s creation, and what you can do with it.  Oracle Automatic Storage Management