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Oracle EBooks

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
I’ve decided that my next writing task (besides the blog here), will be a series of ebooks. I am thinking that I will start with Intro To SQL, Intro to Relational Databases, Modern Replication Tools, R…

Posted 07 November 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Data Breach: Express Scripts Pharmacy

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
Once more unto the breach, dear freinds, once more.
Express Scripts Warns of Potential Large Data Breach Tied to Threat
I used Express Scripts on at least one prior job so this kind of sucks for me as …

Posted 07 November 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Obama’s Change

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
Just to update you about my post on juries and elections from a few days ago, I was chosen in a group to be questioned for a trial. They never asked me any questions and I wasn’t chosen. It was a batte…

Posted 06 November 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Why AWS for Oracle (and anything else)?

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
Why Use Amazon Web Services

The real value of a cloud computing initiative is primarily an economic one. It is much cheaper to get up and running on someone else’s hardware than it is to buy your own….

Posted 06 November 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Cloud Studio for AWS EC2 and S3

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
Amazon ships a handful of tools to use EC2 and S3. There are some freely downloaded scripts that make life a bit easier. Personally, I want to use a GUI. I use SSH enough when I connect remotely. If I’…

Posted 05 November 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Elections and Jury Duty: A Good Week to be an American

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
I am sitting here in the Juror Auditorium at the Hillsborough County courthouse. I was picked for jury duty. I’m 42 years old and have been driving since I was 15 (jurors are picked from motor vehicle …

Posted 03 November 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Amazon Goes Production and Windows Cloud Goes Beta

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
Amazon recently announced some big news. Actually they made several announcements at once.
Amazon goes production! Amazon AWS has been in beta for a couple of years now. Amazon has decided that they ar…

Posted 30 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Partitioning For Developers, Part 3

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
This is the final post (3 of 3) that I began last week. Before reading this one, read part 1 and part 2. I will post a presentation on this topic shortly.
How do I use Partitioning?
Now we get to the c…

Posted 28 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Leo: The Mouse Master

The day of an 11 month old boy:

Stalk Mouse - Check
Attack Mouse - Check
Wrestle on the floor with mouse - Check
Kill Mouse - Check
Nap - Check

Life is good.
LewisC

Technorati : family, fun, off topic, photo

Posted 23 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

11 Sites and Software Tools For The Traveler

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology
I have been traveling a lot lately. A LOT. I used to travel weekly when I was consulting and liked it. I like going to new places, meeting new clients, learning new business models. I was never big on …

Posted 22 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °