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Nice surprise…

Imagine that, a bit over a week ago I walk out of the office building and am surprised by this view:Turns out I stumbled into the 2008 Porsche Parade! That was a nice surprise. The weather wasn’t too bad either, so it made for a nice afternoon stroll. …

Posted 11 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Ora-600 [Qctvco:Csform]

At one recent engagement we ran into a problem with queries against some views running slow. The CBO didn’t use complex view merging because this was turned off due to a 10G bug. This bug is documented in Metalink note 437376.1: “A query involving i…

Posted 07 December 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Too early!

This morning at 6:33 my alarm starts blaring… Now, this is my second night in this hotel, yesterday morning nothing happened, and I did not touch the alarm clock.This is not the first time this happened to me. So I’m suspecting a conspiracy. Or is th…

Posted 10 May 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire?

It has been cold in Austin the last couple of days. The result of two days of freezing rain: a thick layer of ice on my roof! OK, not a strange sight in some parts of the country, but here in Texas…I sure don’t need no water :-)

Posted 18 January 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Is it just me?

Sometimes I feel like I behave like a simple CBO. I’m about to go home, driving from Austin to Houston. So in my mind I’m already building an execution plan:- don’t have enough fuel to get home, so- i’ll stop in Brenham at the Shell gas station- get fu…

Posted 29 December 2006 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °