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A recent email from a former student

I heard from Ken Deutschmann of Anheuser Busch and he made my day knowing he’d used knowledge and techniques from the Optimizing Oracle SQL, Intensive class. Here’s what he had to say.”I had always considered myself a decent query tuner/writer. But, …

Posted 20 April 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

POW time !!!

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and are getting ready for a Happy New Year. I was on vacation the week before Christmas. My brothers and nephews came to Idaho for a visit and a lot of Snowboarding. We’ve had pretty good snow the past couple of week…

Posted 31 December 2006 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Some Great News

We’ve had a lot of students ask when there would be a graphical interface for the Hotsos SQL Test Harness. Great news !!! Last week Dave Stone of the Hotsos development staff attended OPINT in Dallas. Rumor has it that Dave will be developing the new G…

Posted 11 December 2006 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Terrorist Targets (not) and Tasty Kakes!

I’ve been conducting Optimizing Oracle SQL Intensive this week in King of Prussia, PA. Most students are from PJM (which manages a huge power grid here on the east coast). Other students are from SIG, Dorman Products and Vertex Inc. I’d ask the st…

Posted 01 December 2006 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °