A couple of days ago I was sorting a printer out for my mom. It was a 5 minute job, but it was preceded by over 2 hours of getting the laptop up to date… She only turns it on to do a specific task, like send an email, then it is switched straight off, [...]
Not sure how this one sneaked past me, but WordPress 2.9.2 has been out for a few days… Cheers Tim…
Warning: If you are offended by bad language, please don’t read this post. You’ve been warned! I’ve had a problem with my heel for a few weeks and what I suspected was an ear infection for a couple of weeks, but I’ve avoided going to the doctors because I hate it. I never used to [...]
As regular readers will know I’m a sucker (no pun intended) for vampire movies, except those crappy Moonlight ones. They’ve just started showing The Vampire Diaries on TV so I thought I would tune in and give it a go. Well it’s not as bad as Craplight, but you could be forgiven for thinking you [...]
I’ve been having a play around with the DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE package introduced in 11gR2. It seems pretty neat, but I can’t help thinking the suggested usage (updating large tables) would probably be better done with a table redefinition or CTAS. It’s worth knowing about though. Cheers Tim…