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Yes, I am borrowing the closing line from "The Night Before Christmas" by Clement Clarke Moore once again this year. What better way to wish all of you and your loved ones a Very, Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Being of Italian heritage, I thought I should

After spending the last ten years on "The Project Problem," I have now finally been able to articulate my Mission as I looked back at it in retrospect. I am struck by the fact that it took me so long to come up with a simple expression of my mission. Perhaps if I could have come up with this statement sooner, my life would have been easier. Then again, perhaps not. Here is the newly articulated

While preaching web self service for most organizations is passe, most are yet to fully grasp the significance self-service can have on the bottom line.

My Pet Peeve of the Week is "Personal Hygiene" - is it time to take a bath?

The defendants have revealed the Prior Art that they hope will shoot down the Juxtacomm patent infringement claim and have accused the Juxtacomm inventors of deception.

LewisC's An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology I was reading about a new tool (pattern?, methodology?) that can find relationships and patterns in very large, time dependent, interrelated data (sounds like a warehouse doesn't it?). From the descrip...

Two songs, same event. Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJi41RWaTCs   Belleau Wood by Garth Brooks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTl0S37CIXU

Most of you know that I grew up (spent my 30 years) in Niagara Falls, NY. Niagara Falls is in Western New York, just a little North of the world famous "Snow Belt".

Once you're on a roll and have created data you need a method to deliver information as well as collect it for use later. Today we look at the various means to present information to your users that will affect positive change in their working day. Here is the first choice and a few words about it: Online forms Users want data online. Let's not talk about outside customers

LewisC's An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology I just learned how to do discounts on my estore. Since I can do that now, I decided to offer $4.00 off my book (list $14.95). That means you can get it for $10.95. I'll delete this discount sometime af...

So, have you been feeling the crunch for your current position? It is interesting to note that while the rest of the world is seemingly in a recession, IT seems to be doing well still.

The last video I wanted to highlight in this series is from Mr. Paul Turpin from Wachovia on how they are leveraging DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows to support their business needs. My favorite quote from Mr. Turpin in this video is: “Probably my favorite feature, and it’s not exactly a feature, is stability. When DB2 comes up it just runs and runs and runs.” Watch the video and then

My Pet Peeve of the Week is "Presidential Legacies" - what do we remember?

This week my tutorial is a description of the construction/navigation of the "PRIDE"-Data Base Engineering Methodology (DBEM). This is Part XXI of our series on the "PRIDE" METHODOLOGIES FOR IRM (special broadcast). My "Pet Peeve of the Week" is "Presidential Legacies" and we also have our "Letters to the Editor."

LewisC's An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology I want to be a DBA, what should I learn? I want to be an Oracle developer, what should I learn? I want to get into IT, what should I learn? I want to get promoted, what should I learn? I get questions ...

Those of you who have read my blog for some time, know that we endured some challenges with our home in July 2007. Read: All Press is Good Press and take a look at Images from Mud House to get caught up... This past week, finally, the house was dem...