What are these people thinking? I opened up my Chicago Tribune (which means I took out of not one, but two separate plastic bags an enormo...

I watched Match Point last night (most recent Woody Allen movie). A very mediocre film; as I watched it, I thought to myself: "Surely, ...

I know, I know. It's been ages since I last posted. It's because I am super, tremendously busy, and I should tell you all about that...

ODTUG 2006 was held in Washington, DC, this year and it was, as usual, a great conference, even if I didn't win any awards. Ah, well, m...

From May 17-20, 2006, I visited the city of Prague, in the Czech Republic. It is a truly drazzling city with countless buildings of great b...

On Friday, I finished five days of straight training: talking for almost 6 hours each day, repeating the same seminar (and jokes....just hil...

I write to you from Tallinn, Estonia, Room 1818 of the Radisson SAS looking out over the Old City, as the sun sinks over the Baltic Sea . Ve...

I have little doubt that I "suffer" from a mild case of OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). What other explanation is there for t...

In my continuing series of "Isn't it amazing what you can do with PL/SQL?" I offer below an email I received from a very cleve...

I am, as most who read my books and my blog must know, quite obsessed with the Oracle PL/SQL langauge. So I am always on the lookout for ne...

Oracle recently announced production/general availability of Oracle Express Edition (XE). Generally a very exciting development: a totally ...

I must admit, I am something of a Honda bigot. Maybe that's because back in 1971, in my second year of college in Rochseter, NY, my fath...

I am distributing this idea out into the world of PL/SQL developers. Everything about it, including the name, acronym, structure, etc., is o...

As casinos explode in number across the United States (how else can the most powerful nation in the world, spending over $500 billion on wea...

I ran into a very interesting situation regarding Oracle GUIDs or Globally Unique Indentifiers, the other day. I will tell you about my expe...

I am on occasion honored with a request to do a keynote presentation at Oracle User Group meetings. I could do the usual "top ten...

I gave a two-day, hands-on training on PL/SQL collection this week, organized by John Goodhue of Speak-Tech . It was a very enjoyable, inter...

Just read a fascinating article in the Chicago Tribune (registration required to read it) about Daniel Fischel . Now before we go any furthe...

I watched The Island last night (warning: reading this blog might spoil the movie for you, so please do watch it first). It met my low expec...

Not surprisingly, many people visiting my blog wonder why I am not talking about PL/SQL. Hey, it's a great language, and it's made m...