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Work is Killing You and 10 Ways to Stop It From Happening!
This has been a hot button for me for some time – if we don’t find a way to fit exercise, fitness, and some healthy eating into our sedentary lives (like we in IT tend have), we will not live as long...
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Flexible Data Warehouse Architecture
My friend and colleague, Sanjay, just put up a new video discussing aspects of using the Data Vault as your data warehouse architecture. It is really short – just barely 10 minutes. You can jump over...
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Countdown to KScope: Oracle Education, Fitness and More
It’s almost here: the best education event for Oracle developers – the Oracle Development Tools User Group KScope12 conference. It starts Saturday June 23rd with the annual community service day...
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ODTUG KScope12: Day 3 Recap. More Fun in the San Antonio Sun
Well it was another HOT day in San Antonio, Texas at the 2012 ODTUG KScope conference. Really.. it was. It was something like 104 degrees outside with a Heat Index of 107. Yikes. But it was more like...
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ODTUG KScope12: Day 4 – Another Day in Paradise
Well folks, it is really late/early so, for now I am just putting up some pictures without a lot of detail. This was the sunrise that greeted me on the way to Morning Chi Gung. Going to be another hot...
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ODTUG KScope: Day 5 – Happy Trails
Well the final day of KScope12 finally arrived and it was another hot one with the final sessions and the Texas heat. Another bright red sunrise greeted us as it has all week. Today I managed to get a...
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Learn a Little Chi Gung with my KScope Morning Chi Gung Video
A little background… Last year for the ODTUG Kscope conference, then-president Mike Riley asked me if there was something from my martial arts training that I could offer to Kscope attendees that would...
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Big Blunder means extended discount opportunity for Data Vault fans
Sometimes the best laid plans…they just don’t quite work out. Here’s what I mean: If you were at my Data Vault session at the recent ODTUG KScope conference in San Antonio, you got a special code to...
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Oracle OpenWorld 2012: User Group Sunday
Yes, today was the first day for #OOW 2012. Affectionately known to many of us as User Group Sunday. Along with a ton of other activities, this is the day the various Oracle user groups get to “own”...
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2012: Year in the Life of an Oracle Data Warrior
Hard to believe it is nearly the end of the year. But…it is here. I will be taking time until the end of the year so I am doing my “year-end” post now. It was a significant year for me with many new...
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See you at KScope13!
Are you ready? It is almost time for the annual ODTUG KScope conference in New Orleans. It starts with the Community Service Day on Saturday June 22nd and runs through Thursday June 27th at the...
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Merry Christmas!
To all my loyal readers, followers, #BBBTers, #ODTUGers, #ChiGungers, #RMOUGers, #DataVaulters, #TKDers, and fellow Oracle #ACEs and #ACEDs, I want to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas! Talk to you...
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This just in: Win Dinner with Monty at #KScope14
Amazing but true – you can now enter a contest to win dinner with ODTUG President Monty Latiolais at ODTUG’s annual conference KScope14. This year KScope will be held in beautiful Seattle, Washington...
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Get thee to KScope14 in Seattle!
Once again it is that time of year when the who’s-who of Oracle development geekdom gather for their annual festival of education and networking. Yes it is time for ODTUG’s annual event KScope14 to be...
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Surfs Up! #KScope15 Beach Club: Opening Soon!
I know this is last minute but wanted to remind everyone that the Annual ODTUG KScope event starts in less that a week! As always, I will be there with my ACE Director hat on (literally). I will be...
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The Data Warrior Goes to Oracle Open World 2015 (#OOW15)
Yes boy and girls, it is that time of year again. Time for the BIG show in San Francisco – OOW15 I will as usual, attend, but only for a few days this year (been away from home too much). My Talk I...
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