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4th Quarter 2006 
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This issues featured articles...

01.  An IT Christmas Song
02.  "Stupid DBA/Developer Tricks!"
03.  Review of the March 2006 Hotsos Symposium
04.  DOUG Welcomes New Board Member


01.

An IT Christmas Song!
by Mary Elizabeth McNeely, DOUG Technology Meetings Chair
Sung to the tune of "Do You Hear What I Hear?"

 

"Do You Hear What I Hear?"

Said the end user to the help desk,
Do you see what I see?
In the data center, help desk,
Do you see what I see?
A database, stumbling through the night
With response time that's really a blight
With response time that's really a blight

Said the help desk to the developer,
Do you hear what I hear?
Ringing through the sky, developer,
Do you hear what I hear?
Angry users, in varying degrees
With a voice as big as the sea
With a voice as big as the sea

Said the developer to the DBA,
Do you know what I know?
Pray for peace, DBA,
Do you know what I know?
Our users want to throw us to the dogs
Let us start the app tuning slog
Let us start the app tuning slog

Said the DBA to the CIO,
Listen to what I say
In your palace warm, CIO!
Listen to what I say
Cary Millsap, with his tuning might
Can repair this performance fright
Can repair this performance fright

Said the CIO to Cary Millsap,
I'm not sure what to say
Get us some relief, Cary!
I'm not sure what to say
Our users, gave us the shoulder cold
Let us turn performance to gold
Let us turn performance to gold

Said Cary Millsap to the people everywhere,
Method R can fix this
With properly scoped trace files
Method R can fix this
The database, will blaze through ev'ry night
It will bring you goodness and light
It will bring you goodness and light


02.

"STUPID DBA/DEVELOPER TRICKS!"
by Mary Elizabeth McNeely, DOUG Technology Meetings Chair

 

Welcome to the inaugural column of “Stupid DBA/Developer Tricks”, where you can read about some of your peers’ not-so-proud Oracle-related moments.

So, my story … I decided to make a small change to a client’s Oracle traditional cold backup strategy: instead of copying the database files then zipping them, I wanted to zip them on the fly by writing to a pipe, reading from the pipe, compressing the pipe output and writing it to a gzipped file. Just as “Hey, watch this!!!” have been famous last words….

 

 

Has your urge for clever tricks and quick-fixes ever turned into a total disaster? Help keep others from making the same fateful mistake by sharing your humiliating “ouches and oops’.” Submit your stories to lgustafson@esoftsolutions.com


03. Review of the March 2006 Hotsos Symposium
by Mary Elizabeth McNeely, DOUG Technology Meetings Chair
 

The Hotsos Symposium this year, as usual, didn’t disappoint. Held each spring in the Dallas area by Hotsos, the publisher of the Hotsos Profiler, it offers a choice of Oracle-related lectures during several daily time slots. The optional add-on training day is taught by a single lecturer. This event provides an excellent opportunity to...

 


04. DOUG Welcomes New Board Member!
 

Meet Lawrence Russell, our newest board member!

Mr. Russell has over 13 years of technology and consulting experience and is currently serving as Director of Solution Delivery for Perficient (www.perficient.com), a national consulting company based in Austin, Texas.  

Prior to joining Perficient, Lawrence served as the Director of Business Information Services for the high-tech security company McAfee.  Previously, Lawrence helped start and served as CRM Director for a Dallas, Texas based consulting company. He also spent 5 years as a consultant with inteleSolve/ONE, Inc. and several years with GTE and PrimeCo (now Verizon and Verizon Wireless).

During his career, Lawrence has implemented Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management and Enterprise Integration solutions for companies across a variety of industries including: Telecom, Media, Energy and High Tech.

Lawrence has a bachelor's degree in information systems from Texas A&M University.


 

Click Here to See Who’s on The DOUG Board?
To learn more about volunteering for DOUG and the Chairs available for 2007, contact Stephen Gillem at stephen.gillem@broadlane.com


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