Recent blog entries by Lewis Cunningham

Oracle Information Integration, Migration and Consolidation - Book Review 2 hours ago | Comments (0) From An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology   The book that I am covering in this review is from Packt and the main reason I wanted to review it was the description. I...

OpenWorld For Free (A Sampler Anyway) 10 days ago | Comments (0) From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   Can't make it to San Francsico for OpenWorld? Can't spring for flights, hotels, etc? No problemo! Now you can get it, at le...

My OpenWorld Session 10 days ago | Comment (1) From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   I am at Oracle HQ this week for the Oracle ACE Director briefing. So far there has been an amazing amount of information abo...

Gauging Online Oracle Training Interest 15 days ago | Comments (0) From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   I wanted to get some feedback from the reades on this blog. I'd like feedback from regular readers as well as drive by reade...

Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Clusters Essentials Book (Review - Sort Of) 29 days ago | Comments (0) From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   So, I got an email from Packt asking if I wanted to review

Oracle XE 11gR2 General Availability Sep 6 | Comments (0) From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   Yeah, I know. I'm late with the news. Still, just in case you haven't already seen it blogged, tweeted or linkedin'ed,

Why Apple Will Survive Aug 31 | Comments (9) I've heard that apple has scrapped their plans for a new children's ipod. They realized iTouch Kids wasn't quite a marketing winner. - Joke

Do bind variables matter? Aug 28 | Comments (3) From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   That title is somewhat facetious. Even without a performance benefit using bind variables is more secure and easier to maint...

NVL versus Coalesce Aug 24 | Comments (12) From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   I'm doing some PL/SQL tuning and I'm examining several existing stored procedures to see how I can speed them up. While I wo...

PL/SQL Expert Practices from Apress Aug 5 | Comments (2) My new book. Well, not just me but I contributed a chapter to it.

A simple example of a secure context Jul 26 | Comments (4) From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   This simple example isn't much different that one I did quite a while back but it's more complete. If you have your own data...

A Sampling of Virtathon 2011 Sessions Jul 15 | Comment (1) I was browsing through the Virtathon schedule, trying to decide which sessions I will attend (besides the ones that I am presenting, of course). There are some really good sessions...

Leave a Tip Jul 14 | Comments (2) From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   Today I am doing something a little different. Leave a tip in the comments below, or if you see a tip in the comments that y...

Virtathon 2011 July 16 - 21 Jul 14 | Comments (0) Virtathon 2011 is a free 6 day online conference covering the full stack of Oracle technology. From databases (Oracle and MySQL) to Middle Tier to Clients (I'm doing a debugging wi...

My Toolbox Jun 23 | Comments (0) An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology   I was reading a PHP blog the other day and...

Because it makes the customer happy Jun 5 | Comments (4)   From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   I like my electric company. It's TECO here in Tampa, FL. This morning my power went out. I don't like them becau...

Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Jun 2 | Comments (0)   From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   I just got the email. I will be presenting in San Francisco in October at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 super confere...

Oracle on Amazon - is that new? May 29 | Comments (0) From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   So, the latest headlines have been about Amazon RDS for Oracle.You might be wondering why...

Duke Nukem Goes Gold May 28 | Comments (4)   From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   I have always been a big computer game fan. I owned an Atari 2600 way back when and I have enjoyed playing games ev...

A Very Cool Project May 26 | Comments (5)   From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology   Next tuesday will be the final implementation of one of the coolest projects I have ever worked on. I say final impl...