Who reads blogs
Reading this post about why the average Oracle IT worker doesn't read blogs got me thinking. Does the average IT worker read blogs? I'm not sure. In what I have observed, it is something a segment...
View ArticleTime to resurrect this blog
OK. This blog has been dormant for longer than what should have been possible. Having moved across the world, started a new job, and returned career focus to Oracle specialist (from more or less forced...
View ArticleIs blogging another word for bragging?
That was essentially reader Gabriel posted on my post Suppressing repeating values in SQL. At first my reaction was just to ignore it as I felt it was too odd. But then use FarMan posted a complete...
View ArticleMoving to selfhosted and failing hard
I had decided to move one of my blogs to a self-hosted model to get more control over plugins and other things. After reading up a bit on different vendors I found Digital Ocean to be my choice. What’s...
View ArticleGetting from http to https
The world is moving to https, but that was not the reason for the move. Initially I was happy to use whatever Digital Ocean (DO) supplied in the WordPress droplet. But as I explained in my last post, I...
View ArticleOTN Appreciation Day – The Community
So this is my post aboout my favorite feature of my favorite product. I can hear a lot of you say “The community is not a feature of the database or any other product”? That is your opinion, I think it...
View ArticleSpam killed
After I moved my blog to self-hosting, it has attracted more and more spam. It started slow and very manageable. After my last blog post it got really bad. What started as a few spam messages a week,...
View ArticleODC Appreciation Day: Old Blog Posts
FIrst of all, kudos to Tim Hall. This is one of the great times of the year when all these thankful blogs are posted in a day. If you read nothing else in the blogs all year, picking some of them...
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