Introduction

Early in my career, when I was first introduced to Unix, my mentor at the time recommended that I use a text editor called emacs, but also learn how to use vi as well. I personally like both editors, but I prefer emacs for coding. Over the decades, I’ve continued to use emacs; [...]

This is an excellent conference held yearly in Denver, a relatively short trip for me but well worth traveling to if you’re so inclined. While listening to another facinating talk by Jonathan Lewis today called “Single Table Access Paths” he shared a sidebar thought that seemed worth passing on. The talk essentially described various methods [...]

It’s a fact. A comic book is easier to read than a novel. A graph is easier to read than a table. One picture is worth ten thousand words. Oracle query execution plans can be very hard to read when the number of tables involved is more than a few. Query execution plans are explained [...]