Knowledge increases exponentially. Today, you probably own more books than great universities of times past—Cambridge University owned less than two hundred books in the fifteenth century. First came the invention of writing, then alphabets, then paper, then the printing press, then mechanization. Each step caused an exponential increase in the collective human knowledge. In our generation, Al Gore invented the internet and the last barriers to the spread of knowledge have been broken. Today, everybody has the ability to contribute, communicate, and collaborate. We are all caught up in a tsunami, an avalanche, a conflagration, a veritable explosion of knowledge for the betterment of humankind. This is the blog of the good folks at Database Specialists, a brave band of Oracle database administrators from the great state of California. We bid you greeting, traveler. We hope you find something of value on these pages and we wish you good fortune in your journey.

NOCOUG November, 2011 report

For those of you who did not attend yesterday’s (November 9th, 2011) NOCOUG (Northern California Oracle User Group - http://nocoug.org) meeting, you missed a good one!  Here’s a quick recap of what I saw interesting to me:
The keynote by Feurstein Coding Therapy for Database Professionals actually had some good food for thought. Some of [...]