Like many of us who took to the road during the pandemic, I relied on a variety of services to keep me connected while living and working in an RV. One of those services was Nomad Internet. We initially had a positive experience with their SIM-based internet offering – unlimited data, plug-and-play with my iPad, no modem required. It was convenient, effective, and ideal for working from the Airstream during longer stretches of travel once we moved into the floating home. So, when we planned another mobile work stint in January of 2024, renewing the service seemed like a no-brainer.…
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Along with beginning to write on my own blog again, I’ve made a few, minor updates to my site. There is now a Podcast and Webinar page with links to all the recent podcasts and other online content I’ve been creating. More will be available as time goes by, but considering the sheer amount of podcasts I’ve been doing, it just made sense. I’m migrating all scripts and doing a revamp of the Scripts and Presentations page. I’ve uploaded all recent slide decks to Github, (shame, SHAME Slideshare… :)) and adding a ton of new scripts over the next month…
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When building products that interact with multiple database platforms, the complexity can be both a challenge and an opportunity. For Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), observing design decisions made without sufficient knowledge of underlying database architecture can be particularly frustrating. These moments highlight the critical need for architectural foresight and platform-specific expertise to avoid pitfalls that compromise scalability, performance, and maintainability. I’ve been managing multiple platforms for a couple decades and in recent years, building products that support the most popular enterprise and open-source databases today. I’m keenly aware of lacking documentation, either due to limited resources or hopes of directing…
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I’m passionate about making technology easier to understand, a mission I’ve pursued on my blog since 2008. However, I’ve faced challenges when educating newer Oracle users about the differences between single-instance (older architecture) and multitenant (newer architecture) models, as well as how these two architectures are connected. For those of us with extensive Oracle experience, these concepts may feel straightforward. This is especially true for professionals who work across multiple platforms, as Oracle was relatively late to adopt multitenancy. For instance, SQL Server has embraced this model since its earlier versions—going back to my experience with SQL Server 6.0—making it…
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It happens, someone has a good idea and unfortunately, theory is better than reality and it just creates more frustration than functionality. I’ve been wanting to blog about Technology gaffs for quite a while and I’ll put them in the category of rants, and hopefully folks can chime in with their own opinions… 🙂 for this week’s rant, I’ll discuss how LinkedIn, just like every other product in the friggin’ world, decided it needed to incorporate AI into their customer interface. For anyone wanting to post, you get the following opportunity to write a few ideas or prompts and AI…