Category: General

May 22

I believe I am careful when I am on the internet.

My personal laptop is almost a fortress regarding protecting me from internet scum, so I try to protect it x-fold via Microsoft Defender, Search & Destroy, Firewalls, protected host and configuration files, WPA network connections, virusscan software, no browser caching, phishing filters, etc, etc, etc. Being aware that there is always a loophole to enter this fort, a “port d’entree”, I am also very aware of what I am doing on the Internet, but alas, sometimes all precautions fail. If my precautions fail it is also, almost always, a very very nasty bug. A bug on which normal insect spray only causes it to evolve…

May 20

Thanks Doug, for pointing out one of the first Oracle 30th anniversary links: http://www.oracle.com/oramag/profit/07-may/p27anniv_timeline.pdf. I…

April 8

AMIS is proud to announce their AMIS Query (free technical seminar), targeted at Oracle Database Architects and Database Administrators.

How the Middle Tier is Slowing Down Your Database

Multi tier systems are very common today. Most of these systems include a web server, an application server and a database. They also rely heavily on the very recent HTML and Java technologies. In fact, these technologies are relatively new and a whole set of new (and young) developers have been exploring them. This presentation is exploring the mistakes that are made in the middle tier and how they affect the database and what can be done to improve performance dramatically with some simple changes.