ORACLENERD!

An Introduction to SQL Developer Extensions

Oracle SQL Developer is made available to you for free, and is chock-full of features for the developer, DBA, or data-junkie. We do our best to give you everything you need to be successful in your job, but also recognize that we can’t do EVERYTHING. While SQL Developer is NOT an open-source project, it does [...]

Manage All of Your Jobs Using Toad

I mentioned the other day what a pain it was to manage a database that had both DBMS_JOBS and DBMS_SCHEDULER being utilized to run jobs. One of my peeps, @Boneist reminded me it was even harder for her because Toad deemed it necessary to purchase an optional ‘DB Admin module’ to work with the DBMS_SCHEDULER [...]

Developers...In..Prooooooood!

Pigs In Space! #muppets

Coming up with themes and titles for a blog post can be very challenging. You want something that will catch the eye, but not be so random or out of left field that no one catches your drift. This morning I had two themes battling inside my head for this post.

Welcome [...]

Developers Live In Production & There’s Nothing You Can Do About It!

Wait a sec, we don’t let developers even look at Production, much less touch it! There’s no way they can break anything over there. Whew! Jeff was just pulling our chains!

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it’s even worse than you think.

The code that those developers wrote? Guess where it runs [...]

Are you a real DBA?

I’m sorry, I didn’t realize there was such a thing as a ‘fake’ DBA Jeff!

Ok, so labeling someone as a ‘real’ DBA is a bit insulting to DBAs everywhere. If you have children, that makes you a parent. If you are responsible for a database, then you are a DBA.

So what exactly am I getting [...]

Must Have Scripts

My former boss, and current friend, bought an Android phone for himself and his wife last week and asked me for a list of my must-have apps. I’ll list them here for the morbidly curious, but that got me thinking – what are my must-have scripts for managing my Oracle database? I know [...]

DBAs Versus Developers

On Thursday, September 30, 10:30AM EST, Bert Scalzo and I will be doing a Quest sponsored Webcast – “DBAs Versus Developers.”

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They’re probably not fighting for the database…

That sounds awfully contentious, Jeff!
When visiting customers I am often talking to a group of developers in the morning and DBAs in the afternoon. [...]

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