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"It makes me furious they didn''t detect it earlier,” This remark by Catherine highlights once again the challenges that healthcare providers face

Managing forums is much like raising small children. Change is difficult for them to process and if left to their own devices and without focus, they run wild finding ways into all sorts of mischief. However, just like children, running a forum can prove rewarding when done right and the best way to put a forum on the right path is to plan ahead.

I am thinking of reviving this blog yet again. I've been part of the System Integrator industry for a long time and have seen it from close quarters. I believe there is much hype, too many myths as well as a lot of FUD about SIs. I also think there's a serious lack of "balanced" perspective about this industry. One of the main reason for that probably is that a lot of good people are employed by

Oracle Error messaging system is often forgotten but can become a staple for many DBAs

Who will Oracle acquire next? Take a look at how the votes were distributed.

I'm giving two presentations this year at OOW. One is technical for performance tuning, and the other is a case study on a really cool project I'm leading right now.

...and the dangers thereof.

Now, that we've qualified the universe of customers that might consider JD Edwards to be great software, let's return to the original question: Is it great or not?

On September 21, IBM will be presenting a no-charge Webcast "TCO news: Optimizer in DB2 10 for z/OS Beta" featuring optimization expert Terry Purcell. Here's an opportunity to find out what the enhancements and additions to DB2's optimizer in DB2 10 will do for you.

Describing our bad habit of only attacking symptoms and not problems.

From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology I have been crazy busy at my new job. A fun project (real time analytics) and other projects are already in the pipeline. One of the projects just might turn into the coolest thing I have ever worked on. Unfortunately, I can't talk about it. I can't even talk about the hardware that we might (or

How different is a customer life cycle from a project life cycle? Or, said another way, how similar are these two cycles? I’ve been working on a concise management model for a customer life cycle, and I invariably compare this to it’s relative, the project life cycle. Here’s a visual of the customer version:

The cat is out of the bag.

An oxymoron or a sign of the changing times?

10. Two years after go-live, the JDE consultants are still there, and still billing. 9. The consultants forgot about knowledge transfer. Actually, they didn’t forget, it's just that they don't believe in it. (See #10.)

Have you downloaded the latest and greatest DB2 9 for z/OS documentation? I was looking for something today and noticed, much to my surprise, that a couple of the DB2 9 product manuals were refreshed back in June 2010... and I didn't know.. so I couldn't let you all know... but now I can. I just downloaded them... you may also want to download the current version if you use the PDFs.

I started writing this up a few days ago and got distracted. Since it's Friday, I thought I would make it an installment of my APAR Friday series... although that was not the original intent. Originally, I just though this was a cool enhancement that's going to make someone's life just a touch easier.

Make no mistake, I am glad to see the medical establishment get on the technology bandwagon for practice management but some of these "work-arounds" seem to take more time than when everything was paper.

Most are glorified programmers in sheep's clothing.

Brian Knight gave a webinar-style presentation to the San Antonio League of SQL Server Administrators (SALSSA) yesterday evening. (Note to self: I probably should have provided the Webinar connection information via this blog . . . next time I will do so.) As a result of that presentation, I now have some follow-up information on the BI-xPress product I reviewed recently.