A while ago, I read a great book by Stephen Covey titled The 8th Habits.  There is a lot of great content in this book. I highly recommend it!
For this post, I want to share what I call the “Seven E’s of Alignment Management”.  I developed this list based on seven factors that Covey uncovered [...]

Last post, I talked about the importance of clarity to help reduce the stress produced by what I call your “Attention Tug-of-War”.
The first area to seek clarity in is at a personal level. To do so, the first step I recommend is to ascertain if you are aligned in a number of areas:

Talents – Are [...]

Setting up a Successful Test System in Oracle
This meeting is held as soon as the application developers are ready to begin the actual coding process. The ultimate goal of this meeting is for application developers to have a firm understanding of what is required to create and maintain a successful Oracle test environment. Discussions on [...]

I am very surprised that the subject of attention has not received more “attention” (No Pun Intended).  To the best of my knowledge, very little has been written about it.  Yet, I believe that it is a highly impactful concept that should receive more attention by all of us!
There is so much going on these [...]

Most IT Managers don’t have time to go to the bathroom and I am about to tell them that they need to take some more time to think.  So please bear with me for a few paragraphs.
Recently, I wrote several posts about time management and I suggested IT Managers consider a number of approaches to [...]

Let’s continue our discussion on the Art of Being a Successful DBA. The intent of this blog is to help administrators design and standardize on a formalized design review process. The goal of the design review process is to identify and address application design, process flow, program logic and SQL statement problems early in the [...]

A few days ago, I ran into a great quote, so I sent it out to a bunch of people, as I usually do when I find interesting information.  The quote came from the world-class marathoner, Juma Ikangaa, right after winning the New York marathon.
“The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare.”
That [...]

In my recent post, Making Better Use of Your Time, I wrote about regaining control of your time.  This post is a follow-up with a slightly different spin.  This time I’m suggesting that IT Managers think a little differently about where they spend their time.  In a book I read a while ago, The Breakthrough [...]

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I absolutely and firmly believe that Data Administrators are the unsung heroes of the Information Technology profession. This blog will be shorter than most of the upcoming blogs you will see from me.  As a writer, I’m not noted for “keeping it brief”.   I used to be an Oracle instructor and I like to pack [...]