It has been almost a year (March 21st 2022) since Alex asked me if I knew someone who could be his co-author for a new book he was asked to write. Before I really knew what I was getting myself into I said yes, I know someone. I’ll do it.And thus began a period of […]
Read moreIt has now been a week since I have been promoted to ACE Director. I want to thank everybody for their wishes. Directly after being promoted I was off to Dublin for the UKOUG Ireland conference. That is why I didn’t respond to every tweet individually. Please don’t think I didn’t like the tweets or […]
Read moreWhen you are, like me, creating presentations you might want to have the possibility to hide certain slides and only show them when time permits. You can of course just skip over the slides during your presentation, but that is not a good practice IMHO. It is better to add these slides as hidden slides […]
Read moreI know I haven’t been really active on my blog lately, but that is mainly because I don’t have much energy left after a full day of work. Beside that, I am using most of my spare time to create my presentation for KScope12 and for a guest college at a school beginning next month. […]
Read moreI has been quite some time since I posted anything on my blog. That is mainly because I am busy with other things at the moment:
Read moreFor a couple of days my Twitter timeline is filled up (well, it’s not all that is happening) with the news that Oracle will cancel it’s support for a lot of conferences. One of them being the KScope12 conference. This is to bad, although, considering the current economic status, I can somehow understand why Oracle […]
Read moreJust a quick note to let the world know of the fact that I am now officially an Oracle ACE. I am even in the Ace Directory. Thanks to Learco Brizzi of Itium Oracle Professionals for nominating me. And thanks to AMIS for making it possible for me to present at different conferences like KScope11 […]
Read moreAs I am writing this I am on a plane ride back from Atlanta to Amsterdam. I had a great time in Atlanta during OPP. I also enjoyed doing the sessions I presented. One was on ‘Table Functions’ and another was on Collections and Bulk Operations. Both these session were scheduled in the same timeslot […]
Read moreJornica tagged me. Thanks for the invitation. Here are a couple of things you may, or may not, know about me. My nickname was given to me about 13 years ago, by a friend. Patch is shorter than Patrick. I am married to Dana. We have 3 kids, Quinty (9), Kayleigh (7) and Mitchell (4). […]
Read moreI know December is quite a busy month for everybody, especially for me, with the birthday of my eldest daughter (December 18th), X-mas and my own birthday (December 29th). That’s why things have been quite slow on my blog ;-). But hopefully you will be having a nice end of year and I wish you […]
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