New Book, New blog

 

I'm not a very good blogger at the best of times.  I'm just unable to get beyond the first, draft second draft, review process that works OK for articles and books, but which is not what you want when blogging.  Over the last six months I've been even worse, since all my spare energy has been going into writing the Oracle Performance Survival Guide.  This book has been by far the most challanging yet rewarding writing effort in my career.  I set out to write a book that could stand alone as a single guide to Oracle performancecovering all aspects of Oracle performance management,  suitable for all levels of expertise and across all relevant disciplines.  So there's equal weight given to application and database design, SQL and PL/SQL tuning, contention management, memory optimization and disk tuning.

Anyway,  it's been quite an effort and I learned a lot while writing it.  But it's taken over my life!

The books going to be available probably around Oracle Open World in October.  You can pre-order it from Amazon.

Now that I'm over the biggest hump in getting the book together,  I thought I'd try to get back into occasional blogging.  I'd heard good things about SquareSpace and once I took a look I was hooked.  This thing is way ahead of what I was using and is great for total website management, not just blog publishing.  Therefore I'm shutting down my old blog at http://guyharrison.typepad.com/ and running everything from here.  Hopefully,  I'll be motivated to blog more often than in the past!