Author: Chris

  • Table Prep: Data loads and time zones

    With my Autonomous Database up and running,I needed to find some data to upload.

    Restaurants in Wake County, North Carolina. Wake County is where I, Chris Hoina, live.
  • An Oracle Autonomous Database workshop: here is what I learnt

    “…For someone who isnโ€™t familiar with System or Database Administration, this was helpful and it made approaching ‘infrastructure’ so much more accessible and seemingly less daunting…”

    Water cooler talk. A junior Science Officer recants his experience on the Oracle Cloud, to a Bridge Officer.
  • Hello World ๐Ÿ™‚

    WARNING: Turn back now. You have been warned.  Who am I? I’m Chris Hoina. Senior Product Manager at Oracle as (still not sure why they hired me, most likely a clerical error). I’m a recent “Big Blue” defector; at IBM for nearly three years. There I worked in IBM Z (the mainframe, Big Iron, or…