I feel that my job as a DBA is very dynamic and usually keeps me busy with new things... except for deploying maintenance plans.  I hate making maintenance plans.  Luckily, I at least have a template that I can use to keep everything uniform, but it requires me opening up the plan in Visual Studio every time I want to …

In all my years of web programming, I've never used an Oracle database... until now. I was recently tasked with converting an Access database form into a web application using ASP.NET. The twist is that the data in the Access form is linked to an Oracle database. It would be an understatement to say that Oracle is …