Publications

I have a lot of opinions but am willing to change them when confronted with fresh facts. As the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson said in his essay on self-reliance: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”

Feel free to correct me when I say something wrong. You can reach me at iggy_fernandez@hotmail.com or you can leave a note for me below.

Q2 2011	NoCOUG Journal	Multi Dimensional Clustering (MDC)
Q1 2011	NoCOUG Journal	SQL 101: Which Query Is Better?—Part III
Q4 2010	NoCOUG Journal	SQL 101: Which Query Is Better?—Part II
Q3 2010	NoCOUG Journal	SQL 101: Which Query Is Better?—Part I
Q2 2010	NoCOUG Journal	I Heart Recursive Common Table Expressions
Q1 2010	NoCOUG Journal	Not the SQL of My Kindergarten Days
Q4 2009	NoCOUG Journal	SQL Blog
Q3 2009	NoCOUG Journal	First International NoCOUG SQL Challenge
Q2 2009	NoCOUG Journal	One Picture Is Worth Ten Thousand Words
Q1 2008	IOUG Journal	Optimal Query Execution Plans: An Impossible Dream?
Q4 2007	NoCOUG Journal	Oracle Annoyances for Geeks (Deadlocks)
Q3 2007	NoCOUG Journal	Peekaboo (Bind Variable Peeking)
Q2 2007	NoCOUG Journal	The Impossible Dream
Q1 2007	NoCOUG Journal	Lies, Damned Lies, and SQL
Q4 2006	NoCOUG Journal	SQL Sucks Part III
Q3 2006	NoCOUG Journal	SQL Sucks Part II
Q2 2006	NoCOUG Journal	SQL Sucks Part I
Q1 2006	NoCOUG Journal	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (Deadlocks)
Q4 2005	NoCOUG Journal	No Free Lunch (Read Consistency)
Q3 2005	NoCOUG Journal	Ratty SQL Part II
Q2 2005	NoCOUG Journal	Ratty SQL Part I
Q1 2005	NoCOUG Journal	The Hobgoblin of Little Minds (Serializability)
Q4 2004	NoCOUG Journal	Oracle 10g Upgrade Experiences

Presentations

Feb 2011	RMOUG	52 Weeks in the Life of a Database
Oct 2010	OpenWorld	Explaining the EXPLAIN PLAN
Sep 2010	AIOUG	52 Weeks in the Life of a Database
Sep 2010	AIOUG	SQL 101: Interpreting Query Execution Plans
Sep 2010	AIOUG	SQL 101: Recursive Common Table Expressions
Aug 2010	NoCOUG	52 Weeks in the Life of a Database
Apr 2010	IOUG	SQL 101: Recursive Common Table Expressions
Apr 2010	IOUG	SQL 101: Interpreting Query Execution Plans
Feb 2010	RMOUG	SQL 101: Recursive Common Table Expressions
Feb 2010	RMOUG	DBA 101: In Defense of Statspack
Feb 2010	NoCOUG	Recursive Common Table Expressions
Aug 2009	NoCOUG	DBA 101: Interpreting SQL Query Execution Plans
Jun 2009	ODTUG	Xtreme SQL Tuning: The Tuning Limbo
May 2009	IOUG	Xtreme SQL Tuning: The Tuning Limbo
Feb 2009	RMOUG	Best Practices for Oracle Database Administration
Feb 2009	NoCOUG	Best Practices for Oracle Database Administration
Oct 2008	TCOUG	Xtreme SQL Tuning: The Tuning Limbo
Oct 2008	TCOUG	Deadlocks for $1000: Lets Play Jeopardy
Nov 2008	NoCOUG	Xtreme SQL Tuning: The Tuning Limbo
Apr 2008	IOUG	Optimal Query Execution Plans: An Impossible Dream?
Apr 2008	IOUG	Stop Doing Transactions Wrong!
Apr 2008	IOUG	Oracle Annoyances for Geeks: Deadlocks and Livelocks
Feb 2008	NoCOUG	Oracle Annoyances for Geeks: Deadlocks and Livelocks
Feb 2008	RMOUG	Oracle Annoyances for Geeks: Deadlocks and Livelocks
Feb 2008	RMOUG	Optimal Query Execution Plans: An Impossible Dream?
May 2007	NoCOUG	The Hunt for Killer Skew
Mar 2007	Hotsos	SQL Sucks!
Aug 2006	NoCOUG	SQL Sucks!
Aug 2005	NoCOUG	Serializability: The Hobgoblin of Little Minds?
Feb 2005	NoCOUG	A Structured Approach to Database Administration