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• It’s a Lot Less Interesting than Male-to-Female Sex Reassignment Surgery

  I'm back! It’s been a while since my last blog post but reader-pressure has forced me to come out of retirement. Firstly I received an email from Tammy Freeman asking me the following: “One of my tasks at work is to come up with documentation on cost-efficient Read More... Posted 05 October 2008 23:55 by Mick.Horne | 3 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, SOA, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, Upstream, Oil, SoBI, Oil and Gas, MDM, Master Data Management

• De Do Do Do, De Da Da DA DBA DBAA

  It's becoming increasingly common for me to walk into the office and be asked I would be able to spare half an hour to install 250GB of RAID 5 disk in a development server. Like many of our clients, my co-workers are confused by the roles and increasingly Read More... Posted 18 August 2007 18:34 by Mick.Horne | 5 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, Upstream, Oil and Gas

• Thoughts on Bottomhole Pressure

  The group I’m working with is responsible for defining strategy, principles, practices and re-usable components for upstream data integration projects globally. Currently I spend half my time in the UK and half in California. It’s not as glamorous Read More... Posted 15 December 2006 16:09 by Mick.Horne | 1 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, SOA, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, Upstream, Oil, Oil and Gas

• Warm Lager and a Sarong

  Allow me to be the second to congratulate Jamie Thomson on reaching #2 in the Google search results for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Jamie is Conchango's celebrity blogger, and has developed something of a cult following in cyberspace. Read More... Posted 02 December 2006 01:00 by Mick.Horne | 4 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, SOA, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, Upstream, Oil, SoBI, Oil and Gas

• Eggs Benedict in San Francisco

  Hello and welcome to my blog. It’s been a war of attrition between me and the Conchango establishment to get me to write a blog. Clearly I’ve lost. I’m currently sat in a hotel room in Bakersfield and since I have no interest in Country Read More... Posted 28 November 2006 02:19 by Mick.Horne | 2 Comments Filed under: Data Integration, SOA, Data Architect, Business Intelligence, Upstream, Oil, SoBI, Oil and Gas