Category: President’s Message
2015 Winter President’s Message
Message From the President’s Desk – Michael Olin Winter 2015 How do you reboot a user group? The New Year has arrived and I’ve certainly run out of excuses for not writing my President’s Message. My last column, which was delivered …
2014 Summer President’s Message
Message From the President’s Desk – Michael Olin Summer 2014 Summertime… Summer has just officially arrived, and with it another urgent reminder that my President’s Message is overdue and its absence is holding up publication and distribution of the summer issue of …
2014 Spring President’s Message
Message From the President’s Desk – Michael Olin Spring 2014 Owning up to my Technical Prejudices There is really no other way to describe it. I’m a database bigot. The other day, I was asked to look at a query …
2013 Winter President’s Message
Message From the President’s Desk – Michael Olin Winter 2013 You Have Been Nominated Once again, in late November, I started received emails from both the Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) and Oracle inviting me to a very special …
2013 Summer President’s Message
Message From the President’s Desk – Michael Olin Summer 2013 Waiting for Oracle 12c At our Summer General Meeting in early June, NYOUG members were treated to their second presentation about the forthcoming major release of the Oracle RDBMS. At our December …
2012 Winter President’s Message
Message From the President’s Desk – Michael Olin Winter 2012 All in the Family My son is a freshman at a well regarded engineering university in Massachusetts that sits atop the US News rankings (http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universitiesrankings/top-400-universities-in-the-world). While he has not formally …