Dive into the archives.


  • London Calling

    Was at London Calling in Earl’s Court for a couple of days last week with work. It’s basically a big music industry trade show, which also doubled as the Entertainment Retailers Association annual conference. It was interesting from both professional and personal angles, and also included a free-booze-included mini-showcase from 3 of Universal’s new acts; [...]

  • Jobs puts his money where his mouth is

    Apple have announced that they’re going to be selling all tracks from the EMI catalogue DRM-free from May. The DRM-free tracks will be 30 cents more, but be much higher-quality, so it’s not as if you’re just paying for interoperability. In addition, there will be the option to bulk-upgrade your existing FairPlay EMI tracks to the [...]

  • Sony DRM linkage roundup

    I don’t tend to blog much about work-related stuff - I’ve read too many news stories about blogs entries that have come back to bite their authors, and I’m far too aware that my big mouth could get me into trouble one day.
    However, this is all ove rthe web at the moment, and it does [...]

  • More privileges

    It’s worth remembering that in order to analyze a table across schemas, you need to grant the ANALYZE ANY privilege, ie from the schema owning the tables you want to analyze:
    GRANT ANALYZE ANY to other_schema;

Professionally speaking

This is the archive for Professionally speaking.

Sound Bites

Current Distractions