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The Gap is the difference between the ideal economic balance point and the current reality. For businesses you want the gap to be large – High demand and low supply helps keep profits high.

Hard to see video but i like the idea.

1. Does your website cover your background and methods? (Ask for website
   address and check it out!)
2. What makes your firm ideally suited for this project?
3. What differs in your approach from your competition?
4. How will you keep me informed and keep yourselves on target?
5. If selected, when could you begin? When will you complete it?
6. How much will it cost in fees? Travel expenses?
7. What results can I expect?
8. What kind of support do you provide after the project is completed? How
   long?
9. Do you offer a guarantee or warranty of your services?
10. Specifically, who will be involved in this project? May I see their resumes?
    Who will supervise them?

In addition, there are questions you should be asking yourself.

• Does this firm’s values match those of my company?
• Do I feel comfortable accepting advice from this person?
• Does this consultant really listen?
• How will my staff react to this person?
• Were the verbal answers I received in line with their website presentation?

I like to see passionate people perform no matter what the venue or outlet of their passionate manifestation is. Passionate dabs, programmers, writers, advertisers, designers or singers, it is all about communicating and connecting your passion to another person or mass populations. dabs express their passion in a artfully crafted and easily maintained schema and well tuned queries. Programmers connect with thousands by designing and coding applications that people want to use. Google or Ameritrade are two examples.

Prince is definitely passionate. He makes no apology for creating and sharing his vision. So when I was in Vegas for a conference I was excited to find club 3121 venue where I could get close to Prince’s live performance. The intensity and showmanship was exciting and helps me to connect with my inner techno-passions. I will be a better visionary, architect, DBA, programmer, communicator and leader because of this experience.

Once you find out how to connect with your own passion your work will become fun, easy, and inspiring. Explore other people who you consider passionate, then study the way they access, use and communicate that passion. Find out what works for you and incorporate those patterns of success into your routine.

Just in case anyone ever needs to know, I thought I would once again mention the steps to creating a new logs entry.  Enjoy! (just for reference purposes how-to-create-a-new-logs-site.txt

Two of our DBA’s will be attending Collaborate ’07 this year. We will be focusing on the core RDBMS, RMAN, Streams, Data Guard and Oracle Fusion/Apps server. Wrap all that into Enterprise Management best practices and were ready to go.

I’m looking forward to meeting up with all my friends there and continue the geek-fest started at Oracle Open World. I’ll

Once again I will be sharing my room with some lucky attendee. I am staying at the Luxor Pyramid which is across the street from the convention. The room has two beds and internet access. If you are also attending Collaborate ’07, are a non-smoker, and would like to share a room let me know (paulr@onebetter.com).

At this point I am signed up for the following:

• Oracle Database 10g: Streams, Implementing Data Replication
• High Availability Using RMAN and Data Guard

I’ll post more information as I have it.

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