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Andy Colvin

@acolvin.bsky.social

Working on Oracle for Google in Texas. ACE Alumni. Proud member of Enkitec family. Never double dips. Cries at weddings.

60 Followers  |  47 Following  |  17 Posts  |  Joined: 06.02.2024
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I have a customer that uses it pretty heavily, even with β€œmodern” applications and software versions!

19.01.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Keep it going, my friend!

03.12.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll also accept Bruno as a correct answer

03.12.2025 07:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Only thing keeping last night from going β€œFull Romero” would be a leg breaker after his shinner to tie it.

03.12.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I've just released swingbench 2.8 (#Oracle AI Database load generator). Now with a HTML front end.

You can read all about it here

www.dominicgiles.com/swingbench/2...

24.11.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dallas’ shiny new silver line train

Dallas’ shiny new silver line train

Feeling extremely European today as I take the new train in to work today. May seem like a small thing, but the folks in Texas don’t care much for public transit (or pedestrians for that matter)

31.10.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@acolvin.bsky.social on networks and the speed of light at #POUG2025

05.09.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wow…can’t believe it took me 10 years to get to @pougorg.bsky.social but it delivered in every possible way. So great to see old friends and I haven’t learned that much at a conference in a very long time. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

07.09.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

It’s been a long road but so happy you’re back!

25.05.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats to @chandlerdba.bsky.social on your promotion!

24.05.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Woke up to some awesome news…I’ll be speaking at #POUG2025 for the first time!

24.04.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All he does is win, mate!

17.04.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t just buy a ticket, you have to show up and sit through the matches too.

β€œThe purchaser of a Ticket Pack **who uses all tickets to attend all matches included in their Ticket Pack** will be granted a guaranteed option to buy one ticket to a FIFA World Cup 26 match”

03.04.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, that would be lovely!

31.03.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Last day to submit your session to the #POUG2025 conference ‼️

sessionize.com/poug-2025/

31.03.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Finally submitted my abstract for @pougorg.bsky.social #POUG2025. I prefer to think that it was less about procrastination and more about constantly refining the topic in the deeper parts of my mind. #fingerscrossed

30.03.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Hate to say it but I wouldn’t recommend anyone come here right now. Worried for friends here with permanent residency when the ones in charge don’t care about the law.

22.03.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Chart showing student populations with largest closest to the origin #shrug

Chart showing student populations with largest closest to the origin #shrug

I just can’t take an institution of higher education seriously when they present a Y axis that goes from largest to smallest.

15.02.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So.... @OracleCloud , @Azure , @googlecloud and @awscloud engineers walk into a bar 🀣🀣🀣

08.02.2025 07:11 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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All for it, but please…nothing as scandalous as β€œmy cat is better than any other cat.” We all know that my cat is the best in the world

03.12.2024 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hi, I’m Andy Colvin! You may remember me from such things like working for Enkitec and writing about Exadata. These days I’m working on all things Oracle within Google Cloud, but may post a few cat photos from time to time.

02.12.2024 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0