Bye Bye 2006, Welcome 2007
As we say bye bye to 2006, I would like to thank you, my dear reader, for reading my blog and spending part of your time leaving comments and feedback.
For me, the highlights of 2006 were:
- The birth of my baby Julie
- The blogger of the year award
- The visit to Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco
I would also like to share with you some statistics from the past 12 months (as per Google Analytics and Feedburner):
Top 10 pages
The following pages received the most hits during 2006:
- Home page
- Format your SQL the easy way
- Oracle SQLPlus
- Saving/Downloading files to/from Oracle using ColdFusion
- Cool SQL function: EXTRACT
- Back to basics: outer joins
- NVL, NVL2 or COALESCE?
- HTTP POST from inside Oracle
- PRAGMAtism in Oracle PL/SQL
- Oracle Trace Analyzer is TKPROF on Steroids
Top 10 browsers
Internet Explorer was the most popular followed by Firefox:
Top 10 countries
Almost half of the traffic originated from the US and the UK:
Top referrers
Google was responsible for more than 65% of the traffic, and 10% of the visits were direct, i.e. from bookmarks or directly typing the blog URL:
The number of subscribers to the blog feed has been steadily growing:
In 2007 I will continue to blog about whatever I find interesting and useful to both you and me.
Here on the west coast of the United States, we celebrate new year later than the rest of the world. At the time of this writing, there is almost 12 hours till we welcome the arrival of 2007.
My next post will be next year 
Happy New Year!
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