Jan
18
2012
I will make an first time attempt tomorrow to do a webcast for ODTUG in the US about how to start with XML in the Oracle database kind of topics. The subject was initially inspired by Cary Millsap’s great whitepaper, “Thinking Clearly About Performance”, that is, my attempt of doing an OakTalk during UKOUG 2011. …
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December 30, 2011
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December 30, 2011
Dec
20
2011
People who have attended the UKOUG presentation this year where Mark Drake, Sr. Product Manager XML Technologies / XMLDB, Oracle HQ, and I demonstrated the first principles of the XDB Repository, might have been impressed with its (GEO/KML Spatial, Image EXIF info) capabilities combined with Google Earth. This post will zoom in on how to …
Dec
12
2011
Last Thuesday, Mark Drake, Senior Product Manager and I, delivered a good presentation during UKOUG in Birmingham about how to use your database, via XMLDB functionality, as a file server. The presentation demonstrated as well how you could extent the “standaard” file server (aka your database) functionality with features like, WebDAV driven ACL Security and …
Nov
21
2011
Oracle XMLDB Repository Events, IMHO, was one of the coolest functionalities introduced in Oracle 11.1. In principal they are a kind of event “triggers” that get fired during actions / methods on objects in the XDB Repository. One of the disadvantages of this functionality is that they are very “sparsely” documented in the Oracle XMLDB …
Nov
21
2011
Since a long time, the database has had some versioning capabilities, long before features like “Edition Based Redefinition” in Oracle 11gR2 appeared. This versioning, via XMLDB functionality, is based on its XDB Repository access to the database. The XDB Repository is a file/folder metaphor that acts as a file server. You can enable this functionality …
Nov
21
2011
One of the coolest things in Oracle 11g and onwards is a functionality called XDB Repository Events. Most of you probably know that based on XMLDB functionality in the database, the database also can be used in a File server kind of way by enabling the XDB Repository HTTP/FTP or WebDAV functionality via DBMS_XDB. XDB …
Nov
21
2011
This was a small mind exercise on the OakTable website (OakTable Challenge)for a person regarding how to go from a relational table to anydata datatype table and back, which I, of course, approached via an “XMLType” of way thinking. Probably the whole thing is not that practical and/or can be optimized in various ways, but …
Nov
10
2011
I was lucky enough to get my hands on the Method-R Profiler and had a test drive with it. So first of all what is it? As you might expect a profiler, a profiler for Oracle performance problems. The tool makes use of Oracle’s trace facilities. If you have a performance problem with the database …
Nov
05
2011
This week Mark Drake, Senior Product Manager Oracle XMLDB, put up a new page on Oracle OTN with some great code examples and utilities demonstrating Oracle XMLDB functionality. Among others, the latest code for Mark’s XFILES XMLDB demo application version 5, Introduction to Oracle XML DB Repository Events, Basic Introduction to Oracle XML DB 11.2.0.3.0, …
Nov
05
2011
Updated this site to the latest “stuff” including a new stats plugin for WordPress, called kstats, just to see if this will work for me. I noticed already a small strange issue that is manifests itself in the main title of the page. Only in internet explorer it shows incorrectly, but all the others browsers …
Oct
13
2011
Do I need to say more………. Why not join us for OakTable day on Sunday 4th December? In a smaller setting, you can attend a dedicated set of sessions directly from a selection of OakTable members away from any potential session contention of the main conference. The sessions will be presented in just two streams, …
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