Jul 28 2007
Yep, it is holiday time, at least for me, and while I am trying to get my laptop to work with my WPA wireless (linux wise), I am just browsing the internet… The is a lot of funny stuf out there. So here some of my better sightings today, maybe good for a small laugh… …
Jul 20 2007
I have been trying a few times, ODTUG and EOUG this year, and I almost had the idea that presenting about a topic like “Oracle XMLDB from a DBA / architecture perspective” was currently still to obscure a topic to be worthy for conference. I was wrong Third time lucky. Today I got the confirmation …
Jul 19 2007
One day to go and I am off with my family. Three well earned weeks on Holiday to Greece. 4 Click on a picture to enlarge. No related posts.
Jul 15 2007
As probably some of you know, I work for a Dutch company called AMIS. On our AMIS technology site, we are now presenting an overview of all articles released by us (my colleagues and me), regarding experiences and impressions we gathered during our Oracle 11g beta testing. You can find the overview page here: Oracle …
Jul 11 2007
A lot of posts are now out there, with peoples top 10 lists, regarding Oracle 11g new features. Probably one off the most interesting one will be Arup Nanda’s top Oracle 11g new features list. So I hereby present my top 10 list which I think are the most exciting new XMLDB features. The database …
Jul 10 2007
The following is an extension on the former post about “About Table(XMLSequence()) and XMLTable”. These examples where based on a XMLType column using CLOB storage. If you have read the “Oracle 11g – XMLType Storage Options“, then you should now know that this storage model is only performing if you had a document centric environment …
Jul 10 2007
A customer asked me how this XMLTable XML function works… Until now they had to use the TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE()) constructor. While testing performance differences between a RedHat AS V3 (Oracle Enterprise Version 10.1.0.3, RAID 1+0) machine and a full blown LPAR IBM AIX 64b 5.3 environment (Oracle Enterprise Version 10.2.0.2) with EMC (RAID 5) they wanted …
Jul 10 2007
My laptop was stolen, so now fiddling around with a new laptop I take my chance to switch. Searching for a Linux brand and not sure which one to pick, I ended up with Oracle Enterprise Linux 5. Apparently this has been released in June and is downloadable via the main site http://linux.oracle.com. Why Oracle? …
Jul 04 2007
I heard about it and now I experienced it. Amsterdam Arena never again I will be back for a life music concert. The sound was horrible ! As if someone was trying for the first time his new hall effect sound apparatus… Even at times when I was only twenty meters from the stage, it …
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