Mar 26 2008
On the 13th of March, Mr. Graham Wood’s presentation for the Dutch Oracle user group OGH was canceled. Now he is up for a rebound. On the 10th of April he will present in Holland and be speaking about his experiences related to performance areas in Oracle 10g and 11g. This meeting will take place …
Mar 19 2008
I was triggered by a presentation of Dominic Delmolino during Hotsos 2008. He demonstrated a cool way of applying DDL database change management while making use of the Oracle database audit functionality. I combined the idea with Laurent Schneiders “out of the XML box thinking“, like for instance, his alternative use of the XMLTABLE syntax …
Mar 19 2008
Doug already mentioned it and today I got the official invite to send in a paper. Related posts: UKOUG 2007 – Finishing up. The Agenda for UKOUG 2007 Presenting at UKOUG 2007 Oracle Open World 2006 – Almost there… Miracle Open World 2007
Mar 18 2008
I demonstrated in my AMIS technology post “11g Technology Preview: XML Data Retrieval via Equi Partitioning by Reference“, how XML equi partitioning by reference can be set-up. For those who need a more textbook example, based on the XML DB Developers Guide example XML schemas, I hereby also post a small whitepaper that contains extra …
Mar 18 2008
In the year that XML celebrates his 10th anniversary, Oracle announces to make the XQuilla XQuery engine available under the open source Apache 2.0 license. Via official sources, the following was stated: Oracle is making the XQuilla XQuery engine available under the open source Apache 2.0 license – furthering the adoption of XQuery and XML …
Mar 17 2008
Three days to go. A new AMIS Query is about to happen. This time with one of my friends Toon Koppelaars. He, again, will get his chance to explain why he likes the idea of a fat database. If your in the neighbourhood, like some good food, attend and apply here (its free!): AMIS Query …
Mar 13 2008
It looks like XMLDB is gaining some momentum, because I will have another chance to present which I gratefully accepted. A new Dutch DBA Symposium will be given on the 27th of May this year. Given by DBA’s for DBA’s. Except of course Toon Koppelaars. He isn’t one, so he claimed already Victory via his …
Mar 04 2008
Alex Gorbatchev from the Pythian Group has joined forces with the OAK Table members and accepted membership last night. Click the picture to enlarge I got him a gift as well, after he generously had given me some traditional Canadian OAK leave sirope. Alex proudly presents here, in his new typical Dutch traditional shoes, during …
Mar 01 2008
I don’t know if it is a fresh implemented feature, but if you enter your answers / replies to threads in the OTN to quickly you now get a small warning button that says that you are not allowed to enter a new reply within 30 seconds… This happened to me the other night while …
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