Jul 31 2008
Triggered by Flavio’s blog post “and the winner is…” I checked if the other Oracle Mix winners were now also listed in the Content Catalog and could be scheduled via the Schedule Builder and YES they are…(at least those who have confirmed the presentation – can’t find Richard Foote yet…) ! Besides Flavio’s presentation, I …
Jul 30 2008
Hmmm, still busy to setup a baseline environment to do some serious XMLDB performance / architecture testing. I am almost now on the point were I really can start, but until now I ran into a lot of issues… It also told me that the mediawiki dumpfile is good set of XML data to work …
Jul 29 2008
Yep, I am having a little fun here, but while every APEX enthusiast out there is promoting APEX, I thought: lets ride the wave… One you should schedule for Oracle Open World and I saw even made it on David’s APEX list Related posts: APEX installation via the Oracle Protocol Server (listener)
Jul 26 2008
As Nial said it, I am honored and very proud, because this year wasn’t “easy”. It was very though and I helped this year to judge 400 other presentations, so I know. Probably it is never easy, but the competition this year was huge. So making the first step in such a context, with such …
Jul 24 2008
As promised, I said that I will keep those interested up-to-date, regarding presentations and workshops about the use off XMLDB or its features. The following items were discovered by me so far. Related posts: Almost forgotten XMLDB whitepapers and presentations New XMLDB whitepapers and presentations were added on OTN My Presentations Out There…
Jul 22 2008
For those who might me interested I will try to post all the XML(DB) related presentations I can find here on this website, but don’t forget to mark the following in your schedule… Session ID: S300192 Session Title: Oracle XML DB: Building Blocks and Best Practices Track: Oracle Develop: Database Room: Golden Gate C3 Date: …
Jul 22 2008
The “Dude” Guy has made a Blog (also to his surprise) have a look here: http://www.ora600.be/ora600-blog Welcome Mr. Kurt van Meerbeeck to the wonderful world of “blogging”, let them ‘backup & recovery” war stories roll in… Related posts: RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g: A Problem-Solution Approach Funny stuff – Bas Klaasen on “blog value”… …
Jul 20 2008
While setting up a baseline for my XMLDB performance tests, I noticed that my “count(*)” on a Binary XML table (using Securefile LOB storage) called “WIKI_STAGE” took an awful long time. So long, that I even had to kill the SQL*Plus session, that was executing the “count(*)”. I started wondering. Why did it take so …
Jul 18 2008
I just saw for the first time my colleague Wouter van Reeven’s AMIS advert about him looking for Java Developers. The YouTube “trailer” is actually fun, if not only, because it has been done in a “fuzzy” Java Developer Style of filming the AMIS property (and coffee mucks…) Might you be interested to meet this …
Jul 15 2008
I just read Thomas Kyte’ s blog post “Read This“, which is dealing with the content of the blog post of Cary Millsap. As Tom phrased it: I liked what Cary Millsap just said: I don’t mean “show and tell,” where someone claims he has improved performance at hundreds of customer sites by hundreds of …
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