Monthly Archive: August 2008

Aug 29 2008

Oracle XMLDB Related “Events”

Undocumented stuff is always very interesting, although there is of course a reason why it is undocumented… Event settings are more or less in this category. They are often used by Oracle Support in their quest to do a good job solving our problems. Sometimes events disable or enable features. Sometimes they trace internal processes. …

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Aug 25 2008

My Schedule for Oracle Open World

Oracle Open World is near and I, more or less, finalized my schedule for Oracle Open World now. With the help of Doug’s schedule and from others, I filled in some blanks on Wednesday and Thursday. I also saw that my session on Sunday, “Oracle XML DB: Building Blocks and Best Practices” and is almost …

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Aug 25 2008

AMIS Query – Preview Session Oracle Open World 2008

We try to do our best, so some extra practice never hurts. If we think such an event or session can be interesting for our Dutch peers, we call it an AMIS Query. An AMIS Query is an in house event; one or more  presentations from our AMIS colleagues or outside specialists from other companies. …

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Aug 02 2008

Storing your Scripts in the XMLDB Repository

The underlying structure of the XMLDB repository is a blob, but why not…? The following code was once demonstrated by Mark Drake in May on the OTN XMLDB Forum. It is a very useful alternative way to store some of our code / scripts… DECLARE res BOOLEAN; BEGIN res := dbms_xdb.createResource(’/public/q1.xqy’,'My Xquery’); commit; END; / …

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