Yearly Archive: 2009

Dec 17 2009

Miracle Open World 2010 – Do I need to say more ?

Check out Anette and Mogens first clip about MOW 2010. Do I need to say more ? Lets Moans and Anette do the talking, they (especially Moans) are much better on the explaining part than me… For more information also see http://mow2010.dk. Hope to see you there… Related posts: Miracle Oracle Open World 2007 Recap …

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Dec 07 2009

Oracle XDB DAD List (DBMS_EPG)

Michael McLaughlin had written last week some nice small blog posts on XML DB. I couldn’t resist to see if I could make this one easier… The package DBMS_EPG is sole based on the xdbconfig.xml file, which is the configuration file for the XML DB Protocol Server, which is not, by the way, an Apache …

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Dec 07 2009

UKOUG 2009 Wrap Up

Its already Saturday again. UKOUG is over. The weather here in Holland isn’t much better than it was in Birmingham but somehow I miss the X-mas atmosphere. So what did I enjoy or dislike during this years UKOUG conference? The wifi was a minor bummer, but the rest was up on high standard as always. …

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Dec 01 2009

UKOUG 2009 – Distinguished Black

I am presenting since 2007. My first “appearance” was in Birmingham and as Alex Gorbachev said in one of his blog posts, this conference is special for me. Probably also due to the X-mas atmosphere outside; everything has a comfy and warm look and feel (despite the weather). From time to time, I ***SPAM*** people …

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Nov 30 2009

UKOUG 2009 – “Oh Dear: Marco has a brand new Flip”

Got me one. No idea if it is useful or if it will add anything to the experience, but instead of shooting pictures, I will have a go at it. Roel Hartman stated the following while being “shot”. Related posts: Oracle XML(DB) Sessions during UKOUG 2009 UKOUG 2009 – My Agenda… UKOUG Conference Series Technology …

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Nov 28 2009

UKOUG 2009 – My Agenda…

For what it is worth, if not only for my convenance…an agenda filled with a nice potpouri of some performance, programming, new software, indepth stuff and a lot of “escape clauses” especially at the end of the week… Related posts: My UKOUG Agenda Oracle XML(DB) Sessions during UKOUG 2009 The Agenda for UKOUG 2007 UKOUG …

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Nov 27 2009

Oracle XML(DB) Sessions during UKOUG 2009

I will be there, but I won’t be presenting this year. So besides all the other great in-depth sessions, whats out there regarding Oracle XML(DB) topics…? As far as I could find, there are 3 presentations that are direct or indirect discussing Oracle XML(DB) Topics. Two presentations from John King and one from Mark Drake …

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Nov 26 2009

XFILES (Part 6) – XFiles for APEX EA 0.1 – Available for Download

The XFiles for Apex “Early Adapter” 0.1. release, is available for download. In principle its the same stuff I got from Mark Drake and posted about before, but now also with the APEX SQL workspace import script as well. I have to start somewhere and I shouldn’t let you wait too long playing around with …

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Nov 24 2009

“No Cuddly Toys, Man!”

“No cuddly toys this year, man”. This message from a mail Doug send a short while ago, started popping up today in my mind, while strawling along in a traffic jam. No idea why he thinks that I have anything to say about it (read last years report during the UKOUG conference called “UKOUG – …

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Nov 23 2009

XFILES (Part 5) – How to Open Up the XML DB Repository for APEX ?

The biggest problem the APEX application has, regarding XML DB interaction, is that it doesn’t understand / support (yet) typical XML DB structures like the datatype / operator “XMLType”. To make APEX capable to support these structures some coding has to be done transforming an XMLtype value into other datatypes like CLOB or a varchar2. …

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