Monthly Archive: April 2009

Apr 26 2009

Oracle ACE Case: XML DB

This is a wrap-up for those who are interested and/or the attendees of the “Oracle ACE Case: XML DB” presentation given for the Oracle Dutch user group, OGh, on the 16th of April 2009 at the Dutch Oracle HQ, De Meern in Holland.  It was real fun for me doing it and I hope the …

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Apr 26 2009

What Defines an ACE…?

Oracle is buying Sun. Today on Sunday, I wanted to “read” up on some of those cool jewels that will come with the package, called DTrace. I haven’t been working on Sun for at least 6 years, so I though, hack, lets start with a demo. So I Googled for “dtrace” and it came up …

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Apr 23 2009

AMIS Technology School, Events, XML DB Performance

I have been busy, very, very busy and it has had its effects on this personal blog site. I wanted to do a lot of “spring cleaning”, finishing up what I feel as the last threads on 11gR,1 like “XMLDB Repository Events” and “XMLDB Security”, but I just don’t have the time… Will do anyway …

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Apr 20 2009

Oracle to buy Sun, Ehh MySQL, Ehh Glashfish…

Wow, I am completely stunned, overwhelmed… Oracle to by Sun …what will this mean, for example, for glashfish, InnoDB and MySQL…to name some combinations…? The comments on Slashdot about this news are pooring in…(Ken/InnoDB) ? An “internal Sun announcement” also has been placed on Slashdot from Jonathan I. Schwartz (CEO Sun) to allsun[at]sun.com…interesting… From this …

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Apr 17 2009

WebStats and the Oracle XMLDB Market?

Although it isn’t (absolute) science, it has been a little bit over two years since I enabled Google Analitics. Just to see were I was regarding Gardner trends and if my XMLDB nerd mindset had any chance in the real world… For those who are interested, hereby some small impressions… Totals for this website Click …

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