Its time to enlist. It really is. At least regarding the XMLDB related sessions and presentations during Oracle Open World 2009. As far as I have seen today, the hands-on workshop has almost no seats left and more than half already enlisted for my XMLDB New Features and XMLDB Performance related presentation. Oracle Open World …
Monthly Archive: September 2009
Sep 23 2009
UKOUG Conference Series Technology & E-Business Suite 2009
I got a small request from the UKOUG team if I could be so kind to do a little bit of advertising for the UKOUG conference. The first thing that popped into my “Of course, no problem”. If you didn’t know, at least that my honest opinion, the UKOUG conference is the best big and …
Sep 22 2009
James Finally Found The Internet
James Morle, one of my OakTable members, “finally” had the urge to start blogging. So have a go at it and read his, probably funny (be warned English Humor), but oh so informative blog posts (performance wise) on his new found virtual “home” on the internet: James Morle’s Blog: “Blogging at last: better late than …
Sep 14 2009
AMIS Query – Technical Introduction of Oracle Database 11g Release 2
(dutch text) Oracle heeft zijn nieuwe database release – 11g Release 2 – begin deze maand vrijgegeven. AMIS heeft als deelnemer aan het beta-traject al geruime tijd met deze release kennis kunnen maken. We organiseren op dinsdag 29 september een AMIS Query sessie waarin we van deze eerste ervaringen verslag doen. Niet zozeer in marketing-kreten …
Sep 10 2009
Oracle 11g Release 2 – New Features Blog Posts
As you might have noticed, we/AMIS, started posting about the Oracle 11g Release 2 new features. Until now we posted about: Oracle 11gR2: New Features Oracle 11gR2: Flash Cache Oracle 11gR2: Goodbye Connect By or: the end of hierarchical querying as we know it Oracle 11gR2: LISTAGG, aggregation operator for creating (comma) delimited strings Oracle 11gR2: Alter or replace …
Sep 09 2009
Oracle 11gR2 – XML Data Partitioning
There is a Metalink note (563802.1) that has a very good example how XML data storage, partitioning can be achieved in Oracle version 9.2.0.3.0 (the first officially supported XMLDB database functionality) and onwards. Partitioning can be used in such XML situations to spread the I/O load and it also supports, if done correctly, the XMLDB …
Sep 01 2009
Oracle 11g Release 2 New XMLDB Features
Oracle 11g Release 2 for Linux can now be downloaded via the Oracle Technology Network here: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html The documentation and whitepapers can be found via the following link: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle11g/index.html The online manuals are also already online and can be found here: http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/homepage Enjoy all the cool and fun new features like, among others, flash cash, …

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