Yearly Archive: 2010

Dec 23 2010

Being Mr. Ellison…

Its almost Christmas and the end of this 2010 year and I keep wondering what will happen, Oracle wise, in 2011. I have, had, my idea’s about what might happen, will happen, if I would be Mr. Larry Ellison. Being “in the trade”, a Oracle geek, since 1993, I have seen some movements like, “the …

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Nov 09 2010

Oracle XMLDB LinkedIn Group

I started a Oracle XMLDB LinkedIn group to provide via this media some more high level discussions or ways to share info. If you are interested, join. This LinkedIn group will be updated and managed by me until Oracle starts an official Oracle XMLDB LinkedIn group. I have noticed that LinkedIn Groups discussions of other …

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Nov 07 2010

My current favourite iPad apps

Okay, okay, I admit it, I was one of those guys that bought himself an iPad during OOW and I thought maybe it’s cool to share some thoughts on those iPad apps that are currently on my iPad, after things have settled down a bit regarding the downloading, install, try-outs and deleting (zillion of times) …

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Favorites – Bill Bruford: One of a Kind (1979)

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Favorites – Solution: Fully Interlocking (1977)

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Eighties Stuff I Like…or…”Fiddling around with new WordPress Video Blog formats”

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Favorites – UK: UK / Danger Money (1978/1979)

Oct 04 2010

HOWTO: Trace “ORA-19022: Unoptimized XML construct”

So you’re on 11.2.0.2.0 and you encountered in SQL*Plus this new feature “Unoptimized XML construct detected (enable XMLOptimizationCheck for more information)“. What can you do and how to get more info…? I encountered this new feature in SQL*Plus a month or so ago via the executing the following:   SQL> SET autotrace ON   SQL> …

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Sep 24 2010

Software. Hardware. Complete.

A lot is happening here at Oracle Open World, more than my brain can master right now. Exalogic, ZFS storage, Unbreakable Enterprise Linux, Fusion Apps (finally), Oracle VM for Solaris, etc… Some of those topics aren’t that important for me and/or my customers right now, because they are just out of reach like, for example …

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Sep 24 2010

HOWTO: Handle Complex XML Schemas (Part 1)

Currently sitting in at the Oracle Open World 2010 presentation of Sam Iducula, Consulting member of the tech. staff and Mark Drake, Sr. Product Manager for Oracle XML DB. Before getting into the more in-depth topics Sam explained XML schema usage, for validation via XML schema validators like for example XML Spy or JDeveloper. This …

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