Monthly Archive: September 2011

Sep 29 2011

OOW 2011 – On Our Way

Early mornings…really hate them, but can avoid it this time due to our flight going out towards San Francisco is scheduled at 9.50PM. Oracle Open World is near and a few days away from getting started. Alex, Lucas and I meet up this morning in Schiphol, Hollands main airport for our flight to the ACE …

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Sep 27 2011

Interview with Marco Gralike

As a placeholder here a small post regarding my interview about Oracle XMLDB functionality and its use-cases via the Dutch Oracle magazine called “Optimize” for September.   Source AMIS Nieuwbrief (Geinteresseerd? Aanmelden hier) AMIS in de pers – Marco Gralike Dat AMIS veel in de pers publiceert, is bekend. Kennis staat centraal en dat deelt …

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Sep 22 2011

Oracle XMLDB XQuery Update in Database Release 11.2.0.3.0

I just made use of the very cool OTN Virtual Developer Day Database site. In this environment you can follow OTN Developer Day sessions, for example, at home, while making use of all the material available on that site plus the downloadable Virtualbox OTN Developer Day Appliance. Despite you can choose for tracks like Java, …

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Sep 14 2011

Oracle Virtualbox 4.1

Let’s be honest, Virtualbox is really thriving under current Oracle management and becoming a real cool (if not already – i think so…) product. I am using it for test or training purposes, creating importable appliances and a lots of other purposes, on my iMac, Windows or other desktop environments. Having a look at the …

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