Monthly Archive: October 2011

Oct 13 2011

The UKOUG 2011 Conference: OakTable Sunday !

Do I need to say more………. Why not join us for OakTable day on Sunday 4th December? In a smaller setting, you can attend a dedicated set of sessions directly from a selection of OakTable members away from any potential session contention of the main conference. The sessions will be presented in just two streams, …

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Oct 09 2011

OakTable Membership…

On a small note… Sometimes there is some confusion about how you become a OakTable member as could be noticed here “SbhOracle” (post has been altered now)… The OakTable membership can ONLY be acquired by INVITE after being recommended by one or more of the OakTable members regarding long time outstanding achievements done in the Oracle …

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Oct 06 2011

OOW 2011 – Oracle XML DB and Big Data

Last day of Oracle Open World and I am currently attending the last presentations. The first presentation, “Oracle XMLDB: A noSQL Approach to Managing all your Unstructured Data”, deals with the no-SQL approach and using Oracle XML DB in the context of using it with “Big Data”, that is unstructured data. The title of the …

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Oct 04 2011

OOW 2011 – Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

After a long wait Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, aka Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c is about to make it’s appearance. You can find information about the EM12c environment via following this link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/grid-control/overview/index.html This will not only bring you to the documentation and download URL’s but also to some ELearning YouTub movies that demonstrate …

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Oct 04 2011

OOW 2011 – What’s New, Improved and Coming in Oracle Application Development

Currently at Tom Kyte’s session regarding topics new, improved or coming in Oracle Application Development. Tom told about the history APEX has gone thru and the current setup with the APEX Listener and even the “PL/SQL Gateway” was mentioned. I always have to laugh a bit because this last one touches the XDB Protocol Server …

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Oct 04 2011

OOW 2011 – NoSQL Databases and Oracle Database Environments

I am currently at a presentation of Patrick Schwanke, Quest Germany, regarding easy and high speed connect between NoSQL and Oracle Databases. Not really what I planned but as mentioned by Alex Nuijten in an earlier post, unstructured data and it’s handling is gaining ground, so I thought it would a good start do start …

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