Marco Gralike

Marco Gralike

Marco Gralike, working for AMIS Services BV as a Principal Oracle Consultant, has experience as a DBA since 1994 (Oracle 6). Marco is also eager and skillful in other fields to find working, performing solutions. Marco has been specializing in Oracle XMLDB, since 2003, focusing on his old love, database administration and performance. He is an Oracle XMLDB enthusiast ever since. He is a dedicated contributor of the Oracle User Group community, helping people with their steep XMLDB learning curve. Marco is an Oracle ACE Director (spec. in XMLDB) and an OakTable member. Marco devoted also his personal blog site to XMLDB; To find it is easy; Search for "Gralike" and "XML" and Google will provide...

Homepage: http://www.amis.nl


Posts by Marco Gralike

Using the Oracle XMLDB Repository to Automatically Shred Windows Office Documents (Part 1)

20/12/2011 - 5:10 pm

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Posted in AMIS, DBA, Database, Devel. + PL/SQL tools, IT Architecture, Oracle, Unstructured Data, XML | 7 comments

People who have attended the UKOUG presentation this year where Mark Drake, Sr. Product Manager XML Technologies / XMLDB, Oracle HQ, and I demonstrated the first principles of the XDB Repository, might have been impressed with its (GEO/KML Spatial, Image EXIF info) capabilities combined with Google Earth. This post will zoom in on how to [...]

UKOUG 2011 – Drag, Drop and other Stuff. Using your Database as a File Server

12/12/2011 - 1:18 pm

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Posted in AMIS, DBA, IT Architecture, Software Engineering, Technical Architecture, XML | No comments

Last Thuesday, Mark Drake, Senior Product Manager and I, delivered a good presentation during UKOUG in Birmingham about how to use your database, via XMLDB functionality, as a file server. The presentation demonstrated as well how you could extent the “standaard” file server (aka your database) functionality with features like, WebDAV driven ACL Security and [...]

UKOUG 2011: Using your Database as a Fileserver

21/11/2011 - 3:43 pm

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UKOUG 2011 is nearby and one of the coolest things in Oracle 11g and onwards is, IMHO, a functionality called XDB Repository Events. Most of you probably know that based on XMLDB functionality in the database, the database also can be used in a File server kind of way by enabling the XDB Repository HTTP/FTP [...]

Review: The Method-R Profiler

10/11/2011 - 8:24 pm

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I was lucky enough to get my hands on the Method-R Profiler and had a test drive with it. So first of all what is it? As you might expect a profiler, a profiler for Oracle performance problems. The tool makes use of Oracle’s trace facilities. If you have a performance problem with the database [...]

OOW 2011 – Oracle XMLDB and Big Data

6/10/2011 - 10:11 pm

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Posted in DBA, IT Architecture, Unstructured Data, XML | No comments

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 [...]

OOW 2011 – Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

4/10/2011 - 12:04 am

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Posted in Cloud, Technical Architecture | 1 comment

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 some [...]

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

3/10/2011 - 7:12 pm

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Posted in Database, Devel. + PL/SQL tools, General, Software Development | No comments

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 [...]

OOW 2011 – NoSQL Databases and Oracle Database Environments

2/10/2011 - 11:02 pm

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Posted in Database, Oracle, Unstructured Data | No comments

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 [...]

OOW 2011 – On Our Way

29/9/2011 - 2:52 pm

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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 [...]

Oracle XMLDB XQuery Update in Database Release 11.2.0.3.0

22/9/2011 - 11:28 am

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Posted in AMIS, Database, General, IT Architecture, Oracle, Oracle Development Tools, XML | No comments

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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