Cron, not as easy as expected?
Few days ago I was confronted with the situation that a refresh job failed. The job is supposed to run every Saturday morning at 07:00, but failed due a …
Category: AMIS
Kafka is not dead, it’s just in a different packaging
‘Kafka is dead’ is a statement that is circulating more and more often. Critics point to a lack of innovation, the complexity of the product and the emergence of …
Mastering Realtime Data: How I Topped the Leaderboard at PyData
September 30, 2024
Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and LLM, Python, Webinars, Meetups and Conferences
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Two weeks ago I went to PyData Amsterdam which kicked off with a tutorial day. These tutorials included a workshop on creating multi-modal LLM agents, advanced web-scraping techniques and …
INTEGRATE 2024, the Largest Microsoft Integration Tech Conference
On 10 & 11 June 2024, INTEGRATE 2024, the Largest Microsoft Integration Tech Conference was held in Kings Place, London. I attended this conference remotely. This year was the …
Celebrating 20 years of AMIS Technology Blog
On June 16, 2004, the AMIS Technology blog published its inaugural article. This marked the birth of the first technology blog in the Netherlands, a brainchild of Zeger Hendrikse, …
The Art of Programming– The Advent of Code Programming Puzzle Marathon
Just over three weeks ago, a colleague told me about The Advent of Code 2023. She explained how for 8 years every year in days and weeks leading up …
Devoxx Belgium 2023
At the beginning of this month, I attended the Devoxx Belgium 2023 event in Antwerp. And there was something to celebrate because it was the 20th edition. In this …
Conclusion Code Café–Workshop Web App development with Vue 3 (for absolute beginners)–Tuesday 22nd of August
Speaker: Lucas Jellema (four weeks of Vue3 experience)Language for this session: EnglishDate: Tuesday 22nd AugustTime: 17.00-20.30 CET Location: Conclusion Utrecht, Herculesplein 80, 16th floor / Digital via Teams Target …
Live Handson Environment for Modern Oracle Database Programming
My fellow Oracle ACE Directors and former AMIS-colleagues Patrick Barel and Alex Nuijten have co-authored an impressive book: The book discusses many of the wonders of SQL and PL/SQL …
Maandag 20 maart– open Code Café– open source password manager Bitwarden, Git for Nerds–Fundamentals & Apache Superset data visualization
Op maandag 20 maart vindt weer een Code Café plaats waarin we tools en technologie bespreken en uitproberen. Tussen 17 en 20.30 staan drie onderwerpen op de agenda, eten …
How Cheppy thrills and acceleraties us at AMIS–and what it does not yet do
February 16, 2023
AMIS, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and LLM, Digtial Innovation, Software Development
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ChatGPT is a bit of a “tongue twister” so I will speak of Cheppy. AMIS has a long history of spotting, exploring, embracing and rolling out new concepts and …
Things Conference 2022 – Implementing IoT at Scale
I had the pleasure of visiting the The Things Conference 2022, the largest LoRaWAN event in the world. Organized by Things Industries in Amsterdam on September 22 and 24. …
Migrating Oracle Enterprise Edition database To Standard Edition using Transportable Tablespaces
Introduction Oracle database Standard Edition (SE) has the main features of a RDBMS database and cost significantly less than Oracle Enterprise Edition (EE). Migrating a database from Oracle Enterprise …
AMIS DataSafe, the answer to Black Swan scenarios
March 29, 2022
Technology, AMIS, Architecture, Cloud, Cyber Security, DevOps, Digtial Innovation, Gouvernance, Platform Technology
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How to be prepared for a black swan scenario?
Devoxx United Kingdom 2021, I am We are
At the beginning of this November, I attended the Devoxx United Kingdom 2021 event, remotely. In this article I gathered some practical information about the event, and the sessions …
Preparation for migrating data to Oracle Virtual Private Database
August 10, 2021
AMIS, Database, Databases, DBA Oracle, Oracle, Oracle 12, SQL, sqlplus, Technology
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preparation for migrating data to Oracle Virtual Private Database Introduction Recently I was part of a team involved in the preparation of migration data belonging to multiple business …
OBS Studio: How to record online presentations (Zoom, Teams, Webex, Meet, …)
Sometimes you want to record online presentations to maybe re-watch them later or share them with colleagues. It is not always possible to easily do this from within the …
Another week of learning – some fairly personal notes
One of the best parts of my job is the opportunity to learn all the time. A day to loved is a day not lived, a day not laughed …
How to dynamically Schedule EM Blackouts after PatchTuesday
November 7, 2020
Enterprise Manager, AMIS, DBA Oracle, PL/SQL, Platform Technology, Tools
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In the organization I’m currently working for, the OS-patch schedule depends on PatchTuesday (PT) just as Microsoft, Adobe or Oracle are using. And PatchTuesday is, as you all know, …
Multi Source Video in MS Teams without an actual green screen
My objective: show a video feed in MS Teams that consists of me and a combinati0n of other sources – such as desktop applications like Powerpoint, images, videoclips etc. …
OBS Studio + Snap Camera: Putting yourself in your presentation live for free!
When giving online presentations, it helps for personal marketing if people can see you on the screen. Various tools provide features which help you achieve that, for example Microsoft …
Composing a Video from multiple sources (MP4, PowerPoint, image, text) using OBS
Videos are a powerful way of communicating a message. I have always been more inclined to write blog articles to share my findings. Recently I was introduced to OBS …
How I create multi-layer videos with talking head, slides, sound and simple effects with OBS Studio
Using videos to announce events, explain complex topics, draw attention to causes and entertain community members is powerful. Until recently, I did not create any videos. Too hard. Requiring …
The Six-part REAL Oracle Cloud platform Webinar Series – Cloud Native Live Demo and Hands-On Oracle Developer Meetup sessions – kicking off June 10th 2020
Attend this series of six live webinars to get going with cloud native application development on the Oracle Cloud platform, created and presented by REAL specialists. The Red Expert …
Interesting new features in PowerPoint to make presentations more attractive and effective
PowerPoint is one of the applications I use the most. I create presentations with architecture solution designs, for training purposes, to use in conference sessions next to live demo …
Create video recording in Microsoft Teams with green screen chromakey background without an actual green screen
If you record yourself in front of a green screen – or giant sheet or curtain – you can then manipulate the video and have any picture, movie, drawing …
My Tips for Presenting an Online Meetup – experiences from a would-be pro
After presenting a three part Online Meetup series to colleagues and a three hour webinar to just over one hundred (or two thousand, I did not actually see any …
Migrating an old (10.2.0.4) database to Oracle Cloud with minimal downtime
April 9, 2020
Oracle Cloud, AMIS, Architecture, Cloud, Database, Databases, DBA Oracle, Tools
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Unlike most of our posts this post will contain almost no code or examples. But it hopefully will help somebody who ends up to be in the same situation …
Writing a blog in Word, automating HTML formatting by using a .docx to HTML converter for Java and publishing the blog via WordPress (part 3)
In part 1 and 2 of this article, I shared with you the steps I took, to even further automate the manual steps I still had to take every …
Writing a blog in Word, automating HTML formatting by using a .docx to HTML converter for Java and publishing the blog via WordPress (part 2)
In part 1 of this article, I shared with you the steps I took, to even further automate the manual steps I still had to take every time I …
Writing a blog in Word, automating HTML formatting by using a .docx to HTML converter for Java and publishing the blog via WordPress (part 1)
At AMIS, gaining and sharing information and knowledge is part of our DNA, so that’s why the AMIS Technology Blog has been there for over 15 years now. Together …
PostgreSQL EDB College Tour
Welke dingen zijn van cruciaal belang voor een eenvoudige, foutloze installatie en implementatie van Postgres SQL? Wil je meer weten over het draaien van de database in containers en …
A Readers Story: Connor McDonald on Solving a Sudoku with one SQL Statement
The AMIS Technology Blog has reached a milestone and celebrates its 15-year anniversary! Over the past 15 years, we’ve published 3100 articles, written by 120 authors and gathered an …
Moving message threads to different group using the Yammer API
At AMIS we are quite happy users of Microsoft Yammer. Days with 10 or more messages are no exception and since December 2009, we have assembled quite a history …
Enterprise Manager DataGuard Add Standby Database fails without showing errors at Destination Preparation phase
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c provides the Add Standby Database wizard to create a broker configuration that includes a primary database and one or more standby database. This …
Devoxx Belgium 2018, From Developers For Developers
Last November, I attended the Devoxx Belgium 2018 event. In this article I gathered some practical information about the event, and the sessions that were held. Perhaps this gives …
Querying connected data in Graph databases with Neo4j
TL;DR; · Graph databases are ideal for query use cases with data with complex relationships and layers of connections · Its query language is fast, efficient and allows for …
PeopleCounter part one: Counting People
Intro Internet of Things stands for connecting devices to the internet. The devices are then able to communicate with each other. In our project, the PeopleCounter, we use a …
Java programs as native executables: GraalVM is the answer!
TL;DR: • Using GraalVM Java applications can be compiled into native standalone executables (will be demonstrated). • Native executables of small Java programs startup blazingly fast, use considerably less …
Presenting at ODevCYatra 2018 in Hyderabad, Pune and Mumbai (11, 13 and 14 July)
In 2013 I have participated in the OTN Yatra – a conference tour of six cities in India (). This year I am glad to be back for a …