AMIS, Data Driven Blog – Oracle & Microsoft Azure
Getting value from IoT, Integration and Data Analytics
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 – the well and lesser known things you can (and should) do when programming in and against the Oracle Database. Part […]
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0 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 we met elkaar en gaat we handson ervaring opdoen met de besproken onderwerpen. Als je het leuk vindt om meer te […]
0 0 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 technologies . It something we like doing – a trait of the organisation- and are good at and successful with. That […]
0 0 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. The conference hosted about 1500 IoT professionals, 50 exhibitors, and 70 speakers. On Thursday and Friday, 22 – 23 September, I […]
0 0 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 Edition to Standard Edition can be a consideration ifthe Enterprise Edition options or features are not used (or not required) in […]
0 0 How to be prepared for a black swan scenario?
0 0 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 that were held. Perhaps this gives you more insight in what you can expect from such an event and it may […]
0 0 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 units into a single Oracle 19c database with Virtual Private Database (VPD). The VPD solution is used for the virtual separation […]
0 0 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 tool which is used for the presentation. An easy alternative is to record such sessions using OBS Studio, a free and […]
0 0 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 is day not lived and a day not learned certainly for me also is a day not lived. There seem to […]
0 0 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, the Second Tuesday of each month. But this is a schedule you can not set in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Scheduler. […]
0 0 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. Without using a green screen or other tools – with nothing more than a laptop with webcam. I made this work […]
0 0 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 Teams. Sometimes though you do not have that available or want to be able to do more than what the tool […]
0 0 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 – Open Broadcaster Software. This free tool makes it fairly easy – for me too – to record videos and combine […]
0 0 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 complex, expensive equipment. That was my thinking. Until recently a colleague introduced me to OBS Studio – Open Broadcaster Software. With […]
0 0 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 Alliance (aka REAL) is a network of Oracle partners on four continents that have joined forces to share knowledge and experience […]
0 0 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 and in many other cases where a visualization of ideas comes in handy. I am quite keen to learn about new […]
0 0 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 or other visual replace the green in the video. A trick commonly used by reporters who do not actually want to […]
0 0 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 of them) students – and what feels as countless Team Meetings over the last six week – I have started to […]
0 0 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 we landed on: migrating data from very old versions to a new environment. Recently we were tasked with the migration of […]
0 0 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 time I wrote a blog article. [https://technology.amis.nl/2020/03/10/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 this article I will focus on unordered HTML list (<ul> and <li>), HTML […]
0 0 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 wrote a blog article. Via debugging I gave a global overview of how the HTML converter (called Mammoth created by Michael […]
0 0 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 with my colleagues on a regular basis, I write blog articles. From the beginning we used WordPress, but over the years […]
0 0 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 de cloud? Of ben je benieuwd naar dé killer features? PostgreSQL is al geruime tijd een hele goede optie voor relationele […]
0 0 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 international audience of 6000 unique visitors a day. To reward your loyalty and as part of the celebration we publish several […]
0 0 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 of over 8000 message threads. Because we have joined the Conclusion eco system and we will now share a Yammer Network […]
0 0 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 requires the Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. When adding a Standby Database, after proving all the […]
0 0 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 you more insight in what you can expect from such an event and it may help you in deciding if, as […]
0 0 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 retrieval of information at deeper levels of abstraction in the data · Neo4j is currently the most popular Graph database, and […]
0 0 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 mini-computer with intelligent software to count the number of people in front of a camera. We send that number to an […]
0 0 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 resources compared to running on JVM and do not even require the JRE or any other kind of runtime apart from […]
0 0 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 second Yatra. I will present in three cities (Hyderabad, Pune and Mumbai) and I am really looking forward to meeting many […]
0 0 Recapitulation on how to install the Oracle Integration Cloud on premises connectivity agent Recently (april 2018) I gained access to the new Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), version 18.1.3.180112.1616-762, and wanted to make an integration connection to an on-premise database. For this purpose, an on premise connectivity agent needs to be […]
0 0 We are in the process of upgrading our Oracle Clusters and SIHA/Restart systems to Oracle 12.2.0.1 The upgrade of the Grid-Infra home on a Oracle SIHA/Restart system from 11.2.0.4 to 12.2.0.1 fails when running rootupgrade.sh with error message: CRS-2415: Resource ‘ora.asm’ cannot be registered because its owner ‘root’ is not […]
0 0 Have you ever come across the following challenge? You have to name something; your own project, own product, company, your boat or even your own child. Coming up with the right name is very important since this is something you have worked on for a long time. So the name […]
0 0 Oracle Code Rome 2019 – Business and IT Agility Through DevOps and Microservice Architecture Powered by Containers and Cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9vfK9fILM Turn Data into Business Value – Starting with Data Analytics on Oracle Cloud – https://youtu.be/IkfhudP2v7U?t=20880 Oracle Groudbreakers Podcast: Database Golden Rules: When (and Why) to Break Them (January 2019): https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/database-golden-rules-when-and-why-to-break-them Oracle […]
0 0 Almost done. It’s not expected that tomorrow, thursday, will be a day full of new stuff, exciting news. Today, wednesday was a mix for me between ‘normal’ content like sessions about migrating to Oracle Enterprise 13.2 (another packed room) and a very interesting session about the Autonomous Database. Just a […]
0 0 Day 3 began with a very smooth and interesting keynote of Thomas Kurian, full of flawless, wonderful demo’s . The second keynote, of Larry Ellison happened in the afternoon, I couldn’t attent for as I head a product management meeting. But some hickups I heard. Beside the keynotes it was […]
0 0 At Monday Oracle Open World really starts. A whole lot of general sessions with announcements and strategic directions on product / service level. In this post I’ll try to summarize the highlights of this day. Quite hard, there are a whole lot of interesting sessions which overlap. Always the […]
0 0 Just a quick note about day 1 at Oracle Open World. This Sunday traditionally is filled with presentations of usergroups, customers and product management, and at the end of the day the welcome-keynote. In the presentations there’s not really exciting news, they will have to wait until the keynotes. But […]
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