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In the next 6 to 12 months Knowledge Center Server Development & Programming Languages intends to deal with the themes listed below. The aim is to present at least a large part of those themes in various attractive ways such as presentations, work shops and discussions.
There is a list of roughly planned themes and presenters.
- Query structure. Taken from the 7Up work shop, presented by Lucas Jellema.
- Object-relational features, nested tables and bulk binding with varray’s in the Oracle database, presented by Alex Nuijten.
- Working with the XDK – PL/SQL, presented by Anton Scheffer.
- part 1 from the sequence “To boldly go where no data has gone before..”,, featuring External tables, presented by Leon van Tegelen.
- New XSL-T and XPath features in version 2, presented by Harm Verschuren.
- New Feature of the 10g Database: Regular Expressions, presented by Leon van Tegelen.
- Materialized views (good ol’ snapshots) en query rewrite, presented by Ruud Bloemen.
- Tuning the Oracle database (CBO & analytics, interpreting execution plans with tkprof, dbms_stats, etc), no presenter yet but scores high on the returned questionaires
There is a list of candidate themes in random order:
Members of KC SDPL are requested to return a list of their personal preferenced or favorite themes and a list of themes they are willing to present themselves or with collegues.
Object-relational possibillities of the Oracle database (rdbms
8i, 9i, 10g). Sub themes:- Oracle Object features
- nested tables & varrays (and bulk binding)
- XML Developers Kit – PL/SQL
- XML DB
Query- and database performance. Sub themes:
- DBMS_profiler, dbms_utility (error stack calling & formatting)
- Index design: index organized tables, function based, reversed,
bitmap, B-tree - Hash clusters and index clusters
- Corect usage of constraints (FK, NOT NULL)
- Partitioning tables
- Tuning: CBO & analytics, usage of dbms_stats, interpreting the execution plan and output generated by tkprof
- Dynamic SQL – native and non-native ; bulk operaties, bind-parameters; returning collections etc.
- 9i/10g new SQL en PL/SQL syntaxt (Model Clause, Connect By
verbeteringen, Rollup, Cube, …) - Merge clause, insert when clause, …
“To boldy go where no data has gone before..”, or
communication to the outside from within the Oracle database. Subthemes:- Advanced Queuing
- Database links
- Communication using utl_file, utl_http, utl_tcp, utl_mail (new feature 10g) and Java Stored Procedures O/S commands
- Implementing Web Services using PL/SQL
- External tables (9i+)
- 10g Datapump (succesor of Import/Export)
OLAP themes:
- Oracle OLAP, Analytical Workspace Manager
- Warehouse Builder
- Oracle Workflow
- Data Mining
10g Features.
- Recycle bin
- Workspaces
- Regular Expressions
- Expression Filters
- Enterprise manager
- dbms_scheduler
- Oracle Data Cartridge: user defined aggregation, user defined domain indexes
- 10g new SQL and PL/SQL syntaxt (Model Clause, Connect By improvements, Rollup, Cube, …)
- Merge clause, insert when clause, …
- timestamp data type
Loose ends:
- Temporary Tables
- Fine Grained Auditing and Changed Data Capture (advanced, embedded journalling)
- Oracle Text
- Oracle Streams
- Oracle Spatial
- Database Event Triggers (on connect etc.)
- Table Function, Cast
- Dbms_logmnr, Dbms_pipe, dbms_lock, Dbms_job, Dbms_meta
- NLS (Unicode, UTF8)
- Materialized views and query rewrite
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Harm,
I just thought of two more topics:
– some of our database specialists are working on a project involving Data Guard and a stand-by database. Around end of november, this work should be ready for presentation in a KC meeting – and it seems very interesting!
– “Cruising the Data Dictionary” : I just put up the Oracle 10g Data Dictionary poster (courtesy of CA) as well as the
10g V$- Views poster (courtesy of TUSC) and I think we can enjoy ourselves for a night by navigating these and paying some attention to the really useful objects among them