Grid 2.0 – The Next Step for Real Application Clusters
Let me be clear, I am not a RAC guy, but while using the schedule builder this year, one presentation had a definite hint to the upcoming 11gR2 release. …
Author: Marco Gralike
Oracle Open World – XMLDB Tracks, Presentations and Experiences
Woke up very early this morning due to the time differences between the States and Europe, but this helped me to focus on my first speaker session on the …
Hints between Chocolates and Beer
The title is based on Doug’s blog post UKOUG Agenda Online. I can’t help myself, I just like the title, but it probably does not relate to this post…or …
Update – Dutch Oracle Open World 2008 Preview Session
Hereby a small update on our AMIS Query – Preview session Oracle Open World. Our list of presenters is complete and a lot of people already registered via the …
AMIS Query – Preview Session Oracle Open World 2008
We try to do our best, so some extra practice never hurts. If we think such an event or session can be interesting for our Dutch peers, we call …
Closing the Gapp on Oracle Open World?
I don’t know about you, but while I try to make an interesting Oracle Open World schedule for me this year, I noticed that this is not an very …
BEA and Oracle's Middleware Strategy Briefing
I just got a hint from my colleague Lucas, via the AMIS internal channels (aka "sharepoint"), that there will be a strategy briefing via webcast about "Oracle Fusion Middleware …
BEA available on Oracle E-Delivery
I have no idea when they made it available but, while searching on Oracle E-delivery for a complete Oracle BPA package, I saw that a lot of BEA software …
Quering RSS Feeds The XMLDB Way
Actually this is old stuff (2006), but it got lost in a comment section. I think this can still be useful to some and I also post this here …
OEM GC 10.2.0.4 Upgrade Connect Issues
Here a small post that hopefully will help some people in the future that are stuck with the same issues. I am still missing some info, but I discovered …
Accepted AMIS Oracle Open World Presentations
June 5, 2008
AMIS, Databases, DBA Oracle, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Software Engineering, XML
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Today me colleagues Lucas, Gerwin and I got some nice “Oracle Open World Welcome Notification” e-mails from the Oracle Open World 2008 team. We are happy to announce that …
DBA Conference Holland & XMLDB Whitepaper
Given by Dutch DBA’s for DBA’s: The DBA Conference in Holland next week, the 27th of May 2008, Zeist. Oracle DBA Symposium Yours truly will also present as you …
11g Technology Preview: XML Data Retrieval via Equi Partitioning by Reference
The success or downfall of your application is determined by proper logical and physical design, especially if it is based on stored XML data in an Oracle database. The …
Oracle announces XQuilla / XQilla XQuery engine available under the open source Apache 2.0 license
In the year that XML celebrates his 10th anniversary, Oracle announces to make the XQuilla XQuery engine available under the open source Apache 2.0 license. Via official sources, the …
AMIS Query 20/3: Toon Koppelaars, Gerwin Timmermans & RuleGen
Nog drie dagen te gaan, voor je laatste kans in een verfrissende, ouderwetse, gezellige en enerverende kennisavond met Gerwin Timmermans (AMIS) en Toon Koppelaars (RuleGen). Meld je aan, click …
HOTSOS 2K8 – A Training Day with Mr. Thomas Kyte
Reality is hard. While being back in Holland, work caught up with me. Instead of a full blown overview, I will present here a small one. No one posted …
Oracle DBA Symposium in Holland
Planboard organiseert een Oracle DBA Symposium op dinsdag 27 mei 2008. In tien technische sessies, verdeeld over twee parallelle tracks, delen DBA’ers hun praktijkervaringen met de deelnemers. Ze laten …
HOTSOS 2K8 – What Does Inspire Us…?
I can tell you about the next day. But I won’t. Most of it is (for people with the same interest) a known fact anyway. There was Tapio’s presentation, …
HOTSOS 2K8 – About Filling the Gaps in Performance Tuning
After a quick breakfast, the Hotsos symposium got on has way with a small introduction of Gary Goodman on reviewing the history of the symposium event. This time also …
HOTSOS 2K8 – Prequals
It’s Sunday and the first signs from the up coming Hotsos 2008 symposium are beginning to show in the Omni Hotel. The conference rooms are being set-up and the …
HOTSOS 2K8 – Mind the GAPP
If your there, "mind the GAPP", also during Hotsos. Tomorrow, my colleagues and me, will arrive in San Colinas, Dallas, TX. Yesterday I got the first taste of Gerwin’s …
Saving (XML) data directly to disk
I was asked, also after the former post “Selecting (XML) data directly from disk“, what the best way would be to save data directly (locally) to disk via XMLDB …
AMIS Query 28/2: Een nieuwe denkwijze op het gebied van Business Proces Performance
How System Metrics Can Help You Find Performance Bottlenecks for Business Processes in Complex Architectures Gerwin Hendriksen will give a pre-view on the 28th of Februari of his presentation …
Selecting (XML) data directly from disk
On the OTN XMLDB Forum, a question was asked if you could directly select from a XML file on disk, or to be more precise ” XQUERY / XMLTABLE …
HOTSOS 2008
The new year has started and one of the most important Oracle performance conferences is about to start. The Hotsos 2008 Symposium will be held again, almost traditionally now, …
Your lucky if you are in Holland – A Great Symposium Announced
Oracle The Netherlands just announced, via email, an great "RedDatabase Symposium" event / symposium on 10,11 and 12th of March, organized by RedStone Innovations. The focal points for this …
UKOUG 2007 – The Final Verdict of the Attendees
Today, I got my evaluation results for my presentation during UKOUG last year. Overall, I am not unhappy. I am a little bit perfectionist minded, but for a first …
Year 2007 Round-Up and Picture Galore
It has been a very interesting year for me. I met a lot of people of whom I only had the pleasure to mail with. Some of them are …
APEX contra ADF?
Pushing to the bank holidays, trying to get rid of the piles of work before I / we start a new year, I would almost forget to thank Dimitri …
UKOUG – Wednesday, Thursday and Wrap-up
I met a fellow dba with 20 years of experience and I couldn’t make him understand James Morle’s presentation regarding skew and latency (f.k.a. “Every Performance Problem Is One …
UKOUG – Pictures and some not so nice stuff…
Thanks to Daniel Fink I was able to upload some pictures now. Have a look at my written posts. In the meanwhile (if you didn’t notice) a not so …
UKOUG – Running the Gauntlet
I didn’t "do" much on Tuesday regarding the attending of sessions. I saw Alex Gorbachevs’s presentation regarding "RAC connection management". I was a little bit "afraid" of the "RAC" …
UKOUG – Monday
The day started off with a two keynote session from Ian Smith and Thomas Kyte. Tom Kyte addressed more or less the same items (“30 years of Oracle”) as …
UKOUG – Monday First Impressions and The Human Lottery Show
On Sunday I left to Birmingham to attend and, for the first time, speak at the UKOUG. It started off completely wrong. I went with a taxi to the …
AMIS Query, November 6th – Introduction into the practical use of Oracle XMLDB
At last notice. Next week, Harm and I, will give an AMIS Query about the practical use of XMLDB.In short, I will give an introduction into the XMLDB Features like …
Oracle 11g for Windows can now be downloaded via OTN
As Laurent already posted on his site; Oracle has made Oracle 11g for Windows (11.1.0.6.0) available on OTN. So you are now able to download it if you prefer …
MOOW 2K7 – Finishing up
After surviving the water slides the day before my colleague Gerwin and I enjoyed again a great breakfast and a lot of coffee. For me this is an essential …
MOOW 2K7 – The Friday Sessions
I stood up at 07 o'clock and after a great meal in a restaurant, I attended my first session: Tapio Lahdenmäki's presentation about "Rethink your Indexes". A lot of …
MOOW 2K7 – The drive home, Come Home- Event (Thursday)
Thursday morning, somewhere between 11.00 and 11.03 hours, the Miracle Express left from Anjo Kolk's home. From the almost 40 Dutch participants of Miracle (Oracle) Open World event, 12 …
MOOW 2K7 – The Miracle Express
It’s the day before Miracle Oracle Open World 2007. Tomorrow the (Dutch) Miracle Express will leave and will make its way from Garderen to Lalandia, Denmark. Hopefully arriving with …