What is Apache Drill and how to setup your Proof-of-Concept

Sam Vruggink 2

Apache Drill is a schema-free SQL query engine. Drill supports a variety of NoSQL databases and file systems, including HBase, MongoDB, MapR-DB, HDFS, MapR-FS, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Swift, NAS and local files. A single query can join data from multiple datastores. For example, you can […]

When to use the Oracle Database In-Memory option?

The application and usage of the Oracle Database In-Memory has been described by Pom Bleeksma in this post. Oracle Database In-Memory can result in huge improvement in application query performance. This post will answer the question: “what would be an optimal situation for using the Oracle Database In-Memory feature?” The […]

The AMIS Summary of Oracle OpenWorld 2013 is available for download – 60-page white paper

Lucas Jellema

Oracle OpenWorld is a monster event – 10Ks of attendees, thousands of sessions and 100Ks of private conversations that all help convey and define the message about Oracle’s strategy and the roadmap for its close to 4000 thousand products. Concurrent with OOW is the JavaOne conference that – at a […]

OOW13: summarizing one week and 2000 sessions in 3 hours and a bit – the yearly AMIS OOW Review session – 10th October

Lucas Jellema

On Thursday 10th of October, the 12 man strong AMIS delegation at Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne 2013 will present its findings in a 3 hour session at AMIS HQ in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. You are welcome to attend this free session (from 16.30 on, food provided). Please register here: http://www.amis.nl/nl-NL/evenementen/technologie-evenementen/oow-review. […]

OOW13: What questions to get answered and plans to see evolved at this year at Oracle OpenWorld Conference

Lucas Jellema

As I am about to start my ninth Oracle OpenWorld Conference, I am wondering what this year’s conference will have in store for me. My schedule is largely filled  up, I know who I am going to meet, where I have to speak and where I need to go. Now […]

Het Oracle OpenWorld Preview Evenement (5 september 2013) – 15 sprekers & sessies

Saskia van der Maat

Vanaf 22 september vindt in San Francisco de Oracle OpenWorld conferentie plaats: hét evenement waar Oracle haar productstrategie uit de doeken doet en waar Oracle specialisten van over de hele wereld ervaringen uitwisselen. Tegelijk met Oracle OpenWorld wordt ook de JavaOne conferentie georganiseerd, het trefpunt voor de wereldwijde Java gemeenschap. […]

Training Oracle ADF 11g, 15 tot en met 19 april

Van 15 tot en met 19 april geeft Luc Bors de 5-daagse ADF 11g training op het kantoor van AMIS in Nieuwegein. In 5 dagen leer je de basis van Oracle ADF 11g. De training bestaat basis uit presentatie, demonstratie en hands on, doorspekt met best practices en voorbeelden uit […]

AMIS vat Oracle OpenWorld samen in speciale whitepaper

Saskia van der Maat

Als sluitstuk van de jaarlijkse Oracle OpenWorld conferentie brengt AMIS een whitepaper uit. Een handzaam document waarin het volledige verhaal van Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is gebundeld. Een team van AMIS was tijdens de conferentie in oktober nadrukkelijk aanwezig; als sponsor, deelnemer, netwerker en spreker – en als aandachtig luisteraar en […]

OOW 2012: The yearly AMIS Review from Oracle Open World and JavaOne – slides available

Lucas Jellema

Yesterday (16th October), 10 days of the end of the yearly Oracle show in San Francisco, AMIS organized its ‘Review from Oracle Open World 2012’ session with an overview of news, trends, announcements, special finds and interesting rumors . This session was ‘sold out’ (even though it was free). For […]

Kom kennismaken met AMIS en doe mee met uitdagende projecten

Hierbij nodigen we je uit om met ons kennis te komen maken. Ben jij een (junior) Oracle consultant die een stap verder wil maken? Wil je verder groeien en ontwikkelen tot principal consultant? AMIS geeft je de kans om die stap te zetten.  Bij ons krijg je de ruimte om […]

OOW 2012: Questions to get answered during this conference

Lucas Jellema

The show of the year is around the corner: on Sunday it will all start again, the Oracle Open World conference. Tens of thousands of developers, architects, administrators, project managers, decision makers and others involved with Oracle products one way or another are gathering in and around San Francisco. AMIS […]

Uitnodiging: Kom kennismaken met AMIS

Robbrecht van Amerongen

Hierbij nodigen we je uit om met ons kennis te komen maken. Ben jij een (junior) Oracle consultant die een stap verder wil maken? Wil je verder groeien en ontwikkelen tot principal consultant? AMIS geeft je de kans om die stap te zetten.  Bij ons krijg je de ruimte om […]

Dinsdag 18 september: Oracle Open World & JavaOne 2012 Preview mini-conferenties – 12 presentaties op 1 avond

Lucas Jellema

Van 30 september tot 5 oktober is San Francisco weer het domein van tegen de 45.000 deelnemers aan de Oracle Open World en JavaOne conferenties. Ruim 2000 presentaties worden daar gehouden, in vele tientallen zalen in hotels en het Moscone Conferentie Center in downtown San Francisco, waaronder pakweg 20 door […]

Report from Oracle Open World – op maandag 17 oktober, 17.00 uur bij AMIS in Nieuwegein

Lucas Jellema

Het zal je niet zijn ontgaan dat vorige week in San Francisco Oracle Open World woedde. In een krappe week legde Oracle voor zo’n 45.000 bezoekers de strategie neer, de roadmap voor tientallen productlijnen en ook een serie nieuwe aankondigingen. De meest opvallende lanceringen: de Oracle Public Cloud, de Oracle […]

Database Transaction Recorder – Adding Who to When and What to make Flashback take over from Journalling tables

Lucas Jellema 2

In previous articles, I have suggested that the arrival of the Flashback Data Archive in Oracle RDBMS 11g allowed us to finally say goodbye to journalling tables. Keeping track of all changes and previous states of our records in our own dedicated tables is no longer required, was my statement […]

Oracle Open World 2010 presentation: Forms2Future: the ongoing journey into the future for Oracle based organizations

Lucas Jellema

Many organizations around the world have adopted Oracle technology for developing custom applications. Over the past two decades, they may have used PL/SQL, Reports, Forms, Designer, Portal or the Web PL/SQL Toolkit. Many of these organizations have come to face new challenges: more agility or functionality, new user groups or […]

Oracle RDBMS 11gR2 – new style hierarchical querying using Recursive Subquery Factoring

Lucas Jellema 1

  Oracle Database 11g Release 2 introduces the successor to the good old Connect By based hierarchical querying, called Recursive Subquery Factoring. The basics are described in a previous article: https://technology.amis.nl/blog/6104/oracle-rdbms-11gr2-goodbye-connect-by-or-the-end-of-hierarchical-querying-as-we-know-it. This article will show some additional examples of using this recursive subquery factoring syntax. The essence of this recursiveness: […]

The "X" Product – An X(ML) Database Opportunity?

Marco Gralike 2

“Exadata – Extreme Performance Warehousing“, that’s how the presentation on the last Friday morning from Oracle Open World started (Orig. Presentation Title was “Oracle’s New Database Accelerator: Query Processing Revolutionized”) while speaking about the new database machine. And indeed it was a revolution and it took the blogosphere by night. […]

Extreme performance introduced by patchset 11.1.0.7 smart scan

Gerwin Hendriksen

Larry yesterday did his keynote here at Oracle Open World introducing the “Oracle(R) Exadata Storage Server”. This morning I attended a session about the technical details behind the server. In principal the server works with 8 nodes running RAC on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5. For the storage management ASM is […]

OOW 2007: (most) presentations available for download

Lucas Jellema

Most of the presentations for the sessions presented at Oracle Open World 2007, last week in San Francisco, can be downloaded from the Content Catalog  at: http://www28.cplan.com/cc176/catalog.jsp. You will need to use the username/password combination cboracle/oraclec6 to download presentations. At http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/keynotes.html are all the keynotes, of which the one by […]

Oracle 11g Total Recall – Flashback in the hands of Database Designers and Application Developers, at last. And: the end of Journalling Tables

Lucas Jellema 2

One of the new features in the Oracle 11g database is called Oracle Total Recall. This is called marketing! I have read some weblogs where people – mostly DBAs – are surprised at all this attention for Oracle Total Recall, as it seems little more than the Flashback technology that […]

My first steps with Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.2: create a report based on the OraBlogs rss-feed

Lucas Jellema 4

After receiving a new, pretty powerful laptop, on Thursday and installing the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition on Friday, this weekend sees my first steps with the BI Publisher (previously known as XML Publisher).  My colleague Marcos is our (AMIS’s) real expert in this area – you may have seen some […]