Oracle Open World is near and I, more or less, finalized my schedule for Oracle Open World now. With the help of Doug’s schedule and from others, I filled in some blanks on Wednesday and Thursday.
I also saw that my session on Sunday, “Oracle XML DB: Building Blocks and Best Practices” and is almost [...]

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 it an AMIS Query. An AMIS Query is an in house event; one or more presentations from our AMIS colleagues or outside specialists from other companies. [...]

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 it an AMIS Query. An AMIS Query is an in house event; one or presentations from our AMIS colleagues or outside specialists from other companies. Everyone [...]
Apparently my colleague Emiel is also back from Holiday…

The underlying structure of the XMLDB repository is a blob, but why not…? The following code was once demonstrated by Mark Drake in May on the OTN XMLDB Forum. It is a very useful alternative way to store some of our code / scripts…
declare
res BOOLEAN;
begin
res := dbms_xdb.createResource('/public/q1.xqy','My Xquery');
commit;
end;
/
SELECT [...]

I am off. It’s time for a holiday. Portugal here we come.
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See ya

Triggered by Flavio’s blog post “and the winner is…” I checked if the other Oracle Mix winners were now also listed in the Content Catalog and could be scheduled via the Schedule Builder; …and YES they are…(at least those who have confirmed the presentation - can’t find Richard Foote yet…) !
Besides Flavio’s presentation, I also [...]

Hmmm, still busy to setup a baseline environment to do some serious XMLDB performance / architecture testing. I am almost now on the point were I really can start, but until now I ran into a lot of issues… It also told be that the mediawiki dumpfile is good XML data to work with. A [...]

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 easy task via the Schedule Builder. What I don’t understand is why they didn’t provide a selection on a per day basis. It would make my [...]