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Developer

Photos of an Oracle ACE Award

Hi all, I mentioned a while back that I was an Oracle ACE. I got the actual Oracle ACE award in the mail yesterday. I had never seen one so I took pictures. I figured I would post them in case anyone else is curious as to what it looks like. You can see it ...

Data Management

EnterpriseDB Wins Best Database Award at LinuxWorld

EnterpriseDB announced some significant advances with their latest EnterpriseDB Advanced Server release. You can read an article at Sys-Con. They’ve made several improvements but the three I think most important are the Automated Migration tool, the replication server and the multi-platform Developer Studio. You can get more info about these at the EnterpriseDB product page ...

CXO

Katrina – One Year Later

This is a personal entry and has absolutely no Oracle, database or other technical content. This is more of a mind dump about Katrina and life in general. If you don’t care to read about Katrina or my life, please don’t read this. This entry is one of my few rambling rants and it’s a ...

Social enterprise

Slowing Down to Write a Book

Well, I’m going to do it. I’m officially writing a book. I’ve got the publisher. I’ve got the topic. And now I’ve got a deadline. I’ll write more about the book over time but in the short term, that means that time I would normally spend blogging and answering questions on the oracle-sql-l list will ...

CXO

Would you like to participate in some on-line Database Training?

I am putting together a training program. The training is going to be designed specifically for on-line, interactive presentation. I am looking for a few volunteers to sit through (well, hopefully participate and ask questions and such) some sessions to help me fine tune it. I would like to have several people at varying levels ...

Social enterprise

Afraid of being fired?

Hate taking abuse from management but you do anyway? Keep your opinion to yourself when you should be sharing it? Pretend you’re someone your’re not just to fit in? All because you’re afraid of being fired? Here is an excellent blog entry from the Chief Happiness Officer, How to lose your fear of being fired. ...

Developer

Mini-Tip #8 – Extending XMLType to Access Scalar XPath Functions

For some reason, the XMLType XPath implementation does not allow scalar results. According to the documentation: EXTRACT (XML) is similar to the EXISTSNODE function. It applies a VARCHAR2 XPath string and returns an XMLType instance containing an XML fragment. Extract will only return an XMLType. A scalar value would be a function that returns a ...

Software

Word Of The Day

I get a word of the day emailed to me and they just added an RSS feed. I thought I would pass it a long. You can get it here: Word of the Day. BTW, the book is going well. I’m doing more than the words per day I had planned. I think it’s good ...

Developer

PL/XML – XML Based Scripting for PL/SQL

I started working on a task for a project and decided that there were some very good properties that I could use to help me teach people PL/SQL and XML. I expanded a bit on the idea and ended up with a scripting language, implemented in XML, that can be passed into a PL/SQL procedure. ...

CXO

BADA: Performance Goals – A Parable

MauDweeb: Database Architects of Dune, Chapter 1 Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. from MuaDweeb: Family Commentaries by the Princess Irulan Summoned! Summoned to meet with the ...

IIoT software assists manufacturers and other industrial operations with configuring, managing and monitoring connected devices. A good IoT solution requires capabilities ranging from designing and delivering connected products to collecting and analyzing system data once in the field. Each IIoT use case has its own diverse set of requirements, but there are key capabilities and ...

Recruiting an Operations Research Analyst with the right combination of technical expertise and experience will require a comprehensive screening process. This Hiring Kit provides an adjustable framework your business can use to find, recruit and ultimately hire the right person for the job.This hiring kit from TechRepublic Premium includes a job description, sample interview questions ...

The digital transformation required by implementing the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a radical change from business as usual. This quick glossary of 30 terms and concepts relating to IIoT will help you get a handle on what IIoT is and what it can do for your business.. From the glossary’s introduction: While the ...

lewiscunningham

Photos of an Oracle ACE Award

EnterpriseDB Wins Best Database Award at LinuxWorld

Katrina – One Year Later

Slowing Down to Write a Book

Would you like to participate in some on-line Database Training?

Afraid of being fired?

Mini-Tip #8 – Extending XMLType to Access Scalar XPath Functions

Word Of The Day

PL/XML – XML Based Scripting for PL/SQL

BADA: Performance Goals – A Parable

Industrial Internet of Things: Software comparison tool

How to recruit and hire an Operations Research Analyst

Quick glossary: Industrial Internet of Things

Software Procurement Policy