Tag: #SmartDB

May 21st. The Big Apple. Oracle CODE

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I’m excited to announce that I’ve been selected for my first-ever Oracle CODE event. I’ll be presenting at the New York City event on May 21st at the Jacob Javits Center on my journey as an “old-school” Oracle DBA as I learned how to leverage the power of Oracle Application Express (APEX) to build a new set of applications based on a real-life use case: constructing mobile, flexible, responsive applications to enable voter canvassing for a US Congressional campaign.

If you’d like to get a preview of what I’ll be presenting, feel free to check out my ongoing journey via my recent four-part article series in IOUG SELECT entitled A DBA’s Journey to APEX, starting with Part 1: From Napkin to Application In a Single Weekend that explains how I constructed the original specifications and data model and built the original database schema for the application. All content is free courtesy of IOUG SELECT.

In the meantime, don’t forget to register for the event. I’ll see you in New York in just a few weeks! I’m looking forward to a completely new set of questions from my audience.

It’s almost Winter. Time for deep learning at DOAG 2018!

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I’m getting all geared up for the upcoming and prestigious DOAG 2018 conference next week (November 20-23) in Nuremburg, DE. The folks at DOAG patiently reminded me year in and year out since I became an ACE Director to attend, but since DOAG almost always lines up with American Thanksgiving, I demurred. Not this year!

I’ll be joining a cavalcade of excellent speakers on all things Oracle technology, and serendipitously, I’ll be presenting two of my favorite topics:

  • Get Smart! Embrace #SmartDB & Put Code In Its Place explains how DBAs and developers can leverage the #SmartDB paradigm to build applications and how that model can revolutionize your IT organization’s approach to DevOps.
  • Saving Your Database from Alzheimer’s: Oracle 12cR2 DBIM looks how the latest features of Database In-Memory, Analytic Functions, and Analytic Views – including a preview of some of 18c’s newest DBIM features – can make some incredible differences in application performance.

If you haven’t already registered for this event, please do! I’m looking forward to joining you there, learning from you, finding new colleagues, and meeting old friends. Prost!

2018 Is Halfway Gone … But Not Forgotten!

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It’s hard to believe that 2018 is half over already. I’ve had an incredibly busy six months traveling to and speaking at Oracle user groups events and conferences across the country, so it’s been another exhilarating six months for me … and that means you all have access to some great collateral and code!

I’ve added all four of my most popular presentations as PowerPoint slide shows for download. They’re chock-full of interesting insights into where our world as Oracle DBAs and applications developers is headed, plus some great code samples to boot.

Don’t forget to check out my overview of #SmartDB because it’s got some great examples of how to leverage Edition-Based Redefinition (EBR) and cross-edition triggers to make it simpler to handle application migrations and upgrades with no application downtime. And because everything I’ve shown you is a mere soupcon of how #SmartDB works, don’t forget to take at the links I’ve included in that presentation to (much!) deeper dives on #SmartDB by my colleagues and mentors Bryn Llewelyn and Toon Koopelars.

And the rest of 2018 will be equally busy: I’m headed off to South America to participate int the 2018 Latin America Oracle User CODE events in August, then heading over to ECOUG in September, and wrapping up my October with presentations and learning at OOW18. I hope to see you soon at an upcoming event!

Este Agosto, No Te Pierdas Mis Sesiones En LAOUC!

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I am embarrassed to admit that I’ve ignored my dear colleagues just a few thousand kilometres to the south of Chicago for much too long … so it is a great honor to return to South America as part of the 2018 Latin American Oracle User Group (LAOUC) Developer Community Tour conference series this coming August 2018!

For now, here’s the schedule of where I will be presenting … but be sure to check the official LAOUC web site or the links below for the most up-to-date information on registering for these upcoming sessions:

July 31: Asuncion, Paraguay

August 2: Santiago, Chile

August 4: Sao Paolo, Brazil

August 6-7: Montevideo, Uruguay

August 9: Buenos Aires, Argentina

I’ll be talking about several topics that focus on some of the newest tools we can take advantage of for our developers, including how to choose the right Oracle Cloud for your development tasks at hand, with some really neat examples of how easy it is to use APEX in concert with Exadata Express for Oracle 12cR2 as well as DBaaS with Oracle 18c. I’ll also offer my viewpoints and code examples of how best to bring our developers’ application code back inside the Oracle Database in a sensible fashion through the #SmartDB paradigm.

So if you are going to be near any of these venues this August, I hope to see you there! Hasta luego, mis amigos y amigas!