The afternoon had one of the sessions I knew I would enjoy the most before I even got here. It was Carly Millsaps “Thinking clearly about performance”. The reason I anticipated a great presentation is not just Carlys knowledge in the area, but also the fact that he is fast becoming the best presenter in…
The morning was kicked off with a presentation about new features with interactive reports in APEX 4.0. A demo shows how to create an icon enabled report for basic product list report. Every product is represented by a picture in a grid that shpws a few images per “row”. A more detailed version of the…
The afternoon was kicked off with a presentation on using APEX in large projects by Dimitri Gielis. These re my notes for what Dimitri told us. Many people feels that APEX cannot be used for anything larger than a singe developers app. Sumneva uses EC2 for both demo and development work with their clients. They…
This will be a APEX only day. The day starts with two APEX 4.0 presentations. First up was a presentations about dynamic actions in APEX held by Anthony Raynor. Dynamic acttions is a declarative way (in 4.0) to use javascript to enhance clientside behavior of an APEX application. It is used for things such as…
The keynote started with some general hints on things to do at the conference and things that can help make the experience even better. After that safra Catz gave out the excellence awards.Next up was Ann Livermore om HP to talk about how important Oracle is for them. she threw out lots of numbers of…
I arrived to San Francisco yesterday and OOW kicked off today. The efficiency at the registration alone was impressive. The lines we’re very long, but it probably took less than 15 minutes to get through it. This post will essentially be a dump of notes from the sessions I attended. The first session was the…
I like when a blog I follow links to a blogpost I have already seen and that I thought was a gem. I used to happen quite frequently when Cathy Sierras blog was active, but it still happens. The reason it is nice is that I like it is that if the first post was…
In case you haven’t noticed already, David Peake’s blog just announced that APEX 4.0 moves one step closer to become available for download. It is now the release that powers apex.oracle.com. http://dpeake.blogspot.com/2010/06/apex-40-comes-to-httpapexoraclecom.html This is good news as it shows that the release is getting close to be completed. Upgrading apex.oracle.com is usually one of the…
I’ve just uploaded my latest article. This time it is a look at the SQL keyword CASE. It’s power is often not fully appreciated. It is much more flexible and powerful than you may expect from just taking a quick glance in the official documentation. The article is located here. Please post comments and questions…
Interested Transaction List is the method through which Oracle keeps track of which transaction has updated which row in a block. I wrote an article about it a while back where I show how the ITL works and how it impacts performance in certain situations. The basis of the article is a page locking scenario…
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