So every year before and during Oracle Open World we all complain about how data and database is brushed to the side. This year it is the feature. It is the one thing the big sign on Moscone West screams. “The Autonomous Database” Here is a picture from showing it. It is all about database.…
Yes, this post is a little out of order as it clearly didn’t take place after the Thursday afternoon sessions. I missed it during the conference so I had to catch up on it later on the on demand site. I thought it was interesting enough to write up a few notes. It was held…
For the afternoon I had two sessions I attended. The first was “Quantifying Oracle Performance” and the second was “The X-files – Managing exadata and highly available databases”. I anticipated both to be great and possible be among my favorites for the week. Unfortunately neither met my expectation, so this is going to be a…
The day starts with a presentation b6 Tom Kyte about “What else can you do with system and session data”. Tom starts with reviewing the history of tuning an Oracle database. The prehistoric era (v5) required writeing debug code as that was the only way to get any information about what the code did. The…
The afternoon started off with a presentation on the result cache in 11G. It was held by Rob van Wijk. DB result cache is a cache for the resultset of a query or a plsql block. If the same query is executed again with the same parameters, then the code is not executed, the same…
Wednesday starts off with a presentation about a new feature in APEX 4.0 that I have not had a chance to look into. It is how you use and develop plugins. The presentation was held by Patrick Wolf who is also the developer of the plugin feature. Scott began by showing how a plugin is used…
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…
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