Two of the world's largest Oracle User Group gatherings are looming up on the event calendar.
First up from November 17-19 is Germany's Oracle User Group annual event (DOAG 2009) in Nuremberg. In addition to over 300 sessions, there's a keynote from Oracle SVP Andy Mendelsohn (Tuesday 17th @ 11:00am) and a demo theatre featuring Oracle Real Application Testing, Oracle Application Express, Oracle OLAP and more.
Then on November 30th the UK Oracle User Group annual event kicks off in Birmingham's ICC, and runs until December 2nd. Oracle's Tom Kyte is one of the opening day presenters (Monday 30th @ 10:45am) with an interestingly entitled keynote "What are we still doing wrong?". Definitely one not to miss for all the Oracle Database developers and DBA's in attendance at Birmingham. And, look out for for some of the database Master Classes on offer featuring Oracle Application Express among many others.
The Database Insider Podcast Series is proving to be very popular. October's podcasts feature both Oracle experts like Juan Loaiza and Ray Roccaforte discussing Oracle Exadata V2, and customers including Lexmark and Agenor Technologies sharing their experiences of upgrading to Oracle Database 11g. If you haven't tuned in yet, check out the latest Oracle Database 11g podcasts:
BTW, we have some great podcasts lined up for November. So sign up for our podcast feeds and have our podcasts delivered to you as soon as we publish them!
Through its recent acquisition of GoldenGate Software, Oracle has accelerated its product strategy to deliver a comprehensive data integration platform and increase uptime for customers' mission-critical systems. But, how can businesses profit from Oracle GoldenGate products? How does Oracle GoldenGate complement existing Oracle deployments?
To answer these questions and more, join Hasan Rizvi, Senior Vice President, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President, Oracle Systems Technology in a live Webcast on Tuesday, November 10th at 8:00am PT (11:00am ET).
Recently, I caught up with Andy Smith, founder and CEO of Agenor Technology Limited, (trademarked as "ICEflo"), to chat about how they've been able to develop fast, secure, and scalable applications for Oracle Database 11g using Oracle Application Express (APEX).
Agenor is a developer of web-based SaaS implementation software helping organizations manage time-constrained implementations, upgrades, and other changes to business-critical systems rapidly and with significantly reduced risk.
We talk about the ease of developing applications on APEX and maintaining security and integrity of customer data using Oracle's Fine-Grained Access Control.
Yesterday (28th October) Oracle, Enkitec and Method-R hosted an Oracle Database 11g Release 2 event in the recently opened Dallas Cowboy's Stadium in Texas. I've visited a few stadiums over the years, but this one is the most impressive I've seen yet. Not too surprisingly, the event was a sellout and I was delighted to be able to participate in such a wonderful setting (the post-game conference room no less).
Kerry Osborne of Enkitek (who presented on 'Upgrading to Oracle Database 11g Release 2') yesterday has posted some great pictures of Jerry's World (AKA - the new Dallas Cowboy's Stadium) on his blog (which BTW, also has some useful insights into Oracle Database 11g).
IDC's Jean Bozman and Matthew Eastwood recently published a report on Oracle Exadata V2. In it they comment on the expected performance improvements in Exadata V2:
"Specifically Exadata V2 uses new database algorithms to optimize SQL language queries; leverages the latest release of the Oracle Database 11g database (Release 2, which started shipping in September); and includes flash memory to stage result sets into cache memory. Taken together, these new technologies can be expected to speed performance, compared with Exadata V1, for which benchmarks of the storage components were released this spring."
Click here to read the full report, and let us know what you think.
Now a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, WAND offers a taxonomy management, authoring and rules creation application that integrates with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search. WAND will also provide foundation taxonomies covering enterprise and industry specific domains.
WAND's DataFocus solution adds value in Oracle Database environments by providing a data model for unstructured information, and enhances Oracle Secure Enterprise Search by adding advanced taxonomy metadata to documents for intuitive retrieval and navigation. Learn more and watch a short video to find out how it works.
Meet Uptime Goals with Oracle Real Application Clusters
Watch this short video and see how our two DBA's take on their organization's critical patch upgrades with ease using Oracle Real Application Clusters.
