Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Weighing in... Given the extraordinary number of blog posts recently published between May 5 and May 11 by members of the Oracle ACE program , I'm publishing separate lists for posts by ACE Directors, ACEs, and ACE Associates. Today's list features recent posts by Oracle ACE Directors. David Kurtz Consultant, Accenture Enkitec Group London, United Kingdom   PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast: #183 – Effective Performance Monitoring Oren NakdimonDatabase Architect & Developer,...

The meet-ups below were organized by the folks in the photos. But those people will necessarily present the content. And in many cases the events consist of multiple sessions. For additional detail on each event please click the links provided.   Christian Pfundtner CEO, DB Masters GmbH Austria Host Organization: DB Masters Friday, May 17, 2019 MA01 - Veranstaltungszentrum  1220 Vienna, Stadlauerstraße 56    Oracle Multitenant Database is Inevitable -- Let's Go For It! Laurent L...

In August of 2018 we did a program entitled Developer Evolution: What’s Rocking Roles in IT. That program focused primarily on the forces that are reshaping the role of the software developer. In this program we shift the focus to the DBA -- the Database Administrator -- and the evolve-or-perish choices that face those in that role. Bringing their insight to the discussion is an international panel of experts who represent years of DBA experience, and some of the forces that...

If you find yourself wandering the Baltic states late in May, why not make your way to Riga, Latvia and drop in on the Riga Dev Days? Held May 29-31 at the Cinema Kino Citadele in Riga, the 3-day DevDays event features 40 speakers, including these members of the Oracle ACE Program. Christian Antognini Senior Principal Consultant and Partner, Trivadis AG Monte Carasso, Switzerland   How Well Do Relational Database Engines Support JSON? Martin BachPrincipal Consultant, Accenture...

The chances of having a movie theater to yourself these days are slim. But while the rest of the world is focused on learning the fates of various Marvel characters in the latest Avengers epic, the members of the Oracle ACE program listed below demonstrated super will power last week by devoting their screen time to hammering out these blog posts.  The least you can do to reward that kind of effort is to take a look, right?     Oracle ACE Directors Opal AlaphatVision Team...

Oracle ACE Director Ruben Rodriguez is a Cloud and Mobile Solution Specialist with avanttic Consultoría Tecnológica in Madrid, Spain. He graduated from the Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio in Madrid in 2011 with a degree in Computer Science, then made his way through a variety of IT jobs in Spain and the UK before landing at avantic in 2015. Ruben first entered the Oracle ACE program in October 2017 and was confirmed as an Oracle ACE Director in November 2018. Active in the...

Blogs in bloom... Winter is mostly a memory, spring is in the air, and people naturally want to... sit inside and crank out a bunch of blog posts! These members of the Oracle ACE Program resisted the temptation to enjoy some fresh air and sunshine so they could share some of their expertise with you. Take it in. ACE Directors Franck Pachot Data Engineer, CERN Lausanne, Switzerland   You should set OCSID.CLIENTID each time you grab an Oracle JDBC connection from the pool Julian Don...

An educator’s suggestion put Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador Mohamed Taman on the path to success. By Bob Rhubart May/June 2019 As a mechanical engineering student at Cairo University in Egypt in the late ’90s, Mohamed Taman was completely in the dark about coding, software engineering, and computers. But his grades were good, and that caught the attention of the dean, who suggested that Taman might like to join the school’s new computer engineering program. That turned out to...

Who you gonna ask? While the phrase "wildly famous" may not apply to the Oracle ACE program members listed here, each has their own following, and each has earned a reputation for sharing experience and expertise. And let's face it, if you have a question about Oracle APEX, or about Autonomous Transaction Processing, are you going to ask one of the Kardashians? I don't think so. Better you should ask one of these people, or read one of their freshly-written articles. Alex Nuijten...