Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador Trisha Gee overcame nerves to deliver her first major conference presentation. By Bob Rhubart November 11, 2019 It was the last session of the last day at JavaOne 2011, and Trisha Gee had not been able to enjoy the conference. “I was nervous the whole time,” she remembers. Martin Thompson, her boss at LMAX in London, was closing out JavaOne with a session on LMAX’s Disruptor, which had won a Duke’s Choice award that year. Thompson had asked Gee to...

Considering that Oracle OpenWorld and Code One happened in September, it's a wonder that anybody got anything else done. But the ten smiling faces below belong to people who, despite OOW and all that it entails, mustered the energy and the will power to hunch over a keyboard long enough to arrange letters into words and words into these articles. (To be fair, the first article in the list is actually about, rather than by Alex Zaballa. But still...) So read a little, ok?   Alex ...

Submerge yourself in technical insight and expertise with this list of recent blog posts by members of the Oracle ACE program from around the world, all published  October 13th to 19th. Clarisa Maman Orfali Founder/System Engineer, ClarTech Solutions, Inc. Irvine, CA   Personalizar el mensaje de validación APEX David Kurtz Consultant, Accenture Enkitec Group London, United Kingdom   Reading the Active Session History Compressed Export File in eDB360/SQLd360 as an External Table W...

The conference calendar is loaded this time of year, and members of the Oracle ACE program spend quite a bit of time living out of suitcases. So if you're anywhere near Hyderabad early in December, why not show your appreciation and check out these Sangam19 sessions? The sessions listed below are just slice of what you'll find across 18 tracks over two days at Sangam19, with plenty of expertise to help you keep those skills sharp for the coming new year. Click here for more...

In this list of recent blog posts by members of the Oracle ACE Program you'll notice several references to OGB Appreciation Day. This community-driven event was started by ACE Director/Groundbreaker Ambassador Tim Hall in 2016, back when the Oracle Groundbreakers organization was known as Oracle Technology Network. The very first Appreciation Day was held on October 11, 2016, and the ACEs and other community members have been keeping it going every year since. Tim Hall...

Hungry for knowledge? The extensive roster of speakers at this year's DOAG 2019 Conference and Exhibition includes the Oracle ACE program members listed below, offering a hefty portion of technical insight and expertise covering a vast smorgasbord of today's technologies. Dig in! DOAG 2019 Conference and Exhibition November 19-22, 2019 Nürnberg Convention Center Messezentrum 90471 Nürnberg Germany Christian Antognini Senior Principal Consultant/Partner, Trivadis AGMonte Carasso,...

Take a deep dive into this week's batch of recent blog posts from Oracle ACE program members from around the globe.   Erik Benner Vice President, Enterprise Transformation, Mythics Inc Atlanta, Georgia   How to Make a Bootable USB Using VirtualBox Francesco Tisiot BI Tech Lead, Rittman Mead Verona, Italy   Rittman Mead at Oracle OpenWorld 2019 Ludovico Caldara Computing Engineer, CERN Geneva, Switzerland   Parameter REMOTE_LISTENER pointing to a TNS alias? Beware of how it...

The Bulgarian Oracle User Group Autumn Conference will be held November 15-17, 2019 at the Hotel Riu Pravets Resort in Pravets, Bulgaria.  The conference features 40 sessions in nine tracks, so there's something for everyone. Several of those sessions will be presented by the ACE program members, as listed below. So if you're in that part of the world, or plan to be in mid-November, this event will be worth your time. BGOUG Autumn Conference November 15-17, 2019Hotel Riu...

This past summer a group of Oracle community leaders participated in the Oracle Groundbreakers Tour 2019 Latin America. Between August 2nd and August 26th that tour delivered technical sessions and more in 12 countries: Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico,  and Guatemala. My colleague and fellow community manager Javed Mohammed was along for most of the tour, shooting video and chatting up the tour participants. Many...