Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

In this program we turn our attention to the development of digital assistants, otherwise known as chatbots, with a particular focus on AI, deep learning, what’s new in the Oracle Digital Assistant platform, and why data is the new oil. My guests for this discussion are Suhas Uliyar, Vice President of Mobile Strategy Product Management for Oracle, and Mark Johnson, Chief AI Scientist with the Oracle Digital Assistant product team. This program is Groundbreakers Podcast number...

Step up your tech skills with the insight you'll find in this hefty batch of recent blog posts from members of the Oracle ACE program. Dimitri Gielis Director, APEX R&D Leuven, Belgium   Native Oracle DB JSON functionality as alternative for using cursor() in AOP (and APEX_JSON) Tim Hall DBA, Developer, Author, Trainer, Various Companies Birmingham, United Kingdom   utPLSQL Installation and Upgrade APEX 19.2 Download Available Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) Video : Oracle REST...

Blogs and articles are great for absorbing technical insight from experts, but sometimes you need a deeper dive into a technical task, books are a great resource. The titles listed below reflect the efforts of members of the Oracle ACE community to capture and share their insight and experience in a form that can sit on your desk and fit in your backpack. As indicated below, in some cases the books were written by ACEs, and in others an ACE was involved as a...

Far from coy, Oracle ACE program members are willing and eager to share their technical skills and insight -- it's kinda what ACEs do.  The blog posts listed below are just a sample of the content in which they immerse themselves. So dive in! Brendan Tierney Principal Consultant, Oralytics Dublin, Ireland   Creating a VM on Oracle Always Free Changing PDB/CDB spfile parameters Lucas Jellema CTO/Consulting IT Architect, AMIS Rotterdam Area, Netherlands   Calling out from Java to...

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...