Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Members of the Oracle ACE program continue to resist summer's temptations to crank out dozens of blog posts each week with all manner of technical tips, tricks, and advice. Here's the list for June 9-15, 2019. If this is your idea of beach reading, slather on some sunscreen and settle in.   Oracle ACE Directors Francesco Tisiot BI Tech Lead, Rittman Mead Verona, Italy   Rittman Mead at Kscope 2019 Ludovico Caldara Computing Engineer, CERN Geneva, Switzerland   Oracle Grid...

Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast #368 features a conversation with the winners of the 2019 Oracle Groundbreaker Awards. The discussion covers their career journeys, their thoughts on where software development is today, and on where it’s going tomorrow. But before we meet the award winners, a little background on the Oracle Groundbreaker Awards is in order. Launched in 2018, the Oracle Groundbreaker Awards recognize developers who exhibit not only extraordinary technical skill,...

Answer the Call! It's great to have acquired a lot of technical skill and experience, and it's equally great to share that experience through blogging and social media, But there's nothing better for building your reputation or has a more direct impact than presenting to a live audience. So why not answer the call for the events listed below? They represent great opportunities to demonstrate your tech skills and hone your presentation style. Get busy and submit your proposal...

The Oracle ACE Program recognizes members of the Oracle community for the technical expertise and their willingness to share that expertise. There are three levels to the program:   Oracle ACE Associate The entry level, ideal for community advocates building their reputations.   Oracle ACE For established Oracle advocates who are well known in the community.   Oracle ACE Director The top tier, for community members who engage more closely with Oracle The people listed below have...

A developer’s journey with Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador Mark Heckler By Bob Rhubart July/August 2019 “A tiny little map dot of a town.” That’s how Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador Mark Heckler describes Sumner, Illinois, the town where he grew up. It was there, as a high school student, that he first developed an interest in computers. For Heckler, now a principal technologist/ Spring developer advocate with Pivotal, programming computers was a way to exercise control. “So many...

Last week I was on vacation, but these members of the Oracle ACE Program have been keeping very busy sharing their insight to help you make all the pieces fit. Here are their latest blog posts. Oracle ACE Directors Franck Pachot Data Engineer, CERN Lausanne, Switzerland   Generate your Oracle Secure External Password Store wallet from your tnsnames.ora When Oracle Statistic Gathering times out — I Hibernate for Oracle DBAs I ‘fixed’ execution plan regression...

Busy enough for you? In one week these 24 members of the Oracle ACE program wrote and published 55 blog posts -- and that's on top of their regular workload. All that to share their expertise and help you sharpen your skills. If you know any of these people, buy them a coffee or something.   Oracle ACE Directors   Julian Dontcheff Managing Director/Master Technology Architect, Accenture Helsinki, Finland   ORA-56955: quarantined plan used Syed Jaffar HussainFreelance Consultant,...

The phrase "from the four corners of the earth" never made sense to me. If you've ever looked at a globe -- you know, one of those mounted models of the earth you can spin -- it's readily apparent that there are no corners at all. Regardless, the ten people whose faces are smiling up at you from this page are all members of the Oracle ACE Program, and they're from points around the globe, and each one has published at least one article in May. So if you're in the mood to soak...

It’s one of the immutable rules of Information Technology: everything changes all the time. Amid all that paradigm shifting and envelope pushing, does enterprise integration get a pass? Of course not! Conversations about Integration once involved terms like “service oriented architecture” and “enterprise service bus.” But times and the vocabulary have changed, and those conversations -- like the one you are about to hear -- now involve a new vocabulary: containers,...