Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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,...

Get there any way you can. How you get to Seattle for ODTUG Kscope 2019 isn't important. Just be there. And while you're there, check out these Oracle ACE sessions in the Financial Close and Planning tracks. This is the final post in our series focused on ACE-led sessions at Kscope 2019. We hope these posts have been useful in helping you plan your conference itinerary. You'll find a complete, searchable guide to all Kscope 2019 sessions here And don't forget to look for the...

Looking Ahead... This post continues our series highlighting the ODTUG Kscope 2019 sessions being presented by members of the Oracle ACE Program. This time the spotlight is on two tracks: Emerging Technology, and Essbase. As with the other posts in this series, click the session titles listed below for specific information on the the date, time, and location. Kscope 2019 gets underway in Seattle on June 23. Click here for registration and more information. Emerging Technology...

Make the Smart Move... Add these Enterprise Performance Management track sessions to your ODTUG Kscope 2019 schedule. With less than 2 weeks before ODTUG Kscope 2019 gets underway in Seattle, we continue our series of posts highlighting Kscope 2019 sessions presented by members of the Oracle ACE program. This post focuses on sessions in the two Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) related tracks. Each session title below links to complete date, time, and location information. C...