Category: General
June 4

Internals, Presenting, Portugal and Championchips

A small blog post silence but I did a lot; or not, I guess that would depend on your definition 😉 one and a half weeks ago, or is it already two, I was very busy with “fun” XMLDB stuff, that is, trying to figure out some peaces that are not in a manual.

Internals

I was trying to figure out some internals regarding XMLDB domain indexes, like the hierarchic index, nowadays referred to as the Path Index and the domain XMLIndex index. Going through a lot of $ORACLE_HOME\rdbms\admin scripts, I found out that those two very important XMLDB domain indexes (one dedicated for the XMLDB repository and one for XMLType Binary XML / CLOB storage support in 11g) are based on the ODCI, aka Oracle Data Cartridge Interface, aka the Oracle Extensible Architecture. When I have a better overview, insight into this matter, I will dedicate a post on this.

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May 26

By Dutch DBA’s – For Dutch DBA’s

Your last chance to enlist for the DBA Conference in Holland, which will be held tomorrow in Zeist.

I was honored to meet them all during an informal dinner in Zeist. All off them see forward to the event tomorrow and probably, like me, the adrenaline level starts rising with this foresight. Tomorrow our presentations will put to the test (again for some).

In all it is a nice selection of Dutch presenters / database administrators:

  • An Author
  • One ACE Director
  • Two Oracle ACE’s
  • An Oracle Trainer
  • An Oracle Certified Master (one of the current five Dutch OCM DBA’ers)
  • And a lot of practical ICT experience in total

The agenda for tomorrow:

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May 20

UKOUG Deadlines…

I just read Doug’s, hopefully first (I am interested how it is to present on a boat), blog post called “Conference Activities“. I didn’t realize that the deadlines are almost up for UKOUG. It feels like just the other day that I presented for the first time on UKOUG last December. You really missed something out if you didn’t try to put in an abstract. UKOUG was one off my all time best conferences so far. The quality of presentations is very good and the atmosphere is very cozy and welcoming, although the weather reminded me to much on the sometimes horrible cold and dreadful rainy Dutch weather.

Anyway, I took Doug’s advise at heart and submitted two presentations this year. I didn’t really start on them yet, but I have the outlines in my head.

The first one is called:

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