Marco Gralike

I once started this website because of the steep learning curve regarding XMLDB functionality. After one year of existence the following posts were written by mean , for me as a notepad to remember what I have learned and or checked, tested or figured out and to pass it on to all those who are [...]

Frits Hoogland posted a blog presenting “pg”statspack: Introducing pgstatspack, a statistics package for postgresql, a first initiative for a statistics package called statspack for ProsgreSQL. Initial work was once done by Glenn Fawcett of Sun Microsystems and as Frits describes in his post, he found a way to recover and extent it for the newer [...]

It is funny. I just realized that my website is over 1 year in existence. I started it as my personal XMLDB notepad on the 9th of April 2007. I wanted the site to be anonymous, but Doug blew the whistle on me, after we had met during Hotsos 2007 and somehow he [...]

Just back from Greece. I read that a lot of things can happen in 10 days, at least, the list on Eddie’s aggregator orana.info is long. I saw that there is an alternative way to submit some presentations to Oracle Open World this year, so I also made an attempt. Two new presentations will hopefully see the [...]

I will be offline for one and a halve weeks, to join my family in law, in their celebration of the Greek Orthodox Easter bank holidays in Salonica. I will greatly enjoy my favorite kokoretsi with some tsipouro, with anise of course, as is tradition in Macedonia. What can I say…real men… I hope “I [...]

At current state, my world is a container and it is useless. I want to store content in it but I doesn’t comply to my container… Today I visited Cary Millsap’s blog site and read his latest article about “Messed Up App of the Day” and could sympathize with his remarks. While looking for other articles [...]

AMIS was invited by the Dutch television channel RNN 7 to tell how we approach the market to invite good and enthusiastic Oracle and Java technicians to come and work for AMIS.

Triggered by a post from Eddie Awad about Current Date in an Oracle database called “Give Me The Current Date Please”, I thought about a XMLDB Forum discussion that ended up in a discussion about JavaDateTime. This discussion focussed me also on XML date time formats. Those XML (W3C) date time formats are explained [...]

I just read the new edition of the online Oracle Magazine and saw that Thomas Kyte was awarded the newly named “Ken Jacobs” (IOUG) award. I have had the honor to meet both and can only express my deepest respect. My congratulations to both of them. Marco

Just a very simple post, but sometimes these kinds of small items are, to my surprise, more looked after then I sometimes realize. I don’t like the Oracle 11 DIAG directory in its default place, namely in the $ORACLE_BASE. The remedy is very simple. Just create a new DIAG directory. SQL> SHOW parameter diag   NAME [...]

At AMIS we are always looking for alternatives on behalf of our customers, also we are very keen searching for solutions. Something that looks promising and could be an alternative to Coherence is something called GridGain. GridGain was pointed out by my friend Erwin when I came to visit and when I saw the demo’s, [...]

I was awarded with an Oracle ACE award last Thursday, nominated by my “mentor” (as I internally refer to him) Mark D Drake, Senior Product Manager, XML Technologies, Oracle Server Technology. The ACE Award is, amongst others, acknowledged for significant contribution and activity in the Oracle technical community. I see it as an award for [...]

Just before I forget. I must have this album, this is just awesome… Its typical that a lot of that great music is from the same label “Magna Carta”. Jordan Rudess - Rhythm Of Time Oh, and by the way, the peace is called “Ra” and apparently, from what I have read about the album, not even [...]

You knew that yesterday it was April Fools day - right…? So just to make sure, statements made by me yesterday, except of course those on the OTN Forum, were utter nonsense. What made it also clear to me is that on the internet, making a joke, without offending someone, is an art form in itself. Let [...]

You knew that yesterday it was April Fools day - right…? So just to make sure, statements made by me yesterday, except of course those on the OTN Forum, were utter nonsense. What made it also clear to me is that on the internet, making a joke, without offending someone, is an art form in itself. Let [...] 0

A friend of mine, who wants to be anonymous, send the following information and picture. The Cuddly Toy in this picture was not reachable for comment and wants also to be anonymous, but I gathered some inside information via an insider that the first decay has been sited between Doug and [...]

A friend of mine, who wants to be anonymous, send the following information and picture. The Cuddly Toy in this picture was not reachable for comment and wants also to be anonymous, but I gathered some inside information via an insider that the first decay has been sited between Doug and [...] 3

[ 10 April, 2008; 0:00; ] On the 13th of March, Mr. Graham Wood's presentation for the Dutch Oracle user group OGH was canceled. Now he is up for a rebound. On the 10th of April he will present in Holland and be speaking about his experiences related to performance areas in Oracle 10g and 11g. This meeting will take place at [...]

[ 10 April, 2008; 0:00; ] On the 13th of March, Mr. Graham Wood's presentation for the Dutch Oracle user group OGH was canceled. Now he is up for a rebound. On the 10th of April he will present in Holland and be speaking about his experiences related to performance areas in Oracle 10g and 11g. This meeting will take place at [...] 2

I was triggered by a presentation of Dominic Delmolino during Hotsos 2008. He demonstrated a cool way of applying DDL database change management while making use of the Oracle database audit functionality. I combined the idea with Laurent Schneiders “out of the XML box thinking“, like for instance, his alternative use of the XMLTABLE syntax [...]