I am one of the lucky 25 winners of the first ever Oracle OpenWorld Suggest a Session on Mix. I would like to thank everyone who voted for my session which is now live on the Schedule Builder. Here are the details:

Session ID: S3301711

Title: Simple Tips to Quickly Find Answers to Your Oracle-Related Questions and […]

Are you an Oracle-related blogger? Are you attending Oracle OpenWorld this year? If you answered yes to both questions, then you are invited to attend the yearly blogger meetup at the ThirstyBear Restaurant and Brewery, Sunday September 21 at 7:00 PM.

Mark Rittman has been the person organizing the blogger meetup events for the past few […]

On July 1st, blogs.oracle.com was migrated to a new platform, Six Apart’s Movable Type Enterprise on top of Oracle Content DB. The list of Oracle related blogs (authored by Oracle employees and non-employees) has moved to this page on the Oracle Wiki. Only Oracle employees are eligible to host blogs on blogs.oracle.com.

Along with the migration […]

Links to interesting, educational, informational, or just plain fun websites…

1613 Records Found, that’s the number of sessions currently up on the Oracle OpenWorld content catalog. I know I’ll be attending the AppsLab Session that Jake just blogged about and a few more. But, it looks like the sessions’ schedule hasn’t been posted yet.

I’ll be on a panel with several other Oracle ACE Directors discussing […]

In part 1, we reviewed HTTPURIType and DBURIType. Let’s now go over a few examples of more advanced XML using the SQL functions XMLTable and XMLQuery, Oracle’s native support for XQuery.

SQL functions XMLQuery and XMLTable are defined by the SQL/XML standard as a general interface between the SQL and XQuery languages. XMLQuery and XMLTable let […]

Here are some cool and useful things you can do with XML using pure SQL in an Oracle database.

HTTPURIType

The HTTPURIType provides support for the HTTP protocol. It uses the UTL_HTTP package underneath to access the HTTP URLs. With HTTPURIType, you can create objects that represent links to remote Web pages (or files) and retrieve those […]