by Chris Frost | Nov 8, 2013 | Oracle
This past Tuesday, I heard Aaron Cornfeld kick off Oracle Day. Aaron is the VP of Solution Specialists at Oracle and he works predominately with Oracle’s Public Cloud. He led off looking at innovation and ways to put innovation in practice. Everyone is looking...
by Chris Frost | Nov 8, 2013 | Oracle
The second keynote speaker at Dallas’ Oracle Day was Syamal Bandyopadhyay. He is the Database Deployment Architect at Verizon Wireless and has worked in IT for more than 25 years. Syamal is also active in the IOUG Exadata SIG and talked about how Verizon...
by Chris Frost | Nov 8, 2013 | Oracle
In his mid-morning, Gilles Ramone spoke about the challenges that companies face in engaging customers online. He started by talking about three trends that we face -mobility, social media, and consumerization. With consumerization, Gilles argued that the balance as...
by Chris Frost | Oct 29, 2013 | Oracle
At DOUG’s October database forum, Carlos Carballo, principal sales consultant for Oracle, presented highlights from Oracle Open World 2013. During his hour long talk, he focused on four topics: In-Memory Option In-Memory Column Store Oracle M6 Big Memory Machine...
by Chris Frost | Nov 4, 2009 | Oracle
In October, Jonathan Lewis offered a free one hour lecture on one SQL statement. Jonathan Lewis is one of the world’s foremost Oracle experts and Oracle Magazine’s 2006 “Oracle Author of the Year.” He is a member of the prestigious Oak Table...
by Chris Frost | Oct 29, 2009 | Oracle
Just passed my Oracle Admin II exam. That was the last of my exams and I’m now officially an Oracle Certified Professional. The best part is tonight I don’t have anything to study for the first time in over two years.