Blog Post: New Free Data Migration Tool
If you ever need for a simple, light lifting training and absolutely free data migration tool then you should try Data Puppy Lite . It offers the ability to migrate a schema at a time from a source to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Stretch Tables for Any Database
Microsoft has been extremely innovative the past few years – especially with regard to their SQL Server relational database both on premise and in the cloud. Although I am a Linux bigot and love the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Database as a Service using Enterprise Manager – Part XI
In our article series, we are exploring the capabilities of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c for the private Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) cloud – including the setup of such a cloud. In the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Oracle Hybrid Database Cloud using Enterprise Manager – Part XI
Hybrid Cloud management is an interestingly hot topic for today’s cloud world, since not all companies want to move everything to the cloud. In this article series, we are looking at the detailed steps...
View ArticleBlog Post: Oracle Multitenant Application Containers – Part X: Migrate an...
In my previous article we learnt how to move an application container across CDBs. As we already know, Multitenant Application Containers eliminate the overhead of replicating application definitions...
View ArticleBlog Post: Introduction to Apache Spark with Python
Today, I spoke about “Apache Spark with Python” at Big Talk #2 meet-up in Istanbul Teknokent ARI-3, another event organized by Komtas for big data community. We had almost full room. Mine was the last...
View ArticleBlog Post: My Journey in Becoming an Oracle ACE Director
I'm proud to announce that in March Oracle promoted me from Oracle ACE to Oracle ACE Director! It was an arduous road to get to celebrate this promotion. I thank all my family who supported me...
View ArticleBlog Post: Running Oracle RAC in the Cloud
For purpose of discussion let's assume that you have Oracle 11g or 12c RAC cluster deployed on premise, and now you've been directed to see about moving it to the cloud. Of course there is always the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Mi camino hacia el Oracle ACE Director
Me enorgullece anunciar que en Marzo, Oracle me promovió de Oracle ACE a Oracle ACE Director! ¡Fue un camino arduo para llegar a celebrar esta promoción! Agradezco a toda mi familia que me apoyaron...
View ArticleComment on Running Oracle RAC in the Cloud
It isn't about whether or not it works. Oracle won't support architectures on commercial cloud services that use FlashGrid. They state categorically that "The Oracle Cloud is currently the only cloud...
View ArticleBlog Post: PySpark Examples #2: Grouping Data from CSV File (Using DataFrames)
I continue to share example codes related with my “ Spark with Python ” presentation. In my last blog post, I showed how we use RDDs (the core data structures of Spark). This time, I will use...
View ArticleBlog Post: My 4th Book is now available - Data Science (The MIT Press...
I almost forgot, but my 4th book has been published ! It is titled 'Data Science' and is published by MIT Press as part of their Essentials Knowledge series, and is co-written with John Kelleher. It is...
View ArticleComment on Mi Recorrido con Tecnologia Oracle (Parte 2)
Buscando documentacion de bases de datos encontré tu post, muchas felicitaciones !!
View ArticleBlog Post: PySpark Examples #3-4: Spark SQL Module
In this blog post, I’ll share example #3 and #4 from my presentation to demonstrate capabilities of Spark SQL Module. As I already explained in my previous blog posts, Spark SQL Module provides...
View ArticleBlog Post: PySpark Examples #5: Discretized Streams (DStreams)
This is the fourth blog post which I share sample scripts of my presentation about “ Apache Spark with Python “. Spark supports two different way for streaming: Discretized Streams (DStreams) and...
View ArticleBlog Post: Managing Mountains of Data
When is data less valuable? How do you manage data as it becomes less valuable? In the good old days the answer to these questions was easy; it was simply based on what the company was willing to pay...
View ArticleBlog Post: PySpark Examples #1: Grouping Data from CSV File (Using RDDs)
During my presentation about “Spark with Python” , I told that I would share example codes (with detailed explanations). So this is my first example code. In this code, I read data from a CSV file to...
View ArticleBlog Post: An Interesting Problem with ODI: Unable to retrieve user GUID
One of my customers had a problem about logging in to ODI Studio. Their ODI implementation is configured to use external authentication (Microsoft Active Directory). The configuration was done years...
View ArticleBlog Post: IOUG Collaborate 2018 - Slide Decks are Available!
Last week I presented 3 sessions at my favorite Oracle conference - the IOUG Collaborate. The slide decks for my presentations are now available: Data Guard for Beginners ASM Conepts, Architecture and...
View ArticleBlog Post: The Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service (ADWC)
On March 27 th 2018, Oracle announced the availability of the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service (ADWC). The announcement was done via a live webcast with Larry Ellison leading the webcast,...
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