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October 5, 2023

APEX & ORDS for DBAs and System Admins is now live on YouTube

By Rich Soule

I’ve mentioned this presentation before on my blog and now I’ve recorded the entire thing including the bonus content. At the various user groups like RMOUG and Kscope, I was only given an hour and just told folks to “Read the rest of the presentation.” The media team at Insum (thanks Marc and Lauren!) and I bounced back and forth on doing multiple 1-hour events or jamming everything into a single presentation. Eventually, we decided to get it done in one go. It’s long… 2 hours and 6 minutes long. Apparently, I was enjoying myself so much that I didn’t even realize that, and if you do watch until the end you’ll notice that I thought it was actually 1 hour long, not 2.

I’m pretty pleased with the presentation and I’ve got a lot of good feedback from folks. If you want to use APEX and/or ORDS and your DBAs and/or System Admins don’t want to implement it, this presentation is my gift to you. Any DBA or System Admin should be able to learn exactly what they need to know to run APEX and ORDS in a production-ready configuration.

I’ve linked to this before and the link is in the description on YouTube, but here’s another direct link to all the code on every slide: https://github.com/RichardSoule/APEXandORDSforDBASandSysadmins

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March 7, 2023

See you at Kscope 23!

By Rich Soule

Today I got two emails from the KScope team:

Dear Richard,

Congratulations! You have been accepted to speak at ODTUG Kscope23, June 25–29, 2023, in Aurora, Colorado!

The following abstract has been accepted for a 60-minute session:

  APEX & ORDS for DBAs and System Admins

Followed by:

The following abstract has been accepted for a 30-minute session.

  You know you might have a bad data model when…

That was followed up by another email from Cary Millsap of Method-R. Cary submitted a session with me as the co-presenter.

The following abstract has been accepted for a 60-minute session.

  Tracing APEX: the Ultimate in Performance Observability

I have the first presentation already done since I just delivered it at the RMOUG conference a few weeks ago. Oracle, of course, released new versions of APEX and ORDS after I thought I was done, including an APEX patch the Monday before I left. I had to scramble to update my content to reflect the new versions right before I left.

Between now and June, Oracle is going to release new versions of APEX and ORDS so I’ll have to update my content for the first presentation.

The 2nd presentation is currently on my whiteboard (It’s really glass… so is it a glass board?) in my office, so I’ll put that together pretty soon.

Cary recently wrote a book that has some good details on his topic for the conference. I’ve been able to review the book and make it a bit better. I’m really looking forward to working with Cary to come up with some compelling content for the conference.

If you are going, you can use code VINS23 to get $100 off your registration. Hopefully, we’ll see you all there!

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