For straight fourth year, I was pleased to be the part of AIOUG ODevCYatra as a speaker. This year, AIOUG re-branded the ages old OTNYathra as ODevCYatra to align its focus to the fatty developer community. The thought and execution remained the same though – 7 cities, 35 speakers, and a very tight schedule. I… Read More Achieve Data Democracy with effective Data Integration
Big Data IT is driven by competition. Organizations want to exploit the power of data analytics at a manageable cost to stand out of their competitors. Data lake provides scalable framework to store massive volumes of data and churn out analytical insights that can help them in effective decision making and grow new markets. It… Read More What to expect from your Data Lake
Hello All, Gives me immense pleasure to announce the release of our book “Practical Enterprise Data Lake Insights” with Apress. The book takes an end-to-end solution approach in a data lake environment that includes data capture, processing, security, and availability. Credits to the co-author of the book, Venkata Giri and technical reviewer, Sai Sundar. The… Read More #Apress “Practical Enterprise Data Lake Insights” – Published!
Last year November, I got the opportunity to present at AIOUG Sangam, 2017. My session was titled as “Harness the Power of Data in a Big Data Lake”. The abstract is as below – Data lake is relatively a new term when compared to all fancy ones since the industry realized the potential of data.… Read More Harness the Power of Data in a Big Data Lake
Big thanks to all those who turned up for my early morning session on Saturday Nov 12th, 2016. I know it was a tough call after a week’s work but thanks for making the right decision. A full-house is an extreme delight for a speaker. You can download the session deck either from the Sangam… Read More My session at #AIOUG #Sangam16 – Transition from Oracle DBA to Big Data Architect
Unlike my lengthy posts, this is really a quick one. Alright, so how do you get to know when your materialized view got refreshed? Well, no biggies. There are bunch of dictionary views who capture refresh date but none of them give you timestamp. For fast refresh, you can work with SCN or timestamp based MView… Read More Query materialized view refresh timestamp
Consolidation is a key enabler for Oracle database deployments on both public and private clouds. Consolidation reduces the overall IT costs by optimizing the operational and capital expenses. In addition, it enhances the effective utilization of cloud resources. The Exadata database machine has been optimized to run schemas and databases with mixed workloads together, making… Read More I/O Resource Management on Exadata
Folks, OTNYathra, the OTN tour organized by AIOUG got over last week. Thanks to the Team AIOUG for putting in loads of efforts to make this event a grand success. A round of applause to Sai, Hari, and Veera for coordinating it so well. This was my second OTNYathra and I could easily sense the penetration AIOUG has… Read More #AIOUG #OTNYathra – A note of thanks
Are you passionate to learn Advanced PL/SQL? Would you like to know the new development features in Oracle #DB12c? Are you pursuing Oracle Developer certification exam (1Z0-146)? If yes, then this post is for you. Announcement I’m pleased to announce that I would be giving away free complimentary copies of my latest book during the… Read More Attend my session at #AIOUG OTN Yathra and win a complimentary copy of my book
Guys, AIOUG is back again with OTN Yathra’ 2016. It is a series of technology evangelist events organized by All India Oracle Users Group in six cities touring across the length and breadth of the country. It was my extreme pleasure to be the part of it in 2015 and I’m pleased to announce that… Read More Gear up for #AIOUG OTN Yathra’ 2016
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