Friday, October 27, 2006

All the migration demos worked!

Well that's another Oracle Open World over... This year was a lot of fun being able to preview our new migration tools: Oracle Migration Workbench integrated into SQL Developer and a new feature of Oracle APEX, the Application Migration Workshop, for Microsoft Access application migration to Oracle APEX. Below is a picture of me standing by our demo pod...



The migration workbench demo, we got finally working about an hour before my presentation. Barry and I got a code drop from the guys back in Dublin that morning and we sat on bean bags in the hall between Moscone North and South, while a long queue of attendees filed in for Chuck Rozwat Keynote ensuring that everything worked as predicted. When I gave the presentation later that morning, everybody seemed to like it at lot.

Both Barry and I did lots of demos to attendees and it was very satisfying to get positive feedback on what we as a team have been working so hard on. We have definitely taken the right approach and need to keep focused to deliver a high quality solution in 2007.

On my laptop I had a pre-release of 10.2.0.3 with Oracle APEX 2.2.1 locally. I had this configured using EPG (Embedded Pl/SQL gateway) which I think is cool, so no Apache, everything just running out of the database. This is the same setup as the Oracle Express Edition. I'll blog next week on the steps required for this setup.

My next focus will be to get an early adopters release of the Oracle APEX Application Migration Workshop available. We will post more information about it on OTN next week, and I'll blog about the design goals I had when designing this new feature of Oracle APEX.

I'm looking forward to going home now and being back with my family, it has been a long trip and I never seem to sleep great, when I'm on the west coast...

On a lunch break I did make a trip to the Virign Megastore, where my CD collection was added to...

  • The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi battles the pink Robots in 5.1
  • Ray Lamontagne - Till the sun turns black
  • The Killers - Sam's Town
  • John Legand - Once Again

Friday, October 20, 2006

Oracle Open World is nearly here again....

Well it looks like it is going to be the largest Oracle Open World ever.... It will be a busy week. The whole team have been working very hard, many long nights getting our new tools ready to preview next week. I will be giving a presentation on Monday 23rd @ 10:45

Session title: Oracle Migration Workbench: Taking Database Migration to the Next Level
Track: Database Application Development
Room: Franciscan Room C - Hilton Hotel

I will be giving a preview of our new Oracle Migration Workbench and Oracle APEX Application Migration Workshop (for Access Application Migration). I'll post more information after Monday.

Along with Barry McGillin, development manager for the Migration Workbench, we will be on the Database Demogrounds in Moscone West (Demo pod D44) Drop by and say hello and see a demo of our new tools

Now, back to getting my presentation finished and getting my laptop ready for demos...

A picture paints a thousand words...

I was looking for a good picture of me on my laptop, though I have a number I don't think any of them are suitable, so I will just have to go with this for now. Do you know what it is...


Well... Let's kick this blog off then...

Hi,

As you can see from my profile I have worked for Oracle for over 14 years...
I work in the the database tools group part of our Server Technologies Division. My major focus area for nearly 10 years has been on migration tools, making it easy to migrate 3rd party databases to Oracle. Though, being part of the database tools group I am lucky enough to be able to contribute to SQL Developer & Application Express. So expect posts on happenings in Database Tools which I hope will be of interest to Oracle Database Developers everywhere