by Gianni Ceresa | 28 March 2018 | Graphs
Over the last year I explored the Oracle Graph Database landscape from all the points of view. One thing is sure: it’s the most polyglot solution I crossed so far. You can “do” graphs from almost any language or tool, including SQL. Yes, you read it...
by Gianni Ceresa | 22 March 2018 | Graphs, Under the hood
I would like to introduce the topic of GDPR in the Analytics world in this post before developing it more practically in a next one. In case you missed it, GDPR enforcement date is coming: 25 May 2018. Nothing new, just enforcing it! Over the last 2 years I heard GDPR...
by Gianni Ceresa | 6 March 2018 | Conferences
It’ been a while since my last post, have been busy developing few things and testing new solutions. Future blogs are coming on these topics. #OUGN18 conference On Thursday I will board the boat to attend the Norway User Group Seminar 2018. Yes, it’s on a...
by Gianni Ceresa | 10 December 2017 | Community, Conferences
December is here, UKOUG Tech17 is over, and this means only one thing: end of year is coming. I generally like to take few minutes to look back to my year and review what I did, so I can better plan the year after. Five conferences This year, like already 2016, was...
by Gianni Ceresa | 10 October 2017 | Community, Hacks
We are at that time of the year again… Like last year, this is my contribution for the ODC Appreciation Day (#thanksODC), promoted by Tim Hall. My post starts with a little rant: OTN is gone, new name is now ODC. I’m sure there are some really smart...
by Gianni Ceresa | 30 September 2017 | Infrastructure
I already wrote about Docker and OBIEE in Docker in relation to my OBIEE Docker image I published on GitHub. As it isn’t always obvious to get started with it, mainly if aren’t familiar with Docker, I decided to write this post which will cover from A to Z...
by Gianni Ceresa | 12 July 2017 | Graphs
Not long ago I wrote a quick introduction on PGX, Parallel Graph AnalytiX, the Oracle graph solution. You can find it here: PGX – Parallel Graph AnalytiX : the Oracle graph analysis brain. To use and interact with this graph engine you will need a client or a...
by Gianni Ceresa | 26 June 2017 | Graphs
Graph databases: who hasn’t heard, so far, these words? The newest pretty shiny tool for data scientist, the latest addition to the analytical toolbox after big data solutions few years ago. So far it seems to still be a niche solution, too new to be widely...
by Gianni Ceresa | 29 May 2017 | Quick tips
Connection pools, these little basic, but mandatory, things we all have in our RPD. For normal usage we generally do not really pay attention to it: enter a host, username and password and done, you are connected to the database and move forward to other tasks. But...
by Gianni Ceresa | 24 May 2017 | Under the hood
Some time ago I uploaded on GitHub the code to build Docker images for OBIEE 12c (all the current 3 releases). In the meantime, as Docker is now my main (and only with the exception of Sample Applications) way to execute OBIEE, I improved and fixed things around the...
