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23 Apr 2013
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Oracle Designer Lives!

Amazing as it seems, I picked this article up on Twitter today.

An up to date, current, and NEW article about automating builds of applications from the Oracle Designer repository.

How very agile…

Thanks to all the gang over at AMIS (http://technology.amis.nl/) for keeping the technology alive and for being innovative enough to adapt it for the modern agile development world.

Running Oracle Designer Generation from Ant and Hudson

Introduction

Oracle Designer is a windows client-server development tool that is meant to be manually operated by a developer. Anyone trying to integrate Designer with an automatic build environment will find that it does not provide an API or a commandline version to kick-off any generation automatically.

There is however a hook that can be exploited by generating so-called GBU files directly from the Designer Repository. These GBU files are then fed to an executable called dwzrun61.exe that executes the actual generation of DDL scripts and forms.

This article describes how this can be done using examples from a real world situation. It shows how to generate the GBU files, the different strategies that can be followed and some of the pitfalls you might run into trying to pull this off yourself.

The code of the program we wrote can be found on here and is free to be adjusted to fit any other situation than ours.

via Running Oracle Designer Generation from Ant and Hudson.

If you want to meet some of the guys from AMIS and pick their brains, be sure to sign up for KScope13 and come meet them live in person.

See you there.

Kent

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16 Apr 2013
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Get thee to KScope13!

Jeff Smith (@thatjeffsmith) just posted a great little piece about why you can’t afford to miss this year’s ODTUG event in New Orleans: KScope13. As usually I will be speaking there as well and running my now annual Morning Chi Gung classes.

Get thee to KScope13!

See you there.

Kent

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08 Apr 2013
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Good is not good when…

Good is not good where better is expected.

– Thomas Fuller

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31 Mar 2013

Data Vault Informatica Class is Live!

Just a quick note to let you all know that Dan has finally released the class on how to easily implement a Data Vault using Informatica.

I wrote about the class here.

I have gone through a few of the lessons already and can tell you the instruction is very clear and easy to follow (even for me!) and the audio and video is excellent. The audio seems to come on a bit load so just be sure you have your volume turned down a bit when you start the videos.

And there is a money back guarantee if for some reason you decide the class is not for you.

If you did not get on Dan’s early notice list you can still sign up by going directly here: http://learndatavault.com/kentdvi

And, since you are a reader of my blog, if you sign up in the next few weeks and enter the coupon code DATAWARRIOR13, you can get $100 off !

So if you use Informatica and plan to do a Data Vault, you owe it to yourself to take a look at this course.

Take care.

Kent

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26 Mar 2013
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The price of success

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

– Vince Lombardi

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