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Tue, 25 Mar 2025 05:00:00 +0000 https://podcast.stefanschulz.com/link/24085/16991016/zielorientierte-buerokratie-mit-judith-muster-und-stefan-kuehl 625d08baccb01cc795d38c74f1968dde Wir besprechen den Text der Initiative für einen handlungsfähigen Staat Wann ist eigentlich die beste Zeit für eine Reform der Staatsverwaltung? Als der Schirmherr der „Initiative für einen handlungsfähigen Staat", der Bundespräsident, im Herbst zur Auftaktveranstaltung einlud, war die Welt noch in Ordnung. Man konnte die Hoffnung haben, dass sich Olaf Scholz und Kamala Harris gut verstehen und sich die Gelegenheit ergibt, Freiraum für ein paar Reformen zu haben. Doch als die Veranstaltung zwei Wochen später stattfand, war klar: Die Wähler haben sich für Donald Trump entschieden und der Bundeskanzler gegen seinen Finanzminister. Umso drängender es schien, das Ruder nun herumzureißen, desto knapper schien der Spielraum noch gegeben. Also drückten Thomas de Maizière, Peer Steinbrück, Julia Jäkel und Andreas Voßkuhle auf die Tube. Vor wenigen Tagen wurde die Präsentation eines Zwischenberichts anberaumt. Man wollte die Koalitionsverhandlungen nicht verpassen. Peer Steinbrück und Thomas de Maizière betonten bei der Vorstellung ihres Textes in der Bundespressekonferenz die übergeordnete Eile. Wenn es dieser Bundestag nicht mehr schaffe, sei die letzte Chance auf eine geordnete Staatsreform vertan. Diesen Text, zu dem sich bereits alle großen Zeitungsredaktionen verhalten haben und der von seinen Initiatoren auch in den Verhandlungsteams der derzeitigen Regierungsbildung vorgestellt wurde, besprechen wir heute. Zu Gast im Podcast sind Judith Muster und Stefan Kühl, beide Soziologen. Wir reden über die positive Seite der Bürokratie, die sich dann auszahlt, wenn man genauer organisiert und die Eigenlogik der Verwaltung beachtet. Die Personalkultur, auf die sich die Autoren beziehen, spielt dann fast keine Rolle mehr. Wir reden über Hierarchien und Mitzeichnungsrechte, die Verwaltungen beim politischen Planen an den Abgrund der „negativen Koordination" führen. In vorauseilender Unlust auf Streit bremst man sich häufig selbst schon aus. Wir reden darüber, wie man Prinzipien – beispielsweise Ansprüche vieler Bürger an wenige Beamte – wirkungsvoll absichert. Können Gesetze wie Trial-and-Error-Experimente konzipiert werden? Lässt sich „brauchbare Illegalität" planvoll einsetzen? Während der Staat sich bislang mit Kleinigkeiten schwertut – Autos anmelden, Kinder unterstützen, Schulen sanieren –, stehen nun ganz große Ideen im Raum: Ein Ministerium für Digitalisierung, das gleichzeitig alle Personalentscheidungen überwacht. Der Bund soll jegliche Verantwortung für die Integration von Zugezogenen abgeben. Das größte Wahlkampfthema des letzten Wahlkampfs nur noch ein Thema für Bundesratsverfahren neueren Typs? Diesen großen Vorschlägen fehlt jedoch ein Fundament. Die Initiative macht sich viele Gedanken für bessere Politik. Aber wie reformfreudig sind Behörden und Verwaltungen, wenn es drauf ankommt? Am Ende machen wir selbst einen radikalen Vorschlag: Wie wäre es statt Schritt-für-Schritt-Drangsalierungen mit Dokumentations- und Berichtspflichten einfach mit Verboten? Weniger Bürokratie, mehr Freiheit und freie Zeit, dafür allerdings eine neue, alte Idee – der strafende Staat. Gäste Judith Muster ist Partnerin bei Metaplan. Stefan Kühl ist Professor für Organisationssoziologie in Bielefeld. Von beiden erschien schon einiges und demnächst: "Führung managen: Eine sehr kurze Einführung" Stefan Kühl ist mit Andreas Hermwille im Podcast „Der ganz formale Wahnsinn – was Organisationen zusammenhält“ zu hören. Kapitel 00:00:00 1. Einleitung und Vorstellung der Gäste Thematische Einführung: Reform des Staates Aufzählungs-TextVorstellung der Gäste: Judith Muster und Stefan Kühl als Soziologen Organisationssoziologischer Ansatz zur Staatsdiskussion 00:03:08 2. Definition des Staates aus soziologischer Perspektive Was ist ein Staat? Verschiedene soziologische Betrachtungsweisen Staat als Raum mit verbindlichen Regeln Unterschied zwischen Staat als Organisation und Staat als Regelwerk 00:07:10 3. Gesetzgebungsverfahren und -verbesserung Diskussion des offenen Referentenentwurfs Negative Koordination bei Gesetzgebungsverfahren Praxistauglichkeitstests und Beteiligungsverfahren Problem der Mikrokoordination zwischen Ministerien 00:20:00 4. Experimentierklauseln und Abweichungskompetenzen Idee der Experimentierklauseln in Gesetzen Konzept der Abweichungskompetenzen Brauchbare Illegalität und formalisierte Regelabweichung Flexibilisierung des Verwaltungshandelns 00:26:39 5. Föderalismus und Aufgabenverteilung Schnittstellenprobleme zwischen Bund, Ländern und Kommunen Mischfinanzierungen und Zuständigkeitsfragen Reform der föderalen Strukturen 00:38:23 6. Digitalisierung und neues Digitalministerium Vorschlag eines Ministeriums für Digitales & Verwaltung Kritische Betrachtung der Personalhoheit des neuen Ministeriums Strukturprobleme der digitalen Transformation KI-Einsatz in der Verwaltung und Technikoptimismus 00:59:42 7. Reform des Personalwesens in der Verwaltung Personalkultur und Personalreform in Bundesbehörden Identifikation der Mitarbeiter mit dem Bund Beförderungspraxis und Quereinstiege Kritik am Begriff "neue Personalkultur" 01:17:06 8. Migration und Sicherheit Kritik an der Verknüpfung von Migration und Sicherheit Neuordnung der Zuständigkeiten für Abschiebungen Abgabe der Integrationsaufgaben an die Länder Datenaustausch zwischen Sicherheitsbehörden 01:31:29 9. Wissenschaft und Forschungsförderung Kritik am Drittmittelsystem Strategische Rolle des Staates als Auftraggeber Forschungstransfer und Innovationsförderung Kommissionsarbeit und Reformvorschläge für Wissenschaft 01:45:12 10. Zusammenfassung und Ausblick Vorschlag eines "Lobs des Verbots" statt indirekter Steuerung Kritische Gesamtbetrachtung der Initiative Alternative Herangehensweisen an Staatsreform Fazit zur Reformfähigkeit des Staates full Wir besprechen den Text der Initiative für einen handlungsfähigen Staat no Judith Muster, Stefan Kühl, Stefan Schulz 6934

In this episode of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Risky Business host Patrick Gray chats with SentinelOne's Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about AI, DeepSeek, and regulation. From its bad transport security to its Chinese ownership and the economic implications of China “entering the chat”, everyone's freaking out over this new model. But should they be? Pat, Alex and Chris dissect the model's significance, the politics of it all and how AI regulation in Europe, the US and China will shape the future of LLMs. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes

Season 25 Episode #14 Nathan Singleton and Shaun J BoyceToday in this short episode of quick tennis tip, Coach Nathan Singleton shares the importance of adding topspin to your lobs during a doubles match. It's easy to just block a lob up with no spin which is easy to predict when it bounces. Adding topspin can get the ball to bounce away from your opponent pushing them off the court.

This podcast features an engaging conversation with Brittany Dubins, the top-ranked female padel player in the United States. Brittany shares her journey from tennis to professional padel, discussing the challenges and joys of the sport. She offers insights into the unique aspects of padel, including partner dynamics and strategic play. The discussion covers Brittany's experiences at the 2024 World Championships in Doha and her thoughts on the future of padel in the US. This episode provides a fascinating look into the world of professional padel from an American perspective. Key points: 1. The importance of partner compatibility and off-court relationships in padel. 2. The challenges of transitioning from tennis to padel, including adapting to different shot selections and strategies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support the show by going to http://402p.com/support Lobs...love 'em or hate 'em. Today we show you how to do them and how to defend them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a textDe'Aaron Fox is heading to the Spurs! Adam and Russell break down the blockbuster trade that sent Fox to San Antonio, Zach LaVine to the Kings, and Tre Jones, Zach Collins, and Kevin Huerter to the Bulls. What does this mean for Wemby and the league? Tune in now!

On Monday Match Analysis, Gill Gross welcomes his childhood coach Chris Lewit to the program to discuss national development strategies that could explain Italy's tennis boom, Spain's 21st century dominance, Czech Republic's WTA empire and more. We'll also cover the 3-4-5 tactical system for shot selection and the NextGen forehand technique. Then, we'll get to your comments, including: how to improve stamina on court, tips for switching surfaces, is depth more important than weight of shot, where is tennis trending, does pro-level consistency come from technique and why aren't there more lobs on tour? 00:00 Intro 02:37 National Development 18:13 3-4-5 Tactical System 23:10 NextGen Forehand 30:56 Improving Stamina 36:30 Transitioning Surfaces 39:20 Balance and Depth 44:15 Style Trends 50:40 Baseline Consistency 54:12 Lobs on Tour IG: https://www.instagram.com/gillgross_/ Our 24/7 Tennis Community on Discord: https://discord.gg/wW3WPqFTFJ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Gill_Gross The Draw newsletter, your one-stop-shop for the best tennis content on the internet every week: https://www.thedraw.tennis/subscribe Become a member to support the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvERpLl9dXH09fuNdbyiLQQ/join An exciting new way to support the channel. All you have to do is sign up for TennisTV, the official ATP streaming service, using this link: https://tnn.is/gillgross

In this podcast Tom Uren, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau talk about an EU directive that will make vendors liable for software defects. The directive sets a very high bar but is also limited in scope. It only applies to individuals and doesn't cover professional use so it is a very practical way to start changing expectations about liability. They also talk about Session Messenger app which has decamped from Australia and set up a foundation in Switzerland. The encrypted and metadata-resistant app is catnip for criminals, so we expect that it is on a collision course with state power. This episode is also available on Youtube.

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Join Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with Senior Principal Database & Security Instructor Ron Soltani, as they discuss how the new Automatic SQL Plan Management feature in Oracle Database 23ai improves performance consistency and simplifies management. Then, Senior Principal Database & MySQL Instructor Bill Millar shares insights into two new features: one that enhances SecureFiles LOB Write Performance, improving read and write speeds, and another that increases the column limit in a table to 4,096, making it easier to handle complex data.   Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-database-23ai-new-features-for-administrators/137192/207062   Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/   X: https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode.   --------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript:   00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:26 Nikita: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor with Oracle University, and joining me is Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hi there! Last week, we looked at the Oracle Database 23ai enhancements that have been made to Hybrid Columnar Compression and Fast Ingest. In today's episode, we'll talk about the 23ai new feature for Automatic SQL Plan Management with Ron Soltani, a Senior Principal Database & Security Instructor with Oracle University.  01:01 Nikita: And later on, we'll be joined by Bill Millar, another Senior Principal Database & MySQL Instructor, who will tell us about the 23ai automatic feature that enhances SecureFiles LOB Write Performance. We'll also get him to talk about the Wide Columns update. So, let's get started. Hi Ron! What have been the common challenges with SQL plans and database performance? Ron: One of the problems that we have always had, if you remember, was when data changes, database setting configuration, parameter changes, SQL that were operating very well could now behave badly using the SQL plan that were associated to them. And remember, the same SQL plan generally Oracle likes to continuously reuse.  So the SQL plans were put in the baseline in the past, and we could have those SQL plan baseline, which are a set of approved plans to be used for a SQL from the SQL history stored in AWR, then could be used for the optimizer to choose from. However, which plan to choose and which one would be the best one to use, this is what the problem has been in managing the SQL plan baselines, and a lot of the operation would have been done manually.  02:22 Lois: And what have we done to overcome this?  Ron: So now this new system will going to perform all of those operations automatically for us. Now it can search the Automatic Workload Repository. It can find SQL plans for a particular SQL statement, then look for any alternative plans that may available in alternate sources like SQL tuning sets. And then validate those plans and see if those plans are going to be good and to be used as SQL plan baseline for executing SQL statement by the optimizer. 03:00 Nikita: So we now have the Automatic SQL Plan Management Evolve Advisor to help manage operations automatically, right? Can you tell us a little more about it? How does it ensure optimal performance? Ron: This is an automatic advisor that is created that can go look for different plans and validate the plans by examining them, making sure that they are not causing any regression compared to the previous operation, and then evolve that plan into a good baseline.  This simplifies management of the baseline repository for a SQL statement. So as data changes, as parameters changes, optimizer could come up with different type of plans that are set within this baseline that has been validated to be good baseline for each situational operation. So this way you reduce a lot of hard parsing operations.  04:00 Lois: And how does the SQL Evolve Advisor work, Ron? Ron: First, it will check the AWR to find what are the top SQLs that has been found. Then it will look to see if these top SQLs who did not perform well with the plan that they have, that's why they're top SQL, have other alternative plans that are stored in the SQL plan history, in AWR, or available in any other sources.  Then if it finds any additional plans, it will go ahead and add all of those plans into the plan history. So in the plan history, now you have accumulation of all the plans available in AWR and anything that has been brought from other sources. Then it will test every one of those plans and validate that by use of the plan, the SQL statement will not deprivate and get slower. The performance is either similar or actually better. So normally, there is a percentage that the SQL should improve. So we will then validate these baselines.  And finally, once the baselines or those plans have been validated, they will be accepted, and then they will be added as SQL plan baselines. They will remain in the statement history, in the AWR, and will be available for optimizer for the future use.  05:28 Nikita: What are the benefits of this? Ron: Number one is Autonomous Database. As you know, they want to automate all management, including management of the SQL execution due to changes that are happening for the application, for the data, or the database and its environment.  It totally eliminates any manual intervention for management of the statement, and it can transparently repair any statement that had been affected by a major change.  06:00 Lois: What sort of problems does this feature solve for us? Ron: Of course, this is a performance consistency. We want to make sure that every statement performed to its best performance and any specific changes that may impact those SQL statements would be taken into an account, and a better plan, if available, would then be available for use.  It also improves the application performance level, therefore database service level will get much improvement. And the SQL execution plans will be automatically managed behind the scene by expanding these baselines, by managing all of these baseline history and all of that that is managed by this automatic SQL plan management environment automatically.  06:50 Nikita: And when do we use this?  Ron: If there is a change in a database environment, like you add SGA, the change into the shared pool, change in the size of the buffer cache or any type of storage effects. So all of those can actually affect the SQL execution.  Now all of those changes, including data changes, can cause a SQL plan to not behave very well or behave as well as it was doing before. Therefore, if particular plans do not perform as well as they did before, that affects the performance of the application. This also affects the performance of the database and the instance.  07:35 Lois: So, how do we use this environment?  Ron: Well, best news that I have for you in that is that there is nothing manual needs to be done. All we need to do is, number one, make sure that we enable foreground automatic SQL plan management that we done through the package for the DBMS SPM for SQL plan management.  You will use the package with the configure option, and you enable the auto SPM evolve task, and you set it to auto. Once this is done, now the SQL evolve plan management and advisor are enabled, and they will then monitor your statements, review all of the top SQLs as they are found with all of the ADDM operation, and then do their work in looking for better plans and being able to maintain the SQL plan baselines we talked about.  Now for you to be able to view, monitor, and see how these operations are going, if it is enabled, you can take a look at the DBA SQL plan baseline's view. There are many, many columns in that particular baseline, and there are also columns that has been added that tell you where is the plan generated from, if a plan is approved, and any other user interaction with the plan or settings can then be verified using that DBA SQL plan baseline view.  09:13 Are you looking for practical use cases to help you plan and apply configurations that solve real-world challenges? With the new Applied Learning courses for Cloud Applications, you'll be able to practically apply the concepts learned in our implementation courses and work through case studies featuring key decisions and configurations encountered during a typical Oracle Cloud Applications implementation. Applied learning scenarios are currently available for General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Accounting Hub, Global Human Resources, Talent Management, Inventory, and Procurement, with many more to come! Visit mylearn.oracle.com to get started. 09:54 Nikita: Welcome back! Let's bring Bill into the conversation. Hi  Bill! Can you tell us about the 23ai automatic feature that enhances SecureFiles LOB Write Performance?  Bill: The key here is that it is automatic and transparent. There's no parameters set. Nothing to configure in table, no hints, and nothing that you have to do with these improvements. It is tightly integrated with SecureFiles LOB infrastructure.  So now, multiple LOBs can be handled in a single transaction and can be buffered simultaneously. This will help with mixed workloads, switching between the LOBs that are writing in a single transaction. The PGA will adaptively resize based off the size for these large writes for the LOBs if you're using the No Cache option. Remember, no cache is going to bypass the buffer cache and does direct reads and writes from the PGA.  JSON type will be transformed into the OSON Oracle data type. It is an optimized native binary storage format for JSON data.  11:15 Lois: Ok. So, going forward, there will be better read and write performance for LOBs. Bill: Multiple LOBs in a single transaction can be buffered simultaneously, improving mixed workloads. We just talked about the PGA. Automatically, the buffer is automatically resized.  And the improved JSON support. The reason it will recognize, hey, this is a JSON data type. But traditionally, JSON data types were small.  So they were small to medium size. So the range from 32k to 32 meg was considered small to medium whereas LOBs were designed for data types larger than 100 meg. So by recognizing this a JSON data type, it can take advantage of the LOB architecture.  Other enhancements will also include the acceleration of compressed LOBs, the pen and compression caching, and improves the poor performance of your reads and writes to compressed LOBs. It's faster than previously.  12:24 Nikita: Bill, what do you think about the recent increase in the column limit? Previously, the limit was 1000 columns per table, which sometimes posed issues when migrating from other systems that allowed more than 1,000 columns, right?  Bill: Maybe because of workload requirements, the whole machine learning, the internet of things workloads, IOTs can have hundreds of thousands of attributes, dimensional attribute columns for that. And even our very own blockchain tables reserves up to 40 hidden virtual columns, so that takes away from the total amount.  Virtual columns count towards the column limits and some applications as they drop columns, what it does, it just converts them to unused, and it still applies towards the limit the number of columns that you can have to that limit. There were workarounds. However, they were most likely not the best way to do it, like column switching, table splitting for that. But big data really use cases, really saw where files have or required more than 1,000 columns.  13:42 Lois: So, now that we can have 4,096 columns in a table, I'm sure it's made handling complex data a lot easier.  Bill: So by increasing this, since other systems do support higher column limits, it can-- the increase can make migration from other systems easier and possibly even a little bit more attractive while it can make applications a little bit simpler because the 1,000 column limit was not always optimal for analytics. Where 1,000 might have been plenty for OLTP type environments, but not for the analytics, especially when it comes to machine learning and those internet of things that we talked about, where the previous workarounds, like splitting the tables, really caused more performance issue than anything else.  So we want to avoid those suboptimal workarounds. And the nice thing is there's no change to the SQL. So once you have that-- well, if we were doing SQL, if we had tables that were split and we're trying to do things that is actually going to help improve that SQL, now, we don't have multiple objects that we're dealing with.  14:57 Nikita: How do we actually go about increasing the column limit to 4,096? Bill: You do have to have the compatibility set to 23c. Why? Because it's a new feature. There is a new initialization parameter called Max columns, and you do set that. There's two different ways, two different values. We can set it to standard or we can set it to extended.  It is dynamic. When it's set to standard, it's only 1,000. When we set it to extended, it's going to allow the 4,096. It is modifiable at the PDB level. However, it will inherit what's at the root level, if it's not explicitly set at a PDB. It can't alter it in a session for that. And multiple instances of the RAC environment must use the same value.  Now one thing, notice that it cannot be set to standard if I created a table that had more than 1,000 columns. One thing that might get you, when you drop a table that has more 1,000 columns and you try to set it back to standard, it might tell you, hey, you have tables that have more than 1,000 columns. Don't forget your recycle bin unless you did a drop table purge.  16:09 Lois: Are there any performance considerations to keep in mind, Bill? Bill: There's really no DML or query performance degradation for the tables. However, it might require, as you would expect, the increase in memory when we have the new column limits. It might require additional shared pool, additional SGA with the additional columns, more buffer cache as we're bringing blocks in.  So that's shared pool along with the PGA. And also we can add in buffer cache in there, because that increased column count is going to be increase in the total PGA memory usage. And those are kind of expected for that. But the big advantage is it gives us the ability to eliminate some of these suboptimal workarounds that we had in the past.  17:02 Nikita: Ok! We covered a lot today so thank you Bill and Ron.  Lois: To learn more about what we discussed today, visit mylearn.oracle.com and search for the Oracle Database 23ai New Features for Administrators course. Join us next week for a discussion on some more Oracle Database 23ai new features. Until then, this is Lois Houston… Nikita: And Nikita Abraham signing off! 17:27 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. We'd also love it if you would take a moment to rate and review us on your podcast app. See you again on the next episode of the Oracle University Podcast.

In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham speak with Senior Principal Database & MySQL Instructor Bill Millar about the enhanced performance of Hybrid Columnar Compression, the different compression levels, and how to achieve the best compression for your tables. Then, they delve into Fast Ingest, what's new in Oracle Database 23ai, and the benefits of these improvements.   Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-database-23ai-new-features-for-administrators/137192/207062   Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/   X: https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode.   --------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript:   00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:26 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I'm Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor. Nikita: Hi everyone! In our last episode, we spoke about the 23ai improvements in time and data handling and data storage with Senior Principal Instructor Serge Moiseev. Today, we're going to discuss the enhancements that have been made to the performance of Hybrid Columnar Compression. We'll look at how Hybrid Columnar Compression was prior to 23ai, learn about the changes that have been made, talk about how to use this compression in 23ai, and look at some performance factors. After that, we'll move on to Fast Ingest, the improvements in 23ai, and how it is managed. 01:15 Lois: Yeah, this is a packed episode and to take us through all this, we have Bill Millar back on the podcast. Bill is a Senior Principal Database & MySQL Instructor with Oracle University. Hi Bill! Thanks for joining us. So, let's start with how Hybrid Columnar Compression was prior to 23ai. What can you tell us about it? Bill: We support all kinds of platforms from the Database Enterprise Edition on up to the high engineered systems for that and even the Exadata Cloud at the Customer. We have four different levels of compression. One is considered the warehouse compression where we do a COLUMN STORE COMPRESS FOR QUERY LOW and COLUMN STORE COMPRESS FOR QUERY HIGH. The COLUMN STORE COMPRESS FOR QUERY HIGH is the default, unless another compression level is specified. With the archive compression, we have the COLUMN STORE COMPRESSED FOR ARCHIVE LOW and also COLUMN STORE COMPRESS FOR ARCHIVE HIGH. With the Hybrid Columnar Compression warehouse and archive, the array inserts are compressed immediately. But, however, some conditions have to be met. It has to be a locally-- to use these, it has to be a locally managed tablespace, the automatic segment space management. And compatibility level, at least 12 too or higher when these values have been introduced. There are different compressors that are used for the compression hidden from the customer. It just depends on what is selected as to what is going to be the compression that's going to be used for--  notice that with the COLUMN STORE FOR QUERY HIGH and for ARCHIVE LOW, the zlib compression method is used, whereas if you select the ARCHIVE HIGH, the Bzip2. And in 19C, we added the Zstandard. And it's available for the MEMORY COMPRESS FOR CAPACITY HIGH.  03:30 Nikita: So, what's happened in 23ai? Bill: When in 23c, to take advantage of the changes in compression, the compatibility level has to be set at least to 23.0.0 or higher. When a table is created or altered with the hybrid column compression, the Zstandard will automatically be selected. So it doesn't matter which one of the four you select, that will be the one that is selected. It is internally set transparent to the user. There is no new SQL format that has to be used in order for the Zstandard compression to be applied. And the Database Compatibility Mode has to be at least at 23.0.0 or higher. Only then can the format of the Hybrid Column Compression storage use that Zstandard compression. If we already have compressed data blocks in existing tables, they're going to remain in their original format.  04:31 Lois: And are the objects regenerated? Bill: If the objects are-- they might be regenerated if they were deleted in another operation. If you want to completely take advantage of the new compression, all you have to do is alter table move. And that's going to go ahead and trigger the recompression of that, whereas any newly created tables that are created will use the Zstandard by default. 05:00 Nikita: What are the performance factors we need to think about, Bill? Bill: There are some performance factors that we do need to consider, the ratio, the amount of space reduction in storage that we're going to achieve, the time spent compressing the data, the CPU cost to compress that data, and also, is there any decompression rate, time spent decompressing the data when we're doing queries on it? 05:24 Lois: And not all tables are equal, are they? Bill: Not all tables are equal. Some might get better performance by different compression level than others for that. So how we can basically have to test our results, there is a compression advisor that's available, that you can use to give you a recommendation on what compression to use. But only through testing can we really see the availability, the benefits of using that compression for an application. So best compression, just as in previous versions, the higher the compression levels, the more CPU it's going to use. The higher the compression level, the more space savings that we're going to achieve for that as we are doing those direct path inserts. So there's always that cost. 06:20 Did you know that the Oracle University Learning Community regularly holds live events hosted by Oracle expert instructors. Find out how to prepare for your certification exams. Learn about the latest technology advances and features. Ask questions in real time and learn from an Oracle subject matter expert. From Ask Me Anything about certification to Ask the Instructor coaching sessions, you'll be able to achieve your learning goals for 2024 in no time. Join a live event today and witness firsthand the transformative power of the Oracle University Learning Community. Visit mylearn.oracle.com to get started.  07:01 Nikita: Welcome back! Let's now move on to the enhancements that have been made to fast ingest. We'll begin with an overview of fast ingest, how to use it, and the improvements and benefits. And then we'll look at some features for managing fast ingest. Bill, why don't you start by defining fast ingest for us?  Bill: Traditionally the fast ingest, also referred to as deferred inserts, is faster than processing a single row at a time. It can support high-volume transactions like from the Internet of Things applications, where you have hundreds of thousands of items coming in trying to write to the database. They are faster, because the inserts don't use the traditional buffer cache. They use a pool that will size out of the large pool. And then they're later written to disk using the SMCO, the space management coordinator. Instead of using the buffer cache, they're going to write into an area of the large pool. The space management coordinator, it has these helper threads, however many-- that's just a number for that-- that will buffer. And as buffer is filled based off size of that algorithm, it will then write those deferred inserts into the database itself. 08:24 Lois: So, do deferred inserts support constraints? Bill: Deferred writes do support constraints in index just as for regular inserts. However, performance benchmarks that have been done recommend that you disable constraints, if you're going to use the fast ingest. 08:41 Lois: Can you tell us a bit about the streaming and ingest mechanism?  Bill: We declare a table with the memoptimize for write. We can do that in the create table statement, or we can alter the table for that. The data is written to the large pool, unlike traditionally writing items to the buffer cache. It's going to write to the ingest buffer, the large pool. And it's going to be drained. It's going to be written from that area by using those background processes to write to the actual database itself. So the very high throughput, since drainers issues deferred writes in large batches. So we're not having to wait especially for the buffer cache. OK, I need space. OK, I need to write. I need to free up blocks. Very ideal for these streaming inserts, sensor readings, alarms, door locks. Those type of things. 09:33 Nikita: How does performance improve with this? Bill: With the benchmarks we have done, we have found that the performance can be up to 75% faster by going ahead and doing the fast ingest versus traditional inserts. The 23 million inserts per second on a single X6-2 server with the benchmarks that we have. 09:58 Nikita: Are there any considerations to keep in mind? Bill: With the fast ingest, some things to consider for that. The written data, you might need to validate to make sure it's there. So you might have input files that are writing to that that are loading it. You might want to hang on to those, before that data destroyed. Have some kind of mechanism to validate, yes, it was written. There is a possible loss of data. Why? Because unlike the buffer cache that has the recovery mechanism with the redo and the undo, there is none with that large pool. So that's why if the system crashes, and the buffers haven't been flushed yet, then it's possible loss of data. There's no queries from the large pool meaning that if I want to query the information that the fast ingest is loading into the table, it doesn't go and see what's sitting in the buffer in the large pool like it does with the buffer cache. Index and constraints are checked but only at flush time. And the memoptimize pool size is a fixed amount of space that we're going to allocate-- of memory that we're going to allocate to use for the memoptimize write. We can enable a table for the fast ingest, enable with the memoptimize for write. We can create a table and do it. We can also alter a table. We already have a table existing. All we have to do is alter it. And we want to use that, the fast ingest, for these tables. 11:21 Lois: Do we have options for the writing operation, Bill? Bill: You do have options for the writing operation. We have the parameters, the memoptimize write where we can turn that on. We can also use it in a hint. It is set at the root level, it. Is not modifiable at the PDB level. It's set at the root level, It is a static parameter. We can also do things in our session. We want to verify, OK, is the memoptimize write on? We can verify a table is enabled. So with the fast ingest, the data inserts, you can also use a hint. You can also set this at a session level.  If you decide there's something that you don't want to use the memoptimize write for, then you can disable it for a table.  12:11 Nikita: Bill, what are some of the benefits of the enhancements made in 23ai? Bill: With some of the enhancements-- so now, some table attributes are now supported-- we can now have common default values for a column. We can use transparent data encryption. We can also use the fast inserts, any inline LOBs, along with virtual columns. We've also added partitioning support. We can do subpartitioning and we can also do interval partitioning, along with auto list. So we've added some items that previously prevented us from doing the fast inserts. It does provide additional flexibility, especially with the enhancements and the restrictions that we have removed. It allows to use that fast insert, especially in a data warehouse-type environment. It can also use-- in the Cloud, it can use encrypted tablespaces, because remember, in the Cloud, we always encrypt, by default, users' data. So now, it also gives us the ability to use it in that Cloud environment because of that change. We have faster background flushing for the loads.  13:36 Lois: And how is it faster now?  Bill: Because we bypassed the traditional buffer cache. Faster ingest for those direct ingest. So again, bypassing the traditional inserts and using the buffer cache gives the ability to bulk load into large pool, then flush to the database so that way, we have access to that data for possible faster analytics of those internet of things, especially when it comes to the temperature of the temperature sensors. We need to know when a temperature of something is out of bounds very quickly. Or maybe it's sensors for security. We need to know when there's a problem with the security. 14:20 Nikita: How difficult is it to manage this? Bill: Management is fairly simple. We have the MEMOPTIMIZE_WRITE_AREA_SIZE parameter that we're going to say-- it is dynamic. It does not require a restart. However, all instances in a RAC environment must have the same value. So we have the write area. What are we going to set? And then the MEMOPTIMIZE_WRITE, by default, it uses a hint. Or we can go ahead and we can just set that to all. It is allocated from the large pool. You manually set it. And we can see how much is actually being allocated to the pool. We can go out and look at our alert log for that information.  There's also a view. The MEMOPTIMIZE_WRITE_AREA has some columns. What is the total memory allocated for the large pool? How much is currently used by the fast ingest? How much free space? As you're using it, you might want to go out and do a little checking, or do you have enough space? Are you not allocating enough space? Or have you allocated too much?  It'll also show the total number of writes, and also, the number-- the writers is currently the users that are using it.  And the container ID, what is the container within that container database? What's the pluggable or pluggables that's using the fast ingest? There is a subprogram, the DBMS_MEMOPTIMIZE that we have access to that we possibly can use. So there are some procedures. Here, we can return the rows of the low and high water mark of the sequence numbers. And the key here is across all the sessions. We can see the high water mark, sequence number of the rows written to the large pool for the current session. And we can also flush all the ingest data from the large pool to disk for the current session. 16:26 Lois: What if I want to flush them all for all sessions?  Bill: Well, that's where we have the WRITE_FLUSH procedure. So it's going to flush the fast ingest data of the Memoptimize Rowstore from the large pool for all the sessions. As a DBA, that's one that you most likely will want to be using, especially if it's going to be before I do a shutdown or something along that line. 16:49 Nikita: Ok! On that note, I think we can end this episode. Thank you so much for taking us through all that, Bill. Lois: Yes, thanks Bill. If you want to learn more about what we discussed today, visit mylearn.oracle.com and search for Oracle Database 23ai New Features for Administrators. 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In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham discuss improvements in time and data handling and data storage in Oracle Database 23ai. They are joined by Senior Principal Instructor Serge Moiseev, who explains the benefit of allowing databases to have their own time zones, separate from the host operating system. Serge also highlights two data storage improvements: Automatic SecureFiles Shrink, which optimizes disk space usage, and Automatic Storage Compression, which enhances database performance and efficiency. These features aim to reduce the reliance on DBAs and improve overall database management.   Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-database-23ai-new-features-for-administrators/137192/207062   Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/   X: https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode.   ---------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript:   00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:26 Nikita: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor with Oracle University, and joining me is Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hi there! Over the past two weeks, we've delved into database sharding, exploring what it is, Oracle Database Sharding, its benefits, and architecture. We've also examined each new feature in Oracle Database 23ai related to sharding. If that sounds intriguing to you, make sure to check out those episodes. And just to remind you, even though most of you already know, 23ai was previously known as 23c. 01:04  Nikita: That's right, Lois. In today's episode, we're going to talk about the 23ai improvements in time and data handling and data storage with one of our Senior Principal Instructors at Oracle University, Serge Moiseev. Hi Serge! Thanks for joining us today. Let's start with time and data handling. I know there are two new changes here in 23ai: the enhanced time zone data upgrade and the improved system data and system timestamp data handling. What are some challenges associated with time zone data in databases? 01:37 Serge: Time zone definitions change from time to time due to legislative reasons. There are certain considerations. Changes include daylight savings time when we switch, include the activity that affects the Oracle Database time zone files.  Time zone files are modified and used by the administrators. Customers select the time zone file to use whenever it's appropriate. And customers can manage the upgrade whenever it happens.  The upgrades affect columns of type TIMESTAMP with TIME ZONE. Now, the upgrades can be online or offline.  02:24 Lois: And how have we optimized this process now?  Serge: Oracle Database 23c improves the upgrade by reducing the resources used, by selectively using the updates and minimizing the application impact. And only the data that has dependencies on the time zone would be impacted by the upgrade.  The optimization of the time zone file upgrade does not really change the upgrade process, so upgrade can be done offline. Database would be unavailable for a prolonged period of time, which is not optimal for today's database availability requirements.  Online upgrade, in this case, we want to minimize the application impact while the data is being upgraded. With the 23c database enhancement for time zone file change handling, the modified data is minimized, which means that the database updates only impacted rows. And it reduces the impact to the applications and other database operations.  03:40 Nikita: Serge, how does updating only the impacted rows improve the efficiency of the upgrade process? Serge: The benefits of enhanced timezone update include customers who manage large fleet of databases. They will benefit tremendously with a lower downtime. The DBAs will benefit due to the faster updates and less resource consumption needed to apply those updates. And that improves the efficiency of the update process.  Tables with no affected data are simply skipped and not touched. All results in the significant resource savings on the upgrade of the time zone files. It applies to all customers that utilize timestamp with time zone columns for their data storage.  04:32 Lois: Excellent! Now, what can you tell us about the improved system data and system timestamp data handling?  Serge: Date and time in Oracle databases depends on the system time as well as the database settings. System time now can be set as the local time zone for an individual database.  04:53 Nikita: How was it before this update? Serge: Before 23c, the time has always matched the time zone of the database host operating system. Now, imagine that we use either multitenant environments or cloud-based environments when the host OS system time zone is not really the same as the application that runs in a different geographic locality or affects data from other locations.  And system time obviously applies not only to the data stored and updated in the database rows but also to the scheduler, the flashback, to a place to materialized view refresh, Recovery Manager, and other time-sensitive features in the database itself.  Now, with the database time versus operating system time, there is a need to be more selective. It is desired that the applications use the same database time in the same time zone as the applications are actually being used in.  And multitenant and cloud databases will certainly experience a mismatch between the host operating system time zone, which is not local for the applications that run in some other geographical locations or not recognizing some, for example, daylight savings time.  So migration challenge is obviously present. If you want to migrate from a specific on-premises database to either multitenant or cloud, you would experience the host operating system time zone by default.  06:38 Lois: And that's obviously not convenient for the applications, right? Serge: Well, the database-specific time in Oracle Database 23c, any cloud database can set local time zone to whatever the customer's requirements are explicitly. And any pluggable database can also set its own local time zone to customer's requirements, not inheriting the time zone from the container database it is currently running in.  This simplifies migration to multitenant or cloud for applications that are time-sensitive. And it offers more intuitive, easier database monitoring, and development.  07:23 Working towards an Oracle Certification this year? Take advantage of the Certification Prep live events in the Oracle University Learning Community. Get tips from OU experts and hear from others who have already taken their certifications. Once you're certified, you'll gain access to an exclusive forum for Oracle-certified users. What are you waiting for? Visit mylearn.oracle.com to get started.   07:51 Nikita: Welcome back! Let's move on to the data storage improvements. We have two updates here as well, automatic secure file shrink and automatic storage compression. Let's start with the first one. But before we get into it, Serge, can you explain what SecureFiles are?  Serge: SecureFiles are the default storage mechanism for large objects in Oracle Database. They are strongly recommended by Oracle to store and manage large object data.  The LOBs are stored in segments. Those segments may incur large amounts of free space over time. Because of the updates to the LOB data, the fragmentation of the space used is growing depending, of course, on the frequency and the scope of the updates.  The storage efficiency could be improved by shrinking segments with the free space removed. And manual secure files shrinking has become available since Oracle Database 21c, requiring administrators to perform these tasks manually.  Traditional SecureFiles required the time-consuming DBA activities. DBAs would need to manually identify eligible LOB segments either using Segment Advisor or PL/SQL or built-in database views.  Once identified, the administrators would manually execute shrink operations on very large LOBs which takes too much time and may result in excessive disk space consumption. For example, code to operate this shrinking would look like ALTER TABLE some table SHRINK SPACE CASCADE.  That would shrink all LOB segments in a particular table. If you want to scope the shrinking to a single column, the code would be required to ALTER TABLE some table MODIFY LOB, followed by the column name SHRINK SPACE.  This affects only a single column in a table with LOBs.  10:01 Lois: So, how has automatic secure shrinking made things better? Serge: Automatic SecureFile shrink removes the emphasis from the DBAs to manually perform these tasks. And it results in the more optimal use of space over time.  It is integrated into the automated database maintenance tasks. The automation once enabled runs every 30 minutes, collects eligible LOB segments, and shrinks them offline. The execution time and freed space would vary depending on the fragmentation and the size of the LOBs. Each shrink execution may reclaim up to 5 gigabytes of unused disk space from each LOB segment that is idle.  On the high level, automatic SecureFile shrink improves the Oracle Database 23c storage usage efficiency. It is part of the ongoing Oracle Database improvement effort and transparently reclaims the free space with negligible to no impact on performance of the database operations.  Again, this is done in the background without affecting the running processes. It makes Oracle database 23c less dependent on the DBA activities while reducing the disk space required to store SecureFiles, reducing the usage of LOB segments.  Automatic securefile shrink runs incrementally in small steps over time. Some of the features are tunable. And it is supported for all types of large objects, storage, compressed, encrypted, and duplicated the object segments.  11:50 Nikita: Right, and note that this feature is turned on out-of-the-box in the Autonomous Database 23ai in Oracle Cloud. Now, let's talk about Automatic Storage Compression, Serge.  Serge: With Automatic Storage Compression and Automatic Clustering, the storage compression gives you the background compression functionality. Directly loaded data is first uncompressed to speed up the actual load process. Rows are then moved into hybrid columnar compression format in the background asynchronously.  The automatic clustering applies advanced heuristic algorithms to cluster the stored data depending on the workload and data access patterns and the data access is optimized to more efficiently make use of database table indices, zone maps, and join zone maps.  Automatic Storage Compression advantages include the improvements to Oracle Database 23c storage efficiency as well. It is part of the continuous improvement, part of the ongoing Oracle Database improvement effort. And it brings performance gains, speeds up uncompressed data loads while compressing in the background.  The latencies to load and compress data are because of that also reduced. With the hybrid columnar compression in particular, this works in combination.  And it results in less DBA activities, makes the Database Management less dependent on the DBA time and availability and effort.  Automatic Storage Compression performs operations asynchronously on the data that has already been loaded. To control Automatic Storage Compression on-premises, it must be enabled explicitly. And you have to have heatmap enabled on your Oracle Database objects.  Table must use hybrid columnar compression and be placed on the tablespace with the SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO and allowing autoallocation. And this feature, again, is transparent for the Autonomous Database 23c in the Oracle Cloud. 14:21 Lois: Thanks for that quick rundown of the new features, Serge. We really appreciate you for taking us through them. To learn more about what we discussed today, visit mylearn.oracle.com and search for the Oracle Database 23ai New Features for Administrators course. Join us next week for a discussion on some more Oracle Database 23ai new features. Until then, this is Lois Houston… Nikita: And Nikita Abraham signing off! 14:50 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. We'd also love it if you would take a moment to rate and review us on your podcast app. See you again on the next episode of the Oracle University Podcast.

This episode's Community Champion Sponsor is Ossur. To learn more about their ‘Responsible for Tomorrow' Sustainability Campaign, and how you can get involved: CLICK HERE---Episode Overview: Key industry industry leaders are stepping up and shepherding healthcare organizations that are seeking new and innovative ways to engage patients and drive better outcomes. Our next guest, Will Johnson, is at the forefront of this revolution as Vice President & General Manager of +Oscar.With a background in healthcare strategy and a passion for solving consumer pain points, Will leads the charge in commercializing innovative tech solutions for providers and payers. Drawing from his extensive experience at Oscar Health Insurance, Will brings a unique perspective on leveraging technology to improve healthcare outcomes. While together, Will and I discuss how +Oscar's Campaign Builder is revolutionizing patient communication, driving better utilization, and ultimately creating healthier, happier populations. Join us to gain Will's insights on the future of personalized healthcare and how technology can empower both providers and patients in this rapidly evolving landscape. Let's go!Episode Highlights:Personal negative healthcare experience inspired Will's career path in consumer-centric solutionsPlus Oscar commercializes engagement technology and behavior change tools for payers and providersPlatform shows impressive results: 118% increase in wellness visits, 96% MA plan retentionEmphasis on personalized, scalable strategies for managing diverse and complex patient populationsFuture trend towards individualization in healthcare, with focus on near one-to-one communicationAbout our Guest: Will Johnson is the Vice President & General Manager of +Oscar, Modular Solutions, where he leads a team focused on commercializing discrete components of +Oscar's tech stack to both providers and payers. The team's current focus is on the growth of Campaign Builder, +Oscar's Engagement and Automation platform. The product is now serving 500K lives between external payors and provider clients across a variety of markets and LOBs.Prior to joining +Oscar, Will held many roles within Oscar Health Insurance and was a key driver of both their growth to 1M+ lives and their profitability efforts. With a particular focus on TX and Southeast markets, Will owned core Growth, P&L management, and Value-Based Care Strategy and Contracting functions for the regions throughout his seven year tenure with Oscar Health Insurance.Before joining Oscar, Will was an Associate Consultant at Bain and Company where he advised Telecomm, Technology, and Healthcare clients on Market Entry Strategy and Product Portfolio Management. Will is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he was also a member of their 2011 College World Series baseball program.Links Supporting This Episode: +Oscar Website: CLICK HEREWill Johnson LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE+Oscar LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE Mike Biselli LinkedIn page: CLICK HEREMike Biselli Twitter page: CLICK...

In Episode 7, Mark and Patrick discuss their recent pickleball activities and share updates from their club. They also talk about training tips, a ladies-only DUPR night, and the importance of endurance in tournaments. They mention the DUPR rating system and its benefits for fair competition. Additionally, they discuss various paddle brands and the discounts available on their website as well as paddle options and price ranges   In this conversation, Patrick Batty and Mark Bittorf discuss various topics related to pickleball equipment and strategies.   The conversation then shifts to the topic of handling lobs in pickleball and the strategies behind it. They discuss the importance of communication with your partner and the need to hit soft and controlled shots when running forward. The conversation ends with a discussion about upcoming plans for the Canada Day long weekend.     Keywordspickleball, training, duper night, endurance, tournaments, Dupre rating system, paddle brands, discounts, pickleball, equipment, paddles, prices, Rev Aria, Rev Platinum, Tyrol shoes, gear bags, lobs, strategies, communication, soft shots, Canada Day Takeaways Pickleball players can improve their game by focusing on training and practicing specific shots, such as the volley shot. Hosting ladies-only DUPR nights can provide a competitive and enjoyable experience for female players. The DUPR rating system helps ensure fair competition in tournaments by placing players in appropriate skill categories based on their ratings. Endurance is important in pickleball tournaments, and participating in longer playing sessions can help build stamina. There are various paddle brands available, and players can take advantage of discounts offered on the Pickleball Today website. There are various paddle options available for pickleball, price ranges go from about $69 to over $300 and all paddles have a minimum discount. When handling lobs in pickleball, it is important to communicate with your partner and decide who will go for the lobs. The recommended shots to use when returning lobs are drop shots into the kitchen or returning the lob with another lob. When running forward to hit a ball, try to hit it soft and controlled to allow more time to get back into position. The Canada Day long weekend is a popular time for boating and enjoying the water. Titles Building Endurance for Tournaments Training Tips and Ladies-Only Duper Night Enjoying the Canada Day Long Weekend Exploring Pickleball Equipment and Prices Sound Bites "When you're in ready position, holding that paddle at 11 o'clock, if you're right-handed, it'd be one o'clock. If you're left-handed slightly to that backhand, just easier to defend your body and your shots on the backhand." "Some ladies wanted to just play against themselves and enjoy those type of games." "If you sign up for a tournament in DUPR, then it's based on your rating, you will be put into the category that you belong instead of just assigning yourself to a category." Chapters 00:00 From Hockey to Pickleball: Transitioning to the Main Topic 04:25 Improving Skills with Training Videos and Practice 06:13 Creating a Competitive Environment with Ladies-Only Nights 07:24 The Importance of the Duper Rating System for Tournaments 12:29 Exploring Paddle Discounts and Partnerships 28:40 Tips for Handling Lobs in Pickleball 30:54 Communication Strategies for Dealing with Lobs 37:51 Upcoming Plans for Canada Day Weekend 43:13 Pickleball Today Outro video.mp4

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Meklejūt vysaidu dzīšmu stuostus, rubrikys veiduotuojis Edeitis Laimis viereibu dasaisteja feletonista, rakstnīka, publicista, ari  bibliotekara i agronoma Bonifaceja Briškys 60. godūs trimdā izdūtajā žurnalā “Dzeive” publicātais roksts. Tys saucās “Latgolā dzīduotuos himnas”. Briška aproksta vaļsts, vysaidu politiskūs varu, religiskuos i ari parodeju himnys, kaidys skaniejušys Latgolys teritorejā vysaidūs laikūs. Tok iz vaicuojumu “Voi mums ir kaida seneja tautys himna?” pats atsoka, ka taidys oficialys nav bejs, jo Latgola vysod ir bejuse kaidys cytys teritorejis daļa. Tok pa tautys himnu varātu atzeit bīžuok dzīduotuos tautysdzīsmis ar sabīdrysku raksturu. Myusu laikūs par Latgolys himnom mes sauktu “Skaidrū volūdu”, “Pīmiņ, bruoļ”, “Vuolyudzeiti”, “Zīdi, zīdi, rudzu vuorpa” i varbyut vēļ kaidu cytu. Bet pats Briška kai pīmāru dzīsmei, kura eistyn varātu byut himna, nūsauc tymūs laikūs cīši bīži dzīduotū “Lobs ar lobu sasatyka”. Dzīsmi, kas jau beja publicāta 1908. godā izdūtajā tautysdzīšmu apdaru kruojumā “Dzīsmu vuoceleite”. Kas tod ir tī “lobī”, kuri sasateik, cik daudzi dzīsme skaņ myusu dīnuos i kaidūs ceļūs vēļ dzīsmis nūsaukums guojs? Par tū ituos reizis “Lobs ar lobu sasatyka” dzīsmis stuostā. Tymā pošā Briškys rokstā, kas tai raiseja interesi, teik izsaceits miniejumu par dzīsmis tekstu, kas himnys nūzeimē asūt par nalabvieļu atvaireišonu i vieršonūs iz sovim veicamajim dorbim. Tok tymā pošā laikā par itū dzīsmi  ari “Dzeivē” publicāts volūdnīka i rakstnīka Leonarda Latkovska roksts. I izaruod, ka tī lobī  – vīns lobais i ūtrais, kuri sasateik – ir boguotuoki ļauds. Lobs beja taids cylvāks, kam pīderējuse labeiba, jo “lobs” i “labeiba” ir vīnys saknis vuordi. Sovulaik nu 11. da 13. godu symta latvīšu aristokrateja taišni i saucēs “labīši”. Kai autors nūruoda, tī, kur boguoteiba, tī ari puoruokuma apziņa i lepneiba, kas nūvad ari pi gribiešonys aprunuot i meklēt vysaidys vainis tymūs, kurus jī skaita par zamuokim – mozuokim i nabadzeiguokim. Tok golā saīt, ka tys mozuo auguma aprunuotais cylvāks nanūsabeist boguotūs augstpruoteibys i atkluoti pasoka, ka ir spiejeigs pasaceit taidus styprus vuordus, ka cyti sadzierdēs! Dzīsme teik raksturuota kai spāka i drūsmis pylna. “Lobs ar lobu sasatyka” kai tautā, tai koru apdarēs sovulaik daudzi dzīduota i Latgolā, i cytur Latvejā, i ari trymdā. Mīleiga ir kaida pīzeime pi dzīsmis pīroksta 50. godu gola folklorys ekspedicejā Preiļu i Daugovpiļs rajonūs: “Itū dzīsmi pi myusu cīši dzīd!”. Ruodīs, ka tei ir ari sovulaik vīna nu vysu bīžuok (ka na poša bīžuokuo) dailliteraturys dorbūs pīmynātuo latgalīšu dzīsme. Par pīmāru, citats, nu Juoņa Klīdzieja romana “Jaunības zeme”: Beidzot caur visu skanēšanu Līpūrs sadzirdēja saucējus. — Nu? Ko vajaga! — viņš atkliedza nikni ar lielu muti. — Tu uzspēlē un uzdziedāsim konduktora kungam par godu «Lobs ar lobu sasatyka! ...» — Lai iet! Gāza visi vaļā. lenākdams šo aicinājumu dzirdēja arī virskonduktors, Abi padusmojās, parājās, bet cik gan ilgi tā cilvēks var dusmoties, kad viņu priecina. Abi sāka smaidīt, beidzot smieties. Tok, lai ari cik populara i cīši dzīduota dzīsme sovulaik nabyutu, vys tik kaidu myusu dīnu studejis īrokstu tai nimoz i vīgli naīsadūd atrast. Te vītā varātu byut aicynuojums latgalīšu muzikim aizpiļdeit itū tukšumu ar kaidu myusdīneigu verseju! Bet vīna taida jauna verseja ir Australejis latvīšu gitarista Ivara Štuba instrumentalais īskaņuojums pyrma puora godu izdūtajā albumā “Fragments”. Tok kas myusu dīnuos vēļ ir “Lobs ar lobu sasatyka”? Sovu reizi, tys ir kaids pasuokuma nūsaukums nazkur Latgolā, bet, ka vaicuot zynuotuojai gūglei, tod vīns nūteikti ir Latgolys regionaluos televizejis raidejums “Lobs ar lobu sasatyka” – veļteits Latgolai i administrativi teritorialajai reformai. Bet ūtrys – Latgolys etnografiskuos viestnīceibys i jo eipaši tuos vadeituojis Ivetys Seimanovys taiseituos tautystārpūs apviļktūs leļu ceļojūšuo izstuode “Lobs ar lobu sasatyka”. Vaira nakai 40 mozuos tautumeitys apceļuojušys na viņ leluokys i mozuokys vītys Latvejā, bet gastejušys ari uorzemēs, par pīmāru, Igaunejā i Zvīdrejā.

On the third episode of "From the Point by Trae Young" recorded in partnership with Bleacher Report, two-time NBA All-Star Trae Young and Winston discuss the NFL Playoffs, scoring 10,000 career points, and the “best ever” potential of rookie Frenchman, Victor Wembanyama. The Hawks star guard and his friend also talk about the art of the alley-oop, nutmegs, and the place of the fan vote in the NBA All-Star ballot. The duo also talk about what the Atlanta Hawks need to do in the second half of the season.  Thanks for listening to "From The Point" by Trae Young. If you enjoyed this episode of the podcast, you can find it with video on From The Point's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@traeyoungYou can find clips and outtakes from the podcast on all major social platforms, too: https://www.instagram.com/fromthepointpodcasthttps://www.tiktok.com/@fromthepointpodcastWe appreciate you.

In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham speak with Oracle Database experts about the various tools you can use with Autonomous Database, including Oracle Application Express (APEX), Oracle Machine Learning, and more.   Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/   Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/   X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Tamal Chatterjee, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode.   ---------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:26 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I'm Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor. Nikita: Hi everyone! We spent the last two episodes exploring Oracle Autonomous Database's deployment options: Serverless and Dedicated. Today, it's tool time! Lois: That's right, Niki. We'll be chatting with some of our Database experts on the tools that you can use with the Autonomous Database. We're going to hear from Patrick Wheeler, Kay Malcolm, Sangeetha Kuppuswamy, and Thea Lazarova. Nikita: First up, we have Patrick, to take us through two important tools. Patrick, let's start with Oracle Application Express. What is it and how does it help developers? 01:15 Patrick: Oracle Application Express, also known as APEX-- or perhaps APEX, we're flexible like that-- is a low-code development platform that enables you to build scalable, secure, enterprise apps with world-class features that can be deployed anywhere. Using APEX, developers can quickly develop and deploy compelling apps that solve real problems and provide immediate value. You don't need to be an expert in a vast array of technologies to deliver sophisticated solutions. Focus on solving the problem, and let APEX take care of the rest. 01:52 Lois: I love that it's so easy to use. OK, so how does Oracle APEX integrate with Oracle Database? What are the benefits of using APEX on Autonomous Database? Patrick: Oracle APEX is a fully supported, no-cost feature of Oracle Database. If you have Oracle Database, you already have Oracle APEX. You can access APEX from database actions. Oracle APEX on Autonomous Database provides a preconfigured, fully managed, and secure environment to both develop and deploy world-class applications. Oracle takes care of configuration, tuning, backups, patching, encryption, scaling, and more, leaving you free to focus on solving your business problems. APEX enables your organization to be more agile and develop solutions faster for less cost and with greater consistency. You can adapt to changing requirements with ease, and you can empower professional developers, citizen developers, and everyone else. 02:56 Nikita: So you really don't need to have a lot of specializations or be an expert to use APEX. That's so cool! Now, what are the steps involved in creating an application using APEX?  Patrick: You will be prompted to log in as the administrator at first. Then, you may create workspaces for your respective users and log in with those associated credentials. Application Express provides you with an easy-to-use, browser-based environment to load data, manage database objects, develop REST interfaces, and build applications which look and run great on both desktop and mobile devices. You can use APEX to develop a wide variety of solutions, import spreadsheets, and develop a single source of truth in minutes. Create compelling data visualizations against your existing data, deploy productivity apps to elegantly solve a business need, or build your next mission-critical data management application. There are no limits on the number of developers or end users for your applications. 04:01 Lois: Patrick, how does APEX use SQL? What role does SQL play in the development of APEX applications?  Patrick: APEX embraces SQL. Anything you can express with SQL can be easily employed in an APEX application. Application Express also enables low-code development, providing developers with powerful data management and data visualization components that deliver modern, responsive end user experiences out-of-the-box. Instead of writing code by hand, you're able to use intelligent wizards to guide you through the rapid creation of applications and components. Creating a new application from APEX App Builder is as easy as one, two, three. One, in App Builder, select a project name and appearance. Two, add pages and features to the app. Three, finalize settings, and click Create. 05:00 Nikita: OK. So, the other tool I want to ask you about is Oracle Machine Learning. What can you tell us about it, Patrick? Patrick: Oracle Machine Learning, or OML, is available with Autonomous Database. A new capability that we've introduced with Oracle Machine Learning is called Automatic Machine Learning, or AutoML. Its goal is to increase data scientist productivity while reducing overall compute time. In addition, AutoML enables non-experts to leverage machine learning by not requiring deep understanding of the algorithms and their settings. 05:37 Lois: And what are the key functions of AutoML? Patrick: AutoML consists of three main functions: Algorithm Selection, Feature Selection, and Model Tuning. With Automatic Algorithm Selection, the goal is to identify the in-database algorithms that are likely to achieve the highest model quality. Using metalearning, AutoML leverages machine learning itself to help find the best algorithm faster than with exhaustive search. With Automatic Feature Selection, the goal is to denoise data by eliminating features that don't add value to the model. By identifying the most predicted features and eliminating noise, model accuracy can often be significantly improved with a side benefit of faster model building and scoring. Automatic Model Tuning tunes algorithm hyperparameters, those parameters that determine the behavior of the algorithm, on the provided data. Auto Model Tuning can significantly improve model accuracy while avoiding manual or exhaustive search techniques, which can be costly both in terms of time and compute resources. 06:44 Lois: How does Oracle Machine Learning leverage the capabilities of Autonomous Database? Patrick: With Oracle Machine Learning, the full power of the database is accessible with the tremendous performance of parallel processing available, whether the machine learning algorithm is accessed via native database SQL or with OML4Py through Python or R.  07:07 Nikita: Patrick, talk to us about the Data Insights feature. How does it help analysts uncover hidden patterns and anomalies? Patrick: A feature I wanted to call the electromagnet, but they didn't let me. An analyst's job can often feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. So throw the switch and all that metallic stuff is going to slam up onto that electromagnet. Sure, there are going to be rusty old nails and screws and nuts and bolts, but there are going to be a few needles as well. It's far easier to pick the needles out of these few bits of metal than go rummaging around in a pile of hay, especially if you have allergies. That's more or less how our Insights tool works. Load your data, kick off a query, and grab a cup of coffee. Autonomous Database does all the hard work, scouring through this data looking for hidden patterns, anomalies, and outliers. Essentially, we run some analytic queries that predict expected values. And where the actual values differ significantly from expectation, the tool presents them here. Some of these might be uninteresting or obvious, but some are worthy of further investigation. You get this dashboard of various exceptional data patterns. Drill down on a specific gauge in this dashboard and significant deviations between actual and expected values are highlighted. 08:28 Lois: What a useful feature! Thank you, Patrick. Now, let's discuss some terms and concepts that are applicable to the Autonomous JSON Database with Kay. Hi Kay, what's the main focus of the Autonomous JSON Database? How does it support developers in building NoSQL-style applications? Kay: Autonomous Database supports the JavaScript Object Notation, also known as JSON, natively in the database. It supports applications that use the SODA API to store and retrieve JSON data or SQL queries to store and retrieve data stored in JSON-formatted data.  Oracle AJD is Oracle ATP, Autonomous Transaction Processing, but it's designed for developing NoSQL-style applications that use JSON documents. You can promote an AJD service to ATP. 09:22 Nikita: What makes the development of NoSQL-style, document-centric applications flexible on AJD?  Kay: Development of these NoSQL-style, document-centric applications is particularly flexible because the applications use schemaless data. This lets you quickly react to changing application requirements. There's no need to normalize the data into relational tables and no impediment to changing the data structure or organization at any time, in any way. A JSON document has its own internal structure, but no relation is imposed on separate JSON documents. Nikita: What does AJD do for developers? How does it actually help them? Kay: So Autonomous JSON Database, or AJD, is designed for you, the developer, to allow you to use simple document APIs and develop applications without having to know anything about SQL. That's a win. But at the same time, it does give you the ability to create highly complex SQL-based queries for reporting and analysis purposes. It has built-in binary JSON storage type, which is extremely efficient for searching and for updating. It also provides advanced indexing capabilities on the actual JSON data. It's built on Autonomous Database, so that gives you all of the self-driving capabilities we've been talking about, but you don't need a DBA to look after your database for you. You can do it all yourself. 11:00 Lois: For listeners who may not be familiar with JSON, can you tell us briefly what it is?  Kay: So I mentioned this earlier, but it's worth mentioning again. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It was originally developed as a human readable way of providing information to interchange between different programs. So a JSON document is a set of fields. Each of these fields has a value, and those values can be of various data types. We can have simple strings, we can have integers, we can even have real numbers. We can have Booleans that are true or false. We can have date strings, and we can even have the special value null. Additionally, values can be objects, and objects are effectively whole JSON documents embedded inside a document. And of course, there's no limit on the nesting. You can nest as far as you like. Finally, we can have a raise, and a raise can have a list of scalar data types or a list of objects. 12:13 Nikita: Kay, how does the concept of schema apply to JSON databases? Kay: Now, JSON documents are stored in something that we call collections. Each document may have its own schema, its own layout, to the JSON. So does this mean that JSON document databases are schemaless? Hmmm. Well, yes. But there's nothing to fear because you can always use a check constraint to enforce a schema constraint that you wish to introduce to your JSON data. Lois: Kay, what about indexing capabilities on JSON collections? Kay: You can create indexes on a JSON collection, and those indexes can be of various types, including our flexible search index, which indexes the entire content of the document within the JSON collection, without having to know anything in advance about the schema of those documents.  Lois: Thanks Kay! 13:18 AI is being used in nearly every industry—healthcare, manufacturing, retail, customer service, transportation, agriculture, you name it! And, it's only going to get more prevalent and transformational in the future. So it's no wonder that AI skills are the most sought after by employers.  We're happy to announce a new OCI AI Foundations certification and course that is available—for FREE! Want to learn about AI? Then this is the best place to start! So, get going! Head over to mylearn.oracle.com to find out more.  13:54 Nikita: Welcome back! Sangeetha, I want to bring you in to talk about Oracle Text. Now I know that Oracle Database is not only a relational store but also a document store. And you can load text and JSON assets along with your relational assets in a single database.  When I think about Oracle and databases, SQL development is what immediately comes to mind. So, can you talk a bit about the power of SQL as well as its challenges, especially in schema changes? Sangeetha: Traditionally, Oracle has been all about SQL development. And with SQL development, it's an incredibly powerful language. But it does take some advanced knowledge to make the best of it. So SQL requires you to define your schema up front. And making changes to that schema could be a little tricky and sometimes highly bureaucratic task. In contrast, JSON allows you to develop your schema as you go--the schemaless, perhaps schema-later model. By imposing less rigid requirements on the developer, it allows you to be more fluid and Agile development style. 15:09 Lois: How does Oracle Text use SQL to index, search, and analyze text and documents that are stored in the Oracle Database? Sangeetha: Oracle Text can perform linguistic analyses on documents as well as search text using a variety of strategies, including keyword searching, context queries, Boolean operations, pattern matching, mixed thematic queries, like HTML/XML session searching, and so on. It can also render search results in various formats, including unformatted text, HTML with term highlighting, and original document format. Oracle Text supports multiple languages and uses advanced relevance-ranking technology to improve search quality. Oracle Text also offers advantage features like classification, clustering, and support for information visualization metaphors. Oracle Text is now enabled automatically in Autonomous Database. It provides full-text search capabilities over text, XML, JSON content. It also could extend current applications to make better use of textual fields. It builds new applications specifically targeted at document searching. Now, all of the power of Oracle Database and a familiar development environment, rock-solid autonomous database infrastructure for your text apps, we can deal with text in many different places and many different types of text. So it is not just in the database. We can deal with data that's outside of the database as well. 17:03 Nikita: How does it handle text in various places and formats, both inside and outside the database? Sangeetha: So in the database, we can be looking a varchar2 column or LOB column or binary LOB columns if we are talking about binary documents such as PDF or Word. Outside of the database, we might have a document on the file system or out on the web with URLs pointing out to the document. If they are on the file system, then we would have a file name stored in the database table. And if they are on the web, then we should have a URL or a partial URL stored in the database. And we can then fetch the data from the locations and index it in the term documents format. We recognize many different document formats and extract the text from them automatically. So the basic forms we can deal with-- plain text, HTML, JSON, XML, and then formatted documents like Word docs, PDF documents, PowerPoint documents, and also so many different types of documents. All of those are automatically handled by the system and then processed into the format indexing. And we are not restricted by the English either here. There are various stages in the index pipeline. A document starts one, and it's taken through the different stages so until it finally reaches the index. 18:44 Lois: You mentioned the indexing pipeline. Can you take us through it? Sangeetha: So it starts with a data store. That's responsible for actually reaching the document. So once we fetch the document from the data store, we pass it on to the filter. And now the filter is responsible for processing binary documents into indexable text. So if you have a PDF, let's say a PDF document, that will go through the filter. And that will extract any images and return it into the stream of HTML text ready for indexing. Then we pass it on to the sectioner, which is responsible for identifying things like paragraphs and sentences. The output from the section is fed onto the lexer. The lexer is responsible for dividing the text into indexable words. The output of the lexer is fed into the index engine, which is responsible for laying out to the indexes on the disk. Storage, word list, and stop list are some additional inputs there. So storage tells exactly how to lay out the index on disk. Word list which has special preferences like desegmentation. And then stop is a list word that we don't want to index. So each of these stages and inputs can be customized. Oracle has something known as the extensibility framework, which originally was designed to allow people to extend capabilities of these products by adding new domain indexes. And this is what we've used to implement Oracle Text. So when kernel sees this phrase INDEXTYPE ctxsys.context, it knows to handle all of the hard work creating the index. 20:48 Nikita: Other than text indexing, Oracle Text offers additional operations, right? Can you share some examples of these operations? Sangeetha: So beyond the text index, other operations that we can do with the Oracle Text, some of which are search related. And some examples of that are these highlighting markups and snippets. Highlighting and markup are very similar. They are ways of fetching these results back with the search. And then it's marked up with highlighting within the document text. Snippet is very similar, but it's only bringing back the relevant chunks from the document that we are searching for. So rather than getting the whole document back to you, just get a few lines showing this in a context and the theme and extraction. So Oracle Text is capable of figuring out what a text is all about. We have a very large knowledge base of the English language, which will allow you to understand the concepts and the themes in the document. Then there's entity extraction, which is the ability to find out people, places, dates, times, zip codes, et cetera in the text. So this can be customized with your own user dictionary and your own user rules. 22:14 Lois: Moving on to advanced functionalities, how does Oracle Text utilize machine learning algorithms for document classification? And what are the key types of classifications? Sangeetha: The text analytics uses machine learning algorithms for document classification. We can process a large set of data documents in a very efficient manner using Oracle's own machine learning algorithms. So you can look at that as basically three different headings. First of all, there's classification. And that comes in two different types-- supervised and unsupervised. The supervised classification which means in this classification that it provides the training set, a set of documents that have already defined particular characteristics that you're looking for. And then there's unsupervised classification, which allows your system itself to figure out which documents are similar to each other. It does that by looking at features within the documents. And each of those features are represented as a dimension in a massively high dimensional feature space in documents, which are clustered together according to that nearest and nearness in the dimension in the feature space. Again, with the named entity recognition, we've already talked about that a little bit. And then finally, there is a sentiment analysis, the ability to identify whether the document is positive or negative within a given particular aspect. 23:56 Nikita: Now, for those who are already Oracle database users, how easy is it to enable text searching within applications using Oracle Text? Sangeetha: If you're already an Oracle database user, enabling text searching within your applications is quite straightforward. Oracle Text uses the same SQL language as the database. And it integrates seamlessly with your existing SQL. Oracle Text can be used from any programming language which has SQL interface, meaning just about all of them.  24:32 Lois: OK from Oracle Text, I'd like to move on to Oracle Spatial Studio. Can you tell us more about this tool? Sangeetha: Spatial Studio is a no-code, self-service application that makes it easy to access the sorts of spatial features that we've been looking at, in particular, in order to get that data prepared to use with spatial, visualizing results in maps and tables, and also doing the analysis and sharing results. Spatial Studios is encoded at no extra cost with Autonomous Database. The studio web application itself has no additional cost and it runs on the server. 25:13 Nikita: Let's talk a little more about the cost. How does the deployment of Spatial Studio work, in terms of the server it runs on?  Sangeetha: So, the server that it runs on, if it's running in the Cloud, that computing node, it would have some cost associated with it. It can also run on a free tier with a very small shape, just for evaluation and testing.  Spatial Studio is also available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. And there are a couple of self-paced workshops that you can access for installing and using Spatial Studio. 25:47 Lois: And how do developers access and work with Oracle Autonomous Database using Spatial Studio? Sangeetha: Oracle Spatial Studio allows you to access data in Oracle Database, including Oracle Autonomous Database. You can create connections to Oracle Autonomous Databases, and then you work with the data that's in the database. You can also see Spatial Studio to load data to Oracle Database, including Oracle Autonomous Database. So, you can load these spreadsheets in common spatial formats. And once you've loaded your data or accessed data that already exists in your Autonomous Database, if that data does not already include native geometrics, Oracle native geometric type, then you can prepare the data if it has addresses or if it has latitude and longitude coordinates as a part of the data. 26:43 Nikita: What about visualizing and analyzing spatial data using Spatial Studio? Sangeetha: Once you have the data prepared, you can easily drag and drop and start to visualize your data, style it, and look at it in different ways. And then, most importantly, you can start to ask spatial questions, do all kinds of spatial analysis, like we've talked about earlier. While Spatial Studio provides a GUI that allows you to perform those same kinds of spatial analysis. And then the results can be dropped on the map and visualized so that you can actually see the results of spatial questions that you're asking. When you've done some work, you can save your work in a project that you can return to later, and you can also publish and share the work you've done. 27:34 Lois: Thank you, Sangeetha. For the final part of our conversation today, we'll talk with Thea. Thea, thanks so much for joining us. Let's get the basics out of the way. How can data be loaded directly into Autonomous Database? Thea: Data can be loaded directly to ADB through applications such as SQL Developer, which can read data files, such as txt and xls, and load directly into tables in ADB. 27:59 Nikita: I see. And is there a better method to load data into ADB? Thea: A more efficient and preferred method for loading data into ADB is to stage the data cloud object store, preferably Oracle's, but also supported our Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage. Any file type can be staged in object store. Once the data is in object store, Autonomous Database can access a directly. Tools can be used to facilitate the data movement between object store and the database. 28:27 Lois: Are there specific steps or considerations when migrating a physical database to Autonomous? Thea: A physical database can simply be migrated to autonomous because database must be converted to pluggable database, upgraded to 19C, and encrypted. Additionally, any changes to an Oracle-shipped stored procedures or views must be found and reverted. All uses of container database admin privileges must be removed. And all legacy features that are not supported must be removed, such as legacy LOBs. Data Pump, expdp/impdp must be used for migrating databases versions 10.1 and above to Autonomous Database as it addresses the issues just mentioned. For online migrations, GoldenGate must be used to keep old and new database in sync. 29:15 Nikita: When you're choosing the method for migration and loading, what are the factors to keep in mind? Thea: It's important to segregate the methods by functionality and limitations of use against Autonomous Database. The considerations are as follows. Number one, how large is the database to be imported? Number two, what is the input file format? Number three, does the method support non-Oracle database sources? And number four, does the methods support using Oracle and/or third-party object store? 29:45 Lois: Now, let's move on to the tools that are available. What does the DBMS_CLOUD functionality do? Thea: The Oracle Autonomous Database has built-in functionality called DBMS_CLOUD specifically designed so the database can move data back and forth with external sources through a secure and transparent process. DBMS_CLOUD allows data movement from the Oracle object store. Data from any application or data source export to text-- .csv or JSON-- output from third-party data integration tools. DBMS_CLOUD can also access data stored on Object Storage from the other clouds, AWS S3 and Azure Blob Storage. DBMS_CLOUD does not impose any volume limit, so it's the preferred method to use. SQL*Loader can be used for loading data located on the local client file systems into Autonomous Database. There are limits around OS and client machines when using SQL*Loader. 30:49 Nikita: So then, when should I use Data Pump and SQL Developer for migration? Thea: Data Pump is the best way to migrate a full or part database into ADB, including databases from previous versions. Because Data Pump will perform the upgrade as part of the export/import process, this is the simplest way to get to ADB from any existing Oracle Database implementation. SQL Developer provides a GUI front end for using data pumps that can automate the whole export and import process from an existing database to ADB. SQL Developer also includes an import wizard that can be used to import data from several file types into ADB. A very common use of this wizard is for importing Excel files into ADW. Once a credential is created, it can be used to access a file as an external table or to ingest data from the file into a database table. DBMS_CLOUD makes it much easier to use external tables, and the organization external needed in other versions of the Oracle Database are not needed. 31:54 Lois: Thea, what about Oracle Object Store? How does it integrate with Autonomous Database, and what advantages does it offer for staging data? Thea: Oracle Object Store is directly integrated into Autonomous Database and is the best option for staging data that will be consumed by ADB. Any file type can be stored in object store, including SQL*Loader files, Excel, JSON, Parquet, and, of course, Data Pump DMP files. Flat files stored on object store can also be used as Oracle Database external tables, so they can queried directly from the database as part of a normal DML operation. Object store is a separate bin storage allocated to the Autonomous Database for database Object Storage, such as tables and indexes. That storage is part of the Exadata system Autonomous Database runs on, and it is automatically allocated and managed. Users do not have direct access to that storage. 32:50 Nikita: I know that one of the main considerations when loading and updating ADB is the network latency between the data source and the ADB. Can you tell us more about this? Thea: Many ways to measure this latency exist. One is the website cloudharmony.com, which provides many real-time metrics for connectivity between the client and Oracle Cloud Services. It's important to run these tests when determining with Oracle Cloud service location will provide the best connectivity. The Oracle Cloud Dashboard has an integrated tool that will provide real time and historic latency information between your existing location and any specified Oracle Data Center. When migrating data to Autonomous Database, table statistics are gathered automatically during direct-path load operations. If direct-path load operations are not used, such as with SQL Developer loads, the user can gather statistics manually as needed. 33:44 Lois: And finally, what can you tell us about the Data Migration Service? Thea: Database Migration Service is a fully managed service for migrating databases to ADB. It provides logical online and offline migration with minimal downtime and validates the environment before migration. We have a requirement that the source database is on Linux. And it would be interesting to see if we are going to have other use cases that we need other non-Linux operating systems. This requirement is because we are using SSH to directly execute commands on the source database. For this, we are certified on the Linux only. Target in the first release are Autonomous databases, ATP, or ADW, both serverless and dedicated. For agent environment, we require Linux operating system, and this is Linux-safe. In general, we're targeting a number of different use cases-- migrating from on-premise, third-party clouds, Oracle legacy clouds, such as Oracle Classic, or even migrating within OCI Cloud and doing that with or without direct connection. If you have any direct connection behind a firewall, we support offline migration. If you have a direct connection, we support both offline and online migration. For more information on all migration approaches are available for your particular situation, check out the Oracle Cloud Migration Advisor. 35:06 Nikita: I think we can wind up our episode with that. Thanks to all our experts for giving us their insights.  Lois: To learn more about the topics we've discussed today, visit mylearn.oracle.com and search for the Oracle Autonomous Database Administration Workshop. Remember, all of the training is free, so dive right in! Join us next week for another episode of the Oracle University Podcast. Until then, Lois Houston… Nikita: And Nikita Abraham, signing off! 35:35 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. We'd also love it if you would take a moment to rate and review us on your podcast app. See you again on the next episode of the Oracle University Podcast.

Jack celebrates more on an alley-oop then he did with a game winner, we throw a ton of love towards Alex Starling and the way he plays, how we're filling up cups with nature walks and coffee catch-ups - this is episode 15!

Please Rate and Review us on your podcast app of choice!Get involved with Data Mesh Understanding's free community roundtables and introductions: https://landing.datameshunderstanding.com/If you want to be a guest or give feedback (suggestions for topics, comments, etc.), please see hereEpisode list and links to all available episode transcripts here.Provided as a free resource by Data Mesh Understanding. Get in touch with Scott on LinkedIn.Transcript for this episode (link) provided by Starburst. You can download their Data Products for Dummies e-book (info-gated) here and their Data Mesh for Dummies e-book (info gated) here.Contact email: Swimwith[at]gulpdata.comLauren's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurencascio/Chris' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/censey/In this episode, Scott interviewed Lauren Cascio, Chief Fish Wrangler, and Chris Ensey, CTO at Gulp Data.From here forward in this write-up, L&C will refer to the combination of Lauren and Chris rather than trying to specifically call out who said which part.Some key takeaways/thoughts from L&C's point of view:?Controversial?: Many organizations have an incorrect perspective that they mostly have a single type of data that's useful for each use case or need. Typically, their data is useful for many more internal use cases and also to organizations in far different industries.Often, there is a lack of a data sharing culture in many organizations. There isn't anyone that really understands how data flows throughout the organization or especially how it _could_ flow to serve many untapped use cases.There are many people emotionally attached to owning their own data but not in the product sense, they are focused on maintaining control rather than structuring it to be shared. So there are organizational challenges to data sharing in addition to technology.Many organizations have a tough time justifying updating their data infrastructure, leading to more and more challenges with progressing their data journey. It's often hard to point to a tangible ROI on updating the data platform for instance.Far too often, companies and LOBs know they want to analyze some information but they don't really know what they are analyzing it for. Instead of shaping data to make specific decisions, there is a focus on the visualization without a clear action in mind once the data tells them something. Drive towards what you care about and use data to answer those questions, the data doesn't...

In this episode of Work in Progress, I'm joined by Arturo Cázares, the CEO of the Latino Business Action Network (LBAN), to talk about the rapid growth in Latino entrepreneurship in the United States and how empowering these businesses can help the entire economy. We sat down at the Aspen Latino Business Summit in Washington, D.C. in September. Latino-owned businesses, or LOBs, are making a significant contribution to our economy. In the last 10 years, Latinos created half the new companies in the U.S. Currently, there are more than five million LOBs, generating $800 billion in revenue, and creating jobs. Cázares says that contribution could be even bigger if we could unlock more opportunity. He says that these businesses have the potential add another $3 trillion in revenue by 2030, if the entrepreneurs had more access to capital and a stronger network of support for starting and scaling up their companies. That's where the Latino Business Action Network comes in. Its mission is to empower Latino entrepreneurship. Its partner is Stanford University through the jointly led and supported Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI) within the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. SLEI is described as "an opportunity designed for U.S. Latino business owners who generate more than $1 million in annual gross revenues or have raised at least $500,000 of external funding. This nine-week immersive program provides business owners with education, enhanced networks, personal mentorship, and a better understanding of how to access and manage capital to scale their businesses." Here is some of what Cázares tells me about the work LBAN is doing. "The way that I phrase it is for Latino entrepreneurship, we're building the ecosystem that Latinos have always deserved, but maybe we haven't always enjoyed because of the other challenges in our society. "Almost 1,100 Latina and Latino business owners and founders have gone through our program across the country. That ecosystem includes banks, VCs, angel investors, and a bunch of other organizations that we need to have a truly robust supportive ecosystem. Our ecosystem will include people like JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and all of these large organizations. "As we build that ecosystem for ourselves, that ecosystem really is for everyone because we want even Latinos to examine how they're doing things. They're founders. You're a gatekeeper by default. You're deciding who to hire, who to partner with. So, if you can think about those processes better and think about all those things that used to keep us out – but now you do it a little better for everyone – that's opening up the economy for everyone, that's creating the ecosystem for the country that everyone needs. "Stated in the mission, our purpose is to grow the American economy, but it's through this Latino lens of entrepreneurship. We're empowering Latino entrepreneurship, but the ultimate goal is to grow the American economy for everyone. We're in this country, we want to be a full part of it, and we want the whole country to prosper." You can hear the full podcast with Arturo Cázares here on this page, or download it wherever you get your podcasts. Episode 293: Arturo Cázares, CEO, Latino Business Action Network (LBAN)Host & Executive Producer: Ramona Schindelheim, Editor-in-Chief, WorkingNationProducer: Larry BuhlExecutive Producers: Joan Lynch and Melissa PanzerTheme Music: Composed by Lee Rosevere and licensed under CC by 4Download the transcript for this podcast here.You can check out all the other podcasts at this link: Work in Progress podcasts

In this episode of Work in Progress, I'm joined by Arturo Cázares, the CEO of the Latino Business Action Network (LBAN), to talk about the rapid growth in Latino entrepreneurship in the United States and how empowering these businesses can help the entire economy. We sat down at the Aspen Latino Business Summit in Washington, D.C. in September. Latino-owned businesses, or LOBs, are making a significant contribution to our economy. In the last 10 years, Latinos created half the new companies in the U.S. Currently, there are more than five million LOBs, generating $800 billion in revenue, and creating jobs. Cázares says that contribution could be even bigger if we could unlock more opportunity. He says that these businesses have the potential add another $3 trillion in revenue by 2030, if the entrepreneurs had more access to capital and a stronger network of support for starting and scaling up their companies. That's where the Latino Business Action Network comes in. Its mission is to empower Latino entrepreneurship. Its partner is Stanford University through the jointly led and supported Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI) within the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. SLEI is described as "an opportunity designed for U.S. Latino business owners who generate more than $1 million in annual gross revenues or have raised at least $500,000 of external funding. This nine-week immersive program provides business owners with education, enhanced networks, personal mentorship, and a better understanding of how to access and manage capital to scale their businesses." Here is some of what Cázares tells me about the work LBAN is doing. "The way that I phrase it is for Latino entrepreneurship, we're building the ecosystem that Latinos have always deserved, but maybe we haven't always enjoyed because of the other challenges in our society. "Almost 1,100 Latina and Latino business owners and founders have gone through our program across the country. That ecosystem includes banks, VCs, angel investors, and a bunch of other organizations that we need to have a truly robust supportive ecosystem. Our ecosystem will include people like JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and all of these large organizations. "As we build that ecosystem for ourselves, that ecosystem really is for everyone because we want even Latinos to examine how they're doing things. They're founders. You're a gatekeeper by default. You're deciding who to hire, who to partner with. So, if you can think about those processes better and think about all those things that used to keep us out – but now you do it a little better for everyone – that's opening up the economy for everyone, that's creating the ecosystem for the country that everyone needs. "Stated in the mission, our purpose is to grow the American economy, but it's through this Latino lens of entrepreneurship. We're empowering Latino entrepreneurship, but the ultimate goal is to grow the American economy for everyone. We're in this country, we want to be a full part of it, and we want the whole country to prosper." You can hear the full podcast with Arturo Cázares here on this page, or download it wherever you get your podcasts. Episode 293: Arturo Cázares, CEO, Latino Business Action Network (LBAN)Host & Executive Producer: Ramona Schindelheim, Editor-in-Chief, WorkingNationProducer: Larry BuhlExecutive Producers: Joan Lynch and Melissa PanzerTheme Music: Composed by Lee Rosevere and licensed under CC by 4Download the transcript for this podcast here.You can check out all the other podcasts at this link: Work in Progress podcasts

Ps 70,5 Es sollen fröhlich sein und sich an dir freuen alle, die dich suchen (SCH2000) Kommentar von MacDonald (CLV) 70,5 Der Gedankenfluss ist hier folgender: Wenn Gott kommt, um den Psalmisten zu retten, wird dies zu einer riesigen Woge des Lobs führen. Alle, die den Herrn suchen, werden Ursache haben, seine Hilfe zu rühmen und ihn als den großen Gott der Rettung anzubeten .:: FRAGEN::. Schreib mir! bibelverse@christliche-gewohnheiten.de .:: ANKI ::. ankisrs.net .:: DER KOSTENLOSE VIDEOKURS ::.

Common Man Hour 1--Josh Dobbs Trade--Ezra Cleveland Trade--Other NFL Trade Deadline Trades

Common Man Hour 1--Josh Dobbs Trade--Ezra Cleveland Trade--Other NFL Trade Deadline Trades

Paving a Path to Success in Frontline Contact Center Leadership    This week, we welcome Chevon Brathwaite to the Digitally Irresistible podcast. Chevon is senior manager of operations at iQor Trinidad and Tobago with over 15 years' experience in contact center operations and a passion for customer service and professional development for frontline employees.    Chevon began his career working in contact center operations, gaining additional responsibilities and shouldering new roles as he displayed an aptitude for developing himself and others to excel in the customer service business. His boots-on-the-ground experience as an agent and supervisor helped advance his career in the BPO industry with iQor Trinidad and Tobago, where he supports iQor's clients through a diverse talent pool supported by a comprehensive infrastructure that delivers robust data security and performance for smile-worthy CX.  On this episode, we discuss how Chevon paved the way for new client relationships with iQor in Trinidad and Tobago by maximizing the performance of his teams to exceed client KPIs while also investing in their personal and professional development.   Earning Client Confidence Through Open Communication and Quality Customer Service   Chevon began his career as a call center agent at the frontlines of customer care. As he gained experience, his authentic passion for providing exceptional customer service propelled his advancement to supervisory roles. Chevon's experience as a call center supervisor provided him with a new perspective on customer service. Investing directly in his team's well-being and professional development to aid their achievement of department objectives resulted in a significant and lasting impact on customer service culture within the company.    Upon initially expanding nearshoring services to Trinidad and Tobago, iQor gave Chevon the opportunity to join us as a critical operations resource. His years of hands-on experience fielding customer inquiries and managing teams in the region made him an ideal candidate. Chevon joined iQor, transitioning from a single-brand contact center environment to a BPO environment servicing multiple clients. Chevon embraced the opportunity with great enthusiasm, leveraging his extensive contact center management experience. He set out to listen to the needs of all his clients and harnessed iQor's resources to achieve the best outcomes for all the clients that his team supports.    To accomplish this, Chevon emphasized close, open communication with the client to achieve their KPIs, while maintaining his commitment to quality and security. The unique characteristics of the talent pool in Trinidad and Tobago combined with iQor's high standards in client data privacy and protection empowered Chevon to support new clients and drive operations excellence at iQor.  Why Trinidad and Tobago Is an Attractive Location for Nearshore Customer Service    Trinidad and Tobago features a combination of strategic advantages that position it as an attractive location in the global outsourcing landscape. Chevon describes how the country's unique qualities combine with iQor's CX operations expertise to create optimal outcomes for the clients he and his team support.   Geographically positioned below the hurricane belt, the islands' location ensures a level of operational stability and minimizes the risks associated with weather-related events, making the two-island nation a reliable hub for businesses seeking reliable customer service operations.   Trinidad and Tobago also boasts a population of young, college-educated, digitally savvy talent ready to delve into the world of customer service. This pool of skilled professionals offers a unique blend of technical aptitude and innovative thinking, paving the way for adaptable and creative solutions to customer interactions.    The country's population includes a large number of bilingual speakers, providing a competitive edge by enabling seamless communication with a diverse range of customers. While Trinidad and Tobago has its own distinct culture, it also shares many similarities with American culture, allowing for a seamless adaptation to the needs and expectations of American customers. This cultural compatibility fosters a sense of familiarity and understanding between agent and customer that drives higher customer satisfaction.    Trinidad and Tobago is a nearshore customer service destination that blends geographic resilience, skilled talent, linguistic versatility, and American cultural synchronization to deliver top-tier customer experiences. Chevon's leadership focuses on integrating these benefits into optimized teams and operations strategies that yield powerful returns on investment (ROI) for iQor's strategic partners, many of whom begin with one line of business and expand to multiple LOBs due to their success.    The Positive Feedback Loop of Employee Experiences That Inspire Engagement and Deliver Exceptional CX   In his role as senior manager of operations at iQor Trinidad and Tobago, Chevon is most passionate about working with people to cultivate and strengthen bonds between team members and customers. Investing in the success of his employees through mentorship and other support practices gives his work a sense of purpose and drives his commitment to managing with excellence. iQor's succession planning and career pathing programs ensure that when Chevon invests in the success of his teams, he is helping each agent cultivate opportunities for their own professional advancement and support within the company.     In one case, an agent on Chevon's team was experiencing a personal challenge. Chevon took the time to understand what iQor could do to provide support while the agent navigated their circumstances. This agent received support and has since advanced to a management position, exemplifying iQor's investment in tenured employees who create value for our clients.   Chevon's contribution to this process is critical to creating positive employee experiences driven by evidence-backed retention strategies that boost engagement and build employees into leaders.     3 Irresistible Benefits Driving Client Expansion Into Nearshoring With iQor Trinidad and Tobago    Chevon has been integral in maximizing Trinidad and Tobago as an attractive nearshoring geolocation to build and expand client relationships. One of iQor's clients had not previously outsourced to a nearshore location and expressed an interest in learning more. Chevon met with the client, highlighting his team's capabilities and the location's benefits. Chevon emphasized three areas that ultimately inspired the client to expand their strategic outsourcing partnership with iQor to include nearshoring services in Trinidad and Tobago.  1. Rapid, efficient onboarding.   The client was impressed by the iQor Trinidad and Tobago's swift onboarding process, which seamlessly recruited and trained new talent, demonstrating remarkable efficiency and a commitment to delivering results from day one.    2. Data security and protection.   A top priority for the client was iQor's unwavering commitment to stringent data protection protocols and maintaining top-tier security compliance, instilling confidence in the safety of sensitive information and fostering a trustworthy partnership.  iQor provides this peace of mind for all clients in all geos with best-in-class CX cloud infrastructure and multi-layer security protocols. We continuously invest in a dynamic zero trust approach to cybersecurity that leverages the most up-to-date trends in security awareness with multi-factor authentication, network security, data security, device authentication, and continuous monitoring of client and customer information.   3. Bilingual talent.    The availability of a bilingual talent pool in this geolocation helped solidify the client's decision to nearshore their operations with iQor Trinidad and Tobago. Linguistic familiarity helps provide seamless customer service across a diverse array of inquiries, simplifying interactions and maintaining customer satisfaction.   Investing in Leadership Is Key to Success in Every Geolocation   At iQor, we recognize that the cornerstone of success lies in a strategic investment in leadership. Chevon's consistent excellence in contact center roles showcased his capability of providing the guidance, motivation, and direction to navigate diverse customer needs as a senior operations manager while keeping up with the ever-evolving BPO industry.  Since taking on the responsibility of senior operations manager at iQor Trinidad and Tobago, Chevon's coaching and support practices have consistently inspired optimal performance from the diverse talent pool he manages. His proven ability to oversee the onboarding process, along with the availability of a bilingual workforce and iQor's commitment to data security, have inspired client confidence in nearshoring with iQor Trinidad and Tobago, driving successful client outcomes with exceptional customer service.    What Chevon Does for Fun    Like many Trinidadians, Chevon enjoys soaking up the sun and surf on the beautiful local beaches. He also enjoys binge-watching movies and spending time with his family.    To learn more about Chevon, visit him on LinkedIn.  Watch the video here. Read the blog post here.   

As the first game of FIFA Women's World Cup approaches, drama has emerged elsewhere in the sports world as the 2026 Commonwealth Games is now without a host – following Vic Gov's decision to pull out of its hosting duties. The team looks back on what turned out to be a big week of sports news (2:13). Then, a chat with Fear & Greed's co-founders, Michael Thompson and Sean Aylmer, on the business of business podcast (15:10). 

OK, Brown's fans.  Free Agency, Draft, and OTA's are over, up ahead is the Training Camp in late July.  Time for another 'meeting' as we look ahead with our crystal balls.  Joining Mike is tennis legend and longtime suffering Brown's fan,  John 'Lobs' Schloss. 1:57 Mike and John discuss what the Browns accomplished this season3:52 Mike mentions about what's the point of having good players if you have bad coaching11:17 Mike discusses the Browns' quarterback on a number of levels

Andy and Brendan get going on this Friday episode with reaction to Phil Mickelson tweeting, then deleting, then tweeting, and then deleting, an accusation at the PGA of America for colluding with the PGA Tour to discriminate against LIV players getting into its PGA Championship field. This was a nice segue from an amusing Phil message that Andy saw on the wall at a Chicago hot dog and beef joint. There's a handful of LIV Tulsa thoughts, some Bears-Browns schedule chatter, and a Richy Werenski apology. News hits on the PGA Tour bringing an opposite field event to Myrtle Beach, which is accompanied by an unsubstantiated rumor. The episode closes with SGS Golf Advice featuring emails on a golf trip format lament, bachelor party golf at an elite club, tattoos on the course, and a friend who re-putts everything until he makes it.

Today, we talkin' lobs.  Because of the advent of the Toray Carbon Face, we can hit a lot more topspin on the ball these days, which unlocks the ability to hit nice "topspinny" lobs over our opponents head.  Some of us aren't great at executing them, or handling them.  This show will hopefully start to correct that.   CRBN Pickleball Makers of the best pickleball paddles on the planet. Use Promo Code "402P" at checkout for 10% off.Spin Shot Ball Machines The most technically advanced pickleball machine on the market! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/4.0_to_Pro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Radio Marija ir klausītāju veidots radio, kas nes Dieva Vārdu pasaulē. Radio Marija balss skan 24 stundas diennaktī. Šajos raidījumos klausītājiem kā saviem draugiem neatkarīgi no viņu reliģiskās pārliecības cenšamies sniegt Kristus Labo Vēsti – Evaņģēliju, skaidru katoliskās Baznīcas mācību. Cenšamies vairot lūgšanas pieredzi un sniegt iespēju ielūkoties visas cilvēces kultūras daudzveidībā. Radio Marija visā pasaulē darbojas uz brīvprātīgo kalpošanas pamata. Labprātīga savu talantu un laika ziedošana Dieva godam un jaunās evaņģelizācijas labā ir daļa no Radio Marija harizmas. Tā ir lieliska iespēja ikvienam īstenot savus talantus Evaņģēlija pasludināšanas darbā, piedzīvojot kalpošanas prieku. Ticam, ka Dievs īpaši lietos ikvienu cilvēku, kurš atsauksies šai kalpošanai, lai ar Radio Marija starpniecību paveiktu Latvijā lielas lietas. Radio Marija ir arī ģimene, kas vieno dažādu vecumu, dažādu konfesiju, dažādu sociālo slāņu cilvēkus, ļaujot katram būt iederīgam un sniegt savu pienesumu Dieva Vārda pasludināšanā, kā arī kopīgā lūgšanas pieredzē. "Patvērums Dievā 24 stundas diennaktī", - tā ir Radio Marija Latvija devīze. RML var uztvert Rīgā 97.3, Liepājā 97.1, Krāslavā 97.0, Valkā 93.2, kā arī ar [satelītuztvērēja palīdzību un interneta aplikācijās](http://www.rml.lv/klausies/).

We warned you and now it's here...Lobs of brown, stinky seaweed are now washing ashore in Central Florida.

This episode presented by Old Grouch's Military Surplus! Ryan Brown, the Secretary of the NC Libertarian Party has reaction to the North Carolina Governor's State of the State from last night. Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper called on  Republicans to avoid culture war issues, then proceeded to make demands they acquiesce to Democrats' cultural preferences.  Get exclusive content here!: https://thepetekalinershow.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sestdien, 4.martā, Latgales vēstniecībā GORS aizvadīta “Boņuks 2022” balvu pasniegšanas ceremonija un godināti 10 aizvadītā gada nozīmīgākie notikumi, aktivitātes un cilvēki latgaliskajā kultūrā. Kopumā balvai bija izvirzīti 125 pretendenti. Šogad laureātu vidū arī Latvijas Radio Latgales studijas veidotais mūsdienu latgaliešu literatūras raidieraksts “Puslopys” un pirmais televīzijas seriāls latgaliski - kriminālkomēdija “Fati”. Par mūža ieguldījumu tika godināts fotogrāfs un fotovēsturnieks Igors Pličs. Savukārt skatītāju simpātiju balvu “Žyks” saņēma izstāde “Lobs ar lobu sasatyka”. Tajā apskatāmas Ivetas Seimanovas darinātās lelles dažādos Latgales tautastērpos. Plašāk Lauras Ieviņas sagatavotajā ierakstā. Latgaliešu kultūras gada balvas “Boņuks 2022” ceremoniju ar dziesmu SKAIDYS iesāka grupa bez PVN. Sava priekšnesuma beigās mūziķi atklāja asinīm notrieptus kreklus ar uzrakstu “No war” jeb “Nē karam”. Arī šogad pasākumā no daudziem dalībniekiem izskanēja atbalsts ukraiņiem cīņā par brīvību. Šogad Boņuka balvas tika pasniegta jau 15 reizi. Žūrijas komisijai vērtēšanai tika iesniegti 125 pretendentu pieteikumi. Uz balvas pasniegšanas ceremoniju tika izvirzīti 30 nominanti. Šogad pasākumā tika akcentēti arī  stereotipi par Latgali, piedāvājot tos mainīt, rebrendingot vai izcelt mazāk zināmos. Kā vieni no pirmajiem “Boņuku” saņēma mācību kursa “Latgaliešu rakstu valoda” veidotāji. Latgaliešu kultūras gada balvas šogad pasniedza aktīvi Latgales jaunieši, savā uzrunā minot par kādiem darbiem viņi paši nākotnē gribētu saņemt atzinību. Viens no jauniešiem - students no Rudzātu pagasta Dāvids Rubens: “Ir trīs priekšnosacījumi. Pirmkārt, mans darbs manai zemei, otrkārt, mans darbs maniem līdzcilvēkiem, un, treškārt, mans darbs manai nākotnei.” Boņuka balvu saņēma arī pirmais televīzijas seriāls latgaliski “Fati”. Vēl viena māla statuete “Boņuks” turpmāk atradīsies arī Rēzeknes novada Rogovkā, kur vietējie aktīvisti sastādījuši īpašu vietējā pagasta karti ar apvidvārdiem un ciemu nosaukumiem latgaliski. “Boņuks 2022” laureātu vidū šogad arī Latvijas Radio Latgales studijas veidotais raidieraksts “Puslopys”. Tajā var dzirdēt sarunas ar mūsdienu latgaliešu literātiem par rakstīšanu, valodu, ikdienu un dzīvi kā tādu. Ar latgaliešu literatūras autoriem divu gadu garumā 27 raidierakstos sarunājās mūziķis un vēsturnieks Arnis Slobožaņins un latgaliešu valodas entuziaste un zinātāja Edīte Husare, bet podkāsta “Puslopys” producente un idejas autore ir Latvijas radio Latgales studijas vadītāja Renāte Lazdiņa. Viena Boņuka balva katru gadu ir nemainīga – tā ir balva par mūža ieguldījumu latgaliešu kultūras attīstībā, ko šogad saņēma fotomākslinieks, fotovēsturnieks un daudzu Latgalei veltītu fotogrāmatu veidotājs Igors Pličs.  Viskuplākais skaits pēc Boņuka balvas uz skatuves kāpa Latgaliešu kultūras kustības  "Volūda" pārstāvji - jauni un aktīvi cilvēki, kuri pēdējos gados, bet it sevišķi pērn, realizējuši vairākus projektus – izdevuši grāmatas, nodrošinājuši online apmācības latgaliešu valodā, turpinājuši attīstīt latgaliešu kultūras interneta mediju “Lakuga”. Lai arī nospēlēta vien pāris reižu, Boņuku ieguva arī teātra izrāde “Muols”, kas stāsta par Latgales podniecības procesiem. Tās režisors ir bijušais Rēzeknes teātra “Joriks” mākslinieciskais vadītājs Mārtiņš Eihe, bet galvenās lomas izrādē spēlē Liena Šmukste un šī gada Boņuka balvas pasniegšanas ceremonijas vadītājs Jānis Kronis. Kronis pauda savu attieksmi arī par notiekošo pēdējā gada laikā vairākās Latgales pašvaldībās kultūras nozarē – pašvaldību vadītāju pausto nostāju par okupācijas režīmu slavinošo pieminekļu nojaukšanu un igauņu keramiķa mākslas darbu izņemšanu no Marka Rotko mākslas centra Daugavpilī. Māksliniece Vēsma Ušpele, kas ar rokām no māla veido  Boņuka balvu – puisēnu ar suni – atzīst, ka viņu priecē tas, ka šogad balvas saņēmēju vidū bija daudz jaunu seju. Nu jau 10 gadus gada balvu Boņuks rīko Latgales vēstniecības GORS komanda. Koncertzāles pārstāve un arī žūrijas komisijas locekle Ilona Rupaine atklāj, ka vērtēšanas darbs nebija viegls. Bez jau nosauktajiem latgaliešu kultūras gada balvu “Boņuks 2022” saņēma arī Daugavpils teātra izrāde "Sprīdītis”, Ligijas Purinašas dzejas krājums "pierobežas", grupa "Tautumeitas" par jaunākajām dziesmām latgaliski un Valentīna Lukaševiča eseju krājums "Casnāgu maizeitis".

My guest on this week's Work in Progress podcast is Bárbara Gómez, Ph.D., the associate director of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI). Dr. Gómez joins me to discuss the eighth annual State of Latino Entrepreneurship (SOLE) report released this morning. Gómez is one of the principal investigators of the new SLEI report which shows that Latino-owned businesses (LOBs) continue to outpace the growth rates of white-owned businesses (WOBs) – and U.S. businesses in general – in terms of number of businesses and revenue. "We continue to see this pattern. There is a continuous growth that Latino businesses have had in the past decades. We know that Latino business owners continue to strengthen the American economy, not only by increasing the total number of businesses that they start, but also by creating businesses that employ Americans," she explains. Gómez continues, "One of the biggest findings was that the number of Latino-owned businesses in America increased by 34% between 2007 and 2019, whereas the number of white-owned businesses in the same period of time decreased by 7 percentage points." There are now nearly 5 million Latino-owned businesses across the country, generating more than $800 billion in revenue. It's interesting to note that during the three years of the pandemic (2019-2022), "the median growth rate in revenue for LOBs was 25% and 9% for WOBs, and the median three-year compound annual growth rate for LOBs was 7% and 3% for WOBs," according to the SLEI research. Gómez says that while Latino entrepreneurs continue to grow, even thrive during unprecedented times such as COVID, they continue to face "systemic disparities that impact not only the growth of their businesses, but also the American economy. Among those challenges include unequal access to financing, as well as access to government and corporate contracts." Here is what the SLEI research finds. Latino-owned businesses seeking loans from national banks have stronger business metrics than white-owned businesses, yet have lower approval rates for loans over $50,000. Also, LOBs receive substantially smaller contracts that take longer to secure from corporations and governments than WOBs, as much as 12 months. "A year of loss, a year of uncertainty, a year of waiting that can impact not only the contract that you get, but your entire businesses as well," she explains. Dr. Gómez and I discuss more of the findings and some of the "whys" behind them. You can listen to the full podcast here or download it wherever you get your podcasts. Episode 261: Bárbara Gómez, Ph.D., associate director, Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship InitiativeHost & Executive Producer: Ramona Schindelheim, Editor-in-Chief, WorkingNationProducer: Larry BuhlExecutive Producers: Joan Lynch and Melissa PanzerTheme Music: Composed by Lee Rosevere and licensed under CC by 4.0Download the transcript for this podcast here.You can check out all the other podcasts at this link: Work in Progress podcasts

My guest on this week's Work in Progress podcast is Bárbara Gómez, Ph.D., the associate director of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI). Dr. Gómez joins me to discuss the eighth annual State of Latino Entrepreneurship (SOLE) report released this morning. Gómez is one of the principal investigators of the new SLEI report which shows that Latino-owned businesses (LOBs) continue to outpace the growth rates of white-owned businesses (WOBs) – and U.S. businesses in general – in terms of number of businesses and revenue. "We continue to see this pattern. There is a continuous growth that Latino businesses have had in the past decades. We know that Latino business owners continue to strengthen the American economy, not only by increasing the total number of businesses that they start, but also by creating businesses that employ Americans," she explains. Gómez continues, "One of the biggest findings was that the number of Latino-owned businesses in America increased by 34% between 2007 and 2019, whereas the number of white-owned businesses in the same period of time decreased by 7 percentage points." There are now nearly 5 million Latino-owned businesses across the country, generating more than $800 billion in revenue. It's interesting to note that during the three years of the pandemic (2019-2022), "the median growth rate in revenue for LOBs was 25% and 9% for WOBs, and the median three-year compound annual growth rate for LOBs was 7% and 3% for WOBs," according to the SLEI research. Gómez says that while Latino entrepreneurs continue to grow, even thrive during unprecedented times such as COVID, they continue to face "systemic disparities that impact not only the growth of their businesses, but also the American economy. Among those challenges include unequal access to financing, as well as access to government and corporate contracts." Here is what the SLEI research finds. Latino-owned businesses seeking loans from national banks have stronger business metrics than white-owned businesses, yet have lower approval rates for loans over $50,000. Also, LOBs receive substantially smaller contracts that take longer to secure from corporations and governments than WOBs, as much as 12 months. "A year of loss, a year of uncertainty, a year of waiting that can impact not only the contract that you get, but your entire businesses as well," she explains. Dr. Gómez and I discuss more of the findings and some of the "whys" behind them. You can listen to the full podcast here or download it wherever you get your podcasts. Episode 261: Bárbara Gómez, Ph.D., associate director, Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship InitiativeHost & Executive Producer: Ramona Schindelheim, Editor-in-Chief, WorkingNationProducer: Larry BuhlExecutive Producers: Joan Lynch and Melissa PanzerTheme Music: Composed by Lee Rosevere and licensed under CC by 4.0Download the transcript for this podcast here.You can check out all the other podcasts at this link: Work in Progress podcasts

The final four have been knocked down to the last two. In the NFC, it turned into a runaway once Brock Purdy's arm fell off, the SF 49ers turned to their 4th quarterback of the season....until he got hurt, and they threw (pun intended) one-armed Purdy back in. Not the best recipe for success. On the AFC side, it was the battle we all hoped for. Just like the unstoppable combo of CP3 alley-ooping T-bug, Mahomes to Kelce was just as unstoppable. Burrow and Mahomes will be going at it for a long time. With both games, just as Coach Prosser would always say, "Offense puts butts in the seats, but defense wins games", the same rang true as the PHI and KC def stepped up big time   The Playoff challenge is coming down to 2 as lots of people had 49ers (cough Ethan went all in on them) and lots of Bengals. Will Kemper be able to hold on, riding the coat tails of Mahomes and McKinnon, or will there be a challenger riding Miles Sanders?! We also update Gelfand's gaggle, which was just as deadly as the dirty dozen...

Rubrikā  „Itai lobuok” profesore Lideja Leikuma  turpynoj stuosteit par tū, kaidus latgaliskūs vuordus, tūs salykumus ci formys lobuok lītuot. Itūreiz runuosim par vuordim nalobs i švaks. Kai tod lobuok saceit - laiks i nalobs ci švaks? Naloba atzeime. Na cīši lobs laiks. Nalaiks.  

The Athletic's Adam Hurrey is joined by David Walker and Nick Miller on the Adjudication Panel. On the agenda: Did the Premier League bring badge-kissing to US sport? Can Tottenham's stadium be your "old stomping ground" if you only played for them at White Hart Lane? Is a "Panenka volley lob" physically possible? Meanwhile, the panel assess the concept of the "new-manager bounce" for hastily-appointed caretakers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Brian and Jesse react to T. Mann's coaching success in Italy and compare different eras of Clippers Basketball. 

Chad Kuhl got his first win at Coors Field last night after his second solid outing of the year. How important is the good start from him and what does that mean for the rotation? Plus, more LOBS, more problems.... Follow the show on Twitter @LORockies and don't forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel for daily podcasts and game reactions!Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.Blue NileThis Mother's Day give mom something she'll treasure forever with fine jewelry from Bluenile.com, and LOCKEDON SPORTS listeners get $50 off $500. Use code LOCKEDON at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad Kuhl got his first win at Coors Field last night after his second solid outing of the year. How important is the good start from him and what does that mean for the rotation? Plus, more LOBS, more problems.... Follow the show on Twitter @LORockies and don't forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel for daily podcasts and game reactions! Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Blue Nile This Mother's Day give mom something she'll treasure forever with fine jewelry from Bluenile.com, and LOCKEDON SPORTS listeners get $50 off $500. Use code LOCKEDON at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CIOs have traditionally overseen the design, development, and management of IT systems for the internal use of the CIO's company. But as businesses become more technology-led, the CIO is being brought into the development of solutions that can be sold and marketed to other companies.In a survey of CIOs by IDC, 58% says they proactively identify business needs and opportunities, up from 28% the year before. 53% of CIOs are spending more time collaborating with LOBs in operations and product development this year. In this PodChats for FutureCIO, we are joined by Julio Bermudez, vice president for APAC for Amplitude to talk about this increasingly important role of the CIO as strategic advisor to business.PROPOSED QUESTIONS:1.                   How has the pandemic-induced increase in adoption of digital products changed the priorities of today's CIOs?2.                   What are CIOs getting wrong in their digital strategies? 3.                   What then should CIOs focus on to ensure their digital strategies truly drive business value?4.                   Can you share some examples of companies with effective CIOs? 5.                   How can product data help CIOs continue to stay relevant and ensure business growth?

Jayson Tatum's numbers at the rim have growing, and the last three games have been elite. John Karalis of Boston Sports Journal discusses what's making Tatum so good lately and what he wants to see next. Plus, what's making the Celtics defense so good and why aren't the Celtics throwing Robert Williams more lobs? You'll hear directly from Ime Udoka on Tatum and Rob's impact, and Robert Williams on catching alley oops.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnline AGThere is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus.PrizePicksDon't hesitate, check out PrizePicks.com and use promo code: “NBA” or go to your app store and download the app today. PrizePicks is daily fantasy made easy!TrueBillDon't fall for subscription scams. Start cancelling today at Truebill.com/LOCKEDONNBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joe Orr is the founder and president of Harvest Moon Innovations, a consulting firm focused on the insurance industry. Harvest Moon works hand-and-hand with insurance retail agencies, general agencies, carriers, lead aggregators, and web-based information verticals to deliver strategic business focus and planning, product development and distribution, and retention programs, to name a few resulting in tangible sustainable solutions. Joe comes from a traditional media background in film, television, and theatrical marketing. He co-founded award-winning Fleet Street Pictures and went on to start the Cobalt Moon division of Fleet Street developing web marketing campaigns for Intel, Microsoft, Proctor and Gamble, MGM, US Olympic Committee, and others. He also engineered e-commerce applications for Fujitsu, Intel, and Microsoft. Joe advised start-up Answer Financial. His prototype for insurance offering at Answer got him heavily involved in the digital insurance space and has informed his career ever since. At Answer, he became SVP of Product. During his tenure, he was responsible for e-commerce strategy, web product development, IT, interactive marketing, and product management for all LOBs. From there, Joe acted as COO of Snap Insurance and was involved in all operations of the insurance process from marketing and web development to strategy and offshore call center implementation. He was the EVP of Insurance at Clearlink Insurance Agency managing all insurance operations and increased agency footprint from 4 agents to over 250 licensed professionals.

Data integration, data interoperation and data quality are major challenges that continue to haunt enterprises. Every enterprise either by choice or by chance has created massive silos of data in different formats, with duplications and quality issues. Knowledge graphs have proven to be a viable solution to address the integration and interoperation problem. Semantic technologies in particular provide an intelligent way of creating an abstract layer for the enterprise data model and mapping of siloed data to that model, allowing a smooth integration and a common view of the data. Technologies like OWL (Web Ontology Language) and RDF (Resource Description Framework) are the back bone of semantics for knowledge graph implementation. Enterprises use OWL to build an ontology model to create a common definition for concepts and how they are connected to each other in their specific domain. They then use RDF to create a triple format representation of their data by mapping it to the Ontology. This approach makes their data smart and machine understandable. But how can enterprises control and validate the quality of this mapped data? Furthermore, how can they use this one abstract representation of data to meet all their different business requirements? Different departments, different LoBs and different business branches all have their own data needs, creating a new challenge to be tackled by the enterprise. In this talk we will look at how the power of SHACL (SHAPES and Constraints Language), a W3C standard for defining constraint sets over data; complements the two core semantic technologies OWL and RDF. What are the similarities, the overlaps and the differences. We will talk about how SHACL gives enterprises the power to reuse, customize and validate their data for various scenarios, uses cases and business requirements; making the application of semantics even more practical.