I had the opportunity to spend a day in a seminar with Ralph Kimball. If you don’t know who that is, he is a guru of data warehousing. If you’re involved in data warehouses, I hope you are at least familiar with his work. Currently in the industry there are two primary, competing warehousing methodologies, i.e. practically religions to some, Kimball vs. Inmon. I think that’s kind of silly. A methodology is like a hammer or a drill; choose the best one for the job. If I absolutely have to pick, I’m in the Kimball camp.

Oracle provides a lot of XML functionality in the database. This entry will cover the different tools Oracle provides and future entries will get into the details of each.

The three primary XML tools that oracle provides are: XML Developers Kit (XDK), XML DB and SQL Extensions for XML (SQLX and XMLType). Below is a definition of each.

XDK

The XDK is a complete XML development toolkit that was introduced for 8i. I think the first version was labeled XDK9i but the toolkit actually was available for 8i. I remember using the beta product.

I could have called this OO In Oracle: A Techie’s View. But the Sorcerer of OO is a much cooler title. You have to pronounce OO as ooh! as in Ooh and Aah!

What is OO? OO stands for Object Oriented. OOD is OO Design, OOA is OO Analysis and OOP is Object Oriented Programming. Oracle is an ORDBMS, an Object Relational Database Management System. In this article, I am going to present a sample java class and show how you would implement the same class in Oracle. This is a technical article comparing Oracle objects with Java.