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4 unusual facts about Oracle


Belmont, California

The city's largest hotel is Hyatt House, which in an apartment hotel and caters mostly to a business clientele, due to its proximity to Oracle headquarters.

Cagayancillo, Palawan

Seeing this, as they were soothsayers, they returned to the islands of Cagayan, from where they set out every year, and scattered themselves over all the islands to build ships.

CollabMobile

It supports connection to following data sources: MSSQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server Analysis Services, Microsoft Excel, Amazon Redshift, CSV files.

The Mine with the Iron Door

While shooting the film the cast and crew stayed at the Triangle L Ranch and the Wilson Ranch (Rancho Linda Vista) outside of Oracle, Arizona off Historic US Route 80.


2003 America's Cup

On January 19, 2003 the Swiss challenger Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi, skippered by Russell Coutts, won the Louis Vuitton Cup Finals by defeating the American challenger, Larry Ellison's Oracle, 5–1, once again eliminating the United States from the America's Cup competition.

Advanced Query Tool

Data Base Management Systems of which AQT is aware of the catalog structure include IBM DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, Sybase, and Informix.

Aristomachus

He led an attempt to capture Mycenae during the reign of Tisamenus, but, having misinterpreted the oracle, failed and fell in the battle.

Baltasar Gracián

Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647), translated as The Art of Worldly Wisdom (by Joseph Jacobs, 1892), The Oracle, a Manual of the Art of Discretion (by L.B. Walton), Practical Wisdom for Perilous Times (in selections by J. Leonard Kaye), or The Science of Success and the Art of Prudence, his most famous book, some 300 aphorisms with comments.

Code page

At least one 3rd party vendor (Oracle) also has its own different list of numeric assignments.

Dorje Shugden

Joseph Rock witnessed and documented a public invocation of the Panglung oracle in Kham (Eastern Tibet) in 1928.

École des technologies numériques appliquées

Students of ETNA can prepare major certifications (Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Oracle).

Etruscan Sibyl

The Etruscan Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle.

FIT Issue Management

It features a proprietary flat file database, but can also connect to any JDBC compliant database such as Oracle, MySQL and MS-SQL with the optional database module.

Founders Brewing Company

2009: Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Mucca Pazza, Ultraviolet Hippopotamus, Chance Jones, Four Finger Five, Oracle, Back Forty, The Total Blam Blams, Red Frog

Fyracle

Examples are applications that have been developed in Visual Basic, Delphi or Oracle's Developer 2000 and that are easier to distribute and maintain with Fyracle than with the latest releases of Oracle.

Gloria Foster

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)- Gloria Foster continued to act the role of the Oracle, but died during the filming and Mary Alice continued the role in The Matrix Revolutions and Enter the Matrix.

Greenfoot

Greenfoot is being developed and maintained at the University of Kent and La Trobe University, with support from Oracle.

Hierarchical storage management

In practice, HSM is typically performed by dedicated software, such as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Oracle's SAM-QFS, Quantum, SGI Data Migration Facility (DMF), StorNext, or EMC Legato OTG DiskXtender.

I.T.S. Engineering College

The main licensed database servers are Oracle 10g and SQL Server 2000.

InfiniBand Trade Association

The IBTA was established in 1999, and a few of its prominent members include IBM, Intel, Mellanox, Oracle, HP, and Cray.

Infodata

A full decade before Oracle, Access, Alpha Five, dBASE, DB2, and other DBMS programs were available, Infodata had a working database solution.

Ishido: The Way of Stones

Integrated into Ishido is a, oracle, way to ask questions of the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, the I Ching.

Java API for XML Web Services

This API provides the core of Project Metro, inside the Glassfish open-source Application Server community of Oracle Corporation.

Jesse Bonanno

In addition to being a singer/songwriter Jesse currently works as an Oracle consultant for Accenture in Boston.

Joint Operational Support Airlift Center

Schedulers receive requests from travel validators via the JALIS database (Joint Air Logistics System), which is an Oracle-based system developed by the US Navy.

Kelly Craig

In 300 she plays the role of the Oracle, a young Spartan girl who was chosen for her beauty and is guarded by the old Ephors, being frequently molested by them.

Libyan Sibyl

The Libyan Sibyl, named Phemonoe, was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Zeus Ammon Oracle (Zeus represented with the horns of Ammon) at Siwa Oasis in the Libyan Desert.

Luo Zhenyu

He helped published Liu E's Tieyun Canggui (鐵雲藏龜), the first collection of oracle bones, and Sun Yirang's Qiwen Juli (契文舉例), the first work of decipherment of the oracle bone script.

Mac NC

The device was widely promoted by then-Apple director Larry Ellison, apparently as part of his Oracle Network Computer initiative.

Moment in Peking

Her father has always encouraged her interests, among them her intense interest in "oracle bones" (the study of ancient Chinese characters craved on bones) and the singing of Chinese opera.

North East Surrey College Of Technology

The school is recognised as an Apple Authorised Training Centre and holds academy status with CISCO, Microsoft, and Oracle as a specialist training provider.

Oracle Applications

Accelerate provides access to Oracle's ERP products through a local partner-network and packages the products to meet vertical industry requirements.

Oracle Certification Program

Oracle's Certified Professional SE Programmer (OCPJP) exam is the fundamental exam required to demonstrate solid understanding of Java and is a prerequisite to a number of the other Java certificates.

Oracle Clusterware

In earlier versions of Oracle (version 9i and earlier), RAC required a vendor supplied clusterware like Sun Cluster or Veritas Cluster Server with the exception of Linux and Windows.

Oracle Discoverer

Oracle Discoverer is a tool-set for ad hoc querying, reporting, data analysis, and Web-publishing for the Oracle Database environment.

Oracle Fusion

Oracle Fusion Applications (OFA), Oracle applications built on top of the Oracle Fusion Middleware technology stack using Oracle Fusion Architecture as blueprint

Oracle Linux

Other Oracle products are only supported under the Xen-based Oracle VM.

Oracle LogMiner

Oracle LogMiner, a utility provided by Oracle Corporation to purchasers of its Oracle database, provides methods of querying logged changes made to an Oracle database, principally though SQL commands referencing data in Oracle redo logs.

Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC allows multiple computers to run Oracle RDBMS software simultaneously while accessing a single database, thus providing clustering.

Oracle Ultra Search

Oracle Corporation makes Ultrasearch available free-of-charge to customers who purchase an Oracle database, an Oracle Application Server or the Oracle Collaboration Suite.

PCCW Solutions

Unihub signed three-year contract with Dragonair in the provision of professional services on systems integration, hardware and software support, upgrades and maintenance of Oracle E-Business Suite-related applications.

Persian Sibyl

The Persian Sibyl (also known as the Babylonian, Hebrew or Egyptian Sibyl) was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle.

Prinergy

All job information and file metadata are stored in an Oracle database, while content is stored as Adobe PDF or PDF/X, and production control is stored as Adobe Portable Job Ticket Format, or Job Definition Format (JDF).

Professional Petroleum Data Management Association

The specifications DDL are provided for use in Oracle and SQL Server systems.

Scripting for the Java Platform

There is no requirement for a given JVM to include any engines by default, but the Oracle JVM (Java 6 and later) includes a JavaScript engine based on Rhino JavaScript for Java version 1.6R2.

SRID

In spatially enabled databases (such as IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Teradata, PostgreSQL and SQL Anywhere), SRIDs are used to uniquely identify the coordinate systems used to define columns of spatial data or individual spatial objects in a spatial column (depending on the spatial implementation).

Stephen C. Apostolof

It features the legendary oracle The Amazing Criswell (known from Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space) and burlesque queen Pat Barrington (later to star in Harry H. Novak's The Agony of Love).

Trading room

Born during the same period, they share many technical features, such as a three-tier architecture, whose back-end runs on a Unix platform, a relational database on either Sybase or Oracle, and a graphical user interface written in English, since their clients are anywhere in the world.

Yabaolu

Appears and is described in the book Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler.


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