As a Buyer, Not a student

Good evening again!! Thursday ago, I came to an Oracle invitation, kind of a seminar, the first time since I've got work at my workplace. Well, I thought it was really seminar, full of sharing knowledge, and some kind of that. Well, the core of that seminar was the promotion of their product. Hahaha, too naive, right? I should have prepared myself as a buyer not a student :-( This is a story about a newbie..

Well, here is what I got:
Oracle has new product that called Oracle In-Memory, that can contain and process data of OLTP and OLAP. OLAP data will use new format. This feature (can I called this feature?) can only be had if you have already installed Oracle 12c, while my office is still using version 10g (>.<). Version 12c is using pluggable database which can be plugged to another container database easily (can be transferred between other server also). They said that technology was called multitenant -> resources (OS/VM or memory) which can be shared among databases. Before too far, I have a question.. what is container database? They said something like Gold (RAC, data guard), Silver (data guard), and Bronze (back up).. well I imagine it's like a storage which has each classification of capability. Then, they talked about Oracle Cloud that had a new principle "Database as services" -> pay per use (use first as much as you need, then pay).

They also introduced about Super Cluster M6-32, a complete server and engineered system in one pack. All I could remember was about their price offering.. $ 3.6M (*o* and they said about bla-bla X faster and better than before. And other products like Oracle Mobile Platform, Exadata, Big data, etc. Now, I have a question.. How big data works and filters all the unstructured data? Still confusing, the information that they gave was still on surface level (>.<).

Next time, I should prepare myself as a buyer, ok? And as an implementer also, ok?

On Time!

Good evening. For this time, I'd like to post something spiritual again while it is still clear in my memory. The preacher's name is Riza Solihin, -I remember it because whenever he comes, Mrs. Elis will persuade me passionately to come to his session; he's kind of her favorite preacher.

Well, on time.. The preacher said that he believed that God had His own planning/itinerary for each of our life. Yes, I think it's true, God is always manageable. The preacher said that if we wanted to have our wish granted fast as we want, you must be in the line which had been prepared by Him.. "Keep seeing straight to the true purpose, don't be easy to change your mind, persuaded by something attractive in the middle of your journey, which can make you stay for a while and make the journey needs more time to be finished, makes God's plan being real on delay..."

Don't you get it, Iren? You mustn't be perfect first to begin something good/big. Don't you just only let your life go with the flow. "Life has no remote, get up, and change it your self". I remember my mother said, "To be in something fun and happy is easy, but to be in something right and true - like to do something for God- is hard and has much more barrier.." Well, for now on, Iren, please have an on time habitual.. don't think too much, just do it.. #smile