Last night i came across this facinating article Twitter meets Oracle. I won’t warble on too much about it (it is well worth a read though).
In the article, the author Lewis Cunningham demonstrates how to get your Oracle DB to generate Tweets.
In the past i have done work involving setting up the system to generate email notifications, and even sending SMS messages, upon completion of tasks (mainly long-running batch processes). This article shows how you can take this a step further by embracing new technologies.
It’s certainly going to be interesting to experiement with this idea. Lewis demonstates the advantages from a DBA perspective, however i’d like to experiement from an applications user angle…Imagine getting your EBS install sending you a Tweet to say that your monthly payroll process has completed. Perhaps providing a summary of errors/warnings etc (probably totals, as you’d struggles with the 140 character limit).
Taking this idea on a bit – what about being able to Tweet back? Would there be a way of getting it to process a response and kicking off some other process?
The opportunities are endless 
This was not my idea. Not my idea at all. If i’d had my way i would steer clear of social networking altogether.
It was an idle (almost throw-away) suggestion by my better half that i should set up a Twitter account so that i could “Tweet” whilst i’m on my jolly attending the OHUG Conference in Las Vegas in June. That way she would know that i was not gambling the night away in a beer-fuelled frenzy with my respected peers
On the face of it, it’s probably not such a bad idea after all. I mean i will be armed with my laptop during the 8 days i’m out there as i do have some work to do, however firing it up in order to hand-craft some length blog posts about the various conference sessions i’ve attended may not be that practible in reality. Whereas armed only with my Blackberry, i could provide regular bursts of 140-character summaries of the days events, as they happen.
So this is what i have done. I’ve created myself a Twitter account, and (heaven forbid) even gone as far as linking it into here (my blog). All that is left to do is to test the tweet-by-SMS facility (which i will do as soon as i A-think of something to tweet about, and B-go somewhere other than home that has a decent mobile signal! UPDATE: Using the Blackberry equivalent of the iPhone AppStore i’ve found an excellent app called Ubertwitter – essentially a twitter app right here on my blackberry! Works a treat too!
Anyway, enough said – things to do…