Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 16-MAY-2013

Oracle Linux

From the Oracle Linux blog: Configuring mrepo to mirror ULN package channels.

Siebel

OracleBI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 and Why Fusion is More than just Applications, from Siebel Essentials.

PeopleSoft

From the On The Peoplesoft Road blog: Oracle 11gR2 DataBase FileSystem (DBFS) and Peopletools 8.53.

Enterprise Computing

The benefits of an action plan when managing data infrastructure, from the Pythian blog...and please remember to cc your Oracle team when you do.

RDBMS Indexing

Richard Foote's Oracle Blog continues the discussion on the clustering factor: Important !! Clustering Factor Calculation Improvement (Fix You).

Fusion

Switching JDKs for JDeveloper/WLS Explained, from the Fusion Applications Developer Relations.

Data Integration

At Oracle's Data Integration blog: ODI - Integrating more social data.

Tuxedo

From Tuxedo Tidbits: The Realities of Rehosting – Four Customer Stories.

Oracle Retail

Looking for Oracle Retail webcasts? Here’s the archive: Archived Advisor Webcasts for Oracle Industry Solutions.

NetBeans

From Geerjan's Blog (Random NetBeans Stuff): Graphic/Touch Panel System Development on the NetBeans Platform.

…and Finally

Another great thing is on the way, traveling beyond light speed. The problem comes when you get there. The principle of the world remains the same: Wherever you go, there you are: Warp speed, Scotty: Faster than light drives a reality?  from Foxnews .What I really love about the idea is keeping the ship standing still and moving the universe around you. It reminds me of what someone told me once on a submarine when I asked how the inertial navigation system worked. He said, well, in layman’s terms, it doesn’t tell you where you are; it tells you all the places you aren’t.

Unfortunately as we reach 'warp capable civilization' status, we'll have to travel to the stars...to find work: Moshe Vardi: Robots Could Put Humans Out Of Work By 2045.

And at least we’ll have something to eat: Synthetic Hamburger Patty Grown in Test Tubes Only Cost $325,000 to Make.

I predict that within 10 years you will be able to buy a mix that allows you to print burgers in your home 3d printer. And yes, I am depressed to say, there will be buyers.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

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Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 09-MAY-2013

Security

Time for my quarterly (or more often) warning on our old nemesis: 10 Reasons SQL Injection Still Works

EPM

The Business Analytics - Proactive Support blog let's us know that: EPM 11.1.2.3.00 is available on eDelivery.

BI

Over at the Oracle Business Intelligence Blog: Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 Available and 11.1.1.6.10 Bundle Patch for OBIEE Now Available.

APEX

(YABAOAE) Yet Another Blog About Oracle Application Express let's us know that Oracle Application Express 4.2.2 now available.

Dimitri Gielis Blog discusses: Goodies - APEX 4.2.2 included Libraries.

He also does a little crystal ball gazing: Oracle Database 12c and APEX.

RDBMS

From That Jeff Smith: How to Synch your Oracle SQL Developer Data Model to a Different Database.

This posting from The Oracle Instructor is useful: How to audit sys into an OS file owned by root.

A little peek into the possible future of clustering factors from Richard Foote, the indexing guru: Important !! Clustering Factor Calculation Improvement (Fix You).

A good hands-on technical article over at Oracle DBA--Tips and Techniques: 11g Data Guard Cascading Standby Database.

From Karen Morton: Using Optimizer Hints for Oracle Performance Tuning.

Eddie Awad pointed out this really valuable item over at Ask Tom, Tom Kyte's perennially awesome Q&A on all things Oracle: Walid -- Thanks for the question regarding "advantage of private synonyms over public synonyms", version 11.2.

At Oracle Scratchpad, some great news. It looks like Jonathan Lewis is moving into webinars. I've seen Jonathan present live, and this going to be really great. Here's the posting at Oracle Scratchpad: Webinars.

Big Data

Eddie Awad's Tweeterization is excellent as always. He pointed to this one: Oracle Introduces Big Data Appliance Applications.

Coding

Another great items pointed out by Eddie Awad recently is at Making the Complex Simple blog: What Makes Code Readable: Not What You Think.

Fusion

At the Fusion Applications Developer Relations blog:  FindingCode Artifacts for Customization (Part 2).

Part 1 is here.

Oracle Service Bus

From OTN: Fault Handling and Prevention for Services in Oracle Service Bus.

Linux

Some good slides on Linux Performance Analysis and Tools.

…And Finally

From the Singulairy Hub comes this fun item: A Box With A Hidden Video Camera Documents Journey Through The Mail.

At io9, Old Spock battles New Spock in the greatest car commercial ever. You don’t have to be a Trekkie to get all the gags in this, but it definitely helps. 

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 01-MAY-2013

Exalogic

Exalogic: System Administrator-Friendly Software at Oracle Exalogic, the Exalogic Elastic Cloud product management blog.

XML

At the XML Orb blog: Analysis of JSON use cases compared to XML.

VM

Designing, Creating and Testing an Oracle VM 3.2 Environment at Oracle's Virttualization Blog.

Linux

From TECHSOURCE, the Linux version of the seven deadly sins. Only the karma on these is more immediate. For goodness’ sake don't try this at home. And don't try it at work. Find a Linux box you don't like and check out: The 7 Deadly Linux Commands...if you dare.

Performance

From the Striving for Optimal Performance blog: ITL Deadlocks (script). Or, how to show people you can break the database without even writing any SQL at all.

Over at Oracle SQL Tuning Tools and Tips: Differences between TKPROF and Trace Analyzer TRCANLZR (TRCA).

Richard Foote, guru of all things indexing, brings us: Storage Indexes vs Database Indexes IV: 8 Column Limit (Eight Line Poem).

RDBMS

Flash drives have been a hot and controversial subject for ages. Here's a good summation before you invest, at the specialty blog flashdba: Does My Database Need Flash?

Mobile Security

Some pretty solid predictions from CSO, Security and Risk: 4 Mobile Security Predictions to Help CIOs Plan for the Future.

Demantra

At the Oracle Demantra blog: EBS Weblogic Demantra Logging Into Application Servlet Mode.

Java

The Jave Source brings us the ambitiously titled posting: Everything on the NetBeans Platform.

Hyperion

Oracle Announces New Release of Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System.

BPM

The Oracle Middleware Blog has a quick but handy posting on a post-upgrade process they had to go through: How to Enable Web Forms Manually.

Oracle Support

The Oracle Wiki informs us that there is OTN Forums Migration and Upgrade right around the corner.

...And Finally

After years of dithering, I finally got an iMac for our home. No regrets at all, elegant, and much familiar territory from my iPad, but there is a lot to learn. Here's a handy set of tips: 10 Awesome OS X Tips and Tricks, at Online Tech Tips.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Magazine
The May / June issue of Oracle Magazine is now available.  It features articles on Oracle Cloud, SOA and more.  Be sure to check it out. 

Priority Service Infogram for 24-APR-2013

Better Life Through Unix

At jarneil, The thoughts of Jason Arneil, a really elegant way to recover an accidentally dropped datafile (all caveats apply, as the author points out). This is a good reminder that in this age of GUIs and apps, the power of Unix commands and Unix scripting is still going to come to the rescue if you know a few secrets: Recovering from rm -rf on a datafile.

Security

Continuing last week’s discussion of man in the middle attacks: Anatomy of a phish - how to spot a Man-in-the-Middle attack, and other security tips, from nakedsecurity.

At CSO: Social engineering in penetration tests: 6 tips for ethical (and legal) use.. Some of the most succesful security attacks in history have been pulled off using social engineering (not to mention a zillion movie scenes: “These are not the droids you are looking for”). It helps the good guys to use them to test employees, but this article points out some of the perils, particularly the litigious ones.

RDBMS

At Oracle related stuff: ASM AU Size And LMT AUTOALLOCATE.

At the Oracle EMEA Value-Added Distributor News blog: a New Resource Kit: Advanced Data Compression.

And at James Morle's Blog:

Optimal Oracle Configuration for Efficient Table Scanning (Part One)

and

Optimal Oracle Configuration for Efficient Table Scanning (Part Two).

OBIEE

From RittmanMead: OBIEE, OEM12cR2 and the BI Management Pack Part 1: Introduction to OEM12cR2.

Java

 From InfoQ: 9 Fallacies of Java Performance.

Hyperion

At Cameron's Blog For Essbase Hackers: Going under the covers with TRACE_MDX.

WLS

At the WebLogic Partner Community EMEA: Setting Up, Configuring, and Using an Oracle WebLogic Server Cluster.

SOA

From Service Technology Magazine: Industrial SOA.

Virtualization

At the OTN Garage: Eight Cylinders of Virtualization. I think it's like The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, but in a V8 version.

Web Services

At the Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon RDS for Oracle Database - Data and Network Encryption.

Data Integration

At Oracle's Data Integration blog: Active-Active Database Replication with Conflict Detection and Resolution.

MySQL

At the DZone Performance Zone: Rotating MySQL slow logs safely.

...And Finally

Looks like the lasers are deployed and the disrupters are in the wings: Open-air plasma device could revolutionize energy generation, US Navy’s weaponry. 

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

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