Oracle Priority Support Infogram for 28-MAR-2013

TTS

I was researching an issue for an upcoming move for a customer and found this excellent summation on transportable tablespaces at Oracle DB/EM Troubleshooting: Master Note: Transportable Tablespaces (TTS) -- Common Questions and Issues.

RDBMS

From the charmingly named Triggers Considered Harmful, Considered Harmful blog: And what about table constraints?

Some magic from The Oracle Alchemist: Cloning Your Oracle Installation.

OEM

From Oracle Enterprise Manager by way of Eddie Awad's tweet: Using Advanced Notifications in Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.

WebCenter

At Oracle WebCenter & ADF Architecture Team (A-Team): Java Object Cache in a clustered WebCenter Spaces environment.

Support

At the Get Proactive—The Insider's Track blog: Improve Your Hardware Support Experience.

WLS

The WebLogic Partner Community Newsletter March 2013 is available from the WebLogic Partner Community EMEA blog.

Linux

A new Oracle Linux blog is out there: Oracle Mainline Linux Kernel Development.

Solaris

Video from the lab where older Solaris gear is tested for performance. From OTN.

EBS

Oracle EBS 12.1.3 JDBC Connection Lock Issue is discussed by Pythian.

At the Oracle Apps Blog: R12 Cloning: adcrdb.sh missing from file system.

BI

A small, cold cup of water cast into the face of the report users lined up at your desk from Rittman Mead: Report Flexibility, or Split-Second Performance : Pick One or the Other.

SOA

From the Oracle SOA Suite - Team Blog, some wisdom on Oracle Event Processing for Oracle Java Embedded: Push Fast Data to the Edge.

...And Finally

Okay, it's not often you say: 'Wow, cool spreadsheet, dude!', but here it is: This epic accountant turned your dull Excel spreadsheet into an awesome RPG, at TNW The Next Web.

Eddie Awad recently tweeted this article: 12 Most High-Powered Ways to Use Google Search Queries in Daily Life.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

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Oracle Priority Support Infogram for 20-MAR-2013

Storage

You no longer need to build additions to your home for your data. Use this instead: How to Multiply the Capacity of Oracle Storage Systems With Hybrid Columnar Compression.

Financial Services

It's a big world, so working FATCA may be on your plate or in your future: FATCA Compliance - Boon Or Bane for Foreign Financial Institutions?, from The Financial Services Blog.

SQL

I'm not sure if Pig makes it as a language to replace SQL, but I sure would like to be able to hear someone say: Man, this code is a real pig. And answer: Yes, it is Pig: Pig Eye for the SQL Guy, from Hortonworks.

RDBMS

www.xmldb.nl About Oracle, XMLDB and other interests…discusses: HOWTO – Oracle Shared Server Setup.

Performance

Webinar - Back to the Future: Oracle SQL Performance Firefighting using AWR at the Karen Morton blog.

At TANEL PODER'S BLOG: IT & MOBILE FOR GEEKS AND PROS: Performance and Scalability Improvements in Oracle 10g and 11g

At orawin.info a posting on indexes: When unused – isn’t.

Tuxedo

At Tuxedo Tidbits: Application Service Version- Oracle Tuxedo 12c.

SOA

Be the coolest nerd around, get a poster for your office: Oracle SOA Poster-BPEL Process 2.0 by EAIESB at the SOA & BPM Partner Community Blog.

Java

From The Java Source: Beta period for NEW Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect OCM Exam (1Z0-807) underway through April 13th.

At Java XML and JSON Binding: JAXB and java.util.Map.

EPM

At Business Analytics - Proactive Support: EPM System 11.1.1.x is approaching End of Premier Support.

Oracle Open World

It’s rolling around again:

Call for Papers Portals (information and link to submit)
OpenWorld:http://www.oracle.com/openworld/call-for-papers/information/index.html
JavaOne: http://www.oracle.com/javaone/call-for-papers/information/index.html
MySQL Connect: http://www.oracle.com/mysqlconnect/call-for-papers/information/index.html
 

2013 San Francisco Event Websites 
OpenWorld: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html
JavaOne:http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html
MySQL: http://www.oracle.com/mysqlconnect/index.html

...and Finally

From Scientific American, more and more people are discovering what Infogram readers already know: 3D Printing Promises to Change Everything.

Travel

Many of our customers have offices in China, as does Oracle. This article from I came across yesterday at 有道学堂移动版 (YouDao Dictionary Mobile School) has some genuinely useful tips: 20 China travel tips.

When Buzzwords Meet

Cloud-computing ‘Internet for robots’ launched, at Kurzweil News: Cloud-computing ‘Internet for robots’ launched.

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 13-MAR-2013

Exadata

From Oracle Tips and Tricks — David Fitzjarrell blog, some words of wisdom on Smart Scans: You Can Never Be Too Smart.

At the Oracle Learning Library: Exadata Smart Flash Log Self-Study Module.

Performance

From the ORACLE DIAGNOSTICIAN: “Snapshot too old” as a performance issue in disguise.

BI

At Business Analytics - Proactive Support: OBIEE 11g 11.1.1.6.8 is Available For BI Enterprise and Exalytics.

SOA

SOA & BPM Partner Community Blog brings us: New SOA articles from product management.

From A-Team - SOA: OSB Performance Tuning - RouterRuntimeCache.

NetBeans

From NetBeans Web Client blog: NetBeans IDE 7.3 is out!

WLS

Good tip, and a listing of the whole great series so far from Online Apps DBA: One Stop Shop for Apps DBA’s: WebLogic Admin Server Start-up hanging at “Initializing self-tuning thread pool”.

Oracle Retail

Contributions from Yin-Jen Su on Oracle Retail:

Upcoming webcasts for Retail in March and April

Retail Advisor Webcast: RIB Retail Diagnostic and Monitoring Tool (RDMT) Functionality and Usage (Doc ID 1531747.1)

Retail Advisor Webcast: Mobile Point of Service – Functional and Technical Overview v13.4.1 (Doc ID 1531749.1)

Oracle Retail Support Resources and Offerings (Doc ID 1533310.1)

There is also a recorded webinar available:

RIB Retail Integration Hospital Administration Tool (RIHA) Installation and Usage (Doc ID 1456291.1) – click on Archived 2013 tab.

RDBMS

At Triggers Considered Harmful, Considered Harmful blog (I've always loved that name): Implementing attribute and tuple constraints.

Java

At Java Training Beat a link to the Oracle Secure Java Coding Guidelines Self-study.

Hadoop

Over at RittmanMead: Introducing some Short Tutorials for Hadoop.

APEX

Martin Giffy D'Souza on Oracle APEX is publicizing a contest from RedGate for some copies of their Source Control for Oracle product. All you have to do it some APEX wizardry: Who's Birthday is it in "n" number of days?

Mobile Computing

Oracle Executive Spends Four Weeks with Just a Mini, at VoX.

…And Finally

How You Can Get Up to $1,000 in Hidden Credit Card Benefits. No, it’s not a spam link, it’s a one-geek-team from LifeHacker investigating how to get some underused benefits from your credit card.

The Oracle Alchemist shows us the toys of the near future: Wearable Computing and Personal Data Collection. You know you want them. Get those credit cards warmed up.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Get Proactive!
I know I have posted on this before, but it is an extremely valuable resource.  Oracle's Get Proactive program is designed to help you prevent and resolve issues.  It also has best practices for upgrading.  Start at Note:432.1.  Select the product you are interested in.  (You may have to scroll down to see the selection box.)  Then select the Prevent, Resolve or Upgrade button.  Specialized information and a list of key notes will be displayed for the product you selected.  This is a great place to gather information on how to best operate and maintain your systems. 

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 07-MAR-2013

Exadata

Over at the Oracle Learning Library: Exadata Smart Flash Log Self-Study Module.

Linux

From OTN: How to Prevent Silent Data Corruption.

Performance

At Oracle SQL a suggestion something might need correcting in the docs: Bug in documentation about dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats or in the dbms_stats itself.

Back when I was a developer I wrote a lot of complex SQL. That's not necessarily a good thing, because elegance in coding, as in thought, is demonstrated by being easily explained. But there are times when the business rules are complex and the SQL follows. Here is an interesting article on Tuning very complex SQL at the Oracle Diagnostician.

Over at Kerry Osborne’s Oracle Blog, a link to some good postings over at Randolf Geist's blog: Dynamic Sampling Posts.

Big Data

A white paper on InformationManagement and Big Data AReference Architecture from OTN.

GoldenGate

The Oracle Alchemist has a good overview of GoldenGate: Oracle GoldenGate in the Enterprise.

Java

A Devops Basics video on how to Detect Java Memory Leaks on YouTube.

PeopleSoft

At the PeopleSoft Wiki, a suggestion: Backup before Migrating a Project.

Hyperion

Tax Provisioning: Simplify, Standardize then Automate, at the Enterprise Performance Management Blog.

BI

The Changing World of Business Intelligence, an overview, at RittmanMead Consulting.

WLS

At the blog with the intriguing title of Whitehorses comes this technical article on A small and clean WebLogic cold backup.

Support

Chris Warticki's Blog - Oracle Support reminds us about Customer Resource: Events.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

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