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

Oracle Technology Network
Oracle Technology Network has a wide array of technical articles on Big Data, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Performance and more.  Bookmark this handy link:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/index.html

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 17-APR-2013

Hyperion

How to track MDX queries against Essbase at the Business Analytics - Proactive Support blog.

SOA

At the Oracle SOA Suite - Team Blog: Video Demo: Hybrid Cloud Integrations using Oracle SOA Suite.

Ops Center

At The Ops Center blog: a how to on Migrating Virtual Machines.

NFS

From Scott Pack at TheNubbyAdmin.com: Solving NFS Mounts at Boot Time.

DBA

At the Oracle Database blog a great listing of what the old Whole Earth Catalog called 'access to tools': Useful Commands and Information.

RDBMS

Guy Harrison discusses Optimizing Oracle database with SSD in a slide presentation.

From TANEL PODER'S BLOG: IT & MOBILE FOR GEEKS AND PROS: Oracle Database 11.2 Upgrade and Migration slides.

SQL Developer

From That Jeff Smith: Oracle SQL Developer: Database Object Shortcuts?

Security

Who knows more about hacking, espionage than FSB-sponsored security genius Eugene Kaspersky?He explains a key concept: What is a Man-in-the-Middle Attack?

It's that time: Oracle Critical Patch Update for April 2013.

And of course an announcement on Java: Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2013.

ZFS and Linux

ZFS is ready for your Linux desktop, from Linuxaria.

Big Data

I usually stick to purely technical articles for the Infogram, but our announcement of a couple of new products is causing a lot of buzz in both the technical and business communities (like this one at Yahoo: Oracle Announces New In-Memory Applications and Faster Performance for All Oracle Applications on Oracle Engineered Systems.), so here is our announcement: New Additions to the Oracle Big Data Appliance Product Family Help Customers Jumpstart Initial Big Data Projects and Scale More Cost-Effectively.

...And Finally

I have a great interest in the digital singularity, so this item really got my attention: DARPA Building Robots With ‘Real’Brains. At National Defense Magazine.

Speaking of The Singularity, part of the concept is a smoother interface between artificial and 'biological' intelligence. Here's an exciting new step in that direction: A video game that teaches how to program in Java, at Kurzweil.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Siebel Versus Salesforce - Faceoff
For an interesting article comparing Siebel and Salesforce, check out:
http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/feature/Oracle-Siebel-vs-Salesforce-faceoff-Siebel-is-more-versatile

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 10-APR-2013

Fusion

From the Oracle Fusion Applications blog: How Floating IP's Work During Fusion Apps Server Migration.

SOAP

Faulty SOAP? I was researching an error for a customer and came across this handy article at Jenkov.com: SOAP Fault.

Linux

From The ORACLE-BASE Blog: Oracle Linux : Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)…

and from Oracle's Linux Blog: Reasons You Should Consider Migrating From SUSE Linux (SLES) to Oracle Linux. Now they don't mention this as a reason, but I think that since the editor of the Infogram is both an Oracle employee and an Oracle stockholder, you should really make the move.

And if all that didn’t convince you, here’s more help from OTN Garage: Migrating to Oracle Linux: How to Identify Applications To Move

Storage

From OTN Garage: Is Tape Storage Still Harder to Manage Than Disk Storage?

GoldenGate

Over at Oracle DBA – Tips and Techniques: Deploying the Oracle GoldenGate Plug-in on OEM 12c Cloud Control. A nice step by

OBIEE

Optimising OBIEE performance ("Tuning") over at Rittman Mead.

BI

At BI & Analytics Pulse, a new white paper: Big Data Analytics - Advanced Analytics in Oracle Database.

Web Services

Amazon recently made some changes as shared by TechCrunch: AWS Scales Relational Database Service By Tripling Storage And IOPs.

CRM

At Oracle CRM EMEA Partner Community, something customers have been looking for quite a while: Oracle Fusion CRM - Lotus Notes integration solutions by iEnterprises.

Solaris

At Patch Corner: Solaris 10 1/13 patchset released and latest Solaris 10 Kernel PatchIDs.

MySQL

At the Oracle's MySQL Blog: MySQL Replication: Self-Healing Recovery with GTIDs and MySQL Utilities.

…And Finally

I’m a Navy vet, so this article about our new laser weapon made me smile: The future is now: Navy to deploy lasers on ships in 2014. I mean come on, when someone’s son or daughter comes home from boot camp and tells mom and dad what they’re going to be, and it’s: ‘Laser Weapon Technician’, that is just too cool. There are a few problems, like fog and mirrors, but it’s a great start. I imagine the opposition is already engineering their countermeasure, known as the RBM (Really Big Mirror) defense system.

In the ironic-stuff-that-was-inevitable department: National Vulnerability Database taken down by vulnerability-exploiting hack published over at ArsTechnica.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Advisor Webcasts
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There are currently two types of Advisor Webcasts,

1. Product specific webcasts, which share best practices, troubleshooting guidance, release information , and

2. Support Tools and Processes Webcasts, designed to help you better utilize Oracle's support tools and procedures.

If you prefer to read about current events, Oracle Premier Support News provides you information, technical content, and technical updates from the various Oracle Support teams. For a full list of Premier Support News, go to My Oracle Support and Document ID 222.1. 

Oracle Priority Service Infgoram for 04-APR-2013

Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle WebCenter Alerts reminds us: Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Call for Papers - Deadline is April 12, 2013.

SOA

From the Tuxedo Tidbits blog: Integrating Oracle Tuxedo Applications into a SOA Environment.

Linux

How to Update An Oracle Linux Kernel Without Rebooting, at OTN.

At The Register: Production-ready ZFS offers cosmic-scale storage for Linux.

Exalogic

Patching Oracle Exalogic – updating Linux on the compute nodes part I at the WebLogic Partner Community EMEA blog.

RDBMS

You Probably Need Parallel Except When You Don’t from Rittman Mead Consulting.

From readwrite enterprise: Relational Databases Aren't Dead. Heck, They're Not Even Sleeping.

EBS

Chris Warticki's Blog - Oracle Support lets us know about the: NEW YouTube Channel for Oracle E-Business Suite!

SQL Developer

At That Jeff Smith's blog: Oracle SQL Developer: What’s Next?

Hyperion

At the Edgewater Ranzal blog: Ushering in the New Era of Hyperion Strategic Finance.

Updates

Hot off the tickertape from Oracle WebCenter Alerts: Oracle WebCenter 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7).

From RedStack, an announcement on What’s new in BPM 11.1.1.7 (PatchSet 6).

Chris Warticki lets us know about: OAM certification with EBS 11i.

Upgrading OBIEE to 11.1.1.7, from Rittman Mead.

Backup (and Recovery, Hopefully)

From the SQL Rockstar, Thomas Larock: HOW TO SURVIVE ANY DATABASE DISASTER. I believe it involves hoarding lots of canned goods and digging a hole.

Data Warehousing

The Data Warehouse Insider fills us in on: Three Little Hive UDFs: Part 1.

Solaris

On YouTube, someone who looks exactly like how you picture a UNIX engineer (except for the lack of suspenders): Why Engineering Did Not Provide a Direct Upgrade Path to Oracle Solaris 11.

Videos

At Oracle Technology Network's Blog: What You're Watching: Top Ten OTN Videos.

From Cary Millsap: And now, ...the video about The Method R Profiling Ecosystem.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

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