Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 30-MAY-2013

Exadata

At Tanel Poder's Blog: It & Mobile For Geeks And Pros: List Exadata Storage Cell disk summary with cellpd.sql and cellpdx.sql scripts.

And linked from Tanel Poder's tweet-stream: Exadata Patching.

Oracle Support

From the Proactive Support - Portals blog: Did you know that you can provide feedback on Knowledge Management (KM) articles?

Hyperion

At the more to life than this... blog: EPM Workspace integration with OBIEE update.

Endeca

At Rittman Mead: Configuring SSL on OEID v3.0.

Fusion

At the Oracle Fusion Middleware blog: Oracle Social Network -The Social Glue for Enterprise Applications.

Nashorn

Yes, apparently we've run out of computery sounding product names and are moving into the realm of fantasy. I picture a Nashorn as a kind of toned down Nazgul that, hopefully, shrieks a lot less. Turns out it's JavaScript for the JVM. Read all about it here: Repost: Taming the Nashorn (first impressions)...

WLS

At the WebLogic Partner Community EMEA blog: Additional new material WebLogic Community April 2013.

At The WebLogic Server Blog: Oracle Traffic Director - download and check out new cool features in 11.1.1.7.0.

Security

At the Identify Management blog: Don't Secure Yourself Out of Business. Don't miss a chance to see Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle Corp CSO, presenting. Her presentations are both creative and pragmatic.

RDBMS

From The Oracle Instructor: Modify segment attributes on Logical Standby during Migration.

Performance

At All things ORACLE, a much tweeted posting: End to End Metrics: Building a performance bridge between the Developer and the DBA.

At Oracle Scratchpad, Jonathan Lewis examines an interesting anomaly: CUR Gets.

Coding

At Darryl Gove's blog: One executable, many platforms.

Solaris

At the Oracle Technology Network: How to Update Only Java on Your Oracle Solaris 11 System.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Blogs
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Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 23-MAY-2013

Oracle Support

From Chris Warticki's Blog - Oracle Support: Some MOS Updates and Changes.

Hyperion

From the Look Smarter Than You Are blog: Hyperion 11.1.1.x Drops Off Full Support in July 2013.

And from the same source: All the Cool New Features in Oracle EPM 11.1.2.3.

Linux Security

Critical Linux Exploit In The Wild. Batten down the hatches! From OSTATIC.

Solaris

Configuring swap in Automated Installer, from the Solaris Deployment blog.

SPARC

Building Consolidation Efficiency into Operations Support Systems (How to use SPARC SuperCluster and operations support system (OSS) applications to build an OSS platform on a single high-performance, highly available system that can handle large order volumes) at Oracle's Technology Network.

Fusion Middleware

From the Certification News blog: Learn more about Fusion Middleware Certifications.

WLS

I think we ran this posting before, and I think we will run it again, because this is an outstanding list of WebLogic resources, at the WebLogic Partner Community EMEA blog: How to manage your WebLogic Servers?.

At Middleware Magic: Automate WebLogic 12c Deployment.

RDBMS

From That Jeff Smith: Ever Run a Truncate, Drop, or Delete in the Wrong Database? Yeah, you know that feeling. Been there, done that. Urk!

A video interview with Tom Kyte: Keeping Up with the Latest in Database Technology.

Performance

A blast from the past from Oracle internals guru Tanel Poder that he linked to from his Twitter feed: Session-level statspack.

Tanel also pointed to this interesting post on the External Table blog: Oracle Events' Latency Visualization and Heat Maps in SQL*plus.

From the Frits Hoogland Weblog: Direct path read and fast full index scans.

At The Oracle Alchemist: High Performance Tuning Tools, a retrospective on performance tools for the RDBMS.

Finally, from Jonathan Lewis at Oracle Scratchpad: Dynamic Sampling - 2.

JDev/ADF

JDev/ADF sample - Sharing Data Between VO Instances in ADF BC, at Andrejus Baranovskis's Blog.

And at the The Oracle ADF Mobile Blog: ADF Mobile 11.1.2.4 tid-bits and updates.

JMS

What's New in JMS 2.0, Part One: Ease of Use, from the Oracle Technology Network.

Oracle VM

Course announcement at the Oracle's Virtualization Blog: Learn to use Oracle VM's Application Driven Architecture.

…and Finally

In our continuing series of postings on how geeks are striving to bring Star Trek technology into reality comes this item shared by Kurzweil: Scanadu Scout ‘Tricorder’ launches on indiegogo.

Told you so. This will move quickly to market: NASA to fund world’s first 3D food printer.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Iron Man 3 / Oracle Engineered Systems
Those of you who have seen Iron Man 3 at the movies may have noticed the Oracle engineered systems featured in the film.  Learn more about how Oracle assisted Iron Man and can help you too at:  http://www.oracle.com/us/ironman3/index.html

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.