Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

OOW:  Best Practices for Supporting and Maintaining Oracle Databases
Chris Warticki,, Oracle Support expert extraordinaire, will be presenting at Oracle Open World this year.  Be sure to attend his presentation on 'Best Practices for Supporting and Maintaining Oracle Databases'.  You can learn more about this session HERE.

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 21-AUG-2013

OOW

Oracle Open World is just around the corner and the competition for your time is on. Here are some heads ups on Oracle Linux at Oracle Openworld 2013 - Update #2 at Oracle's Linux Blog.

RDBMS

At Tanel Poder’s Blog: Oracle 12c: Scalar Subquery Unnesting transformation.

Indexing

Global Index Maintenance – Pre 12c (Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed), from Richard Foote's Oracle Blog.

Performance

At the Striving for Optimal Performance blog: The Broken Statistics: “parse count (total)” and “session cursor cache hits”.

SQL Developer

From that JEFF SMITH: More on Classification Types in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler v4.

ASM

From the ASM Support Guy: ASM version 12c is out

RMAN

From Pythian: Oracle Database 12c: Network Recovery in RMAN..

Coding

At The ORACLE-BASE Blog: Please, please, please instrument your code!

Java

From ArchBeat, The Official Blog of the OTN Architect Community: Podcast Show Notes: Java EE 7, HTML 5, and Mobile App Development.

EBS

At the Oracle E-Business Suite Support Blog: Top Adpatch Patching Issues For Release 11i And 12.x

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Oracle VM

Get the lates templates: Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Database Single Instance and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 12c Release 1 & 11g  Release 2 (x86 32-bit & 64-bit).

Also of interest in this domain: “Why use Oracle VM for Oracle Database” at INSYNC13, at Oracle's Virtualization Blog.

Finally on VM, some interesting experiements going on at Wim Coekaerts Blog: A little sample snmp module for Oracle VM Server 3.2.

Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance

At the Oracle Partner Hub: ISV Migration Center Team blog: Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance - Brand New

Certifications

Oracle Launches New Oracle Linux 6 Certifications; Oracle Linux 5 Exams To Retire, at the Oracle Certification blog.

…And Finally

The New Yorker lets us know what really happened with the purchase of the Washington Post.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

ACS at Open World
Priority Service is an offering of Oracle's Advanced Customer Support Services (ACS) organization.  If you are going to Open World, be sure to attend one of the ACS presentations.  Learn best practices and tips for how to leverage mission critical support delivered by Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services.

Oracle Priority Support Infogram for 15-AUG-2103

RDBMS

From that JEFF SMITH: Oracle SQL Developer v4.0: Breadcrumbs.

From Jonathan Lewis' Oracle Scratchpad, among many goo postings of late is this, which I link to becuase it sounds like something you install next to your pool: Bloom Filter.

TimesTen

Oracle TimesTen Software Update 11.2.2.5 Release Availability, from the Oracle Database Insider Blog.

Fusion

Oracle's Business Analytics - Proactive Support blog informs us that: Fusion Applications Reporting and Analytics Learning Center is live on OTN.

SOA

From the SOA & BPM Partner Community Blog: QA82 Analyzer – Automated Quality Assurance for Oracle SOA Suite Projects

VM

From Oracle's Virtualization Blog: Brand New Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Database.

WLS

Steps to install Oracle Weblogic Server 12.1.2.0.0..., at the Oracle Fusion Middleware blog.

More good resources from the WebLogic Partner Community EMEA blog: Additional new material WebLogic Community.

Java

Programmatically Setting Multirow Tabs on the NetBeans Platform, from Gertjan's Blog.

EBS

HCM: Introducing the 'RetroPay Analyzer' for EBS Payroll, at the Oracle E-Business Suite Support Blog.

Data Integration

From Oracle's Data Integration blog: ODI - Creating a Repository in a 12c Pluggable Database.

AutoVue

Nope, it's a product, not what you do at car show, it's Oracle AutoVue, and it has a blog: Oracle's AutoVue Enterprise Visualization Blog. Here's a posting link from there: Optimize Supplier Collaboration without Jeopardizing Intellectual Property.

…And Finally

Okay, this is plain out fandom. I consider Breaking Bad, along with the Sopranos, to be the two best shows of recent history. Here are a couple of links to recent sites related to the series’ return for its final eight episodes.

Having an A-1 day: Breaking Bad day-after audio and video remixes

Video: Top 11 chemistry moments in Breaking Bad, with Xeni and Miles

And, in our continuing coverage of 3D printing, now comes 3D printing fails. The one in the article immediately made me think of transporter accidents on Star Trek, our other continuing them in the ...And Finally column: Art of 3D print failure Flickr group.

...and finally, in …And Finally this week, some real smile makers and tear jerkers in this list from mental_floss:

11 of the Best Customer Service Stories Ever

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Database Learning Library
Development has been using the Database Learning Library to showcase their Oracle By Examples, how-tos, tutorials, and more - lots of good free technical resources to help you along. If you are interested in how to develop or deploy multitenant applications using Oracle 12c, or how you can best use the new partitioning, security or management features, the Database Learning Library is a great place to get started.

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 08-AUG-2013

Storage

How to Get Best Performance From the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, at Oracle Technet.

Certifications

From the Oracle Certification blog: New Certification Exam: "Oracle Database 12c: SQL Fundamentals" Released (1Z0-061).

RDBMS

At The ORACLE-BASE Blog: Oracle Database File System (DBFS) Enhancements in Oracle 12c.

Performance

The last of a three part series on Optimal Oracle Configuration for Efficient Table Scanning, at James Morle’s blog.

Indexing

From the ever guru-like Richard Foote: Reuse Of Empty Index Leaf Blocks (Free Four).

SOA

Instance Patching Demo for BPM 11.1.1.7 by Mark Nelson at the SOA & BPM Partner Community Blog.

Java

At the Oracle Technology Network's Blog: The Most Popular Java Tech Articles.

WLS

Introducing Elastic JMS Features in WebLogic Server 12.1.2.

Utilities

From OTN Garage:Using Ksplice for diagnostic purposes.

Design

At the Usable Apps Blog: User Interface | Design Considerations.

IT

Top 10 Signs Your IT Department Has Tunnel Vision, from Forbes.

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 01-AUG-2013

RDBMS

The ORACLE-BASE Blog brings us: Upgrading to Oracle Database 12c : First Steps…

Jonathan Lewis is investigating many and sundry things 12c at his Oracle Scratchpad blog. One such posting: 12c histograms .

SQL Developer

Preserving Line Breaks in Oracle SQL Developer 4, from the That Jeff Smith blog.

Security

A couple of good recent items from Pete Finnigan's Oracle security weblog:

Hacking Oracle 12c COMMON Users

and

Oracle 12c Security - SQL Translation and Last Logins.

Performance

A small paper on Performance vs. Scalability by Alex Podelko, recommended by Cary Milsap, performance uber-guru, in his Tweet stream.

Oracle Support

Have you looked at Chris Warticki's #Oracle News, Info and Support page lately? You really should. Good stuff.

OEM

OEM 12c : How to Monitor Service Listening on Port on Host using Service / Beacon : Step by Step, from the Online Apps DBA blog.

APEX

Qust a quick hint here from Dimitri Geilis' Blog, but a handy one: APEX Mobile - iPhone 5 Web App in Fullscreen .

ADF

At Grant Ronald's Blog: ADF Architecture TV - Developer PC.

Linux

Best System Administration Training with Oracle Linux at Oracle's Linux Blog.

VPD Options

Useful spot in the Oracle documentation: Choosing Between Virtual Private Database, Oracle Label Security, and Data Redaction.

Data Integration

At Oracle’s Data Integration blog: ODI - Creating a Repository in a 12c Pluggable Database.