Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 28-MAR-2014

OOW Proposals Now Open

Time to get your 15 minutes of fame at Oracle OpenWorld: Submit your proposal for a presentation at OpenWorld.

And from Market Wired: Oracle Announces Call for Proposals for MySQL Connect @ OpenWorld 2014.

Support

From Ardent Performance Computing this handy tip: Command Line Attachment to Oracle Support Service Request.

Performance

Oak Table member Kyle Hailey discusses Oracle : buffer busy wait.

From DBASOLVED: COMBAT WITH AN ENQUEUE WAIT EVENT (ENQ: HW–CONTENTION).

ASM

Long White Virtual Clouds posts on: Choosing the Right ASM Allocation Unit for a Virtualized Oracle Database.

Linux and Java

From WEBUPD8: HOW TO INSTALL ORACLE JAVA 8 IN DEBIAN VIA REPOSITORY [JDK8].

Linux

From LifeHacker: Learn Basic Linux Commands with This Downloadable Cheat Sheet

APEX

From (YABAOAE) Yet Another Blog About Oracle Application Express: Faster Rendering of Charts in Oracle Application Express.

OID

What Hashing Algorithm OID uses to store user Password : SSHA or MD5, from Online Apps DBA.

SOA and ADF

ADF Unleashed posts about: Consuming Async SOA in a WebService Proxy.

From the Oracle Developer Community: Oracle Forms on iPad using ADF Mobile: ODTUG Webinar.

WLS and OBIEE

From INTEGRIGY: OBIEE Security and WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST).

Simple Sample Custom Database Authenticator for Oracle Weblogic Server 11g by middleware wonders from WebLogic Partner Community EMEA.

Business Computing

From Forbes: Oracle's Secret Sauce: Why Exadata Is Rocking the Tech Industry.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

New ORAchk Tool Available for Download
ORAchk is a new tool available to proactively scan for known problems within E-Business Suite Financials Accounts Payables, Oracle Database and Sun Systems.

ORAchk features:

• Proactively scans for the most impactful known problems across your entire Engineered System as well as various layers of your stack
• Simplifies and streamlines how to investigate and analyze which known issues present a risk to you
• Lightweight tool runs within your environment; no data will be sent to Oracle
• High level reports show your system health risks with the ability to drill down into specific problems and understand their resolutions
• Can be configured to send email notifications when it detects problems
• Collection Manager, a companion Application Express web app, provides a single dashboard view of collections across your entire enterprise

Learn more at Note:1268927.1

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 20-MAR-2014

RDBMS

Kyle Hailey posts on Managing database dependent development.

A post of posts at Oracle Scratchpad on Parallel Plans.

SQL Developer

From that JEFF SMITH: Adding and Removing Objects from a SQL Developer Data Modeler SubView.

Indexing

From Richard Foote's Oracle Blog: Index Rebuild, the Need vs the Implications Support Note 989093.1 (Getting Better).

Performance

At DBASOLVED: COMBAT WITH AN ENQUEUE WAIT EVENT (ENQ: HW–CONTENTION).

From Databases and Performance: Speeding up Imports.

Fusion

The Online Apps DBA blog lets us know that Oracle Fusion Applications 11.1.8 is now available.

BI

From Oracle BI By Bakboord, a guide to resources on BI: Learn a lot about Oracle BI.

Data Warehousing

From Forbes: The Top 10 Trends In Data Warehousing.

SOA

A great SOA resource here from the SOA Community Blog: Oracle SOA Black Belt Cheat Sheets (Free Download of the Year!).

APEX

From (YABAOAE) Yet Another Blog About Oracle Application Express: Finally...the official sizing guide for Oracle Application Express.

GoldenGate

From Oracle DBA – Tips and Techniques: GoldenGate real-time replication from Active Standby Database to SQL Server 2012 target.

Hadoop

Running R on Hadoop using Oracle R Advanced Analytics for Hadoop, from RittmanMead.

Business

Five Mistakes Your Company is Making in China... Right Now, from Forbes.

..and Finally

From SingularityHUB: Latest Tool to Fight Cancer is a Crowdsourcing 'Asteroids'-like Mobile Game.

Mostly obvious stuff, but a couple of pieces of advice that make good sense: I'm a Telemarketer. Here's How to Get Rid of Me, from LifeHacker.

8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today, from The Guardian.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle  Database 12c
Learn more about Oracle Database 12c.  Visit the Oracle Technology Network Database Admins and Developers portal for top downloads, articles and video training. 

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 12-MAR-2014

Playing a little catch up this week, with part of the material drawn from the archives that didn’t make it into previous columns. Nothing out of date or lacking in quality, mind you, just not the very latest from the blogosphere.

Oralytics

From the Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog: ODM Graph Node new Feature.

Indexing

12c Invisible Columns (The Invisible Man), from Richard Foote.

RMAN

RMAN and SQL statement enhancements in Oracle Database12c, from Database administrator workshop.

OEM

From Baker's Bite: OEM12c Password Change for SYSMAN and Weblogic Administration Accounts.

SQL Developer

From that JEFF SMITH: Diagram Printing to PDF in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler v4.

ADF

From Shay Shmeltzer by way of DZone: Deploying the Oracle ADF Summit Application to the Oracle Java Cloud.

OAUG

Oracle Applications Users Group Opens Call for Presentations for 2014 OAUG Connection Point® Conference.

Linux

How to Set Up DTrace to Detect PHP Scripting Problems on Oracle Linux, from OTN.

Books

From Wow! eBook: ORACLE SOA SUITE 11G PERFORMANCE TUNING COOKBOOK.

Film at 11

From Forbes: See Oracle's Sci-Fi Movie "Cloud Odyssey" At Exclusive Screenings.

...And Finally

End of the World Department

Incredibly detailed spoof of various media (WARNING: Contains profanities!): How The Media Will Report The Apocalypse, from BuzzFeed.

In public speaking, as in the donut, it's the silent empty spot in the middle that makes it good: How Can I Avoid Filler Words Like "Um" When I Talk?, from lifehacker.

A remarkable melding of western art and computers on YouTube: 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art.

I may have blogged this before. I don’t care. A bacon alarm clock is just too cool. It must be blogged, and blogged often: App lets bacon-lovers wake to their favorite smell.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Magazine
The March - April 2014 issue of Oracle Magazine is now available.  Learn about updates to engineered systems, features of Oracle Database 12c and more. 

Oracle Support Infogram for 06-MAR-2014

Performance

From flashdba: Oracle AWR Reports: Understanding I/O Statistics.

RDBMS

From Oracle DBA - Tips and Techniques: Oracle Database 12c New Feature – Data Redaction.

And from Oracle University: Instructor Insight: Automatic Data Optimization in Oracle Database 12c

Utilities

From the ever-useful Pythian blog: Automating DataPump Export.

SQL

From the ever-wise Oracle Scratchpad: Predicate Order..

APEX

From Dimitri Gielis Blog (Oracle Application Express - APEX): APEX Listener => Oracle REST Data Services.

ADF

From From the Unwinding ADF blog: ADF Mobile - How to add a record using Constructor option.

Mobile Design Patterns with Oracle ADF Mobile, from the WebLogic Partner Community EMEA.

SOA

SOA, Empowerment and Continuous Improvement, from the SOA & BPM Partner Community Blog.

WebCenter

Oracle WebCenter Portal Builder Demonstration by TEAM Informatics

WLS

From the magnificently name A blog without a catchy title comes this: The WebLogic Server and Trust Stores.

OVM

From virtualizationinfo: Oracle releases beta of Oracle VM 3.3.

And on the topic of updates: Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.8 Released, from vmblog.com.

EBS

From the Oracle E-Business Suite Support Blog:

Did You Know? Here’s just a few reasons why you should apply the new 12.1.3 Procurement RUP Patch

Webcast: Understanding & Troubleshooting Invoices With Rules & Revenue Recognition

Logging a Cash Managment SR? New Problem Types Available in MOS!

Thirteen New Demantra Whitepapers and Sizer Announcement

New SEPA ISO Direct Debit Patch Released

Need Assistance With A Create Mass Additions Issue?

Oracle eBusiness Suite OTM Analyzer Version 1.04 is now available

From SmartData Collective: Oracle Modernizes HR with Mobile and Wearable Computing.

...And Finally

Once in a while the filters I use to gather Oracle news from hither to yon misfire and give me new on oracles that are not Oracle. Usually I just cruise right by, but this one caught my eye and ear: The Archaeology of Sound; The Oracle Chamber Of Malta’s Hypogeum Of Ħal-Saflieni, from ATS (abovetopsecret).

And in app news: As Homer Simpson would say about this application ‘Must have bacon alarm clock…DROOOOL’: New Oscar Mayer alarm clock app releases smell and sound of bacon, From the LA Times. Of course sleepy Homer would pick it up, lick, it, declare: ‘Hey! This isn’t bacon at all!’ and throw it out the window.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

The CEO's Perfect Storm:  Demographics, Data and Devices Change Everything
Read Mark Hurd's views on the drastic changes we will see in the workplace in the next 5 to 10 years.