Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 28-AUG-2014

OpenWorld

Each week leading up to OpenWorld we will be publishing various announcements, schedules, tips, etc. related to the event.

Oracle WebCenter & Oracle BPM @ OpenWorld 2014: Don’t-Miss Sessions, Demos, Hands-on Labs, and More, from Oracle Fusion Middleware.

And a few presentations both at OpenWorld and other conclaves: Upcoming Big Data and Hadoop for Oracle BI, DW and DI Developers Presentations

RDBMS

From The ORACLE-BASE Blog: A few more 12c articles. From the same source: In-Memory Column Store and More

Performance

From A Wider View: What Is Oracle DB Time, DB CPU, Wall Time and Non-Idle Wait Time.

Book Review from Sonra: Book Review: Predictive Analytics Using Oracle Data Miner.

From the dbi Services Blog: Oracle 12.1.0.2: Wait event histograms in μs

SQL Developer

From that JEFF SMITH: Oracle SQL Developer: Code on Demand.

Coding

All You Ever Need to Know About Recursive SQL, from Java Code Geeks.

Data Security

From the Capgemini Oracle Blog: Securing data with Oracle Data Redaction

Hyperion

Policy for Supporting EPM System 11.1.2.2.500 and 11.1.2.3.500 with Internet Explorer 11 (Doc ID 1920566.1)

Ops Center

From the Oracle Ops Center blog: OracleSolaris 11.2 Support

EBS

From the Oracle E-Business Suite Support Blog:

RMA Calculates Tax as a Positive Value

How healthy is your Order Management data?

Are You Having Problems Finding the Procurement Community?

Understanding External Bank Account Masking

Do you find it a challenge diagnosing issues with creating Requisitions to Purchase Orders Automatically?

Channel Revenue Management and General Ledger Integration

From Oracle E-Business Suite Technology

New User Interface Features in Release 12.2.4

Mobile Apps for Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle E-Business Suite Migration and upgrade from 11i to R12, from Riches Corner |Tech and Money Talk.

Business

5 Ways To Spot A Bad Boss In An Interview, from Forbes.

Switch Recommends a Coding Career for You and Matches You to Courses, from lifehacker.

Contribution by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrades and Platform Migration


Customers increasingly face the prospect of upgrading older versions of the Oracle E-Business Suite product while considering hardware/operating systems upgrades and possible migrations across platforms - advances in technology as well as the formalization of lifecycle and support timelines for their hardware and software investments are prompting an increased interest for guidance and how to approach these multiple upgrade scenarios.

Note:1377213.1 outlines some guidelines to the mechanisms available in upgrading the Oracle E-Business Suite while considering platform migration. This document is meant as an overview to supplement existing detailed documentation that outlines specific processes to perform the migration.

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 21-AUG-2014

OpenWorld

Each week leading up to OpenWorld we will be publishing various announcements, schedules, tips, etc. related to the event.

This week:

The OpenWorld Facebook page.

RDBMS

Oracle Restart to autostart your oracle database, listener and services on linux, from the Amis Technology Blog.

Removing passwords from Oracle scripts: Wallets and Proxy Users, from the DBA Survival Blog.

Restore datafile from service: A cool #Oracle 12c Feature, from The Oracle Instructor.

Performance

A list of excellent past postings on Execution Plans from Oracle Scratchpad.

Fusion

New Whitepaper: Building a Custom Fusion Application, from Fusion Applications Developer Relations

SOA

Setup GMail as mail provider for SOA Suite 12c – configure SMTP certificate in trust store, from AMIS Technology Blog.

APEX

From grassroots – oracle: APEX Printer Friendliness using CSS Media Queries.

Big Data Appliance

Rittman Mead and Oracle Big Data Appliance, from….Rittman Mead, of course.

WLS

Setting V$SESSION for a WLS Datasource, from The WebLogic Server Blog.

Contribution by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

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Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 14-AUG-2014

OpenWorld

Each week leading up to OpenWorld we will be publishing various announcements, schedules, tips, etc. related to the event.

This week:

The Storage Forum at Oracle OpenWorld 2014.

Oracle Support

We’ve reported before on the My Oracle Support Accreditation Series. The My Oracle Support blog lets us know about New Products Added to the series.

RDBMS

From the Oracle Database In-Memory blog: Getting started with Oracle Database In-Memory Part I - Installing & Enabling.

Performance

From the A Wider View blog: DAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 Watch Oracle DB Session Activity With The Real-Time Session Sampler.

From the ORACLE DIAGNOSTICIAN: ASH Basics.

ODI

OWB to ODI 12c Migration in action, from the Data Integration blog.

Solaris

From The Observatory blog: VXLAN in Solaris 11.2.

SPARC

From EnterpriseTech: Oracle Cranks Up The Cores To 32 With Sparc M7 Chip .

Security

IT-Security (Part 6): WebLogic Server and Authorization, from The Cattle Crew.

MAF

From Shay Shmeltzer's Weblog: Required Field Validation in Oracle MAF.

SOA

SOA Transformation through SOA Upgrade, from the SOA & BPM Partner Community Blog.

ADF and BPM

From the Dreamix Group: The Ultimate Guide to Separating BPM from ADF.

From the Waslley Souza Blog: Communication between Task Flows using Task Flow Parameters.

From Andrejus Baranovskis Blog: ADF Thematic Map in ADF 12c (12.1.3).

IOUG

Always good to take an occasional look at upcoming events from IOUG.

…and Finally

Some of the trends of today, based on buzz words:

A year of tech industry hype in a single graph, from The Verge.

And some of the attempted buzzes of the past that went buzzzzzz….THUD!

22 Of The Most Epic Product Fails in History, from Business Insider.

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 07-AUG-2014

OpenWorld

It’s closing on us fast! From Proactive Support - Portals: Learn, Connect and Explore at Oracle OpenWorld 2014

Security

Five Computer Security Myths, Debunked by Experts, from LifeHacker.

A new white paper: Mobile Security in a BYOD World.

Oracle issues a virtual strongbox for enterprise encryption keys, from PCWorld.

Neowin is the bearer of good news: CryptoLocker malware has been cracked, victims able to decrypt their files for free.

RDBMS

From Oracle DB/EM Support: Master Note for ORA-1555 Errors.

SQL

From Galo Balda's Blog: New in Oracle 12c: Querying an Associative Array in PL/SQL Programs.

Solaris

From OSTATIC: Oracle Delivers Solaris 11.2 with OpenStack, Integrated SDN Features.

HA-LDOM live migration in Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.2, from the Oracle Solaris Cluster Oasis.

Java

From The Java Source: Tech Article: Generics: How They Work and Why They Are Important.

From DZone: Using Oracle AQ in Java Won’t Get Any Easier Than This.

EPM

Infogram contributor Yin-Jen Su pointed out this great YouTube channel: Oracle EPM Products YouTube channel.

Here’s the announcement from Jan Greenburg:

I’m pleased to announce 3 new videos on our YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/OracleEPMWebcasts/videos)!

For Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS):

Using Predictive Planning  -- demonstrates generating statistical predictions based on historical data.

Managing Database Properties- - demonstrates accessing database properties.

For on-premise EPM:

Four-part series on deploying EPM System Products:

Part 1 Overview -- demonstrates the standard deployment methodology. It contains links to parts 2, 3 and 4.

Part 2 Preparing for Deployment -- demonstrates preparing for standard deployment.

Part 3 Installing and Configuring an Initial Instance -- demonstrates installing and configuring an initial instance.

Part 4 Scaling Out and Installing EPM System Clients -- demonstrates scaling EPM System components and installing EPM System client software.

Fyi … in addition to accessing videos from our YouTube channel, you can also access our videos from these Oracle Learning Libraries (OLL):

EPM Consolidation and Planning Videos Oracle Learning Library (on premise videos): https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=44785:141:25017935607895::NO:141:P141_PAGE_ID%2CP141_SECTION_ID:133%2C959

Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service Library: https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=44785:141:108373392382468::NO:141:P141_PAGE_ID%2CP141_SECTION_ID:91%2C658

OLL provides social networking capabilities that allow you to bookmark, share items through social media, review items, recommend items and create collections that can be private or public.

Oracle Community

Lots of goings on at Oracle Community.

EBS

From the Oracle E-Business Suite Support Blog:

Introducing the Trading Community Architecture APIs Information Center

Value Chain Planning, Advanced Supply Chain Planning, and Inventory Optimization Safety Stock

Use the Item Open Interface to Quickly Add or Update Inventory Items

So How is Everyone Doing Submitting Enhancements in the Procurement Community?

StartUP Demantra, Configuration & Troubleshooting, Steps, Tips & Tricks

Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite (AMP) Release 12.1.0.3.0 is Available

Overview of Inventory Transaction Accounting, Part 1 of 3

New Upgrade, Patching & Maintenance Advisors for R12.2.x

Guided Resolution Now Available for Cancel or Discard Issues!

What's New in the My Oracle Support Community (MOSC)

From Oracle E-Business Suite Technology

JRE 1.7.0_67 Certified with Oracle E-Business Suite

New Solaris SPARC OS Requirements for EBS R12

Business

10 Things Speakers Should Never Do, from collaborate.

…and Finally

An Oracle that was not us: The Oak Ridge Automatic Computer and Logical Engine (ORACLE), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1953, from Adafruit.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

My Oracle Support Video Training Series
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