Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2014-7169

Security Alert  CVE-2014-7169 addresses a publicly disclosed vulnerability affecting GNU Bash. GNU Bash is a popular open source command line shell incorporated into Linux and other widely used operating systems. This vulnerability affects multiple Oracle products. This vulnerability may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e. it may be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password. A remote user can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on systems that are running affected versions of Bash. 

Oracle is still investigating this issue and will provide fixes for affected products as soon as they have been fully tested and determined to provide effective mitigation against the vulnerability. 

The fixes that are available for immediate application by customers are listed in the Patch Availability Table. This Security Alert will be updated when fixes are available for additional affected Oracle products without sending additional emails to customers. Customers should check this page for updates.

Due to the severity, public disclosure, and reports of active exploitation of CVE-2014-7169, Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply the fixes provided by this Security Alert as soon as they are released by Oracle.

Oracle Priority Support Infogram for 25-SEP-2014

OpenWorld

Focus On Oracle Advanced Customer Support

Oracle Support and Services at Oracle OpenWorld 2014

Architecting a Complete Access Solution for the Cloud Economy [CON7975]

Optimizing Oracle Exadata with Oracle Support Services: A Client View from KPN [CON7054]

OakTable always has a conference within the conference with some leading lights of the RDBMS world. From Kyle Hailey: Agenda for Oaktable World 2014, located at Creativity Museum

From Oracle Fusion Middleware: You are invited! See the Power of Innovation with Oracle Fusion Middleware

RDBMS

Import into UTF8 Database, from Laurent Schneider.

When to use the Oracle Database In-Memory option? from AMIS Technology Blog.

PL/SQL

From Oracle-Base: PL/SQL New Features and Enhancements in Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1)

Linux

From the Oracle Linux Blog: Oracle Linux 5.11 is now available

Installing Oracle’s VirtualBox-4.3 in Fedora 20, from Smittix!

PeopleSoft

From Archbeat: Video: 2 Minute Tech Tip: Peoplesoft, MAA, and Exalogic

BI

From Rittman Mead: Introduction to Oracle BI Cloud Service : Building Dashboards & Reports

Big Data

From Technet: Download Oracle Big Data Lite Virtual Machine

From Pythian: Is X a Big Data product?

GlassFish

From The Aquarium: Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1: #11 Enable Remote Admin

Testing

From Annuitas: Email Best Practices – Why, When and How to Test.

Data Science

Didn't find yourself on this list? Total fail! 43 Data Science Thought Leaders, According to Berkeley University from Data Science Central.

EBS

From the Oracle E-Business Suite Support Blog:

North American Payroll Year End is Approaching!

Functional Impact Analysis Documents for Oracle Projects Key Patches

Don't Miss This! Leverage Endeca extension with iProcurement to Increase Operating Profit

From the Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Blog:

Second Recommended Patch Collection for EBS 12.1.3 Now Available

Updated Whitepaper: Using Application Express with EBS 12.2

Database 12.1.0.1 Certified with EBS 12.2

Oracle Priority Service Ijnfogram for 18-SEP-2014

OpenWorld

From Chris Warticki's Blog - Oracle Support: OOW - Focus On Oracle Support.

From Oracle Fusion Middleware: You are invited! See the Power of Innovation with Oracle Fusion Middleware.

From Fusion Applications Developer Relations: Our Recommendations for OpenWorld 2014.

Hadoop Hands-on Lab Oracle OpenWorld 2014, from The art of virtualization.

From Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog: Analytics Hands on Labs at OOW 14. And for a more thorough run-down of the events: Oracle Advanced Analytics sessions at OOW14.

From Market Wired: Join the Global MySQL Community at MySQL Central @ OpenWorld.

RDBMS

From DaDBm: Roadmap of Oracle Database releases.

Java

From The Java Source: Java's NewConsole Tool.

SOA

From the AMIS Technology Blog: Oracle SOA Suite 11g and 12c: Determining composite dependencies to the level of operations.

APEX

From Dimitri Gielis Blog (Oracle Application Express - APEX): APEX 5.0: Bye bye Tabs, welcome to Navigation Lists

Big Data

From Data Science Central: 32 articles and resources from leading authors and practitioners (weekly selection)

Database Theory and Practice

Oracle Bloom Filters from Database Journal.

From Vertabelo: 18 Best Online Resources For Learning SQL and Database Concepts.

UNIX and Oracle

From Bobby Durrett's DBA Blog: ps and top differences with HugePages.

MySQL

From Oracle University: MySQL Cluster - What You Need To Know.

EBS

From Online Identity & Access Management: Oracle Upgrade – from R12.2.3 to R12.2.4

From the Oracle E-Business Suite Support Blog:

New Functionality - Invoice Approval Parallel Processing

Want a Quick Way to Keep Current on Procurement Information with Direct Links to our Social Media Channels?

From the Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Blog:

Integrating Custom and Third-Party Products With EBS 12.2

E-Business Suite Technology Sessions at OpenWorld 2014

DSTv23 Timezone Patches Available for E-Business Suite 12

Preventing "Java was blocked" IE Warnings with Oracle EBS

Invoking JAVA APIs via REST in EBS 12.2

Firefox ESR 31 Certified with Oracle E-Business Suite

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy-Editor

Mark Hurd’s Latest Blog: Why IT Complexity Kills Business Innovation

 In this new blog, Mark writes, “Information Technology today touches every facet of business in ways that traditional enterprise technology never did. As a result, chief executives are demanding a lot more from IT than they’ve been getting. CEOs need IT to help lead the way to transformational change, to help keep up with customer demands for faster, more responsive engagement, to help gain market share, and to help prevent disruption by more nimble competitors.”
Read the blog to find out why Mark says this is where cloud, big data, and engineered systems come into play.

Oracle Priority Support Infogram for 11-SEP-2014

OpenWorld

From Appsconsultants.com some good general pointers for attendees: This year’s OpenWorld expect 70000 attendees, 10 tips to maximize your conference experience.

From Chris Warticki's Blog - Oracle Support: All Access Pass to Oracle Support.

Pythian is one of our favorite companies here at the Infogram. Here’s their rundown on their Oracle OpenWorld presence.

WebCenter customers, don’t miss this announcement from the Oracle WebCenter blog: Oracle WebCenter & Oracle BPM Customer Appreciation Reception.

RDBMS

From Toolbox.com: Fear and Loathing of Oracle COMMIT; Try ORA ROWSCN.

From Richard Foote’s Oracle Blog: 12.1.0.2 Introduction to Attribute Clustering (The Division Bell).

From Oracle’s Building Bridges. Connecting realities blog this article: DBA in 5 minutes ! I don’t think you’ll actually want to go for the DBA interview five minutes after reading, but if you’re a sys admin or power user sometimes saddled with DBAish things when the DBA is unavailable this is a good one to print out and stash behind a piece of glass with a little hammer and a sign saying Break Glass to Start Database.

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Storage

Oracle, Parallelism and Direct Path Reads… on Flash, from flashdba.

Security

Oracle Database: Script to Purge aud$ Table Using dbms_audit_mgmt Package, from Pythian.

SQL Developer

From that JEFF SMITH, a 30-part series. Here’s a taste: 30 SQL Developer Tips in 30 Days, Day 3: Syntax Highlighting.

GoldenGate

From RittmanMead: Using Oracle GoldenGate for Trickle-Feeding RDBMS Transactions into Hive and HDFS

OVM

Virtualizationinfo let’s us know: Release: Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.16

Fusion

From Fusion Applications Developer Relations: Integrating With Fusion Application Using Services (SoapUi - SSL).

SOA

From Oracle SOA Suite - Team Blog: Taking Enterprise File Exchange to the Next Level with Oracle Managed File Transfer 12c.

Java

Java 9: A Global Community Is Behind Programming's Next Big Advance, from Forbes.

Coding

From OTN: Using the New C++11 Array and Tuple Containers.

UNIX on the Mac

Most Mac users don’t open up the tremendous potential of using their OS—Unix. Here’s a good article from Furbo.org: The Terminal.

OpenStack 101 - How to get started on Oracle Solaris 11, from OpenStack on Oracle Solaris.

EBS

From the Oracle E-Business Suite Support Blog:

WEBCAST - Tools to Simplify your EBS Upgrade

Logistics and Inventory Consolidated RUP10 Patches Released

New Fixed Assets White Paper for Insurance Policies and Calculations

How to Fix FRM- and ORA- Errors in Oracle Teleservice

Invoice Validation Parallel Processing New Functionality Available

Changes to Service Request Logging - Guided Resolution Flows

Relational Theory Light

The lighter side of relational theory, from John Myles White: The Lesser Known Normal Forms of Database Design

…and Finally

Time to run this set of life hacks again:

35 Genius Life Hacks Everyone Should Know, Especially #18, from the San Francisco Globe.

Contribution by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

My Oracle Support Patch Conflict Checker Tool
A new My Oracle Support Conflict Checker tool is available from the My Oracle Support Patches & Updates Patch Search results page.

This tool enables you to upload an OPatch inventory and check the patches that you want to apply to your environment for conflicts. If no conflicts are found, you can download the patches. If conflicts are found, the tool finds an existing resolution to download. If no resolution is found, you can request a solution and monitor your request in the Plans region.  The details and a training video can be found in Note:1091294.1.

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 04-SEP-2014

OpenWorld

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

Data Warehouse Modernization.

From Brendan Tierney - Oralytics Blog: me at Oracle Open World 2014.

RDBMS

From Databases at CERN: How to verify if archived log deletion policy is correctly applied?

SQLNet

The network part of the DBA’s job often gets short shrift. That’s not a good thing, since it can be what bites you in the most serious and sudden way. Here’s an interesting article on it from AMIS: Sqlnet tracing during nightly hours…

Performance

From Kyle Hailey: Oracle performance video library.

Crossplatform transportable tablespaces - part 2, from the Oracle Performance and Backup Blog

Exadata

Oracle gives Exadata some backward compatibility, from Computerworld.

Java

Java Security, from The Java Source.

GoldenGate

Oracle GoldenGate is Certified on IBM z/OS 2.1, from Data Integration.

Coding

SOA

SOA Suite 12c and BPM Suite 12c & AppAdvantage & IoT sales kits! At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) from the SOA & BPM Partner Community Blog.

MySQL

Optimistic Backup, from MySQL Enterprise Backup.

OU

From Oracle University: Top 20 Training On Demand Courses.

EBS

From the Oracle E-Business Suite Support Blog:

Projects Create Accounting Performance Issues With 11.2.0.3 Database Version

Implementing SFTP with Paymentech For Oracle Payments R12

6 Sure-Fire Tips to Finding Solutions in MOS

Newly Released EBS Financials August 2014 Recommended Patch Collections (RPCs)

Problem with one time address functionality in iProcurement?

Are you looking for more information on Defaulting Rules in Purchase Orders and Agreements?

Subledger Accounting: Proration Types in Multi Period Accounting

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Support and Services at OpenWorld
Oracle Support and Services will have many sessions and activities during Oracle OpenWorld, September 28th - October 2nd.  Topics include Tips and Best Practices from the Front Lines, Best Practices for Proactively Supporting E-Business Suite, Near Zero Downtime Database migration and more.  Click HERE for the complete list.