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Free Webinar on Benefits of Upgrading to RDBMS 11g

There will be a free webinar on the benefits of moving to Oracle RDBMS 11g Tuesday, September 18th, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific.  You can learn more and register HERE.   If you have not already upgraded, this is a great opportunity to gather more information. 

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 05-SEP-2012

 GoldenGate

The Data Integration blog fills us in on the latest and greatest: Oracle GoldenGate 11gR2 New Feature: Integrated Capture.

SOA

From the A-Team - SOA blog this week: SOA Suite 11g Asynchronous Testing with soapUI.

EBS

A couple of great items, as always, over at Chris Warticki's Blog - Oracle Support lately:

EBS Accounts Payables Customer Advisory

JRE 1.6.0_35 Certified with Oracle E-Business Suite

And at the Oracle E-Business Suite Communities Blog: R12 Diagnostic Script for Purchasing Encumbrance Issues.

WebCenter/BI

Rittman Mead is starting another good series: Integrating Oracle WebCenter and Oracle BI EE Part 1 : Introducing Oracle WebCenter Portal 11g.

Going into some depth on the topic of triggers in BI at the Oracle BI Publisher Blog: Trigger Happy       

ZFS

How to Prepare a ZFS Storage Appliance to Serve as a Storage Device.

SQL Developer

That Jeff Smith dives into multigenerational cursors: Grandparent – Parent – Child Reports in SQL Developer.

Backups

As pointed out by Red Gate, over at simple-talk a horror story, actually a collection of tales of terror, on the theme of 'the backup that wasn't actually there': Backups, What Are They Good For?

Identity Management

At the eminently well named Identity Management blog, several items on the latest news on Oracle Identity Management, including this one:

ISACA Webcast follow up: Managing High Risk Access and Compliance with a Platform Approach to Privileged Account Management.

Solaris

At the Ops Center blog, notification of an Update for Oracle Solaris Agents.

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Resolve

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Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 29-AUG-2012

Oracle VM

Oracle's Virtualization Blog brings us the news: Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1.20 released.

Performance

This posting over at External Table has some useful information on How to Turn Off Adaptive Cursor Sharing, Cardinality Feedback and Serial Direct Read but is missing one key sentence: While it is useful to experiment with setting these underscore parameters at the session level NEVER set underline parameters on a production server unless you are instructed to do so by Oracle Support or they are in the Oracle documentation (some products require some underscore settings to be set).

SQL

Unioning looks really neat in the relational theory books. But then you get it back home to the real world and find people lined up at your desk complaining about the application running like...well, you know how that goes. This leads us to this article about how clever the Oracle optimizer is at avoiding unneeded unions in the first place: Exclusion of Unioned SQL in Views? at Martin Widlake's Yet Another Oracle Blog. He also reveals that there are pixies in the optimizer. Dang. We were saving that news for OOW.

SQL Developer

SQL Developer 3.2 is out. Here’s a summary of the new features: New Features in Release 3.2.

IDM

Online Apps DBA talks IDM, specifically: IDM 11gR2 changes/new features : OIM Sysadmin & Identity console.

ADF

Looking for inspiration on your ADF website? Convincing the boss that yes, we can do that? Check out this posting at Angelo Santagata's Blog: Beautiful websites with Oracle ADF/Webcenter.

And over at Sylvain Duloutre's Weblog some Shortcuts to download Oracle IDM and OUD 11g R2.

OBIEE

Links, and it looks like they are significant. That's why they're posted as Significant obiee product links over at obii Tips.

ERP

Jan Greenberg announced the first of a series of Enterprise Performance Management Video Feature Overviews (VFOs), available on our YouTube channel.  The first VFO is for Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management ERP Integration Adapter (ERPI) which is a 3.5 minute introduction to the product.

BI

Not to be outdone, the BI folks have an Oracle BI Publisher Channel over at YouTube. It's kind of like the NatGeo channel, only with a whole lot less elephants and a whole lot more bar charts.

APEX

Over at Whitehorses there's some prospectss on APEX 4.2: It’s coming soon!

  

And Finally…

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? What Happened To The People In This Iconic Photo Of Oracle's Founders.

From lifehacker: The Hardest Job Interview Questions—And How to Ace Them. I've always liked the old 'What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? from Monty Python.

I’ve mentioned before that 3D printers are one of the key factors of the next stages of industry and technology, here’s the next step: 3D Printed Homes? Here’s The Scoop, at the Singularity Hub.

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PeopleSoft Blog
A very helpful PeopleSoft blog is available at:  https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/.  Latest postings include a list of on demand training courses for many PeopleSoft modules available through Oracle University. 

Priority Service Infogram for 22-AUG-2012

RDBMS

Laurent Schneider had an epiphany on Dynamic number of columns based on some postings from Tom Kyte.

Speaking of Tom Kyte, when he gives you The keys to Oracle… it is wise to use them.

Gokhan Atil finds some time savings from running Dbverify (dbv) in parallel.

Exadata

Jonathan Lewis post about Compression Units – 5 and Exadata.

SQL

Over at Martin Widlake's Yet Another Oracle Blog we have a continuation of the saga of Exclusion of Unioned SQL in Views.

PL/SQL

Over at Toolbox.com Lewis Cunningham continues his discussion of booleans with Booleans Extreme (sounds like something from a technically savvy fast food ad, eh?).

MySQL

MacLochlainns Weblog tells us all about MySQL Workbench Scripts.

APEX

Martin Giffy D'Souza on Oracle APEX talks about How to Create an APEX Session in PL/SQL, a handy debugging tool.

Security

A lot of good ideas that are fairly simple to implement in here, though some of them may make for surprises when patching or someone is filling in for you and doesn't know about the non-default settings: 10 Crazy IT Security Tricks That Actually Work at CIO.

ADF

The AMIS Technology Blog initiates us into the mysteries of Creating reusable ADF Library with generic live resource bundle editing functionality and reusing it in any ADF application.

SOA

The VENNSTER blog goes through the steps of Installing Oracle SOA Suite10g on Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Book Review

Alex Nedoboi brings us this review of   “Oracle Database XE 11gR2 Jump Start Guide” by Asif Momen.

And Finally…

I have long watched the gaming realm with interest (even though my idea of an advanced video game is moving from Solitaire to Angry Birds). This article at Oracle SOA Suite - Team Blog discusses GaaS (Gaming as a Service). I'd love to see the area expand. There are some pretty exciting items coming from the realm of games now, after all. For instance robots that use inexpensive cameras with integrated motion controls based on Microsoft's innovative Kinect system.

A new game for phone owners over at Martin Widlake's Yet Another Oracle Blog, and you don’t even have to download an app: Friday Philosophy – New Game: Phone Zombies! (You Too can Play).

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Oracle Magazine
Check out the current issue of Oracle Magazine.  It features articles on database security, developing applications used from multiple devices and more.