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Review of Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization

Catherine — Sat, 25 May 2013 19:27:00 PDT

valuable but traditionalMay 25, 2013 by Catherine DevlinproductLearning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization 4 stars (of 5) Packt Publishing recently asked if I could review their new title, Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization. (I got the e-book free for doing the review, they don't put any conditions on what I [...]

Oracle Patch Application Assistant and DISPLAY Variable

Gokhan Atil — Sat, 25 May 2013 12:59:09 PDT

I installed EBS 12.1.3 to my laptop for testing purposes, and applied some patches. Although I carefully check the readme files of the patches, I wanted to be sure that I have followed post-installation tasks, so I tried to run Oracle Patch Application Assistant (admsi.pl). I got following error: [appldemo@appldemo ~]$ admsi.pl Invoking Oracle Patch [...]

New blog with general Oracle database posts.

Toon Koppelaars — Sat, 25 May 2013 11:53:00 PDT

Started Oracle database tidbits blog here.

MySQL: Gefangen im Nested Loop

Martin Preiss — Sat, 25 May 2013 09:38:00 PDT

In den letzten Wochen habe ich mich endlich mal ein wenig mit der Arbeitsweise von MySQL beschäftigt und dabei ein paar ganz interessante Dinge herausbekommen - und auch ein paar Überraschungen erlebt. Die größte Überraschung dabei war, dass MySQL Join-Operationen mit erstaunlicher Einfallslosigkeit durchführt: jeder Join ist ein Nested Loop. konnte mir das zunächst nicht [...]

HOWTO: X11 Forwarding for Oracle R Enterprise

Sherry LaMonica — Fri, 24 May 2013 23:43:25 PDT

Oracle R Enterprise enables users to generate R graphs at the database server and return them in a variety of ways: an XML representation using base 64 encoding of the PNG images, in table with a BLOB column containing the PNG images, and interactively returning the actual image to the R user at the client. [...]

Friday Tips #29

Chris Kawalek — Fri, 24 May 2013 22:15:46 PDT

We hope you're having a great Friday! We've got another tip from our Oracle VM Command Line Interface video series for you this week from Greg King, Principal Best Practices Consultant, Oracle VM Product Management. This one is on the basics of the Oracle VM command line interface: Thanks Greg! we'll see you all next [...]

Book: Instant NetBeans IDE How-To

Tori Wieldt — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:03:59 PDT

You've had some Java classes, and you're pretty good at basic coding. How do you make the leap from Java 101 to using an IDE like a professional? Here's a great book to get you on your way. Instant NetBeans IDE How-To is for Java developers or anyone who basic knowledge of Java but has [...]

A sample application using the V2 API

jsharma — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:39:01 PDT

This entry describes a simple Oracle Maps V2 application which displays a predefined vector layer (aka theme) on a tile layer. The vector layer is called 'Customers' and the tile layer is named 'demo_map'. The vector layer is based on a database table named CUSTOMERS and it's definition (in is as follows: SQL> select base_table, [...]

JSR updates – May 2013

Heather VanCura — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:14:31 PDT

This month the JCP has been busy posting the Final Releases for the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 7 JSRs. There were also two JSR Early Draft Reviews this month (see below for details). In April, the Java EE 7 JSRs passed the JCP EC Final Approval Ballots, this month, ten of the fourteen Java [...]

First 3 days as a Glass Explorer (Day -7)

Anthony — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:12:20 PDT

Day -7 My friend got the invitation to pick up her Glass. At that time, I have not got any updates for mine yet. All Glass Explorers can bring a guest to the Glass event, and she asked me if I wanted to tag along. Of course that is a . We got to the [...]

Oracle Primavera Showcases the Latest PPM Acquisitions at the 2013 Virtual Summit

Melissa Centurio Lopes — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:26:09 PDT

this year’s 4th Annual Primavera Virtual Summit, attendees will get the chance to learn about Oracle’s most recent Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) acquisitions –including leading cloud based solutions Oracle Instantis and Primavera Unifier. During this one-day, global event, Project Management Professionals in attendance will get detailed insight into how Primavera Unifier can help optimize [...]

List Exadata Storage Cell disk summary with cellpd.sql and cellpdx.sql scripts

Tanel Poder — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:05:50 PDT

In the previous post I explained how to list Exadata disk layout and topology details with the exadisktopo scripts, in this post I’ll introduce one celldisk overview script, which I use to quickly see the celldisk configuration, specs and error statuses. The cellpd.sql script (Cell Physical Disk) show the following output: SQL> @exadata/cellpd.sql Show Exadata [...]

List Exadata Disk Layout and Topology with the exadisktopo scripts

Tanel Poder — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:42:29 PDT

Here are two more Exadata scripts for listing the end-to-end ASM<->Exadata disk topology from V$ASM_ views and from V$CELL_CONFIG. These scripts see both the ASM level layout and the storage cell-level disk topology. The exadisktopo.sql script shows all disks starting from the ASM diskgroup layer, going deeper and deeper the way to the OS disk [...]

Meet our Interns: Shahd, Sales Intern in Saudi Arabia

Maria Sandu — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:21:55 PDT

1. Please introduce yourself and your current role at Oracle. Hi! My name is Shahd and I am a Sales Intern at Oracle Saudi Arabia. I hold a Bachelor Degree in Information Systems from Prince Sultan University and I have joined ECEMEA Intern Program in the Core technology Sales team for the Public Sector. 2. [...]

What We Need Is More Robots

Jake — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:45:39 PDT

If you’ve seen intermittent connectivity issues this week, apologies, should be resolved now. I think we can all agree that robots are fascinating. So, when Misha (@mishavaughan) mentioned a robot project, I was immediately interested. Ludovic Vignals has an Aldebaran Robotics NAO humanoid robot. I know nothing about but NAO sounds pretty cool. Ludovic decided to [...]

Complément : JPO – Présentations – Part 2

Jean-Philippe Pinte — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:00:00 PDT

Retrouvez les présentations faites lors de la journée du 21 mai dernier :Administration de vos infrastructures Oracle (EM12c) Optimisation, consolidation et performance

Big Data Is Not the Insight: Presenting the Language of Discovery in London

Joe Lamantia — Fri, 24 May 2013 08:53:28 PDT

Last week, in a presentation titled "Big Data Is Not the Insight: The Language of Discovery" I had the opportunity to share our evolving perspective on discovery and its relationship to big data with the audience at the Enterprise Search Europe conference in London. Our point of view is in our (ongoing) deep research into [...]

I’m an Oracle ACE Now!

Kashif Manzoor — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:59:06 PDT

I am happy to share with all of you that I have received Oracle ACE Award from Oracle Corporation this Friday morning… a very pleasant and lovely day! I am really honored to receive this Award and this is something that makes me very delighted, thanks for everyone my family, colleagues and oracle tech [...]The [...]

Image Prefix changes in Oracle Application Express 4.2.2

Joel R. Kallman — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:25:00 PDT

Most often, patch sets for Oracle Application Express are used to correct defects (i.e., fix bugs) identified in a release. It's rare for features to be introduced or behavior to change. But in the case of Oracle Application Express 4.2.2 and later, there is a change in that is worth discussing, namely, the change in behavior [...]

Oracle EPM supported platforms (refresher)

THE — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:12:38 PDT

We have mentioned this before in a number of blogposts. But as the functionality is on the rather new side and as people tend not to read old blogposts, I have decided to give you another round of "How to use the certification tab in on "My Oracle Support"".Step You may or may not have [...]

Facebook Tabs and Apps: Your Page’s Attractions

Mike Stiles — Fri, 24 May 2013 06:45:18 PDT

The last time you went to an amusement park, did you just walk around and look at the rides, or did you actually ride them? Seems like a silly question, but it’s not quite enough to just go somewhere. You want to experience something once you’re there. In the park that is your brand’s Facebook [...]

Genesis (Ace Comic)

The Oracle Alchemist — Fri, 24 May 2013 06:24:29 PDT

This entry is part 20 of 20 in the series Adventures of Ace, DBA The magic of creation… Related It was probably a database problem: Changes (Ace Comic) Avoiding Armageddon: High Performance Tuning Tools The post Genesis (Ace Comic) appeared first on Steve Karam :: The Oracle Alchemist.

Are You Using Encumbrance Accounting in 12.1.3 Procurement?

LuciaC — Fri, 24 May 2013 06:00:00 PDT

Are you using Encumbrance accounting in 12.1.3 Procurement? If so, this could potentially impact you! So what’s the issue? After applying March 2013 RUP Patch 15843459, when attempting to cancel a Purchase Order line with backing requisition, without cancelling the requisition, the following error occurs. So the fix? To resolve this issue apply Patch 16781315:R12.PO.B. [...]

EBS Forms compilation errors in large terminal windows. Size does matter!

Andrejs Prokopjevs — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:40:08 PDT

During a recent customer environment cloning activity I got myself up to the point where CUSTOM.plx was required to be recompiled. Nothing difficult you may say, right? I thought the same. But that activity just killed lots of troubleshooting hours for me. frmcmp_batch.sh call was just failing with map initialization failed.” [oracle@appslab01 ~]$ frmcmp_batch.sh module=CUSTOM.pll [...]

Log Buffer #321, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Fahd Mirza — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:34:54 PDT

Can’t find what you want or need? Do you have a tip or trick to share? Do you want to lament over a technical woe? If yes then blog and send it to us for the Log Buffer :), just like this Log Buffer contains tips, tricks and woes. Oracle: Mirza and Tanel Poder throw [...]

ADF Mobile – accessing the SQLite database

Grant Ronald — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:05 PDT

I've just uploaded a new video to our official YouTube Channel which shows how to access to the local SQLite database from an ADF Mobile application. Very useful feature if you want to run off line data retrieval and storage.

Get Social! Se avete perso l’appuntamento qui tutte le informazioni.

Silvia Valgoi — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:43:51 PDT

Come preannunciato negli scorsi post apparsi su questo blog, si è svolto lo scorso 21 maggio a Milano l'evento Get Social! Key Strategies for the Social Enabled Enterprise. Per approfondire la tematica Social Relationship Management, questo è il link Di seguito, invece, gli interventi di:Armando Janigro, CRM Business Strategy Director, OraclePier Fedrizzi, Digital Business Catalyst, [...]

Oracle Knowledge 8.5.1 is available

Richard Lefebvre — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:40:44 PDT

We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle Knowledge 8.5.1 (Enterprise) Significant improvements in: Language support for expanded global reach Speed and scale for improved customer experience Architected analytics for improved stability and performance at scale Support for Oracle tools/platforms for greater compatibility Prescriptive knowledge delivery for consistency and efficiency Key Highlights: Oracle Knowledge integration [...]

APEX Conditions and Performance

Roel Hartman — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:15:00 PDT

Thanks to a tweet of Scott Wesley (@swesley_perth), I stumbled upon this blog post by Tony Andrews. In that blog Tony lists a few examples of APEX Conditions and concludes that the declarative approach must be the best way of doing it. Although his assumptions and conclusions makes a lot sense, I wondered whether it [...]

How to diagnose a SQLTXPLAIN installation failure

Carlos Sierra — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:09:08 PDT

SQLTXPLAIN is easy to install. Yes, unless you hit a rock! So, if you are trying to install SQLT and you do not see the message that reads “SQCREATE completed. Installation completed successfully.” then something went bad. First, you have to identify if the reason was captured by SQLT not. In other words, if it [...]

Fast Data and the Furious 6 Ideas

Dain C. Hansen — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:00:00 PDT

If it’s hot fast action, and bad acting you want, definitely you are in the wrong movie theater. But if it’s real-time insights and high value from high velocity data you are looking for, checkout our own little action movie below. Fast data is the latest term that has hit the streets and has ripping [...]

Empowering Marketers and Other Business Users with Oracle WebCenter Sites

Christie Flanagan — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:00:00 PDT

In order to compete successfully in today’s market, you need to get to market faster, differentiate yourself from the competition, and deliver on your customers’ expectations for an engaging and consistent experiences across multiple online channels. But you’ll never get there if your existing web experience management tools and keep marketers, editors and other non-technical [...]

With support, advancements in BI technologies can offer more valuable insight

RDX — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:31:54 PDT

While many enterprises may be overwhelmed by the scope of big data, business intelligence (BI) technologies are maturing, allowing firms new opportunities for mining this information and applying analytics in more valuable ways. Still, in order to leverage the benefits of these next-generation, highly robust BI solutions, enterprises may need seek the support of dba [...]

Studies show advantages to cloud computing are rising

RDX — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:19:47 PDT

While the benefits of cloud computing have become abundantly clear, recent research has revealed that these deployments can exceed expectations when it comes to efficiency and cost savings. Those firms that do not take advantage of these potential rewards may lose out on a significant competitive edge. Therefore, it is to leverage dba services in [...]

wadl 1.1.5 released

Gerard Davison — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:19:00 PDT

I should have done this a while ago but last month we released a new version of the wadl2java tools, primarily to deal with issues seen whilst writing a previous blog. The headline change was a move to the latest version of the jsonschema2pojo in order to resolve some class issues. Otherwise if you are [...]

Was Sie schon immer über die Advanced Compression Option wissen wollten

Anne Manke — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:12:31 PDT

Die Datenbankoption Oracle Advanced Compression erlaubt es Ihnen ab Oracle Datenbankversion 11g, Ihre Daten kostengünstig zu verwalten. Abhängig von Datenumfang und Datentyp lassen sich bis zu vierfachen Kompressionsdaten erzielen. Storage-Kosten werden gesenkt, und die Abfrageperformance erhöht.Die Vorteile der Oracle Advanced Compression Option auf einen Blick: Verringerung der Speicherplatzanforderungen für Datenbank und der damit verbundenen Kosten [...]

DOAG 2013 – Conference + Exhibition November 19th-21st, 2013 in Nürberg – call for papers!

JuergenKress — Fri, 24 May 2013 01:35:00 PDT

We are the Oracle community - the users of all Oracle products have been coming together at the annual users' conference under this motto for 24 years now. We offer you three days of pure knowledge, the most current information on using oracle solutions successfully, and the exchange of hands-on . The attendees will have [...]

How do you move a table made of cheese?

Chris Saxon — Fri, 24 May 2013 01:00:18 PDT

alter table crumbly_cheese move tablespace caerphilly; You can't beat a classic cheese pun in SQL form ;) select posts from sqlfail where content like :this_post; Lord of the Lookup Tables The generic mystery table

Over 100 Images To Be Added to NetBeans Platform Showcase

Geertjan — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:48:12 PDT

There's a folder in the NetBeans repo where NetBeans Platform application screenshots are stored, one per application (together with a thumbnail image) for publication on the NetBeans Platform Showcase. New images are added there whenever we identify new NetBeans Platform applications. Once in a while, I go to that folder, the newest images, and then [...]

Part III – Managing the Unstructured, the Flexible and the Adaptive

Ajay Khanna — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:20:07 PDT

In business, they say only predictable thing is unpredictability and the only thing certain is uncertainty. In the earlier parts of this series I wrote about “Adaptive” and “Case” part of Adaptive Case Management. In this part, I will discuss the “Management” part. In situations where we need flexible handling of work, Adaptive Case Management [...]

Oracle Learning Library on SOA and BPM

JuergenKress — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:16:00 PDT

Do you want to learn more about Oracle SOA Suite and BPM Suite? Do you need to get quick product details for your project? Make sure you visit the Oracle Learning Library - for free online trainings on-demand. You can search by product e.g. Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Suite: Introduction to Oracle Business Rules [...]

Oracle VM Template Now Available for Sun Ray Software 5.4

Chris Kawalek — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:36:36 PDT

Oracle VM Templates provide an easy, fast, and cost effective approach to deploying a fully configured software stack by offering pre-installed and pre-configured software images. The Oracle VM Template for the latest release of Sun Ray Software version 5.4 is now available for Oracle Linux 6.3 (64-bit). The VM Template for Sun Ray Software is [...]

BI Publisher 11g Training – Jul 1-3

mdonohue — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:55:21 PDT

For those of you still sitting on the 10g fence ... or if you're new to Publisher 11g, take advantage of this educational opportunity:Oracle BI Publisher 11g R1: FundamentalsLearn To: Create data models by using the Data Model Editor. Create BI Publisher reports based on data models. Create report layouts by using the Layout Editor [...]

Leverage the Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platform

Ravi.Sharma — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:58:35 PDT

In my opinion, one of the best things to happen to Oracle Database Appliance recently was the availability of virtualization on the system. The virtualized Oracle Database Appliance (or "Oracle Database Appliance Virtualized Platorm" as it is officially called) allows you to run multiple virtual machines, hosting different tiers of system architecture all within a [...]

How to figure out disk network latency using cached blocks

Bobby — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:38:53 PDT

I was working on some disk performance problems and came across a simple way to test the latency or delay built into the networks that connect my database servers to their disk storage. All I have to do is read some disk blocks from a table several times to sure they are cached in the [...]

Firebug One-line’r to go from psp to psc

Jim Marion — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:23:00 PDT

I perform a lot of prototyping in the Firebug console. Since most of this prototyping refers to the TargetContent frame (component area), not the header and main window, I find it easier to change out the URL to just the "psc" core content URL, eliminating the header frame. When navigating a homepage, this URL change [...]

“As The World ‘Goes Software,’ Oracle Has An Upside In Hardware” says ESG Analyst

kgee — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:16:58 PDT

Last month, Oracle invited industry analysts for an annual deep dive on what’s to come. One of these analysts – ESG’s senior analyst Mark Peters – recently posted an update of how he spent some of his time at the event. We totally recommend you visit his blog and check the post, but here are [...]

How Toshiba survived the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

yaldahhakim — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:59:06 PDT

What makes cloud hero a “hero”? The first words that come to mind are innovation and achievement. Innovation by definition means “a new method, idea or product”. In the technology world it can mean this among many other things like implementing new ideas that can help you achieve business value or thinking “outside the box” [...]

PDF Reports with APEX at NYOUG

Marc Sewtz — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:25:00 PDT

The New York Oracle User Group Summer Meeting takes place on June th at St. John's University, right next to the World Trade Center in Downtown Manhattan. This looks like it’s going to be a very interesting meeting for Oracle DBAs and Oracle Developers. There are two session scheduled covering the Oracle Database 12c and [...]

V$CELL_THREAD_HISTORY – “ASH” for Exadata Storage Cells

Tanel Poder — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:57:33 PDT

Did you know that there’s something like Active Session History also in the Exadata storage cells? ;-) The V$CELL_THREAD_HISTORY view is somewhat like V$ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY, but it’s measuring thread activity in the Exadata Storage Cells: SQL> @desc v$cell_thread_history Name Null? Type ------------------------------- -------- ---------------------------- 1 CELL_NAME VARCHAR2(1024) 2 SNAPSHOT_ID NUMBER 3 DATE 4 THREAD_ID NUMBER 5 [...]

Take the SOA Assessment Challenge!

Bruce Tierney — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:21:25 PDT

Is your SOA-based integration leading or lagging your competition? Are you stuck with too much point-to-point application integration and not enough SOA-based integration? Find out how your company ranks relative to your competition. Simply answer the 16-question SOA Assessment to receive your customized 12-page report that ranks your answers relative others in your industry. Based [...]

Explanation of History Settings for P6 Analytics

Jeffrey McDaniel — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:35:37 PDT

This blog applies primarily to P6 Analytics\P6 Reporting Database 3.1. As of 3.1, history was introduced at a daily level at the activity level. Activity level history existed as of P6 Analytics 2.0\P6 Reporting Database 3.0 but was only at the interval level of week, or . The settings in P6 for history level and [...]

Speaking at E4 2013! … and some Exadata Patents good stuff

karlarao — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:21:47 PDT

I’ll be co-speaking with Tyler Muth at E4 and we will be talking about Performance Visualization… some of you may already know that I’m really a big fan of Tableau and just to give you an example on what the tool can do I’ve consolidated all the different viz that done during my sizing & performance [...]

Featured Certification: Oracle Fusion Financials 11g Accounts Payable Certified Implementation Specialist

Harold Green — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:19 PDT

The "Oracle Fusion Financials 11g Accounts Payable Certified Implementation Specialist" certification is designed for implementation consultants who possess a strong foundation and expertise implementing and configuring the Fusion Accounts Payable application. This certification measures key knowledge and skills in areas such as Invoicing, Payments, Fusion Expenses, iSupplier, and Accounting Fusion Payables. This certification differentiates candidates in [...]

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 23-MAY-2013

Christopher Gait — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:56:00 PDT

Oracle SupportFrom Chris Warticki's Blog - Oracle Support: Some MOS Updates and Changes.HyperionFrom the Look Smarter Than You Are blog: Hyperion 11.1.1.x Drops Off Full Support in July 2013.And from the same source: All the Cool New Features in Oracle EPM 11..2.3.Linux SecurityCritical Linux Exploit In The Wild. Batten down the hatches! From OSTATIC.SolarisConfiguring swap [...]

Save The Date: 2013 Oracle EMEA CRM&CX Partner Community Forum, Paris, July 2&3

Richard Lefebvre — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:39:41 PDT

Mark your agenda for this year's most focused event for Oracle EMEA CRM&CX partners! The next CRM&CX Partner Community Forum will take place in the very of center of Paris on July 2&3. During this 2 days (free of charge) event, you will have an unique opportunity to: Be among first to learn about the [...]

Everything or Nothing in SQL

Charles Hooper — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:58:21 PDT

May 23, 2013 The following question recently came through an ERP mailing list (significantly rephrased): I would like to use the Microsoft Query tool in Microsoft Excel to extract records from the ERP database. I would like the list of parent records to be retrieved into Excel when all the specified child records belong to […]

Adding Windows DNS Records Via Command-Line

Andy Colvin — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:15:56 PDT

This is something that is almost completely off-topic, but something I've found myself doing quite a bit at Enkitec. You see, we keep adding new hardware (Big Data Appliance in August, new Exadata X3-2 earlier this year), and that means that we need to add a bunch of DNS entries once. Even an eighth rack [...]

SQL Patch zur Ergänzung von Dynamic Sampling in einem gegebenen Statement

Martin Preiss — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:12:00 PDT

Der Titel ist diesmal länger als der Eintrag...Jonathan Lewis zeigt in seinem Blog, wie man mit Hilfe eines SQL Patch (erzeugt über dbms_sqldiag_internal.i_create_patch) einem vorliegenden SQL-Statement, dessen Text man nicht verändern kann/darf, nachträglich einen dynamic_sampling-Hint spendieren kann, um z.B. Spaltenkorrelationseffekte zu behandeln. Der Artikel enthält auch Links Dominic Brooks Artikelserie zum Thema und auf einen [...]

So Much UGC, So Little Time: Options for Moderating User-Generated Content

Christie Flanagan — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:06:19 PDT

We all know the value of incorporating social computing features such as comments, ratings, reviews, polls and blogs into the web presence. These kinds of interactive capabilities are essential for driving customer engagement and fostering community around your brand. Ratings and reviews can also play an important role in influencing buying behavior of other site [...]

Have you heard about the Partial Extrac Tool? Do you use the Partial Extract Tool?

user702295 — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:04:44 PDT

Hello Demantra Users! There has been a complete rewrite of the Demantra Data Extraction Tool guide. Check out Demantra Non Invasive Partial Schema Export Utility MOS Note 1448266.1.

Visit Oracle Linux and Oracle VM at Solutions Linux – France

Zeynep Koch — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:54:39 PDT

Linux Solutions Libres & Open Source is the 15th edition of the One & Only Event in France around Linux solutions & Open Source solutions. With 220 exhibitors/partners including SuSe, Microsoft and more than 5700 attendees, it’s the number one event in France dedicated to Linux solutions and to the community: it will take place [...]

Campus outreach with Webcenter Sites

user12652314 — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:50:39 PDT

Our partners at Team Informatics are putting out some cool new videos on their continuing success in education with Webcenter. Here's the latest on University of Minnesota.

Persistent breakpoints every java developer should have

Gerard Davison — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:43:00 PDT

When a developer is working in Java there are a few failure cases you always want to know about even if you were trying to debug something else. Here is a list of the persistent breakpoints that should be enabled in every IDE. (IMHO of course) Yes in theory you be able to just get [...]

The CFO as Catalyst for Change – Part 2

jmorourke — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:02:47 PDT

In Part 1 of this series, I talked about some of the factors that are changing the role of the CFO. But exactly how much has the CFO role changed and what’s in store for the future? To shed more light on the subject, Oracle partnered with Accenture to conduct global research study. The study [...]

Your Place in the Evolving IT Landscape

Bob Rhubart — Thu, 23 May 2013 06:46:33 PDT

Yesterday I recorded an OTN ArchBeat podcast with Oracle ACE Directors Ron Batra, Basheer Khan, and Cary Millsap. The conversation, based on a topic suggested by Ron, focused on the shifting responsibilities among IT roles in the face of the emergence of DevOps and Cloud computing. At one point in conversation Nicholas Carr's infamous 2003 [...]

Oracle Access Manager 11gR1 Patchset 2 11.1.1.7 Certified with EBS 12

LuciaC — Thu, 23 May 2013 06:00:00 PDT

Oracle Access Manager 11gR1 Patchset 2 (a.k.a. 11.1.1.7) is now certified with E-Business Suite Release 12.0 and 12.1. Applying Oracle Access Manager 11gR1 Patchset 2 will provide you with the latest set of fixes for Oracle Access Manager 11gR1 which have been with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.0 and 12.1. Oracle has two single sign-on [...]

Dynamic Sampling – 2

Jonathan Lewis — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:46:05 PDT

I’ve written about dynamic sampling in the past, but here’s a little wrinkle that’s easy to miss. How do you get the optimizer to work out the correct cardinality for a query like (the table creation statement follows the query): select count(*) from t1 where n1 = n2 ; create t1 as with generator as [...]

Using LDAP for Authentication and Authorization within APEX

Roel Hartman — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:33:00 PDT

One of my current customers would like to use their LDAP (Microsoft Active Directory) server for authentication and authorization of APEX applications. Of course we tried to set up a standard LDAP Authenication that's available within APEX. But we couldn't get that to work. Maybe it has to do with fact that the client stored [...]

Want to become an Oracle certified Expert in WebLogic & ADF? 100 free Implementation Specialist vouchers only in May 2013

JuergenKress — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:27:37 PDT

For all WebLogic & ADF experts, we offer 100 free vouchers worth $195 to become an Oracle certified expert. To receive a WebLogic & ADF voucher please send an e-mail with the screenshot of your WebLogic Server 12c PreSales Specialist or ADF 11g PreSales Specialist certificate to brigitte.felisaz@oracle. including your Name, Company, e-mail and Country [...]

Monday Oracle VAD Enablement Webcasts – Engineered to Sell Together: Presentations Now Available

Cinzia Mascanzoni — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:20:07 PDT

Presentations from the three webcasts: How VAD’s can drive new revenues by helping partners moving up the Software stack from a Hardware base and compelling events for hardware partners to do this. How VAD’s can help partners drive Middleware sales by understanding customer’s Apps environment. How VAD’s can help partners advantage of the massive installed [...]

Register Now: Oracle FY14 Global Partner Kickoff

Roxana Babiciu — Thu, 23 May 2013 04:28:02 PDT

Join us live and online for FY14 Oracle Partner Kickoff. Oracle executives will address the needs of today's IT buyer and share how to sell effectively to CTO's, CIO's, CMO's and more. Mark your calendar for June 25, 2013 at 9:00am PDT. Register Now.

MySQL at DrupalCamp, Goteborg – Sweden

Lenka Kasparova — Thu, 23 May 2013 03:16:07 PDT

DrupalCamp Conference is hold in Göteborg, Sweden on May 25, 2013. MySQL is part of this show and I would like to invite you to our session on "Scalability and Availability with MySQL Replication" given by Sven Sandberg on Saturday-May 25, 2013 @ 13:45-14:25! So, if you are close Göteborg or attending this event, do [...]

Nashorn から JavaFX を呼び出す

Homma — Thu, 23 May 2013 03:03:39 PDT

はじめに Nashorn から JavaFX を呼び出す方法が決まった様です。サンプルコードとともにご覧下さい。おことわり以下は jlaskey による Nashorn Blog への投稿の翻訳です。原文は https://blogs.oracle.com/nashorn/entry/jjs_fx でご覧頂けます。翻訳文の URL は https://blogs.oracle.com/nashorn_ja/entry/jjs_fx です。訳文 JavaFX の開発者達と話し合った結果、JavaFX と Nashorn シェルの起動スクリプトの連携方法について良い案が見つかりました。この案では jjs コマンドに -fx フラグを付けるとjavafx.application.Application を使って起動します。その後は Nashorn から JavaFX の呼び出しはとても簡単です。基本的なコマンドラインは jjs -fx fxscript.js の様な形になります。そこに -scripting オプションや -- オプションを付けて jjs -scripting fxscript.js -- my script args の様に実行することも出来ます。以下のサンプルコードの処理内容は過去にこの Blog に載せたサンプルから取っています。jjs に渡すスクリプトに JavaFX [...]

Enterprises re-approaching big data with new solutions, skills

RDX — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:39:06 PDT

The demand for big data has caused companies to rapidly seek new database experts and analytics technologies to leverage more accurate and actionable real-time insights. Traditional business intelligence (BI) solutions are simply not adequate for information of this scope and variety. Therefore, it is imperative to deploy remote database support truly gain a competitive advantage [...]