Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 16-MAY-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| May 16, 2013


Oracle Linux

From the Oracle Linux blog: Configuring mrepo to mirror ULN package channels.

Siebel

OracleBI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 and Why Fusion is More than just Applications, from Siebel Essentials.

PeopleSoft

From the On The Peoplesoft Road blog: Oracle 11gR2 DataBase FileSystem (DBFS) and Peopletools (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 09-MAY-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| May 9, 2013

Security

Time for my quarterly (or more often) warning on our old nemesis: 10 Reasons SQL Injection Still Works

EPM

The Business Analytics - Proactive Support blog let's us know that: EPM 11.1.2.3.00 is available on eDelivery.

BI

Over at the Oracle Business Intelligence Blog: (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 01-MAY-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| May 1, 2013

Exalogic

Exalogic: System Administrator-Friendly Software at Oracle Exalogic, the Exalogic Elastic Cloud product management blog.

XML

At the XML Orbblog: Analysis of JSON use cases compared to XML.

VM

Designing, Creating and Testing an Oracle VM 3.2 Environment at Oracle's Virttualization Blog.

Linux

From TECHSOURCE, the Linux (more...)

Priority Service Infogram for 24-APR-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Apr 24, 2013

Better Life Through Unix

At jarneil, The thoughts of Jason Arneil, a really elegant way to recover an accidentally dropped datafile (all caveats apply, as the author points out). This is a good reminder that in this age of GUIs and apps, the power of Unix commands and Unix (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 17-APR-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Apr 17, 2013

Hyperion

How to track MDX queries against Essbase at the Business Analytics - Proactive Support blog.

SOA

At the Oracle SOA Suite - Team Blog: Video Demo: Hybrid Cloud Integrations using Oracle SOA Suite.

Ops Center

At The Ops Center blog: a how to on Migrating Virtual Machines.

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Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 10-APR-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Apr 10, 2013


Oracle Support

At the always-excellent Chris Warticki's Blog - Oracle Support: Do-NOT-Read-Me Notes: MOS 6.5 Update.

Fusion

From the Oracle Fusion Applications blog: How Floating IP's Work During Fusion Apps Server Migration.

SOAP

Faulty SOAP? I was researching an error for a customer and came across this handy (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infgoram for 04-APR-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Apr 4, 2013

Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle WebCenter Alerts reminds us: Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Call for Papers - Deadline is April 12, 2013.

SOA

From the Tuxedo Tidbits blog: Integrating Oracle Tuxedo Applications into a SOA Environment.

Linux

How to Update An Oracle Linux Kernel Without Rebooting, at OTN.

At The Register: (more...)

Oracle Priority Support Infogram for 28-MAR-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Mar 28, 2013

TTS

I was researching an issue for an upcoming move for a customer and found this excellent summation on transportable tablespaces at Oracle DB/EM Troubleshooting: Master Note: Transportable Tablespaces (TTS) -- Common Questions and Issues.

RDBMS

From the charmingly named Triggers Considered Harmful, Considered Harmful blog: And what about (more...)

Oracle Priority Support Infogram for 20-MAR-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Mar 20, 2013

Storage

You no longer need to build additions to your home for your data. Use this instead: How to Multiply the Capacity of Oracle Storage Systems With Hybrid Columnar Compression.

Financial Services

It's a big world, so working FATCA may be on your plate or in your future: FATCA Compliance (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 13-MAR-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Mar 13, 2013


Exadata

From Oracle Tips and Tricks — David Fitzjarrell blog, some words of wisdom on Smart Scans: You Can Never Be Too Smart.

At the Oracle Learning Library: Exadata Smart Flash Log Self-Study Module.

Performance

From the ORACLE DIAGNOSTICIAN: “Snapshot too old” as a performance issue in disguise.

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Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 07-MAR-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Mar 7, 2013



Exadata

Over at the Oracle Learning Library: Exadata Smart Flash Log Self-Study Module.

Linux

From OTN: How to Prevent Silent Data Corruption.

Performance

At Oracle SQL a suggestion something might need correcting in the docs: Bug in documentation about dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats or in the dbms_stats itself.

Back when (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infogram, 28-FEB-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Feb 28, 2013

Java

From the Alexey Ragozin blog: Remote code execution in Java made trivial.

SOA

From SOA Proactive Support: How to Configure Multiple Authentication Providers for Oracle SOA Suite Human Workflow.

Performance

From the ORACLE DIAGNOSTICIAN: Efficiency-based SQL tuning.

At Kevin Closson's Blog: Platforms, Databases and Storage Platform, Database (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 22-FEB-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Feb 21, 2013


SOA

At OTN: Fanning Out Events on the Oracle SOA Suite 11g Event Delivery Network.

RDBMS Performance

The Oracle at Delphix talks about Oracle I/O latency monitoring.

Also at Delphix, an answer to the plaintive cry we've all heard: Why does my full table scan take 10x longer (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 13-FEB-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Feb 13, 2013


Big Data

RDX discusses how Big Data Mining Can Strengthen the Security Model.

From OTN: How to Set Up a Hadoop Cluster Using Oracle Solaris Zones

PeopleSoft

A good article on the 8.5.3 PeopleTools release from the Oracle PeopleSoft Technology blog recommended by Linda Corniola: Oracle and (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 06-FEB-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Feb 6, 2013


Data Warehouse

Lots and lots of data, one letter 'R'. From The Data Warehouse Insider: Parallel R: Quick Ways Model More.

WebLogic

Over at Technet, how to Track Down a Memory Leak.

Solaris

Also at Technetis this article on Evaluating Oracle Solaris 11 from Inside Oracle VM (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 30-JAN-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Jan 30, 2013


RDBMS Performance

A good week for RDBMS performance items. First a couple of postings from Jonathan Lewis at Oracle Scratchpad:

Sorting

and

Losing It

And to top things off, a good posting on basic principles of optimization from Cary Milsap:

Filter Early

RMAN

At the Think Out Loud (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 23-JAN-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Jan 23, 2013

PeopleSoft

Some thoughts from erpassociatesabout Changing Your PeopleSoft Database Platform.

MOS

Quite a few customers have been encountering errors with their file uploads to SRs. Ms Yin-Jen Supointed out this MOS note for a solution: Issueswith File Upload in My Oracle Support During Service Request Create or Update[ID (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 09-JAN-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Jan 9, 2013


Clouds

The definition wars roll on. For some of the salvos from the Oracle side: Larry Ellison Doesn't Get the Cloud: The Dumbest Idea of 2013 by Bob Evans, Senior Vice-President, Communications from the Oracle Cloud Solutions blog.

Programming

From Eddie Awad'sTweet stream comes a link to this article (more...)

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 03-JAN-2013

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Jan 3, 2013


Happy New Year!

It’s the end of the year, and the start of the year, and thus time for the ‘best of’, ‘ten best’ and perhaps even ’12 best’ articles for the zodiacally minded. Here are a few choice samples:

At The Oracle Instructor: Top 10 postings in 2012.

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Oracle Priority Service Infogram – End Times Edition

General, Miscellaneous and a Bit of Everything
| Dec 20, 2012


This is the ‘End of the World’ issue of the Infogram. Some people think the end of the Mayan calendar signals the end of the world. I think the Mayans just didn't renew their calendar subscription in time; then their culture crashed and burned before they got their second notice. As Vonnegut (more...)