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Alerting Messaging Server Users that Their Password Is Expiring

Looking at the support forums today, I was reminded of the new password aging support feature in Messaging Server 7 Update 5:

Messaging Server now honors LDAP password policies. It sends an IMAP ALERT when a user's LDAP password is about (more...)

If you have recently migrated to ADF Mobile 11.1.2.4, or have just started ADF Mobile development, you may have seen some issues or puzzling tid-bits for the new version of ADF Mobile.  Here are a few key items worth noting:

• You may have seen a little red (more...)

Please join us for the next Adopt-a-JSR meeting scheduled for Friday, 31 May at 08:00 am PDT (meeting details below).  Bruno Souza and Martijn Verburg will be joining to discuss how to expand the Adopt-a-JSR programs into other languages beyond English and Portuguese--French, German, Spanish...

New, current and curious (more...)

When developing mobile applications with APEX 4.2 you’ll find the developer toolbar on the page bottom is missing.

This can be a little bit annoying when investigating misbehaving applications. Oracle recognizes this as Issue 14749955 with the workaround to access the toolbar functions through a desktop page…

Of course (more...)

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This guest post from Anand Srinivasan compares performance of the Oracle R Connector for Hadoop with the R {parallel} package for covariance matrix computation, sampling, and parallel linear model fitting. 

Oracle R Connector for Hadoop (ORCH) is a collection of (more...)

I love the Apex UI, it makes development so much easier and more convenient – and makes it easy to impress clients when I can quickly fix issues right there and then, using nothing but their computer and their browser, no additional software tools needed.

However, at my main client (more...)

Busy? So are Guido Schmutz and Ronald van Luttikhuizen. Guido, an Oracle ACE Director, is Technology Manager for SOA and Emerging Trends at Trivadis. Ronald, also an Oracle ACE Director, is is Managing Partner and Architect at Vennster. But the fun doesn't stop there. Guido and Ronald pack their already (more...)

Los productos de virtualización de servidor de Oracle están diseñados para optimizar la eficiencia y el rendimiento. Para sacar lo mejor de tus sistemas x86 y SPARC, nada mejor que un curso presencial ofrecido por profesores con experiencia.
Oracle ofrece un (more...)

Some time ago – actually a few years ago – I wrote a note about the hint /*+ gather_plan_statistics */ making some informal comments about the implementation and relevant hidden parameters. I’ve recently discovered a couple of notes from Alexander Anokhin describing the feature in far more detail and describing (more...)

On April 17th, the ICC Banking Commission approved the URBPO contractual rules, which will be brought into effect from July 1st 2013.This recent announcement is likely to create ripples in the financial services industry. In this blog I will review what BPO means, what are the uniform rules (the (more...)

Original Post can be viewed at portmap: unrecognized service on RHEL6

Quick note for people using NFS for shared storage on RAC database. Till RHEL5 we had to ensure nfs,nfslock and portmap service has to be running. These services are required otherwise you will get following errors while mounting database

Writing log records

The last post in this series introduced the problem briefly. You find that post here.

In this post I’ll talk about the changes made to make that writing of log records fast enough. There were 50 million records that was written. Each of them pretty much in its (more...)