14th Jun - 12th JulMonthly Top Blog Posts on Oracle
12 Jul
Gareth Roberts: Why is mod_plsql not supported with the Oracle eBusiness Suite Release 12? Fusion Crossroads #1
Update: As posted on Steven Chan’s blog, the answers to my queries in this post are now well described in Metalink Note Note:726711.1One of the well publicized and contentious considerations at the crossroads of Fusion…
11 Jul
Oracle EPM Smart Space: I Guess I was Wrong
About a month or so back I did a post on Silverlight and that post lead to a comment on iPhone support. At the time I completely punted on my response saying that the mobile market will have to narrow before you will…
10 Jul
Read this…
I read a lot of “stuff”. Yeah, I know, I'm writing less here - but that leaves more time to read over there. I read lots of blogs, lots of forums. I lurk. I observe. I see what people are saying. I l…
Niall Litchfield: UKOUG
A good day today. I was privileged enough to be at the paper selection day for the UKOUG conference in December 2008. For those who don't know what happens, and perhaps suspect some sort of elite giving themselves…
03 Jul
IT Eye: Why use Identity Management Grid Control Plug-in ?
For a while i am working with Oracle Identity Management as a central user store for all my Oracle products.To monitor this environment Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control offers a rich information interface to help…
01 Jul
Migration to MT part 1 done
The team at Oracle have completed the migration of our blogging platform to Moveable Type. Let me know if you spot any data glitches, e.g. in the sample code.Part II of the change is an upgrade of MT itself, scheduled…
30 Jun
Don Seiler: FLASHBACK TABLE vs. DBA_OBJECTS . LAST_DDL_TIME
NOTE: This post originally appeared on The Pythian Group blog on 6 June 2008, and is reposted here with permission.read more
Nigel Thomas: ESB consolidation - Progress buys Iona
I guess Iona was one of the first well known Irish software companies, and now it must be one of the last. It has succumbed to Progress Software for $106M. Paul Freemantle beat me to the news that Progress now owns or…
Venkat Akrishnan: Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3.3/2 - Row Level Security and Row-wise Intialized Session Variables
As you would probably know, BI EE provides the capability to do row-level security from the Business Model layer. There was a question the other day wherein a user wanted to know how to do row-level security, wherein…
29 Jun
Denes Kubicek: Pipelined Functions
The question in the forum was:I need to allow my users to type in a list of names and return the names that are not in a table.1. User types [ Tom Joe Bob MIKE ] into a Text Area item named :P2_NAME_CHECK2. A table…
28 Jun
Hans Forbrich: Some thought about Oracle Certification
This blog is based on questions I have received, and seen on the Certification forum at http://forums.oracle.com 1) Where to find out about (exams, certification, requirements, etc.)read…
Laurent Schneider: Resize partition in Vista
It is quite a while I have not posted about Linux. The reason is I have bought in new notebook three months ago with Vista and did not have a program to resize the partition… Do I need a program?NO, I do not !!!Vista…
27 Jun
Dietmar Aust: My presentation at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008
Two weeks ago I attended the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 conference in New Orleans. This was a great event.The view from my hotel room was truly awesome:read more
26 Jun
Sun push the thread envelope
According to The Register the next iteration of Sun’s Niagara chip will have 16-cores and 16 threads per core . Apart from the mind-boggling number of threads which will become available in an eight socket 1U rack, the…
Inside the Oracle Optimizer - Removing the black magic: Why are some of the tables in my query missing from the plan?
We apologize for our brief hiatus from blogging. We’ve been busy working on improvements to the optimizer.In 10gR2, we introduced a new transformation, table elimination (alternately called “join elimination”), which…
TalentedApps: Wine me, dine me, make me write bad checks
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While the title belongs to Dad, the story is all my own. read more
Floyd Teter: A Little This And A Little That
My apologies for failing to post much over the past two weeks. I’ve been distracted by a pretty wild ride regarding my personal health. I went in for an angiogram late last week, which is a pretty nifty procedure to…
Raimonds Simanovskis: ruby-plsql gem now supports JRuby and Oracle JDBC driver
Some time ago I created ruby-plsql gem which provides simple Ruby API for Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures.read more
Of Gag-Orders, Excitement and New Products…
In the transcript of yesterday’s earnings call, Larry Ellison said:We are not going to sit on our laurels; we have a major database innovation that we will announce in September of this year. It is going to be a very…
Curt Monash: Oracle’s hefty price increases
Jeff Jones of IBM wrote in to point out that Oracle is slathering on the price increases. I quote:Some examples, comparing Oracle Technology Global Price Lists from December 2007 and June 2008 (prices are per…
BEA available on Oracle E-Delivery
I have no idea when they made it available but, while searching on Oracle E-delivery for a complete Oracle BPA package, I saw that a lot of BEA software can be downloaded via Oracle’s E-Delivery channel. It look like…
24 Jun
Asif Momen: Why my index is not used?
Why index is not used?Well, this question keeps popping up now and then. Yesterday, one of my colleagues also came up with this question: “Why is it that Oralce is not using index even though I am selecting less than…
Looking for great PL/SQL | I’m just a simple DBA on a complex production system
Steve Yegge is a developer who writes way too much. Each one of his blog posts can easily take an hour to read, but they tend to contain nice gems that make the long read worth the time.read more
Pythian Group: What to do When Your Data Smiles At You…
I have *never* had this happen to me.Maybe it’s because it’s MySQL 6.0.4, maybe it’s because it’s on Windows, or perhaps I am just up working too late.I have seen mojibake before, but usually it is…
23 Jun
ODTUG 2008 (week in review)
Well alot of people have been giving day by day reports about this years ODTUG (where do they get the time). So I figured I’d just post a weekly roundup on the proceedings.ODTUGThe ODTUG 2008 event itself was alot of…
22 Jun
Edwin Biemond: Advanced TaskFlow Train Features
In this blog I will explain you more about some features of a bounded taskflow train. A train is a wizard with stops or steps which helps the user to complete the transaction. In this blog I’ll show how you can skip or…
Rittman Mead Consulting Blog Archive An Introduction to the Oracle BI Applications
Whilst OBIEE is in itself a pretty well featured business intelligence platform, it’s still only a platform and you have to design and build the data warehouse, metadata repository yourself before you can do any…
John Russell: For Want of a %s…
Today’s post involves a three-way grudge match among usability, security, and inertia.One of the basic tenets of usability is to answer user questions clearly and concisely. One concrete technique is to use placeholder…
21 Jun
They were the best; They deserved it all the Way…
Of course disappointed, but what can I say… They deserved it 100%. They worked harder, they had the better chances, they were the better team, they made the goals that were needed.Guus (my county fellow man, also a…
OracleApps Epicenter: Asset Transfer
Asset transfer is a complex process and should not be entered into lightly, if your customer business is bit complex in nature. The complexity varies from companies to companies along with industry type.This post will…
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