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Oracle Priority Support Infogram for 13-JUN-2013

Big Data

An introduction from the Cubegeek: Big Data - Part One.

RDBMS

Summing up this excellent series from The Oracle at Delphix:  Database Thin Cloning: Summary.

At the edifyingly named Learning is not a spectator sport blog: can you lock part of a table ?

Another discussion by Jonathan Lewis over at the Oracle Scratchpad on SQL*Net Compression – 2.

Also at Scratchpad, some thoughts on the sometimes notorious SQL NOT IN construct: Not In Nasty.

Storage

Pythian discusses a matter of some controversy on storage hardware: Hard drive Inner or Outer.

Linux

From The Linux Juggernaut: Understanding free command in Linux/Unix.

Application Framework (FW)

From The Shorten Spot blog: New version of What's New in FW4 whitepaper.

Fusion

From the Fusion Applications Implementations Solutions blog: How to customize the user experience in Fusion Apps - Part 1 Composer Security Expressions.

Java

From the Java ME SDK Team Blog: Fresh Bits! Oracle Java ME Embedded 3.3 and ME SDK 3.3 updates.

MySQL

Calling all Java & PHP Developers! Explore the MySQL Database, at Oracle University's blog.

Forms

From the The ORACLE-BASE Blog: Compiling Oracle Forms against functions using the 11g Function Result Cache…

OEM

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Configuration Best Practices (Part 1 of 3), at the Enterprise Manager Best Practices blog.

Book Reviews

O'Reilly is using an interesting approach for a book that will be of interest to a lot of our customers when it's out: Continuous Enterprise Development. They've opened it on GitHub for reviews and comments. Check it out here.

…And Finally

It's good to see that 3d printers are going mainstream, but kind of a surprise that the price is actually higher than some of the more prototypical models already available. From TechCrunch: The New “Handmade” (Part Three).

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

New MOS community: Enterprise Manager Certification

We have just launched a new community in the My Oracle Support Enterprise Manager Category called Enterprise Manager Certifications. The goal of this community is to address customer certification and availability questions around the EM Product Suite, integrated apps, and the technology stack.  Also, check out the official Oracle EM Support Twitter account:  https://twitter.com/oracleEMSupport.

Stay current on the latest Oracle Enterprise Manager Support news and events including important product announcements, alerts, updates, new releases, patches, webcasts and much more.

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 06-JUN-2013

Big Data

Pythian is hosting a webinar: From Hype to Reality – Big Data Best Practices Emerge.

RDBMS

From the Oracle at Delphix: Database Thin Cloning: Copy on Write (EMC).

From Oracle Scratchpad: Parallel DML.

RMAN

At the Laurent Schneider blog: Rman backup compression.

OS

Clusterware Startup, from Oracle database internals by Riyaj.

Indexing

Continuing the series at Richard Foote’s Oracle Blog: Clustering Factor Calculation Improvement Part III (Too Much Rope).

MySQL

MySQL Community Server 5.6.12 and 5.5.32 released.

GlassFish

At The Aquarium: The Many Ways of Monitoring and Managing GlassFish.

APEX

At Annals of Oracle's Improbable Errors: How to translate and use Apex text messages inside javascript code and other considerations about shortcuts.

From Dimitri Gielis Blog: My thought on APEX 5.0 plans.

JDev/ADF

At Andrejus Baranovskis's Blog - JDev/ADF Samples list: JDev/ADF sample - Cache Results for ADF Iterator Property.

BI

At the Oracle BI Publisher Blog: Integrating BI Publisher and Forms 11g via web services.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle on YouTube
Did you know that there are a large number of technical Oracle videos available on YouTube.  Watch Larry Ellison's OpenWorld 2012 keynote speech and more at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4BPuQ0Da6k.

Oracle Priority Service Infogram for 30-MAY-2013

Exadata

At Tanel Poder's Blog: It & Mobile For Geeks And Pros: List Exadata Storage Cell disk summary with cellpd.sql and cellpdx.sql scripts.

And linked from Tanel Poder's tweet-stream: Exadata Patching.

Oracle Support

From the Proactive Support - Portals blog: Did you know that you can provide feedback on Knowledge Management (KM) articles?

Hyperion

At the more to life than this... blog: EPM Workspace integration with OBIEE update.

Endeca

At Rittman Mead: Configuring SSL on OEID v3.0.

Fusion

At the Oracle Fusion Middleware blog: Oracle Social Network -The Social Glue for Enterprise Applications.

Nashorn

Yes, apparently we've run out of computery sounding product names and are moving into the realm of fantasy. I picture a Nashorn as a kind of toned down Nazgul that, hopefully, shrieks a lot less. Turns out it's JavaScript for the JVM. Read all about it here: Repost: Taming the Nashorn (first impressions)...

WLS

At the WebLogic Partner Community EMEA blog: Additional new material WebLogic Community April 2013.

At The WebLogic Server Blog: Oracle Traffic Director - download and check out new cool features in 11.1.1.7.0.

Security

At the Identify Management blog: Don't Secure Yourself Out of Business. Don't miss a chance to see Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle Corp CSO, presenting. Her presentations are both creative and pragmatic.

RDBMS

From The Oracle Instructor: Modify segment attributes on Logical Standby during Migration.

Performance

At All things ORACLE, a much tweeted posting: End to End Metrics: Building a performance bridge between the Developer and the DBA.

At Oracle Scratchpad, Jonathan Lewis examines an interesting anomaly: CUR Gets.

Coding

At Darryl Gove's blog: One executable, many platforms.

Solaris

At the Oracle Technology Network: How to Update Only Java on Your Oracle Solaris 11 System.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Blogs
Oracle hosts a long list of technical blogs on subjects such as Java, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Database, Security and more.  Go to http://blogs.oracle.com/ to learn more.   This is a great way to stay current with the latest Oracle news.