Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Oracle Priority Service Infogram This Week: Security, Performance, Tape Storage, Risk, Synch and Asynch, Scaling, Siebel


Security

Some of the leading figures in Oracle security will be speaking at this:

Oracle Security Online Forum

Live Date/Time: February 24, 2011 | 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time

Performance

If you get a chance to hear Tom Kyte speak about Oracle performance, jump at that chance! And here's one right here: Best Practises for Real-World Database Performance.

Tape Storage

Tape is often a 'fire-and-forget-it' kind of technology for IT. But what about the long haul? The short-term utility of tapes to restore vital data after a mishap are obvious, but there are some tape archives that are established for the long term, and the admins of those archives should find this new Oracle white paper interesting:

Protecting Your Archival Data With Improved Tape Dimensional Stability

This article on Evaluating Tape Drive Performance should also be of great interest to those involved in long term data storage and archiving as well as a more general audience.

Blogs of Note: Pythian

Pythian, one of our favorite blogs here at the Infogram, has come out with its listing of Q1 Webinar Schedule Updates. Appropriately enough, they entitle it: Q1 Webinar Schedule Update.

Also of interest is this article on risk and the DBA. Sometimes risk aversion is risky business:

The DBA and the Trigger

Synch and Asynch

Always a ground for confusion, especially due to the intersection of OS and database settings. This article at C0T0D0S0.ORG is worth a read: Synchronicity in asynchronicity

Scaling

I found this article interesting since I have experienced all the ups and downs of scaling SL myself over the years. Their database is MySQL, by the way:

Siebel

Siebel Essentials blog continues to bring us interesting items: Google Maps in Siebel - Extreme (Part 1)


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