All Things Oracle Webinar

May 8, 2012 | No Comments

Thanks to everyone who attended my webinar sponsored by Red Gate and All Things Oracle. My topic was “How to Gather SQL Resource Consumption Metrics in Oracle”. I expect the webinar recording to be posted at AllThingsOracle.com in the next few days but…

New Webcast: The Road to a Cloud-Enabled, Infinitely Elastic Application Infras…

May 8, 2012 | No Comments

New Webcast: The Road to a Cloud-Enabled, Infinitely Elastic Application Infrastructure. Join the discussion on the evolution of cloud-based application infrastructure, fabric computing and integrated systems on Wednesday, May 10 at 10:00 a.m. PT. h…

Oracle’s Fight for the Future

May 8, 2012 | No Comments

[at New York Times] – In the continuing trial over whether or not Google violated copyright and patents belonging to Oracle, the biggest question is not in the lawsuit. Why is Oracle suing, and what does it really want? The …

Five Java updates released

May 8, 2012 | No Comments

Oracle Java teams have delivered update releases for Java SE, Java FX and Java SE for Embedded.
Java SE 7 Update 4

This is the first time Oracle is delivering both the JDK and JavaFX
SDK for Mac OS X; the JDK (which will include the JavaFX…

Five Java updates released

May 8, 2012 | No Comments

Oracle Java teams have delivered update releases for Java SE, Java FX and Java SE for Embedded.
Java SE 7 Update 4

This is the first time Oracle is delivering both the JDK and JavaFX
SDK for Mac OS X; the JDK (which will include the JavaFX…

Port 80 Goodness for Publisher

May 8, 2012 | No Comments

Do you ever tire of remembering what port BIP is running on when you enter the URL? Ever wish you could just type:
http://tdexter-lap/xmlpserver
and be done with it? Well its really not that hard to do. Its documented how to front the web logic …

Port 80 Goodness for Publisher

May 8, 2012 | No Comments

Do you ever tire of remembering what port BIP is running on when you enter the URL? Ever wish you could just type:
http://tdexter-lap/xmlpserver
and be done with it? Well its really not that hard to do. Its documented how to front the web logic …

What is the difference between SQL Profiles and SQL Plan Baselines?

May 8, 2012 | No Comments

Since Oracle Database 11g was released I have gotten a lot of questions about the difference between SQL profiles and SQL plan baselines and why SQL profiles can be shared but SQL plan baselines can’t. So I thought it would be a good idea to write a po…

What is the difference between SQL Profiles and SQL Plan Baselines?

May 8, 2012 | No Comments

Since Oracle Database 11g was released I have gotten a lot of questions about the difference between SQL profiles and SQL plan baselines and why SQL profiles can be shared but SQL plan baselines can’t. So I thought it would be a good idea to write a po…

Hardware and Software engineered to work together: Oracle Optimized System for Oracle Unified Directory

May 8, 2012 | No Comments

The Oracle Optimized System for Oracle Unified Directory (OOS4OUD) is a matched and tuned set of SPARC hardware and OUD software configured by the Optimized Systems Team and the Directory Team to deliver top performance.

The hardware…