Parallel Execution Challenge – It’s About Time

July 8, 2012 As I was reading a book, I saw a comment essentially stating that with multiple CPUs/cores, parallel execution will be faster than serial execution of the same query.  The book provided a test case - I decided to change around the test …

Missing R12.1.1 preinstall patches after starting the R12.1.1 Upgrade

I started the most recent pass of the R12.1.1 upgrade and then realized I had forgotten some patches. Some of the patches had not been download from MOS, because I tried to download too many at a time. I think there is a limit of about 100 patches per …

Packaging Swing apps with integrated JavaFX content

JavaFX provides a lot of interesting capabilities for developing rich client applications in Java, but what if you are working on an existing Swing application and you want to take advantage of these new features?  Maybe you want to use one or two con…

Packaging Swing apps with integrated JavaFX content

JavaFX provides a lot of interesting capabilities for developing rich client applications in Java, but what if you are working on an existing Swing application and you want to take advantage of these new features?  Maybe you want to use one or two…

Installing Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) 11.2.1.0.1 in an Oracle cluster 11.2.0.3 (ACFS) and configuring a direct load and classic Change Data Capture (CDC) and Data Apply – Download

Installing Oracle GoldenGate (OGG) 11.2.1.0.1 in an Oracle cluster 11.2.0.3 (ACFS) and configuring a direct load and classic Change Data Capture (CDC) and Data Apply – Download

In the article you will have a look at the OGG 11.2.1.0.1 installation …

Forced Cursor Sharing And Virtual Columns

So you have that application that cannot be changed but makes use of some weird expressions that screw up the cardinality estimates of the optimizer. Consider this simple example: create table t as select rownum as id , case …

JasperReportsIntegration 1.3.0.2 available – now supporting JasperReports 4.6.0

Hi guys,I have updated the JasperReportsIntegration kit. The new libraries 4.6.0 of JasperReports are now included.The integration kit itself has not changed. Thus you can simply update the JasperReports libraries to version 4.6.0. This process is expl…

Special Report: Cloud Computing. Oracle's Profit Magazine gathers everything nee…

Special Report: Cloud Computing. Oracle's Profit Magazine gathers everything need to know about moving to the cloud, including how to keep your data secure and get more value from your Oracle applications in the cloud http://pub.vitrue.com/SwofSpe…

The Developers Conference 2012: Presentation about CEP & BAM

This year I had the pleasure again of being one of the speakers in the TDC ("The Developers Conference") event. I have spoken in this event for three years from now. This year, the main theme of the SOA track was EDA ("Event-Driven…