Another question from a colleague – suppose a user receives documents from two or more IRM services – how does the user switch between documents? Does the user need to manually log out of one service and log in to another so that the correct rights and restrictions apply? Do you need to clear your [...]
Steven Chan writes that OCFS2 is now certified for use as a clustered filesystem for sharing files between all of your E-Business Suite application tier servers. OCFS2 (Oracle Cluster File System 2) is a free, open source, general-purpose, extent-based clustered file system which Oracle developed and contributed to the Linux community. It was accepted into [...]
There is the Cloud that provides value by requiring as few changes as possible. And there is the Cloud that provides value by raising the abstraction and operation level. The backward-compatible Cloud versus the forward-compatible Cloud. The main selling point of the backward-compatible Cloud is that you can take your existing applications, tools, configurations, customizations, [...]
There is an aphorism famously attributed to Mark Twain (among others) to the effect that there are “lies, damn lies and statistics.” The Mark Twain quotes on truth I was able to verify were almost as interesting though not quite so pithy: A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is [...]
This lab looks into the ASM disk header section that contain the Partnership and Status Table, the PST. I have found in some limited occasions, specially following storage crashes that result in problems to mount the ASM disk groups, that looking into the PST may help to clarify the extent of the damage and asses [...]
One of the sessions I am (co-)presenting at Oracle Open World 2009 is on ‘applying the concepts of SOA to and achieving the SOA objectives with User Interfaces’. What goes for SOA and typical programmatic (web)services can be applied to User Interface components to a large extent. Decoupling – cross location, cross technology, cross [...]
One of the nice little features of the BI Server that is rarely used in a pure BI EE implementation is the Persistent Connection Pools. As you would probably know, BI Server adds one more layer of processing, if required, through its in-memory processing engine. For example, in the last blog entry i had shown [...]
This is a quick alert that there is now a good article on the Integration of Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Oracle SQL Developer. You may already know that this feature was introduced with SQL Developer 1.2, but unless you had created an Oracle APEX connection you might not have realised the extent of the [...]
A lot of attention has been focused on technical standards for Cloud computing, especially over the last month (e.g. DMTF incubator announcement). That’s fine, but before we go crazy with detailed technical standards let’s realize that for Cloud computing (of the public variety at least) to take off we’ll need just as much standardization of [...]
Managing structured data is so easy nowadays. Construct an Oracle database, populate it and query it. A piece of cake! Even if the data is in another database all you need to do is to connect to it and run a query. So all your business problems are solved if all your information is in [...]