Leading the Data Grid Market

Do you need to differentiate and optimize your Web presences for your customers? Are you looking for new ways to increase developer productivity and operational efficiency? Then discover how you can meet these and other enterprise IT challenges with brand new Oracle Coherence 3.6. Join Oracle product experts as they discuss how the industry’s best [...]

How to kill mySQL? Keep adding features…

I was reading this article the other day and it reminded me of a conversation I had at ODTUG about mySQL. I know nothing about Oracle’s plans for mySQL and I’m only a casual user of mySQL (for about 6 years), so don’t consider this an inside scoop, it’s just some idle whittering… If Oracle [...]

Introducing the Oracle Cloud API

Oracle recently published a Cloud management API on OTN and also submitted a subset of the API to the new DMTF Cloud Management working group. The OTN specification, titled “Oracle Cloud Resource Model API”, is available here. In typical DMTF fashion, the DMTF-submitted specification is not publicly available (if you have a DMTF account and [...]

Customizing UPK outputs (Part 3 – Document Outputs)

In version 3.5 of UPK, we expanded the capability for customization of the document outputs to support a broader range of functionality. My goal of this post is to demystify the underlying template, and provide a basic understanding of how it works. We can go into more details about how to customize in another post [...]

FNAC Aligns Customer Loyalty Programs with Broader Marketing Strategy

FNAC, a subsidiary of the PPR group, is the leading retailer of entertainment products and consumer electronics in France. FNAC’s flagship loyalty program now has 2.3 million subscribers in France… “Oracle’s Siebel Loyalty Manager’s flexibility and upgradability have enabled us to closely align subscriber management with our marketing strategy and be more reactive to our [...]

What happened to Search Within?

Something that a few folks have noticed in 11g is that the Search Within is no longer available in the Query Actions in search results. In 10g and earlier, you could perform a search and from those results, go to a search form that would take the previous search criteria and append it to your [...]

Extreme Performance for Data Warehouses

The Oracle Database Machine Oracle transformed the data warehousing industry. Now, with the introduction of Exadata V2, Oracle is building on that success to deliver even faster performance and the flexibility to consolidate data warehousing and OLTP workloads on the same machine. In this podcast, Ray Roccaforte, the Vice President responsible for developing Oracle’s data [...]

Oracle’s Fusion User Experience is a Key Ingredient to their Customers Success

Jeremy Ashley, Vice President of Oracle’s Applications User Experience and Luke Kowalski, Corporate UI Architect for Oracle discuss with Cliff how User Experience and User Centered Design are key in Oracle’s strategy to deliver quality experiences for its end users, ease of use, flexibility, and finally…the right business flows in the Fusion applications.

How to Use USER_DEFINED Activity in OWB Process Flow

Process Flow is a very important component of Oracle Warehouse Builder. With Process Flow, we can create and control the ETL process by setting all kinds of activities in a well-constructed flow. In Oracle Warehouse Builder 11gR2, there are 28 kinds of activities, which fall into three categories: Control activities, OWB specific activities and Utility [...]

Extensions, extensions extensions…and finally the XSDs.

SQL Developer is developed on an extensible framework. This provides great flexibility for you, the end user, and for teams in Oracle. For example, the Oracle JDeveloper team have built an extension to JDeveloper that provides integrated support for file based version control. With not too many changes, we are able to consume this extension. [...]