to_char(dt,’yyyy’) is almost as good as trunc(dt,’y')…

I’m in the middle of updating Expert Oracle Database Architecture Edition 1 to Edition 2. It’ll cover up through Oracle Database 11g Release 2. While doing it, I’ve been discovering that “things change over time”. Well, Ok, that is not a new discovery – I’ve said that before… If you are interested in the new [...]

Goodbye 2009

Photo by doug88888 on Flickr used under Creative Commons With 2009 winding down quickly, I’m pleased to present you with that good old blogging tradition–the year-end wrap post. 2009 was an eventful year for us. Mostly noteworthy: we joined the WebCenter development team to work on the internal rollout of WebCenter 11g, validating our work [...]

Goodbye 2009

Photo by doug88888 on Flickr used under Creative Commons With 2009 winding down quickly, I’m pleased to present you with that good old blogging tradition–the year-end wrap post. 2009 was an eventful year for us. Mostly noteworthy: we joined the WebCenter development team to work on the internal rollout of WebCenter 11g, validating our work [...]

Many ask but few get a chance to deliver

I realize there’s a little gap in time from my last blog post but there was a little merger… In any case, I wanted to discuss a conversation that seems to be on every customer’s mind when we discuss some of the new Enterprise 2.0 capabilities. Most start the conversation this way: “With the current [...]

Cloud APIs need to be complemented by Cloud processes

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 [...]

Technical Article: Monitor Web Services in Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control

The main focus of Grid Control lies in the monitoring of the components as they are. The drill down to the functionality of your software is less obvious, but it's easy to include some measurements of your web services with Grid Control. Andreas Chatziantoniou shows you how. Link to the original site