Daily Roundup of News, Tips and Tricks for 2010-02-03

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Goodbye, blogs.sun.com
Now that Sun has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle, it appears that there will be some [...]

City of Las Vegas Leads Oracle Usability Advisory Board at December Meeting

Anna Wichansky, Senior Director, Applications User Experience, and Chair, Oracle Usability Advisory Board

I’m still basking in the glow of the bright lights I saw in Las Vegas on December 3 at the Oracle Usability Advisory Board’s final meeting for 2009. No, they weren’t on The Strip; they were in City Hall, and they were of [...]

Oracle DB 11g on same box as 10g with Siebel

If you are familiar with the Siebel System Requirements and
Supported Platforms document you know that Oracle Database 11g is not
supported.  That is fine, since 10g can
be used instead.  On my laptop I have Siebel
8 installed with Oracle 10g for the database.
Recently I have been fooling around with Oracle APEX to
create some simple user interfaces to [...]

Paravirtualized VM running on my IBM T43 laptop

I am glad to report that I now have the Oracle VM software running a virtual Oracle Linux R4 update 5 guest running within a domain.  It would be nice to say that I pulled this off via some smarts unique to me but that would be a lie.  The folks at Oracle have released [...]

Using 11g Database with SOA Suite 10.1.3

Installing SOA Suite 10.1.3 with an 11g Database
Just at a customer who has an 11g RAC database that he wants to use for his SOA repository.  If you try and install SOA Suite into an 11g database, it tells you that the database is not supported and the irca configuration assistant fails to find a [...]

Simulating ASM Disks

Most of the Oracle 10g databases are using ASM for storage as its very  simple to maintain the  storage  wrt to Disks , Datafiles etc
You can get most of the ASM details & implementation details from OTN here : http://www.oracle.com/technology/asm/index.html
When i started to learn ASM , the real difficult part was to get [...]

Installed Windows Server 2008 x64

Installed Windows Server 2008 x64
 
I was thinking to upgrade my 32 bit Windows Server 2008 to 64 bit Windows Server 2008. I want to retain all the applications and settings that I have installed in my 32 bit Windows 2008 so instead of fresh installation I intended to upgrade.
 
The good parts [...]

Vista installer available for Discoverer 10g Administrator and Desktop

As many of you have already found out, if you attempt to install the base 10.1.2.0.2 software for Discoverer Administrator or Desktop onto Vista the install will fail. I am pleased to let you know that there is now a patch available on MetaLink that will allow the install to go ahead on Vista.
The patch [...]

My top 10 Oracle 11g New Features Part 3 – five nice optimizer statistics new features

After talking about theSQL Analyzer (Sql Replay) in part I of this series andDatabase Replay in part II I will introduce you this time to some 11g New Features for the query optimizer.
1. As of Oracle 10g the server collects optimizer statistics on all objects which do not have …
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Article on Fast Incremental Backups published

Today I received a copy of the latest Newsletter of the Swiss Oracle Usergroup, which is a special issue for the 20th. aniversary of the foundation of teh Swiss Oracle Usergroup. Nice one!
 with my article on
Fast incremental backups with block change tracking in Oracle 10g.
This article is also available on …
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