How Oracle Customers Can Prepare their Enterprise Applications for Daylight Savings Time

Jeff Robbins, Senior Director at Oracle, speaks with Cliff about the issues and risks to Enterprise Applications associated with Daylight Savings Time, what Oracle is doing to prevent any disruption of service for their customers, and the challenges for customers who have moved to a Third Party for support.

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OWB 11gR2 White Paper on Code Template/Knowledge Module Support Available

A new whitepaper on code template/knowledge module support in Warehouse Builder has been published on OTN. For those who have followed this blog and other third party discussions of OWB 11gR2 closely, the technical information here may already be familiar, and you may have even dug deeper into the details than this paper can in [...]

OWB 11gR2 White Paper on Code Template/Knowledge Module Support Available

A new whitepaper on code template/knowledge module support in Warehouse Builder has been published on OTN. For those who have followed this blog and other third party discussions of OWB 11gR2 closely, the technical information here may already be familiar, and you may have even dug deeper into the details than this paper can in [...]

Expanding on “twitter with a brain”

Chuck Shotton recently made a compelling case (“Twitter with a Brain“) for Twitter tools to allow the user to change the protocol endpoint. That is, instead of always going to twitter.com, you can tell your Twitter client to send all requests to myTweetInterceptor.me.com. Why would you do this? You should read his blog entry, but [...]

Many databases claim to be secure, but how do you know for sure?

Good news! Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition and Oracle Label Security 11g were recently awarded Common Criteria EAL4+ certification. Common Criteria evaluations involve formal rigorous analysis and testing to examine the security aspects of a product or system. Extensive testing activities involve a comprehensive and formally repeatable process, confirming that the security product functions as [...]

Coherence for C++

Brian Oliver already spilled the [Java]beans, or more appropriately let the C++ out of the bag, so there’s not much more to say, other than that as of last night, the product download is available to our beta partners for select private preview. This is a cross-platform, 32- and 64-bit, multi-threaded and thread-safe, pure C++ [...]

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 [...]

The Non-Technical Art of Being a Successful DBA – Third Party Product Evaluations

Database administrators are much more than just “table jockeys.” Because of our well-rounded expertise, we are often asked to help evaluate third-party business applications, application development tools and database administration and monitoring products. Over the years, I have developed a Product Evaluation Methodology that you may find helpful.

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ODTUG 2008 (week in review)

Well alot of people have been giving day by day reports about this years ODTUG (where do they get the time). So I figured I’d just post a weekly roundup on the proceedings.
ODTUG
The ODTUG 2008 event itself was alot of fun and very well organized. From Tom Kyte’s opening keynote , which was a [...]

Oracle Validated Integrations Continue to Provide Value to Partners and Customers

Oracle Press
Release

Oracle Validated Integrations Continue to Provide Value to Partners and Customers
More than 500 Validated Integrations Delivered Through Oracle PartnerNetwork Application Integration Architecture for Partners Initiative to Reduce Risk and Cost for Customers
Redwood Shores, CA – August 10, 2009
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Further providing customers a simplified, low-risk and tested path to integrations, Oracle [...]