Database

Do you use Oracle Applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware?

By Yvan Cognasse ⋅ June 5, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Once again, Oracle customers who are using Oracle Fusion Middleware to extend the business value of Oracle applications (E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards etc.) in innovative, exciting ways can win a free registration to Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2008 by submitting their nominations for the Oracle Excellence Awards by August 8, 2008.

Sample Use Cases:

Streamline [...]

Oracle 11g database roadshow and free 11g migration workshops for partners

By Yvan Cognasse ⋅ June 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Oracle Database 11g Roadshow, the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Sneak Peek and Oracle OpenWorld Recruiting Event, is ready!
Oracle is offering a ½ day briefing on Oracle Database 11g, the latest release of Oracle Database. In addition, Oracle is also recruiting ISVs and SIs who want to be highlighted at the world’s largest IT [...]

Oracle SQL Developer Release 1.5 is available!

By Yvan Cognasse ⋅ June 3, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Oracle Customers are adopting Oracle SQL Developer, a free database development and migration tool, to simplify development cycles and reduce the need to buy third-party tools for developing and debugging SQL and PL/SQL code.
Good news! Now Oracle SQL Developer Release 1.5 is generally available!
New product features and enhancements of Oracle SQL Developer Release 1.5 [...]

Oracle Database Vault is now certified on the latest release of Oracle E-Business Suite (R12) on Linux x86-32

By Yvan Cognasse ⋅ May 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Following on the heels of our February 2008 announcement that Oracle Database Vault is certified for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11, it’s another important Oracle announcement there…
Oracle Database Vault is the industry’s most advanced database security product designed to enforce when, where, how, and by whom, data can be accessed. Certification with Oracle E-Business Suite [...]

Node Affinity. Interesting usage of Oracle RAC with E-Business Suite

By Didier Wojciechowski ⋅ May 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster) is used generally in a High Availability (HA 24/7 availability—Provide continuous uptime for database applications) and/or Scalability (Expand capacity by simply adding servers to your cluster) context. But another very useful but not wellknown but extremely interesting context is the NODE AFFINITY (called “Application Affinity” too).
We can implement [...]

Data model differences between Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10.x and release 12.x

By Yvan Cognasse ⋅ May 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A common question from Oracle E-Business Suite technical administrators is if Oracle have any published content that discusses the data model differences between R11.5.10.x and R12.x.
I’m not aware about any document who consolidates all the information about these differences, but you should find a lot of useful information on the R12 Upgrade Guide, on Oracle [...]

Demo It To Oracle (DITO)!

By Yvan Cognasse ⋅ May 23, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Have an issue that you wish you could “show and tell” to Oracle support when you open a service request on MetaLink? then DITO!
CamStudio, a Free Screen Recording Software, is a third party desktop recording software that can be used to “Demo It To Oracle” (DITO). CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio [...]

Oracle Data Integrator Demo Webcast on May 22/23, 2008

By Yvan Cognasse ⋅ May 16, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is a comprehensive data integration platform that covers all data integration requirements — from high-volume, high-performance batches, to event-driven, trickle-feed integration processes, to SOA-enabled data services.

Oracle Data Integrator’s Product Management team will be hosting a demonstration webcast every 2 weeks. They will be showing baseline functionality, and drilling [...]

Oracle VM with IBM System x

By Didier Wojciechowski ⋅ May 16, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

My french collegue Gregory Verstraeten who is working now for IBM ATS Americas and based in San Francisco produced a very interesting and useful document which is reflecting his understanding about Oracle VM on IBM hardware system x (BladeCenter) servers and storage. Gregory is describing what is “Virtualization” and why it could be [...]

How to backup Oracle ASM instance using RMAN on IBM platform

By Didier Wojciechowski ⋅ May 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Very often during Customer’s briefing at Oracle/IBM Joint Solution Center we have questions regarding how to backup Oracle RAC using Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management). ASM is a Database File System that provides cluster file system and volume management capabilities integrated into the Oracle database 10g at no additional cost. ASM lowers your total [...]

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