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• Best of OTN - Week of August 10th

  - by CassandraClark-OTN

  Brief pubic service announcement before we get into the OTN community best of content for the week.... Four Bands. Three Epic Nights. Join Oracle for three evenings of entertainment and fun, all during Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne, September 28-October 2, San Francisco. Learn More Architect Community Any discussion of the best of OTN must include the OTN ArchBeat Podcast. Consistently among the top 3 most popular Oracle podcasts, Archbeat focuses on real conversations with community members. Normally I pick the topics and the guest panelists for each program, but now you have a chance to take over that role and become a Guest Producer. In that role you'll pick the discussion topic and the panelists, while I do the all of the grunt work, allowing you to bask in the glory Want to know how to become an OTN ArchBeat Podcast Guest Producer? You'll find the details here: Yes, you can take over the OTN ArchBeat Podcast! And here are two examples of OTN ArchBeat Podcasts produced by community members: Data Warehousing and Oracle Data Integrator, from July 2013, was produced by Oracle ACE Director Gurcan Orhan, and features panelists Uli Bethke , Cameron Lackpour , and Michael Rainey . DevOps, Cloud, and Role Creep, from June 2013, was produced by Oracle ACE Director Ron Batra and features panelists Basheer Khan and Cary Millsap -- OTN Architect Community Manager Bob Rhubart Database Community OTN DBA/DEV Watercooler Blog - Did You Say "JSON Support" in Oracle 12.1.0.2?. -- OTN Database Community Manager Laura Ramsey Java Community The Java Source Blog - walkmod : A Tool to Apply Coding Conventions . Friday Funny: I was worried the #NSA might be spying on me Thanks, @pacohope. -- OTN Java Community Manager Tori Weildt Systems Community The OTN Systems Community HomePage- Find Great Resources for System Admins and Developers. -- OTN Systems Community Manager Rick Ramsey

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• SQLAuthority News – Presenting at Virtual Tech Days TechEd Pre-Con – February 9, 2011

  - by pinaldave

  I will be presenting on following subject on Virtual Tech Days TechEd Pre-Con – February 9, 2011. Auditing Made Easy: Change Tracking and Change Data Capture Date and Time: February 9, 2011 11:45am-12:45pm Location: Online In this fast paced demo oriented session we will go over few of concept which are related to real life problem at customers. We often see developers and DBA looking for details like who has dropped the table, who has last modified any object as well what was actually modified. SQL Server 2008 has all the answers. It has various new methods for Auditing where not only you can know details about what was changed as well know who changed it as well. In addition to that we can capture way more details configuring Auditing. We can also work prevent changes if proper policy management is configured. If you have ever attended my session on this subject earlier, this is going to absolutely new session and very much demo oriented. There is going to be quiz at the end of the session and I promise that if you attend the session, you will get all the answers correct. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)   Filed under: About Me, Pinal Dave, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology

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• Oracle Enterprise Manager sessions on the last day of the Oracle Open World

  - by Anand Akela

  Hope you had a very productive Oracle Open World so far . Hopefully, many of you attended the customer appreciation event yesterday night at the Treasures Islands.   We still have many enterprise manager related sessions today on Thursday, last day of Oracle Open World 2012. Download the Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c OpenWorld schedule (PDF) Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c (and Private Cloud) Time Title Location 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Application Performance Matters: Oracle Real User Experience Insight Palace Hotel - Sea Cliff 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Advanced Management of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle Enterprise Manager InterContinental - Grand Ballroom B 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Spark on SPARC Servers: Enterprise-Class IaaS with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Moscone West - 3018 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Pinpoint Production Applications’ Performance Bottlenecks by Using JVM Diagnostics Marriott Marquis - Golden Gate C3 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Bringing Order to the Masses: Scalable Monitoring with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Moscone West - 3020 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Improving the Performance of Oracle E-Business Suite Applications: Tips from a DBA’s Diary Moscone West - 2018 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Advanced Management of Oracle PeopleSoft with Oracle Enterprise Manager Moscone West - 3009 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Managing Sun Servers and Oracle Engineered Systems with Oracle Enterprise Manager Moscone West - 2000 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Strategies for Configuring Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c in a Secure IT Environment Moscone West - 3018 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c to Control Operational Costs Moscone South - 308 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM My Oracle Support: The Proactive 24/7 Assistant for Your Oracle Installations Moscone West - 3018 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM Functional and Load Testing Tips and Techniques for Advanced Testers Moscone South - 307 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM Oracle Enterprise Manager Deployment Best Practices Moscone South - 104 Stay Connected: Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | Linkedin | Newsletter

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• MySQL Connect in 4 Days - Sessions From Users and Customers

  - by Bertrand Matthelié

  72 1024x768 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Cambria","serif";} Let’s review today the conference sessions where users and customers will describe their use of MySQL as well as best practices. Remember you can plan your schedule with Schedule Builder. Saturday, 11.30 am, Room Golden Gate 7: MySQL and Hadoop—Chris Schneider, Ning.com Saturday, 1.00 pm, Room Golden Gate 7: Thriving in a MySQL Replicated World—Ed Presz and Andrew Yee, Ticketmaster Saturday, 1.00 pm, Room Golden Gate 8: Rick’s RoTs (Rules of Thumb)—Rick James, Yahoo! Saturday, 2.30 pm, Room Golden Gate 3: Scaling Pinterest—Yashwanth Nelapati and Evrhet Milam, Pinterest Saturday, 4.00 pm, Room Golden Gate 3: MySQL Pool Scanner: An Automated Service for Host Management—Levi Junkert, Facebook Sunday, 10.15 am, Room Golden Gate 3: Big Data Is a Big Scam (Most of the Time)—Daniel Austin, PayPal Sunday, 11.45 am, Room Golden Gate 3: MySQL at Twitter: Development and Deployment—Jeremy Cole and Davi Arnaut, Twitter Sunday, 1.15 pm, Room Golden Gate 3: CERN’s MySQL-as-a-Service Deployment with Oracle VM: Empowering Users—Dawid Wojcik and Eric Grancher, DBA, CERN Sunday, 2.45 pm, Room Golden Gate 3: Database Scaling at Mozilla—Sheeri Cabral, Mozilla Sunday, 5.45 pm, Room Golden Gate 4: MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition @ El Chavo, Latin America’s #1 Facebook Game—Carlos Morales, Playful Play You can check out the full program here as well as in the September edition of the MySQL newsletter. Not registered yet? You can still save US$ 300 over the on-site fee – Register Now!

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• Recent resources on Entity Framework 4

  - by Eric Nelson

  I just posted on the bits you need to install to explore all the features of Entity Framework 4 with the Visual Studio 2010 RC. I’ve also had a quick look (March 12th 2010) to see what new resources are out there on EF4. They appear a little thin on the ground – but there are some gems. The following all caught my attention: Julie Lerman has published 2 How-to-videos on EF4 on pluralsight.com. You need to create a free guest pass to watch them. Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 – Session given at Cairo CodeCamp 2010 . This includes ppt and demos. Entity Framework 4 providers – read through the comments What’s new with Entity Framework in Visual Studio 2010 RC Extending the design surface of EF4 using the Extension Starter Kit Persistence Ignorance and EF4 on geekSpeak on channel 9 (poor audio IMHO – I gave up) First of a series of posts on EF4 How to stop your dba having a heart attack with EF4 from Simon Sabin in the UK. This includes ppt and demos. And the biggy. You no longer have to depend on SQL Profiler to keep an eye on the generated SQL. There is now a commercial profiler for Entity Framework.  I am yet to try it – but I listened to a .NET rocks podcast which made it sound great. It is “hidden” in a session on DSLs in Boo –> Oren Eini on creating DSLs in Boo. This is a much richer experience than you would get from SQL Profiler – matching the SQL to the .NET code. And finally a momentous #fail to … drum roll… the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit Feb release. This just contains one ppt on EF4 – and it is not even a good one. Real shame. P.S. I will update the 101 EF4 Resources with the above … but post devweek in case I find some more goodies. Related Links 101 EF4 Resources

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• #TechEd 2010

  - by T

  It has been another fantastic year for TechEd North America.  I always love my time here.  First, I have to give a huge thank you to Ineta for giving me the opportunity to work the Ineta booth and BOF’s (birds of a feather).   I can not even begin to list how many fantastic leaders in the .Net space and Developers from all over I have met through Ineta at this event.  It has been truly amazing and great fun!! New Orlean’s has been awesome.  The night life is hoppin’.  In addition to enjoying a few (too many??) of the local hurricanes in New Orleans, I have hung out with some of the coolest people  Deepesh Mohnani, David Poll, Viresh, Alan Stephens, Shawn Wildermuth, Greg Leonardo, Doug Seven, Chris Willams, David Carley and some of our southcentral hero’s Jeffery Palermo, Todd Anglin, Shawn Weisfeld, Randy Walker, The midnight DBA’s, Zeeshan Hirani, Dennis Bottjer just to name a few. A big thanks to Microsoft and everyone that has helped to put TechEd together.  I have loved hanging out with people from the Silverlight and Expression Teams and have learned a ton.  I am ramped up and ready to take all that knowledge back to my co-workers and my community. I can not wait to see you all again next year in Atlanta!!! Here are video links to some of my fav sessions: Using MVVM Design Pattern with VS 2010 XAML Designer – Rockford Lhotka Effective RIA: Tips and Tricks for Building Effective Rich Internet Applications – Deepesh Mohani Taking Microsoft Silverlight 4 Applications Beyond the Browser – David Poll Jump into Silvelright! and become immediately effective – Tim Huckaby Prototyping Rich Microsoft Silverlight 4 Applications with MS Expression Blend + SketchFlow – David Carley Tales from the Trenches: Building a Real-World Microsoft Silvelright Line-of-Business Application – Dan Wahlin

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• OBJECT_Name parameters and dbid

  - by steveh99999

  If you've been using SQL Server for a long time, you may have been used to using the OBJECT_NAME system function in the past - especially useful when converting table IDs into table names when querying sysobjects and sysindexes..... However, if you're an old-school DBA  - did you know since SQL 2005 service pack 2 it  accepts a  second parameter ? database_id.. For example, this can be used to summarize some useful information from sys.dm_exec_query_stats. When reviewing SQL Server performance - it can be useful to look at the most heavily used stored procedures rather than inefficient less frequently used procedures.  Here's a query to summarize performance data on the most-heavily used stored procedures across all databases on a server  :-SELECT TOP 20 DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY SUM(execution_count) DESC) AS rank, OBJECT_NAME(qt.objectid, qt.dbid) AS 'proc name', (CASE WHEN qt.dbid = 32767 THEN 'mssqlresource' ELSE DB_NAME(qt.dbid) END ) AS 'Database', OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(qt.objectid,qt.dbid) AS 'schema', SUM(execution_count) AS 'TotalExecutions',SUM(total_worker_time) AS 'TotalCPUTimeMS', SUM(total_elapsed_time) AS 'TotalRunTimeMS', SUM(total_logical_reads) AS 'TotalLogicalReads',SUM(total_logical_writes) AS 'TotalLogicalWrites', MIN(creation_time) AS 'earliestPlan', MAX(last_execution_time) AS 'lastExecutionTime' FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats qs CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) AS qt WHERE OBJECT_NAME(qt.objectid, qt.dbid) IS NOT NULL GROUP BY OBJECT_NAME(qt.objectid, qt.dbid),qt.dbid,OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(qt.objectid,qt.dbid)      

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• Six in Six - SQL Server 2012 Webinars

  - by JustinL

  We're running six webinars over the next six months covering our experiences with SQL Server 2012 and customer deployments. I'm presenting the first on upgrading to SQL Server 2012 next month, subsequent sessions will be delivered by colleagues: NOVEMBER: SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Approach and considerations. Friday 23rd November 12:00 – 13:00 Present approaches for upgrade testing, managing risk and rollback. The session will include details on minimizing downtime and upgrading from SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008 including.... More details and register. DECEMBER: Delivering Mission Critical BI with SQL Server 2012– Friday 14th December 12:00-13:00 Information is the lifeblood of many organisations and the availability of timely, accurate information is critical to strategic decision making. This session covers the features and capabilities… More details and register. JANUARY: Architecting Highly Available solutions with SQL Server 2012 – Friday 18th January 12:00- 13:00 Overview and comparison of the high availability features available within SQL Server 2012. The session considers business requirements for availability and recoverability and presents a number of alternative solution designs to meet… More details and register. FEBRUARY: Private cloud deployments with SQL Server 2012 – Friday 15th February 12:00- 13:00 Cloud based technology provide cost effective scale and flexibility. This session provides an overview of the benefits organisations can realise through private cloud… More details and register. MARCH: Visualising data patterns with SQL Server 2012 – Friday 22nd March 12:00- 13:00 This webinar demonstrates the ease of delivering business insight by exploring information and identifying trends through data visualisation. SQL Server 2012 provides new capability with enhanced performance and … More details and register. APRIL: Architecting Highly Available solutions with SQL Server 2012 – Friday 26th April 12:00- 13:00 Customers are increasingly interested in leveraging the benefits of cloud based solutions to provide scalable and flexible infrastructure to host their applications. This session looks at common design patterns and workloads… More details and register. Justin Langford - Coeo Ltd SQL Server Consultants | SQL Server Remote DBA

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• SQL Saturday #220 - Atlanta - Pre-Conference Scholarships!

  - by Most Valuable Yak (Rob Volk)

  We Want YOU…To Learn! AtlantaMDF and Idera are teaming up to find a few good people. If you are: A student looking to work in the database or business intelligence fields A database professional who is between jobs or wants a better one A developer looking to step up to something new On a limited budget and can’t afford professional SQL Server training Able to attend training from 9 to 5 on May 17, 2013 AtlantaMDF is presenting 5 Pre-Conference Sessions (pre-cons) for SQL Saturday #220! And thanks to Idera’s sponsorship, we can offer one free ticket to each of these sessions to eligible candidates! That means one scholarship per Pre-Con! One Recipient Each will Attend: Denny Cherry: SQL Server Security http://sqlsecurity.eventbrite.com/ Adam Machanic: Surfing the Multicore Wave: Processors, Parallelism, and Performance http://surfmulticore.eventbrite.com/ Stacia Misner: Languages of BI http://languagesofbi.eventbrite.com/ Bill Pearson: Practical Self-Service BI with PowerPivot for Excel http://selfservicebi.eventbrite.com/ Eddie Wuerch: The DBA Skills Upgrade Toolkit http://dbatoolkit.eventbrite.com/ If you are interested in attending these pre-cons send an email by April 30, 2013 to [email protected] and tell us: Why you are a good candidate to receive this scholarship Which sessions you’d like to attend, and why (list multiple sessions in order of preference) What the session will teach you and how it will help you achieve your goals The emails will be evaluated by the good folks at Midlands PASS in Columbia, SC. The recipients will be notified by email and announcements made on May 6, 2013. GOOD LUCK! P.S. - Don't forget that SQLSaturday #220 offers free* training in addition to the pre-cons! You can find more information about SQL Saturday #220 at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/220/eventhome.aspx. View the scheduled sessions at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/220/schedule.aspx and register for them at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/220/register.aspx. * Registration charges a $10 fee to cover lunch expenses.

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• I finished my #TechEd 2010, may I have another??

  - by T

  It has been another fantastic year for TechEd North America.  I always love my time here.  First, I have to give a huge thank you to Ineta for giving me the opportunity to work the Ineta booth and BOF’s (birds of a feather).   I can not even begin to list how many fantastic leaders in the .Net space and Developers from all over I have met through Ineta at this event.  It has been truly amazing and great fun!! New Orlean’s has been awesome.  The night life is hoppin’.  In addition to enjoying a few (too many??) of the local hurricanes in New Orleans, I have hung out with some of the coolest people  Deepesh Mohnani, David Poll, Viresh, Alan Stephens, Shawn Wildermuth, Greg Leonardo, Doug Seven, Chris Willams, David Carley and some of our southcentral hero’s Jeffery Palermo, Todd Anglin, Shawn Weisfeld, Randy Walker, The midnight DBA’s, Zeeshan Hirani, Dennis Bottjer just to name a few. A big thanks to Microsoft and everyone that has helped to put TechEd together.  I have loved hanging out with people from the Silverlight and Expression Teams and have learned a ton.  I am ramped up and ready to take all that knowledge back to my co-workers and my community. I can not wait to see you all again next year in Atlanta!!! Here are video links to some of my fav sessions: Using MVVM Design Pattern with VS 2010 XAML Designer – Rockford Lhotka Effective RIA: Tips and Tricks for Building Effective Rich Internet Applications – Deepesh Mohani Taking Microsoft Silverlight 4 Applications Beyond the Browser – David Poll Jump into Silvelright! and become immediately effective – Tim Huckaby Prototyping Rich Microsoft Silverlight 4 Applications with MS Expression Blend + SketchFlow – David Carley Tales from the Trenches: Building a Real-World Microsoft Silvelright Line-of-Business Application – Dan Wahlin

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• SQL SERVER – Copy Database – SQL in Sixty Seconds #067

  - by Pinal Dave

  There are multiple reasons why a user may want to make a copy of the database. Sometimes a user wants to copy the database to the same server and sometime wants to copy the database on a different server. The important point is that DBA and Developer may want copies of their database for various purposes. I copy my database for backup purpose. However, when we hear coping database – the very first thought which comes to our mind is – Backup and Restore or Attach and Detach. Both of these processes have their own advantage and disadvantages. The matter of the fact, those methods is much efficient and recommended methods. However, if you just want to copy your database as it is and do not want to go for advanced feature. You can just use the copy feature of the SQL Server. Here are the settings, which you can use to copy the database. SQL in Sixty Seconds Video I have attempted to explain the same subject in simple words over in following video. Action Item Here are the blog posts I have previously written on the subject of SA password. You can read it over here: Copy Database from Instance to Another Instance – Copy Paste in SQL Server Copy Database With Data – Generate T-SQL For Inserting Data From One Table to Another Table Copy Data from One Table to Another Table – SQL in Sixty Seconds #031 – Video Generate Script for Schema and Data – SQL in Sixty Seconds #021 – Video You can subscribe to my YouTube Channel for frequent updates. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)Filed under: Joes 2 Pros, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority Book Review, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Video

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• 24 Hours of PASS scheduling

  - by Rob Farley

  I have a new appreciation for Tom LaRock (@sqlrockstar), who is doing a tremendous job leading the organising committee for the 24 Hours of PASS event (Twitter: #24hop). We’ve just been going through the list of speakers and their preferences for time slots, and hopefully we’ve kept everyone fairly happy. All the submitted sessions (59 of them) were put up for a vote, and over a thousand of you picking your favourites. The top 28 sessions as voted were all included (24 sessions plus 4 reserves), and duplicates (when a single presenter had two sessions in the top 28) were swapped out for others. For example, both sessions submitted by Cindy Gross were in the top 28. These swaps were chosen by the committee to get a good balance of topics. Amazingly, some big names missed out, and even the top ten included some surprises. T-SQL, Indexes and Reporting featured well in the top ten, and in the end, the mix between BI, Dev and DBA ended up quite nicely too. The ten most voted-for sessions were (in order): Jennifer McCown - T-SQL Code Sins: The Worst Things We Do to Code and Why Michelle Ufford - Index Internals for Mere Mortals Audrey Hammonds - T-SQL Awesomeness: 3 Ways to Write Cool SQL Cindy Gross - SQL Server Performance Tools Jes Borland - Reporting Services 201: the Next Level Isabel de la Barra - SQL Server Performance Karen Lopez - Five Physical Database Design Blunders and How to Avoid Them Julie Smith - Cool Tricks to Pull From Your SSIS Hat Kim Tessereau - Indexes and Execution Plans Jen Stirrup - Dashboards Design and Practice using SSRS I think you’ll all agree this is shaping up to be an excellent event.

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• links for 2010-06-16

  - by Bob Rhubart

  Automating Enterprise Reporting with SOA and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher In the latest article in the Enterprise Solution Cookbook series, authors John Chung and Harish Gaur take you step-by-step through the development of an automated reporting platform using Oracle's SOA Suite, WebCenter, and Business Intelligence Publisher. (tags: soa enterprise2.0 architect entarch bpm oracle otn) @ORACLENERD: Job: Infrastructure Technical Architect Oracle ACE Chet "ORACLENERD" Justice shares the 411 on a great new gig for the right architect.  (tags: jobs employment infrastructure architect oracleace) Andrew Ness: Building a training environment for RAC, ASM and Dataguard on OEL 5.4 "In all the environments I've worked in where Oracle DBAs are involved, " says Ness, "they would have chewed my arm off to have this level of control over where their data lives." (tags: oracle grid database dba) Chris Quenelle: Virtualization terms UNIXy Goodness blogger Chris Quenelle dives into Wikipedia to compile this short but valuable glossary of virtualization terms.  (tags: solaris hypervisor virtualization) William Vambenepe: CMDB in the Cloud: not your father's CMDB "Most [customers] will be dealing with a mix of old-style and Cloud applications and they’ll be looking for a unified management approach. This helps CMDB incumbents. If you doubt the power to continuity, take a minute to realize that the entire value proposition of hypervisor-style virtualization is centered around it." -- William Vambenepe (tags: oracle otn cloud virtualization) Merv Adrian: Oracle Exadata: a Data Management Tipping Point "In this second version of its newest platform, Oracle not only provides the latest technology in each part of the data-management architecture, but also integrates them under the full control of one vendor, with a unified approach to leveraging the full stack." -- Merv Adrian (tags: oracle exadata database)

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• Oracle Database 12c By Example – SQL Developer and Multitenant

  - by thatjeffsmith

  As you may have heard, Oracle Database 12c is now available. In addition to the binaries and docs going out, we also published a few new Oracle By Example (OBE) chapters. You can find those links here on our product page. Do you know who found these, practically the minute they were published? An enterprising DBA-extraordinaire who was just happening to be presenting at the ODTUG KScope13 conference in New Orleans. He thought it would be a good idea to download the new software over a hotel WIFI, install and create a new multitenant database, watch a few OBEs, and then demo that live for his ‘SQL Developer for DBAs‘ session. Pretty crazy, right? Well, he did it, and I was there to watch. Way cool. You can listen to @leight0nn tell his story in his own words via this ODTUG interview with @oraclenered. In case you’re too giddy to sit through the video, I’ll give you a preview – he succesfully cloned a pluggable database in about a minute with only a couple of clicks using Oracle SQL Developer 3.2.20.09 while connected to a 12c database.

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• How to manage a developer who has poor communication skills

  - by djcredo

  I manage a small team of developers on an application which is in the mid-point of its lifecycle, within a big firm. This unfortunately means there is commonly a 30/70 split of Programming tasks to "other technical work". This work includes: Working with DBA / Unix / Network / Loadbalancer teams on various tasks Placing & managing orders for hardware or infrastructure in different regions Running tests that have not yet been migrated to CI Analysis Support / Investigation Its fair to say that the Developers would all prefer to be coding, rather than doing these more mundane tasks, so I try to hand out the fun programming jobs evenly amongst the team. Most of the team was hired because, though they may not have the elite programming skills to write their own compiler / game engine / high-frequency trading system etc., they are good communicators who "can get stuff done", work with other teams, and somewhat navigate the complex beaurocracy here. They are good developers, but they are also good all-round technical staff. However, one member of the team probably has above-average coding skills, but below-average communication skills. Traditionally, the previous Development Manager tended to give him the Programming tasks and not the more mundane tasks listed above. However, I don't feel that this is fair to the rest of the team, who have shown an aptitute for developing a well-rounded skillset that is commonly required in a big-business IT department. What should I do in this situation? If I continue to give him more programming work, I know that it will be done faster (and conversly, I would expect him to complete the other work slower). But it goes against my principles, and promotes the idea that you can carve out a "comfortable niche" for yourself simply by being bad at the tasks you don't like.

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• Meet The MySQL Experts Podcast: MySQL Utilities

  - by Wei-Chen Chiu

  Managing a MySQL database server can become a full time job. In many occasions, one MySQL DBA needs to manage multiple, even tens of, MySQL servers, and tools that bundle a set of related tasks into a common utility can be a big time saver, allowing you spend more time improving performance and less time executing repeating tasks. While there are several such utility libraries to choose, it is often the case that you need to customize them to your needs. The MySQL Utilities library is the answer to that need. It is open source so you can modify and expand it as you see fit. In the latest episode of the "Meet the MySQL Experts" podcast series, Chuck Bell, Sr. MySQL Software Developer at Oracle, introduces a variety of recently released MySQL Utilities, and how DBAs can save significant time using the utilities. Listen to the podcast and learn the highlights in 10 minutes. If you want to gain further details, attend the on-demand webinar for a more complete introduction, including: Use cases for each utility How to group utilities for even more usability How to modify utilities for your needs How to develop and contribute new utilities  Enjoy!

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• Best of OTN - Week of August 17th

  - by CassandraClark-OTN

  Architect CommunityThe Top 3 most popular OTN ArchBeat video interviews of all time: Oracle Coherence Community on Java.net | Brian Oliver and Randy Stafford [October 24, 2013] Brian Oliver (Senior Principal Solutions Architect, Oracle Coherence) and Randy Stafford (Architect At-Large, Oracle Coherence Product Development) discuss the evolution of the Oracle Coherence Community on Java.net and how developers can actively participate in product development through Coherence Community open projects. Visit the Coherence Community at: https://java.net/projects/coherence. The Raspberry Pi Java Carputer and Other Wonders | Simon Ritter [February 13, 2014] Oracle lead Java evangelist Simon Ritter talks about his Raspberry Pi-based Java Carputer IoT project and other topics he presented at QCon London 2014. Hot Features in Oracle APEX 5.0 | Joel Kallman [May 14, 2014] Joel Kallman (Director, Software Development, Oracle) shares key points from his Great Lakes Oracle Conference 2014 session on new features in Oracle APEX 5.0. Friday Funny from OTN Architect Community Manager Bob Rhubart: Comedy legend Steve Martin entertains dogs in this 1976 clip from the Carol Burnette show. Database Community OTN Database Community Home Page - See all tech articles, downloads etc. related to Oracle Database for DBA's and Developers. Java Community JavaOne Blog - JRuby and JVM Languages at JavaOne!  In this video interview, Charles shared the JRuby features he presented at the JVM Language Summit. He'll be at JavaOne read the blog to see all the sessions. Java Source Blog - IoT: Wearables! Wearables are a subset of the Internet of Things that has gained a lot of attention. Learn More. I love Java FaceBook - Java Advanced Management Console demo - Watch as Jim Weaver, Java Technology Ambassador at Oracle, walks through a demonstration of the new Java Advanced Management Console (AMC) tool. Systems Community OTN Garage Blog - Why Wouldn't Root Be Able to Change a Zone's IP Address in Oracle Solaris 11? - Read and learn the answer. OTN Garage FaceBook - Securing Your Cloud-Based Data Center with Oracle Solaris 11 - Overview of the security precautions a sysadmin needs to take to secure data in a cloud infrastructure, and how to implement them with the security features in Oracle Solaris 11.

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• Interesting SSMS issue with waittype of PREEMPTIVE_OS_LOOKUPACCOUNTSID

  - by steveh99999

  Saw a recent issue with SQL2008 sp 1 where SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) appeared to hang when a DBA expanded the database users tab of a database… ie like this :-   When we looked at the waittype of the SSMS session - via sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks– it was waiting on PREEMPTIVE_OS_LOOKUPACCOUNTSID. I’d not come across this waittype before, and there was very little information out on the web for it.. Looking at this issue using SQL Profiler – it them became apparent that SSMS was waiting on the function SUSER_SNAME. I did a quick test using SET STATISTICS TIME to prove it was the SUSER_SNAME function causing our issue :- SELECT * FROM sys.database_principals   -- completes in 6 milliseconds SELECT SUSER_SNAME(sid),* FROM sys.database_principals  -- completes in 188941 milliseconds. suser_sname validates a sid against Active Directory.. What I haven’t mentioned so far is that the database in question had been restored from a server on a different domain. This domain was untrusted from the current domain. However, it appeared that SSMS was still trying to validate the Windows login of each user when displaying the users list…. and taking a long time to return NULL for each user from the untrusted domain. When all users that had a login from the untrusted domain are removed from the database – this fixed the issue. To find out the users that had this issue :- SELECT name FROM sys.database_principals WHERE type_desc IN(‘WINDOWS_USER’, ‘WINDOWS_GROUP’) and SUSER_SNAME(sid) IS NULL Although I have not raised this as a case with MS – I do think this is a bug in SSMS – I do not see why windows logins should need to be validated when displaying only user details..

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• Is the development of CLI apps considered "backward"?

  - by user61852

  I am a DBA fledgling with a lot of experience in programming. I have developed several CLI, non interactive apps that solve some daily repetitive tasks or eliminate the human error from more complex albeit not so daily tasks. These tools are now part of our tool box. I find CLI apps are great because you can include them in an automated workflow. Also the Unix philosophy of doing a single thing but doing it well, and letting the output of a process be the input of another, is a great way of building a set of tools than would consolidate into an strategic advantage. My boss recently commented that developing CLI tools is "backward", or constitutes a "regression". I told him I disagreed, because most CLI tools that exist now are not legacy but are live projects with improved versions being released all the time. Is this kind of development considered "backwards" in the market? Does it look bad on a rèsumè? I also considered all solutions whether they are web or desktop, should have command line, non-interactive options. Some people consider this a waste of programming resources. Is this goal a worthy one in a software project?

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• Best arguments for/against introducing ORM technology into a companies dev process

  - by james

  I have started using ORM technology in the last few years. My first exposure was NHibernate. I then moved onto Linq 2 Sql, and Entity Framework. The issue I have however is, there are some organisations where I have found strong opposition to introducing ORM tools. They usually have a number of reasons: they have a lot of built up SQL skills in the team, and are worried about the underlying SQL that ORM's generate. they have DBA's who like to be able to see the SQL an app uses in order that can review it for best practice. they are worried about performance (some people have "heard" the ORM's aren't as performant but have no real proof themselves - there may well be some truth in this! :). So, I'm looking for the best or most convincing arguments that you have put forward FOR the use of ORM tools. Equally, I would be interested in the against arguments too. Note: this is NOT a discussion over which ORM I should use.

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• Self Service Reporting With PowerPivot

  - by blakmk

  There are so many cool new features in Sql 2008 release 2 it was difficult for me to pick a topic for T-SQL Tuesday . But the one that I am now a secret fan of, I once resented for its creation. Let me explain, for years I have encountered reporting systems cobbled together in tools like Access and Excel built by "database hobbyists" who had no formal training in database design or best practices. They would take their monstrosities as far as they could go before ultimatley it stopped working or the person that wrote it left the company. At that point it would become the resident DBA's problem to support it as a Live application. So when I first heard of Power Pivot, a sense of Deja Vu overtook me and I felt like the guy in the Ausin Powers movie , knowing the inevitable is coming but somehow unsure how to get out of the way. But when I eventually saw it in action, I quickly realised that it is a very powerful tool. It has a much smaller "time to market" than traditional BI architectures. Combined with the new features of Excel, some pretty impressive dashboards can be produced.Of course PowerPivot is not a magic bullet and along with potential scalability issues there are the usual issues such as master data management and data quality that cannot be overcome easily with power pivot. As a tool though, it has potential. Traditional BI is expensive, both in terms of time and the amount of resources it takes to deliver the system. The time lag between an analyst or a commercial accountant requesting reports and the report being delivered can make a huge commercial difference. I have observed companies where empowered end users become extremely productive when allowed to plough in to various disperate datasets. It may not be the correct way or the most sustainable but its cheap and quick. In these times when budgets are being slashed and we are forced to deliver more with less, why not empower the end user in a tool that is designed for exactly this task.... @blakmk  

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• My father is a doctor. He is insisting on writing a database to store non-critical patient information, with no programming background

  - by Dominic Bou-Samra

  So, my father is currently in the process of "hacking" together a database using FileMaker Pro, a GUI based databasing tool for his small (4 doctor) practice. The database will be used to help ease the burden on reporting from medical machines, streamlining quite a clumsy process. He's got no programming background, and seems to be doing everything in his power to not learn things correctly. He's got duplicate data types, no database-enforced relationships (foreign/primary key constraints) and a dozen other issues. He's doing it all by hand via GUI tool using Youtube videos. My issue is, that whilst I want him to succeed 100%, I don't think it's appropriate for him to be handling these types of decisions. How do I convince him that without some sort of education in these topics, a hacked together solution is a bad idea? He's can be quite stubborn and I think he sees these types of jobs as "childs play" How should I approach this? Is it even that bad an idea - or am I correct in thinking he should hire a proper DBA/developer to handle this so that it doesn't become a maintenance nightmare? NB: I am a developer consultant of 4 years and I've seen my share of painful customer implementations.

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• How do I ensure my Apple keyboard connects on boot?

  - by Stacey Richards

  I am using Ubuntu 10.04 on a laptop and have an Apple wireless keyboard which pairs fine. Every time I turn my computer off and back on again my keyboard stops working. I have to use the keyboard on my laptop to log in. Once I've logged in, in order to get the wireless keyboard to work, I need disconnect and reconnect it by: Clicking on the Bluetooth icon, select Apple Wireless Keyboard from the drop down menu, then click on Disconnect. Clicking on the Bluetooth icon, select Apple Wireless Keyboard from the drop down menu, then click on Connect. Looking through syslog, to see what's happening during boot, I find: Nov 25 10:29:21 sony kernel: [ 24.525372] apple 0005:05AC:0239.0002: parse failed Nov 25 10:29:21 sony kernel: [ 24.525379] apple: probe of 0005:05AC:0239.0002 failed with error -14 and then later in syslog, once I've disconnected then connected the keyboard, I find: Nov 25 10:30:14 sony bluetoothd[1247]: link_key_request (sba=00:21:4F:49:8A:DB, dba=E8:06:88:5A:E0:D4) Nov 25 10:30:14 sony kernel: [ 79.427277] input: Apple Wireless Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb8/8-1/8-1:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:12/input11 Nov 25 10:30:14 sony kernel: [ 79.427611] apple 0005:05AC:0239.0003: input,hidraw1: BLUETOOTH HID v0.50 Keyboard [Apple Wireless Keyboard] on 00:21:4F:49:8A:DB I can't find anything helpful when Googling "apple: probe of failed with error -14".

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• South Florida SQL Saturday 2010

  - by ScottKlein

  The South Florida SQL Server Users Group is proud to announce the 2nd annual South Florida SQL Saturday will be held Saturday, July 31st at DeVry University (the same place it was held last year). Like last year, this will be a FREE event, aimed at everyone involved with SQL Server. For those who attended in 2009, this was a great event. We had nearly 500 attendees with 6 tracks and great speakers. We hope to do it bigger and better this year, with more tracks, more speakers, and more people! Our goal is to surpass the 500 attendee mark, with tracks for DBA's, SQL Developers, plenty of BI information, and Azure! Last year I said seating was limited, but what what the heck? No limitation. If you deal with SQL, or want to learn SQL, this is the place to be. To register, click on this link: http://www.sqlsaturday.com/40/eventhome.aspx We already have a lot of registered attendees and many sessions submitted. Many SQL Server experts and MVP's will be speaking so here is a chance to learn from the BEST!

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• MRP/SCP (Not ASCP) Common Issues

  - by Annemarie Provisero

  ADVISOR WEBCAST: MRP/SCP (Not ASCP) Common Issues PRODUCT FAMILY: Manufacturing - Value Chain Planning   March 9, 2010 at 8 am PT, 9 am MT, 11 am ET   This session is intended for System Administrators, Database Administrator's (DBA), Functional Users, and Technical Users. We will discuss issues that are fairly common and will provide the general solutions to same. We will not only review power point information but review some of the application setups/checks as well. TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: Gig data memory limitation Setup Requirements for MRP Manager, Planning Manager, and Standard Manager Why components are not planned Sales Order Flow to MRP Calendars Patching Miscellaneous Forecast Consumption - only if we have time A short, live demonstration (only if applicable) and question and answer period will be included. Oracle Advisor Webcasts are dedicated to building your awareness around our products and services. This session does not replace offerings from Oracle Global Support Services. Click here to register for this session ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The above webcast is a service of the E-Business Suite Communities in My Oracle Support. For more information on other webcasts, please reference the Oracle Advisor Webcast Schedule.Click here to visit the E-Business Communities in My Oracle Support Note that all links require access to My Oracle Support.

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