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• PCI Compliance Book Suggestion

  - by Joel Weise

  I am always looking for good books on security, compliance and of course, PCI.  Here is one I think you will find very useful. "PCI Compliance, Third Edition: Understand and Implement Effective PCI Data Security Standard Compliance" by Branden Williams and Anton Chuvakin.  [Fair disclosure - Branden and I work together on the Information Systems Security Association Journal's editorial board.]   The primary reason I like this book is that the authors take a holistic architectural approach to PCI compliance and that to me is the most safe and sane way to approach PCI.  Using such an architectural approach to PCI is, in my humble opinion, the underlying intent of PCI.  Don't create a checklist of the PCI DSS and then map a solution to each.  That is a recipe for disaster.  Instead, look at how the different components and their configurations work together in a synergistic fashion.  In short, create a security architecture and governance framework (the ISO 27000 series is a good place to start) that begins with an evaluation of the requirements laid down in the PCI DSS, as well as your other applicable compliance, business and technical requirements.  By developing an integrated security architecture you should be able to not only address current requirements, but also be in a position to quickly address future ones as well.

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• Hack Fest Going Strong!

  - by Yolande Poirier

  Today was the first day of  the Hack Fest at Devoxx, the Java developer conference in Belgium.  The Hack Fest started with the Raspberry Pi & Leap Motion hands-on lab. Vinicius Senger introduced the Java Embedded, Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Java Champion Geert Bevin presented the Leap Motion, a controller sensing your hands and fingers to play games by controlling the mouse as an example. "Programmers are cooler than musicians because they can create entire universe using all senses" explained Geert In teams, participants started building applications using Raspberry Pi, sensors and relays. One team tested the performance of Tomcat, Java EE and Java Embedded Suite on the Raspberry Pi. Another used built an text animation using a LCD screen. Teams are using the Leap Motion to close and open programs on the desktop and other teams are using it as a game control. 

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• 4 Ways Your Brand Can Jump From the Edge of Space

  - by Mike Stiles

  Can your brand’s social media content captivate the world and make it hold its collective breath? Can you put something on the screen that’s so compelling that your audience can’t look away? Will they want to make sure their friends see it so they can talk about it? If not, you’re probably not with Red Bull. I was impressed with Red Bull’s approach to social content even before Felix Baumgartner’s stunning skydive from the edge of space. And then they did this. According to Visible Measures, videos of the jump scored 50 million views in 4 days. 1,700 clips were generated from both official and organic sources. The live stream was the most watched YouTube Stream of all time (8 million concurrent viewers). The 2nd most watched live stream was…Felix’ first attempt Oct. 9. Are you ready to compete with that? I ask that question because some brands are still out there tying themselves up in knots about whether or not they should tweet. The public’s time and attention are scarce commodities, commodities they value greatly. The competition amongst brands for that time and attention is intense and going up like Felix’s capsule. If you still view your press releases as “content,” you won’t even be counted as being among the competition. Here are 5 lessons learned from Red Bull’s big leap: 1. They have a total understanding of their target market and audience. Not only do they have an understanding of it, they do something about it. They act on it. They fill the majority of their thoughts with what the audience wants. They hunger for wild applause from that audience. They want to do things that embrace the audience’s lifestyle and immerse in it so the target will identify the brand as “one of them.” Takeaway: BE your target market. 2. They deliver content that strikes the audience right where they emotionally live. If you want your content to have impact, you have to make your audience’s heart race, or make them tear up, or make them laugh. Label them “data points” all you want, but humans are emotional creatures. No message connects that’s not carried in on an emotion. Takeaway: You’re on the inside. If your content doesn’t make you say “wow,” it’s unlikely it will register with fans. 3. They put aside old school marketing and don’t let their content be degraded into a commercial. Their execs seem to understand the value in keeping a lid on the hard sell. So many brands just can’t bring themselves to disconnect advertising and social content. The result is, otherwise decent content gets contaminated with a desperation the viewer can smell a mile away. Think the Baumgartner skydive didn’t do Red Bull any good since he wasn’t drinking one on the way down while singing a jingle? Analysis company Taykey discovered that at the peak of the skydive buzz, about 1% of all online conversation was about the jump. Mentions of Red Bull constituted 1/3 of 1% of all Internet activity. Views of other Red Bull videos also shot up. Takeaway: Chill out with the ads. Your brand will get full credit for entertaining/informing fans in a relevant way, provided you do it. 4. They don’t hesitate to ask, “What can we do next”? Most corporate cultures are a virtual training facility for “we can’t do that.” Few are encouraged to innovate or think big, if think at all. Thinking big involves faith, and work. It means freedom and letting employees run a little wild with their ideas. There will always be the opportunity to let fear of everything that moves creep in and kill grand visions dead in their tracks. Experimenting must be allowed. Failure must be allowed. Red Bull didn’t think big. They thought mega. They tried to outdo themselves. Felix could have gone ahead and jumped halfway up, thinking, “This is still relatively high up. Good enough.” But that wouldn’t have left us breathless. Takeaway: Go for it. Jump. In putting up social properties and gathering fans of your brand, you’ve basically invited people to a party. A good host doesn’t just set out warm beer and stale chips because that’s inexpensive and easy. Be on the lookout for ways to make your guests walk away saying, “That was epic.”

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• Can't ping self

  - by Paddy

  I have a wireless internet connection setup on my Mac. (v10.5.6) Am connected to the internet and everything is running smoothly. I recently discovered a quirky behaviour while setting up apache web server. When i typed in my dynamic ip (http://117.254.149.11/) in the webbrowser to visit my site pages it just timed out. In terminal i tried pinging localhost and it worked. $ ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.063 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.056 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.044 ms But if i pinged my ip it would just time out. $ ping 117.254.149.11 PING 117.254.149.11 (117.254.149.11): 56 data bytes ^C --- 117.254.149.11 ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss Pinging any other site works though. I am completely stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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• CVE-2009-2042 Information Exposure vulnerability in libpng

  - by chandan

  CVE DescriptionCVSSv2 Base ScoreComponentProduct and Resolution CVE-2009-2042 Information Exposure vulnerability 4.3 PNG reference library (libpng) Solaris 10 SPARC: 137080-04 X86: 137081-04 Solaris 9 SPARC: 139382-03 X86: 139383-03 Solaris 8 SPARC: 114816-04 X86: 114817-04 This notification describes vulnerabilities fixed in third-party components that are included in Sun's product distribution.Information about vulnerabilities affecting Oracle Sun products can be found on Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts page.

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• Working with Analytic Workflow Manager (AWM) - Part 8 Cube Metadata Analysis

  - by Mohan Ramanuja

  CUBE SIZEselect dbal.owner||'.'||substr(dbal.table_name,4) awname, sum(dbas.bytes)/1024/1024 as mb, dbas.tablespace_name from dba_lobs dbal, dba_segments dbas where dbal.column_name = 'AWLOB' and dbal.segment_name = dbas.segment_name group by dbal.owner, dbal.table_name, dbas.tablespace_name order by dbal.owner, dbal.table_name SESSION RESOURCES select vses.username||':'||vsst.sid username, vstt.name, max(vsst.value) valuefrom v$sesstat vsst, v$statname vstt, v$session vseswhere vstt.statistic# = vsst.statistic# and vsst.sid = vses.sid andVSES.USERNAME LIKE ('ATTRIBDW_OWN') ANDvstt.name in ('session pga memory', 'session pga memory max', 'session uga memory','session uga memory max', 'session cursor cache count', 'session cursor cache hits', 'session stored procedure space', 'opened cursors current', 'opened cursors cumulative') andvses.username is not null group by vsst.sid, vses.username, vstt.name order by vsst.sid, vses.username, vstt.name OLAP PGA USE select 'OLAP Pages Occupying: '|| round((((select sum(nvl(pool_size,1)) from v$aw_calc)) / (select value from v$pgastat where name = 'total PGA inuse')),2)*100||'%' info from dual union select 'Total PGA Inuse Size: '||value/1024||' KB' info from v$pgastat where name = 'total PGA inuse' union select 'Total OLAP Page Size: '|| round(sum(nvl(pool_size,1))/1024,0)||' KB' info from v$aw_calc order by info desc OLAP PGA USAGE PER USER select vs.username, vs.sid, round(pga_used_mem/1024/1024,2)||' MB' pga_used, round(pga_max_mem/1024/1024,2)||' MB' pga_max, round(pool_size/1024/1024,2)||' MB' olap_pp, round(100*(pool_hits-pool_misses)/pool_hits,2) || '%' olap_ratio from v$process vp, v$session vs, v$aw_calc va where session_id=vs.sid and addr = paddr CUBE LOADING SCRIPT REM The 'set define off' statement is needed only if running this script through SQLPlus.REM If you are using another tool to run this script, the line below may be commented out.set define offBEGIN  DBMS_CUBE.BUILD(    'VALIDATE  ATTRIBDW_OWN.CURRENCY USING  (    LOAD NO SYNCH,    COMPILE SORT  ),  ATTRIBDW_OWN.ACCOUNT USING  (    LOAD NO SYNCH,    COMPILE SORT  ),  ATTRIBDW_OWN.DATEDIM USING  (    LOAD NO SYNCH,    COMPILE SORT  ),  ATTRIBDW_OWN.CUSIP USING  (    LOAD NO SYNCH,    COMPILE SORT  ),  ATTRIBDW_OWN.ACCOUNTRETURN',    'CCCCC', -- refresh methodfalse, -- refresh after errors    0, -- parallelismtrue, -- atomic refreshtrue, -- automatic orderfalse); -- add dimensionsEND;/BEGIN  DBMS_CUBE.BUILD(    '  ATTRIBDW_OWN.CURRENCY USING  (    LOAD NO SYNCH,    COMPILE SORT  ),  ATTRIBDW_OWN.ACCOUNT USING  (    LOAD NO SYNCH,    COMPILE SORT  ),  ATTRIBDW_OWN.DATEDIM USING  (    LOAD NO SYNCH,    COMPILE SORT  ),  ATTRIBDW_OWN.CUSIP USING  (    LOAD NO SYNCH,    COMPILE SORT  ),  ATTRIBDW_OWN.ACCOUNTRETURN',    'CCCCC', -- refresh methodfalse, -- refresh after errors    0, -- parallelismtrue, -- atomic refreshtrue, -- automatic orderfalse); -- add dimensionsEND;/ VISUALIZATION OBJECT - AW$ATTRIBDW_OWN  CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."AW$ATTRIBDW_OWN"        (            "PS#"    NUMBER(10,0),            "GEN#"   NUMBER(10,0),            "EXTNUM" NUMBER(8,0),            "AWLOB" BLOB,            "OBJNAME"  VARCHAR2(256 BYTE),            "PARTNAME" VARCHAR2(256 BYTE)        )        PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE        (            BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT        )        TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB        (            "AWLOB"        )        STORE AS SECUREFILE        (            TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" DISABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION MIN 1 CACHE NOCOMPRESS KEEP_DUPLICATES STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)        )        PARTITION BY RANGE        (            "GEN#"        )        SUBPARTITION BY HASH        (            "PS#",            "EXTNUM"        )        SUBPARTITIONS 8        (            PARTITION "PTN1" VALUES LESS THAN (1) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS SECUREFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" DISABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION MIN 1 CACHE READS LOGGING NOCOMPRESS KEEP_DUPLICATES STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) ( SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP661" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP662" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP663" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP664" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP665" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION            "SYS_SUBP666" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP667" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP668" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) ,            PARTITION "PTNN" VALUES LESS THAN (MAXVALUE) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS SECUREFILE ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" DISABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION MIN 1 CACHE NOCOMPRESS KEEP_DUPLICATES STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) ( SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP669" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP670" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP671" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP672" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP673" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION            "SYS_SUBP674" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP675" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_SUBP676" LOB ("AWLOB") STORE AS ( TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" )        ) ;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."ATTRIBDW_OWN_I$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."AW$ATTRIBDW_OWN"    (        "PS#", "GEN#", "EXTNUM"    )    PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255 COMPUTE STATISTICS STORAGE    (        INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT    )    TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000406980C00004$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."AW$ATTRIBDW_OWN"    (        PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOCAL (PARTITION "SYS_IL_P711" PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ( SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP695" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP696" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP697" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP698" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP699" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP700" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP701" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP702" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) , PARTITION "SYS_IL_P712" PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) ( SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP703" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP704" TABLESPACE        "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP705" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP706" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP707" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP708" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP709" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" , SUBPARTITION "SYS_IL_SUBP710" TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ) ) PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ; CUBE BUILD LOG  CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_BUILD_LOG"        (            "BUILD_ID"          NUMBER,            "SLAVE_NUMBER"      NUMBER,            "STATUS"            VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),            "COMMAND"           VARCHAR2(25 BYTE),            "BUILD_OBJECT"      VARCHAR2(30 BYTE),            "BUILD_OBJECT_TYPE" VARCHAR2(10 BYTE),            "OUTPUT" CLOB,            "AW"            VARCHAR2(30 BYTE),            "OWNER"         VARCHAR2(30 BYTE),            "PARTITION"     VARCHAR2(50 BYTE),            "SCHEDULER_JOB" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE),            "TIME" TIMESTAMP (6)WITH TIME ZONE,        "BUILD_SCRIPT" CLOB,        "BUILD_TYPE"            VARCHAR2(22 BYTE),        "COMMAND_DEPTH"         NUMBER(2,0),        "BUILD_SUB_OBJECT"      VARCHAR2(30 BYTE),        "REFRESH_METHOD"        VARCHAR2(1 BYTE),        "SEQ_NUMBER"            NUMBER,        "COMMAND_NUMBER"        NUMBER,        "IN_BRANCH"             NUMBER(1,0),        "COMMAND_STATUS_NUMBER" NUMBER,        "BUILD_NAME"            VARCHAR2(100 BYTE)        )        SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING STORAGE        (            INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT        )        TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB        (            "OUTPUT"        )        STORE AS BASICFILE        (            TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)        )        LOB        (            "BUILD_SCRIPT"        )        STORE AS BASICFILE        (            TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)        ) ;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407294C00013$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_BUILD_LOG"    (        PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407294C00007$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_BUILD_LOG" ( PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ; CUBE DIMENSION COMPILE  CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"        (            "ID"               NUMBER,            "SEQ_NUMBER"       NUMBER,            "ERROR#"           NUMBER(8,0) NOT NULL ENABLE,            "ERROR_MESSAGE"    VARCHAR2(2000 BYTE),            "DIMENSION"        VARCHAR2(100 BYTE),            "DIMENSION_MEMBER" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE),            "MEMBER_ANCESTOR"  VARCHAR2(100 BYTE),            "HIERARCHY1"       VARCHAR2(100 BYTE),            "HIERARCHY2"       VARCHAR2(100 BYTE),            "ERROR_CONTEXT" CLOB        )        SEGMENT CREATION DEFERRED PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB        (            "ERROR_CONTEXT"        )        STORE AS BASICFILE        (            TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING        ) ;COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."ID"IS    'Current operation ID';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."SEQ_NUMBER"IS    'Cube build log sequence number';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."ERROR#"IS    'Error number being reported';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."ERROR_MESSAGE"IS    'Error text being reported';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."DIMENSION"IS    'Name of dimension being compiled';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."DIMENSION_MEMBER"IS    'Problem dimension member';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."MEMBER_ANCESTOR"IS    'Problem dimension member''s parent';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."HIERARCHY1"IS    'First hierarchy involved in error';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."HIERARCHY2"IS    'Second hierarchy involved in error';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"."ERROR_CONTEXT"IS    'Extra information for error';    COMMENT ON TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"IS    'Cube dimension compile log';CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407307C00010$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_DIMENSION_COMPILE"    (        PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE( INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ; CUBE OPERATING LOG  CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"        (            "INST_ID"    NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE,            "SID"        NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE,            "SERIAL#"    NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE,            "USER#"      NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE,            "SQL_ID"     VARCHAR2(13 BYTE),            "JOB"        NUMBER,            "ID"         NUMBER,            "PARENT_ID"  NUMBER,            "SEQ_NUMBER" NUMBER,            "TIME" TIMESTAMP (6)WITH TIME ZONE NOT NULL ENABLE,        "LOG_LEVEL"    NUMBER(4,0) NOT NULL ENABLE,        "DEPTH"        NUMBER(4,0),        "OPERATION"    VARCHAR2(15 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE,        "SUBOPERATION" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE),        "STATUS"       VARCHAR2(10 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE,        "NAME"         VARCHAR2(20 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE,        "VALUE"        VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),        "DETAILS" CLOB        )        SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING STORAGE        (            INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT        )        TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB        (            "DETAILS"        )        STORE AS BASICFILE        (            TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)        ) ;COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."INST_ID"IS    'Instance ID';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SID"IS    'Session ID';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SERIAL#"IS    'Session serial#';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."USER#"IS    'User ID';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SQL_ID"IS    'Executing SQL statement ID';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."JOB"IS    'Identifier of job';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."ID"IS    'Current operation ID';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."PARENT_ID"IS    'Parent operation ID';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SEQ_NUMBER"IS    'Cube build log sequence number';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."TIME"IS    'Time of record';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."LOG_LEVEL"IS    'Verbosity level of record';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."DEPTH"IS    'Nesting depth of record';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."OPERATION"IS    'Current operation';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."SUBOPERATION"IS    'Current suboperation';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."STATUS"IS    'Status of current operation';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."NAME"IS    'Name of record';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."VALUE"IS    'Value of record';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"."DETAILS"IS    'Extra information for record';    COMMENT ON TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"IS    'Cube operations log';CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407301C00018$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_OPERATIONS_LOG"    (        PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ; CUBE REJECTED RECORDS CREATE TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"        (            "ID"            NUMBER,            "SEQ_NUMBER"    NUMBER,            "ERROR#"        NUMBER(8,0) NOT NULL ENABLE,            "ERROR_MESSAGE" VARCHAR2(2000 BYTE),            "RECORD#"       NUMBER(38,0),            "SOURCE_ROW" ROWID,            "REJECTED_RECORD" CLOB        )        SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING STORAGE        (            INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT        )        TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" LOB        (            "REJECTED_RECORD"        )        STORE AS BASICFILE        (            TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION NOCACHE LOGGING STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)        ) ;COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."ID"IS    'Current operation ID';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."SEQ_NUMBER"IS    'Cube build log sequence number';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."ERROR#"IS    'Error number being reported';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."ERROR_MESSAGE"IS    'Error text being reported';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."RECORD#"IS    'Rejected record number';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."SOURCE_ROW"IS    'Rejected record''s ROWID';    COMMENT ON COLUMN "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"."REJECTED_RECORD"IS    'Rejected record copy';    COMMENT ON TABLE "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"IS    'Cube rejected records log';CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."SYS_IL0000407304C00007$$" ON "ATTRIBDW_OWN"."CUBE_REJECTED_RECORDS"    (        PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 1048576 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645 PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT) TABLESPACE "ATTRIBDW_DATA" PARALLEL (DEGREE 0 INSTANCES 0) ;

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• Cross-Channel Survey Report

  - by David Dorf

  The folks at Retail Touchpoints surveyed 84 retailers on the topic of cross-channel and have published the results in Completing the Cross-Channel Challenge.  Below is an overview video that summarizes the findings and cites retailer examples. One thing is clear: customers demand Commerce Anywhere, the ability to shop when, where, and the way they want.  So retailers are doing what it takes to revamp their business to meet their customers' demands.

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• Social Engagement: One Size Doesn't Fit Anyone

  - by Mike Stiles

  The key to achieving meaningful social engagement is to know who you’re talking to, know what they like, and consistently deliver that kind of material to them. Every magazine for women knows this. When you read the article titles promoted on their covers, there’s no mistaking for whom that magazine is intended. And yet, confusion still reigns at many brands as to exactly whom they want to talk to, what those people want to hear, and what kind of content they should be creating for them. In most instances, the root problem is brands want to be all things to all people. Their target audience…the world! Good luck with that. It’s 2012, the age of aggregation and custom content delivery. To cope with the modern day barrage of information, people have constructed technological filters so that content they regard as being “for them” is mostly what gets through. Even if your brand is for men and women, young and old, you may want to consider social properties that divide men from women, and young from old. Yes, a man might find something in a women’s magazine that interests him. But that doesn’t mean he’s going to subscribe to it, or buy even one issue. In fact he’ll probably never see the article he’d otherwise be interested in, because in his mind, “This isn’t for me.” It wasn’t packaged for him. News Flash: men and women are different. So it’s a tall order to craft your Facebook Page or Twitter handle to simultaneously exude the motivators for both. The Harris Interactive study “2012 Connecting and Communicating Online: State of Social Media” sheds light on the differing social behaviors and drivers. -65% of women (vs. 59% of men) stay glued to social because they don’t want to miss anything. -25% of women check social when they wake up, before they check email. Only 18% of men check social before e-mail. -95% of women surveyed belong to Facebook vs. 86% of men. -67% of women log in to Facebook once a day or more vs. 54% of men. -Conventional wisdom is Pinterest is mostly a woman-thing, right? That may be true for viewing, but not true for sharing. Men are actually more likely to share on Pinterest than women, 23% to 10%. -The sharing divide extends to YouTube. 68% of women use it mainly for consumption, as opposed to 52% of men. -Women are as likely to have a Twitter account as men, but they’re much less likely to check it often. 54% of women check it once a week compared to 2/3 of men. Obviously, there are some takeaways from this depending on your target. Women don’t want to miss out on anything, so serialized content might be a good idea, right? Promotional posts that lead to a big payoff could keep them hooked. Posts for women might be better served first thing in the morning. If sharing is your goal, maybe male-targeted content is more likely to get those desired shares. And maybe Twitter is a better place to aim your male-targeted content than Facebook. Some grocery stores started experimenting with male-only aisles. The results have been impressive. Why? Because while it’s true men were finding those same items in the store just fine before, now something has been created just for them. They have a place in the store where they belong. Each brand’s strategy and targets are going to differ. The point is…know who you’re talking to, know how they behave, know what they like, and deliver content using any number of social relationship management targeting tools that meets their expectations. If, however, you’re committed to a one-size-fits-all, “our content is for everybody” strategy (or even worse, a “this is what we want to put out and we expect everybody to love it” strategy), your content will miss the mark for more often than it hits. @mikestilesPhoto via stock.schng

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• Four Easy Ways to Save a Rocky CRM Relationship

  - by Divya Malik

   Today, I am pleased to introduce our guest blogger Luke Christianson. Luke is  an Application Sales rep based out of Minneapolis, MN.  You can find him on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter. In any relationship, sooner or later, the excitement fades away.  The honeymoon period gives way to the old routines you had, before you committed to each other and you eventually begin doing things apart from one another.  I’m not talking about a marriage…  Well, I guess I am.Commitment to a CRM tool and building a deep and lasting relationship is not much different than the basics of a traditional love story.  After your controlled CRM pilot program, and maybe the National Sales Meeting where you couldn’t escape those three wonderful letters, CRM, you will soon find that if you haven’t designed an environment where it’s going to enable your reps to make more money, the relationship is doomed.   . If you’re currently in a dysfunctional CRM relationship, here are 4 simple tips to re-engaging users and getting that spark back. Shadow a Sales Rep:   Chances are you can find out exactly what is preventing your sales reps from using the application by simply watching how they go about their day.  Sales reps are driven by money, not by additional administrative duties.  Your system needs to be setup so that they can get the information they need quickly, facilitate making key updates and run their business out of one easy-to-use application.  Increase your sales team’s productivity by 5% automatically:    Cancel the weekly forecast calls with your reps and require them update their opportunities in CRM.  Something else that I’ve seen work extremely well, is when you do Monthly or Quarterly reviews, do not let your sales reps bring anything into the room with them; no spreadsheets, notebooks, or computers.  Everything they need to tell you should be able to be put into CRM and fully accessible by the Sales Manager at any time.  Tool time:      Make sure the tools that you have selected meet both your short-term goals and your long term goals.   You need tools that can adapt like your business does.  You probably can’t wait two months for an update to a picklist value or for the addition of a simple workflow rule.  Do you feel the tools that are in place can create the experience you want for your users? and finally, if all else fails... Keep It Simple, Stupid:     Do you really need to require 15 fields to create an Opportunity?  Do you need to clutter the interface with different reports that don’t add daily value?  Most CRM systems on the market today are flexible enough today that your admin could clean up most of the unnecessary interface ‘noise’ in a few hours.  If they're not, see #3. Every strong relationship can be tedious at times, you’ll fight and eventually make amends, you may even threaten to upgrade to a newer model…  But be patient and think about what you want to achieve and you’ll find a partner for life.

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• Siebel 2012-IP Release is now GA

  - by Richard Lefebvre

  The Siebel development team is pleased to announce the general availability of the highly anticipated 2012 Siebel Innovation Pack on 12/12/2012. The journey began last year as a concept at Open World that invigorated the Siebel customer base and partners across the globe, culminating in this 2012-IP release that delivers much valued usability enhancements on an existing release. Open UI and Siebel Mobile are the key innovations that are released as part of the 2012-IP on both 8.1.1.9 and the 8.2.2.2 releases. These innovations are a giant leap forward in facilitating Siebel usability while supporting multiple browsers and devices. Siebel Mobile released as part of the IP provide connected Mobile solutions that support key Horizontal Sales, Field Service, Life Sciences and Consumer Goods flows. See the Siebel Open UI Dada Sheet here.

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• Chargeback and billing across public and private clouds

  - by llaszews

  Had a great conversation today regarding the need for metering, chargeback, and billing of cloud computing resources. The person I spoken with at a Fortune 1000 company increased the scope and magnitude of the issue of billing for cloud computing resources beyond what I had previously considered. I believed that doing any type of chargeback and billing for one public, private or hybrid installation was difficult. This person pointed out that the problem is even bigger in scope. The reality is many companies are using multiple public cloud vendors and have many different private cloud data centers. A customer may use AWS for some smaller public cloud applications, Salesforce.com (SaaS), Rackspace for IaaS, Savvis for colocation and a variety of Iaas and PaaS implementations for the private cloud. How does a company get a consolidated bill for all these different cloud environments? I am not sure their is an answer right now.

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• Data Source Connection Pool Sizing

  - by Steve Felts

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* 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:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} One of the most time-consuming procedures of a database application is establishing a connection. The connection pooling of the data source can be used to minimize this overhead.  That argues for using the data source instead of accessing the database driver directly. Configuring the size of the pool in the data source is somewhere between an art and science – this article will try to move it closer to science.  From the beginning, WLS data source has had an initial capacity and a maximum capacity configuration values.  When the system starts up and when it shrinks, initial capacity is used.  The pool can grow to maximum capacity.  Customers found that they might want to set the initial capacity to 0 (more on that later) but didn’t want the pool to shrink to 0.  In WLS 10.3.6, we added minimum capacity to specify the lower limit to which a pool will shrink.  If minimum capacity is not set, it defaults to the initial capacity for upward compatibility.   We also did some work on the shrinking in release 10.3.4 to reduce thrashing; the algorithm that used to shrink to the maximum of the currently used connections or the initial capacity (basically the unused connections were all released) was changed to shrink by half of the unused connections. The simple approach to sizing the pool is to set the initial/minimum capacity to the maximum capacity.  Doing this creates all connections at startup, avoiding creating connections on demand and the pool is stable.  However, there are a number of reasons not to take this simple approach. When WLS is booted, the deployment of the data source includes synchronously creating the connections.  The more connections that are configured in initial capacity, the longer the boot time for WLS (there have been several projects for parallel boot in WLS but none that are available).  Related to creating a lot of connections at boot time is the problem of logon storms (the database gets too much work at one time).   WLS has a solution for that by setting the login delay seconds on the pool but that also increases the boot time. There are a number of cases where it is desirable to set the initial capacity to 0.  By doing that, the overhead of creating connections is deferred out of the boot and the database doesn’t need to be available.  An application may not want WLS to automatically connect to the database until it is actually needed, such as for some code/warm failover configurations. There are a number of cases where minimum capacity should be less than maximum capacity.  Connections are generally expensive to keep around.  They cause state to be kept on both the client and the server, and the state on the backend may be heavy (for example, a process).  Depending on the vendor, connection usage may cost money.  If work load is not constant, then database connections can be freed up by shrinking the pool when connections are not in use.  When using Active GridLink, connections can be created as needed according to runtime load balancing (RLB) percentages instead of by connection load balancing (CLB) during data source deployment. Shrinking is an effective technique for clearing the pool when connections are not in use.  In addition to the obvious reason that there times where the workload is lighter,  there are some configurations where the database and/or firewall conspire to make long-unused or too-old connections no longer viable.  There are also some data source features where the connection has state and cannot be used again unless the state matches the request.  Examples of this are identity based pooling where the connection has a particular owner and XA affinity where the connection is associated with a particular RAC node.  At this point, WLS does not re-purpose (discard/replace) connections and shrinking is a way to get rid of the unused existing connection and get a new one with the correct state when needed. So far, the discussion has focused on the relationship of initial, minimum, and maximum capacity.  Computing the maximum size requires some knowledge about the application and the current number of simultaneously active users, web sessions, batch programs, or whatever access patterns are common.  The applications should be written to only reserve and close connections as needed but multiple statements, if needed, should be done in one reservation (don’t get/close more often than necessary).  This means that the size of the pool is likely to be significantly smaller then the number of users.   If possible, you can pick a size and see how it performs under simulated or real load.  There is a high-water mark statistic (ActiveConnectionsHighCount) that tracks the maximum connections concurrently used.  In general, you want the size to be big enough so that you never run out of connections but no bigger.   It will need to deal with spikes in usage, which is where shrinking after the spike is important.  Of course, the database capacity also has a big influence on the decision since it’s important not to overload the database machine.  Planning also needs to happen if you are running in a Multi-Data Source or Active GridLink configuration and expect that the remaining nodes will take over the connections when one of the nodes in the cluster goes down.  For XA affinity, additional headroom is also recommended.  In summary, setting initial and maximum capacity to be the same may be simple but there are many other factors that may be important in making the decision about sizing.

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• The JavaFX Community Site on Java.net

  - by Tori Wieldt

  Community activity surrounding JavaFX has been steadily growing, with tweets, blog posts, and projects increasing in number. We are pleased to announce that there is now a JavaFX community site on Java.net at the following URL: javafxcommunity.com  This site is an aggregator of JavaFX information, where you can find links to JavaFX blog posts, tweets, and other resources.  Gerrit Grunwald and Jim Weaver are the community leaders for this site, and they welcome your feedback on how to make the JavaFX Community site more useful to you! Learn more on Jim Weaver’s Rich-Client Java Blog. 

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• How to deal with MySQL Connector/ODBC error "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'"

  - by user12653020

  I am sure many users run into a mysterious problem when perfectly working ODBC configurations started failing with errors like: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' The above error message might be preceded with something like [nxDc[yQ]. At the same time odbc.ini specifies in its DSN different SOCKET=/tmp/mysql.sock or a TCP connection SERVER=<remote_host_or_ip>. The question is, what had happened that the ODBC driver started to ignore the DSN options? The clue lies in the corrupted string [nxDc[yQ], which actually was [UnixODBC][MySQL] with each 2nd symbol removed. This is the case of bad conversion from SQLCHAR to SQLWCHAR. The UnixODBC driver manager took a single-byte character string from the client application and tried to convert it into the wide (multi-byte) characters for the Unicode version of MyODBC driver: Initially the piece of the connection string was represented by 1-byte chars like: [S][E][R][V][E][R][=][m][y][h][o][s][t][;] after the bad conversion to wide chars (commonly 2-byte UTF-16) [SE][RV][ER][=m][yh][os][t;] instead of [S\0][E\0][R\0][V\0][E\0][R\0][=\0][m\0][y\0][h\0][o\0][s\0][t\0][;\0] Naturally, the MyODBC driver could not parse the bad string and tried to use the default connection type (SOCKET) with the default value (/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock) Now we know what happened, but why it happened? In most cases it happened because of using ODBCManageDataSourcesQ4 utility or its older analog ODBCConfig. When registering ODBC drivers they put lots of additional options and one of these options badly affects the UnixODBC driver manager itself. The solution is simple - remove or comment out the option in odbcinst.ini file (it is empty by default) set for the driver: [MySQL ODBC 5.2.6 Driver] Description    = Driver         = /home/dbs/myodbc526/lib/libmyodbc5w.so Driver64       = /home/dbs/myodbc526/lib/libmyodbc5w.so Setup          = /home/dbs/myodbc526/lib/libmyodbc5S.so Setup64        = /home/dbs/myodbc526/lib/libmyodbc5S.so UsageCount     = 1 CPTimeout      = 0 CPTimeToLive   = 0 IconvEncoding  =  # <--------- remove this line Trace          = TraceFile      = TraceLibrary   = After applying this simple solution (remove the line with IconvEncoding = ) everything came to normal. Prior to removing that line I tried putting different encoding names there, but the result was not good, so I really don't know how to properly use it. Unfortunately, UnixODBC manuals say nothing about it. Therefore, removing this option was the only way to get things done.

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• Setting MTU on Exalogic

  - by csoto

  For many reasons, a system administrator may want to change the MTU settings of a server. But in a system like Exalogic which contains lots of interconnected nodes and other various components, it's important to understand how this applies to the different networks. For example, when bringing up bonding of InfiniBand an error like the following may be thrown: Bringing up interface bond1: SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument Both scripts ifcfg-ib0 and ifcfg-ib1 (from the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ direectory) have MTU set to 65500, which is a valid MTU value only if all IPoIB slaves operate in connected mode and are configured with the same value, so the line below must be added to both network scripts and then restart the network: CONNECTED_MODE=yes By the way, an error of the form “SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument” indicates that the requested MTU was rejected by the kernel. Typically this would be due to it exceeding the maximum value supported by the interface hardware. In that case you must either reduce the MTU to a value that is supported or obtain more capable hardware. This problem has been seen when trying to modify the MTU using the ifconfig command, like the output of the example below: [root@elxxcnxx ~]# ifconfig ib1 mtu 65520 SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument It's important to insist that in most cases the nodes must be rebooted after the MTU size has been changed. Although in some circumstances it may work without a reboot, it is not how it is typically documented. Now, in order to achieve a reduced memory consumption and improve performance for network traffic received on IPoIB related interfaces, it is recommend to reduce the MTU value in interface configuration files for IPoIB related bonds from 65520 to 64000. The change needs to be made to interface configuration files under the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory and applies to the interface configuration files for bonds over IPoIB related slave devices, for example /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond1. However, keep in mind that the numeric portion of the interface filenames that corresponding to IPoIB interfaces is expected to vary across compute nodes and vServers and so cannot be relied upon to identify which interface files are for bonds are over IPoIB rather than EoIB related slave interfaces. To fix these MTU values to the recommended settings, there are very useful instructions and a script on the MOS Note 1624434.1, and it's applicable physical and virtual configurations of Exalogic. Regarding the recommended MTU value for EoIB related interfaces, its maximum appropriate value is 1500. If for some reason a vServer has been created with a higher value (set on the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 file), then it must be fixed. An error like the following could be thrown under this circumstance: [root@vServer ~]# service network restart ... Bringing up interface bond0:  SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument Also an error like the one below can be seen on the /var/log/messages file of the vServer: kernel: T5074835532 [mlx4_vnic] eth1:vnic_change_mtu:360: failed: new_mtu 64000 2026 The MOS Note 1611657.1 is very useful for this purpose.

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• Basic is Best

  - by Eric A. Stephens

  Fellow foodies will recognize the recent movement towards "farm-to-table" restaurants. These venues attempt to simplify their menus and source ingredients as close to the source as possible. I had the opportunity to dine at such a restaurant the other evening. I was gushing about the appetizer to my server when she described the preparation for the item and then punctuated her comments with "basic is best". I reminded my fellow enterprise architect diners there was an architecture lesson in that statement. They rolled their eyes and chuckled. But they also knew I was right. I'm reminded of Frederick Brooks' book The Mythical Man Month and his latest The Design of Design. The former must read book talks about complexity. But he refrains from damning all complexity. The world we live in and enterprises we strive to transform with enterprise architecture are complicated organisms, much like the human body. But sometimes a simple solution is the best approach. Fewer applications (think: portfolio rationalization). Fewer components. Fewer lines of code. Whatever level of abstraction you are working at, less is more. I'm reminded of the enterprise architecture principle "Control Technical Diversity". At one firm I created pithy catch phrases for each principles. I named this one "Less is More". But perhaps another variation is what my server said the other night, "Basic is Best".

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• Facial Recognition for Retail

  - by David Dorf

  My son decided to do his science project on how the brain recognizes faces.  Faces are so complicated and important that the brain has a dedicated area for just that purpose.  During our research, we came across some emerging uses for facial recognition in the retail industry. If you believe the movies, recognizing faces as they walk by a camera is easy for computers but that's not the reality.  Huge investments are being made by the U.S. government in this area, with a focus on airport security.  Now, companies like Eye See are leveraging that research for marketing purposes.  They do things like track eyes while viewing newspaper ads to see which ads get more "eye time."  This can help marketers make better placement and color decisions. But what caught my eye (that was too easy) was their new mannequins that watch shoppers.  These mannequins, being tested at European retailers like Benetton, watch shoppers that walk by and identify their gender, race, and age.  This helps the retailer better understand the types of customers being attracted to the outfit on the mannequin.  Of course to be most accurate, the software has pictures of the employees so they can be filtered out.  Since the mannequins are closer to the shoppers and at eye-level, they are more accurate than traditional in-ceiling LP cameras. Marketing agency RedPepper is offering retailers the ability to recognize loyalty shoppers at their doors using Facedeal.  For customers that have opted into the program, when they enter the store their face is recognized and they are checked in.  Then, as a reward, they are sent an offer on their smartphone. It won't be long before retailers begin to listen to shoppers are they walk the aisles, then keywords can be collected and aggregated to give the retailer an idea of what people are saying about their stores and products.  Sentiment analysis based on what's said or even facial expressions can't be far off. Clearly retailers need to be cautions and respect customer privacy.  That's why these technologies are emerging slowly.  But since the next generation of shoppers are less concerned about privacy, I expect these technologies to appear sporadically in the next five years then go mainstream.  Time will tell.

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• P-Commerce – What The Heck Is That?

  - by Michael Hylton

  We’ve heard of e-commerce, m-commerce (Mobile Commerce), and f-commerce (Facebook Commerce) but what is p-commerce?  It’s not truly a customer touchpoint or channel but the emphasis on personalization of the buying experience. Ask yourself how well do you know your customer?  Are you able to take what you know about them and apply it to their commerce activity with you and personalize the shopping experience? Much of this is dictated by have a complete 360 degree view of your customer, collecting data from your website, sales interactions, historical commerce purchases, call center activity, how they got to your website, etc. and applying it to their current commerce interaction.  Customers expect to have a similar interaction on your website as they would in your brick-and-mortar store, displaying the products and services that they might be interested in purchasing.

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• Proving What You are Worth

  - by Ted Henson

  Here is a challenge for everyone. Just about everyone has been asked to provide or calculate the Return on Investment (ROI), so I will assume everyone has a method they use. The problem with stopping once you have an ROI is that those in the C-Suite probably do not care about the ROI as much as Return on Equity (ROE). Shareholders are mostly concerned with their return on the money the invested. Warren Buffett looks at ROE when deciding whether to make a deal or not. This article will outline how you can add more meaning to your ROI and show how you can potentially enhance the ROE of the company.   First I want to start with a base definition I am using for ROI and ROE. Return on investment (ROI) and return on equity (ROE) are ways to measure management effectiveness, parts of a system of measures that also includes profit margins for profitability, price-to-earnings ratio for valuation, and various debt-to-equity ratios for financial strength. Without a set of evaluation metrics, a company's financial performance cannot be fully examined by investors. ROI and ROE calculate the rate of return on a specific investment and the equity capital respectively, assessing how efficient financial resources have been used. Typically, the best way to improve financial efficiency is to reduce production cost, so that will be the focus. Now that the challenge has been made and items have been defined, let’s go deeper. Most research about implementation stops short at system start-up and seldom addresses post-implementation issues. However, we know implementation is a continuous improvement effort, and continued efforts after system start-up will influence the ultimate success of a system.   Most UPK ROI’s I have seen only include the cost savings in developing the training material. Some will also include savings based on reduced Help Desk calls. Using just those values you get a good ROI. To get an ROE you need to go a little deeper. Typically, the best way to improve financial efficiency is to reduce production cost, which is the purpose of implementing/upgrading an enterprise application. Let’s assume the new system is up and running and all users have been properly trained and are comfortable using the system. You provide senior management with your ROI that justifies the original cost. What you want to do now is develop a good base value to a measure the current efficiency. Using usage tracking you can look for various patterns. For example, you may find that users that are accessing UPK assistance are processing a procedure, such as entering an order, 5 minutes faster than those that don’t.  You do some research and discover each minute saved in processing a claim saves the company one dollar. That translates to the company saving five dollars on every transaction. Assuming 100,000 transactions are performed a year, and all users improve their performance, the company will be saving $500,000 a year. That $500,000 can be re-invested, used to reduce debt or paid to the shareholders.   With continued refinement during the life cycle, you should be able to find ways to reduce cost. These are the type of numbers and productivity gains that senior management and shareholders want to see. Being able to quantify savings and increase productivity may also help when seeking a raise or promotion.

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• Multiple Java EE Agents on Single Managed Server

  - by tina.wang

  A default JEE agent is created when you create domain, which is named as OracleDIAgent. 1. In Studio, duplicate the agent, change its name to genAgent, change the web application context to genagent. 2: Go to datasource of genAgent, drop all datasources.3: Generate server template. put the jar file under odi\common\templates\wls 4: Deploy this template by update the existing domain. Bring up the config.cmd, choose update existing domain. 5: Update the domain using the template that just generated. Go through the Configuration wizard. (I did not modify anything or configure anything here). 6: The wizard will give information says the deployment was successful. 7: Bring up the admin server and ODI_server1. 

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• Trust

  - by mprove

  I sense traffic of this blog w/o a present reason. Hmm. What about this,  brief musings about trust: Each software, each website, each social platform, each community building effort is a matter of trust building. You make a social promise to continue the effort, and to care for the commitment of the users or community members. It is easy to offer more to your community. On the other hand, it is quite difficult or impossible to take something away, or to close down or end the product or community without disappointing someone. cheers,Matthias

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• Tech Article: Tired of Null Pointer Exceptions? Use Java SE 8's Optional!

  - by Tori Wieldt

  A wise man once said you are not a real Java programmer until you've dealt with a null pointer exception. The null reference is the source of many problems because it is often used to denote the absence of a value. Java SE 8 introduces a new class called java.util.Optional that can alleviate some of these problems. In the tech article "Tired of Null Pointer Exceptions? Use Java SE 8's Optional!" Java expert Raoul-Gabriel Urma shows you how to make your code more readable and protect it against null pointer exceptions. Urma explains "The purpose of Optional is not to replace every single null reference in your codebase but rather to help design better APIs in which—just by reading the signature of a method—users can tell whether to expect an optional value. In addition, Optional forces you to actively unwrap an Optional to deal with the absence of a value; as a result, you protect your code against unintended null pointer exceptions." Learn how to go from writing painful nested null checks to writing declarative code that is composable, readable, and better protected from null pointer exceptions. Read "Tired of Null Pointer Exceptions? Use Java SE 8's Optional!"

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• Java Magazine: Growing on Open

  - by Tori Wieldt

  The November/December issue of Java Magazine is now out, with several great Java stories, including: Growing on Open AgroSense provides an all-Java open source platform for sustainable farming and precision agriculture. An Engine for Big Data Hadoop uses Java for large-scale analytics. JavaFX in SpringStephen Chin shows you why to use the Spring framework on the client. JCP Executive Q&A: Mike MilinkovichThe Eclipse Foundation’s executive director assesses the state of Java and the JCP. Exploring Lambda Expressions for the Java Language and the JVMBen Evans, Martijn Verburg, and Trisha Gee help you get ready for lambda expressions in Java SE 8. Get Started with Java SE for Embedded Devices on Raspberry PiWe walk you through getting Linux and Java SE for Embedded Devices to run on the Raspberry Pi in less than an hour. Java NationGet the news from JavaOne 2012 in San Francisco. Java Magazine is a bi-monthly online publication. It includes technical articles on the Java language and platform; Java innovations and innovators; JUG and JCP news; Java events; links to online Java communities; and videos and multimedia demos. Subscriptions are free. Do you have feedback about Java Magazine? Send a tweet to @oraclejavamag.

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• The Softer Side of Customer Experience

  - by Christina McKeon

  It’s election season in the U.S., and you know what that means. It means I stop by the recycling bin in my garage before entering the house with the contents of my mailbox. A couple of weeks ago, I was doing my usual direct mail purge when I came across a piece from The Container Store®. This piece would have gone straight to the recycling bin, but the title stopped me: Learn what WE STAND FOR! Under full disclaimer, I’m probably a “frequent flier” at The Container Store. One can never be too organized! Now, back to the direct mail piece. I opened it to discover that The Container Store has taken their customer experience beyond “a shopping experience that makes you smile” to giving customers more insight and transparency into how they feel about their employees, the vendors they partner with, and the communities they live in. The direct mail piece included several employees showcasing a skill, hobby or talent with their photo and a personal note that used one word to describe what these employees believe The Container Store stands for. I do not recall the last time I read through an entire piece of direct mail. But this time, I pored over all the comments and photos.  Summer, a salesperson, believes that one word is PASSION. Thomas in distribution center inventory systems chooses the word ACTION. The list goes on to include MATCHLESS, FUN, FAMILY, LOVE, and EMPOWERMENT. The Container Store is running a contest asking you to tell them what nonprofit organization you stand for. Anyone can submit their favorite nonprofit to win cash, products and services from The Container Store. Don’t forget about the softer side of customer experience. With many organizations working feverishly to transform their business into being more customer-centric, it’s easy to get caught up in processes and technology. Focusing on people and social responsibility often falls behind and becomes a lower priority. Keeping people and social responsibility at the forefront is crucial. Your customers will use your processes and technology, but they will see or hear your people and feel their passion. The latter is what they will remember most about your brand. I’m sure there are many other great examples of the softer side of customer experience. Please share your examples in the comments section.

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• The Lease Standard Train is Back on Track

  - by Theresa Hickman

  As I was walking to the elevator, I ran into Seamus Moran, our resident accounting expert. Me: “Hi Seamus, where have you been? You don’t write, you don’t call, and you don’t send me flowers. I’ve been hearing more and more about the Lease Accounting topic. It looks like Congress is weighing in on it too and putting heat on FASB. According to a recent article in Reuters  “representatives Brad Sherman, a Democrat, and Republican John Campbell, have written to the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board warning of dire economic fallout from a plan to have companies put leases on their balance sheets." Here’s what Seamus had to say: Yes, but there have been some recent developments. The FASB and IASB cleared a logjam, resolved a final “content of the standard” issue, and articulated a way to move forward on Leases last Wednesday.  It looks like the Lease Standard Train is back on track.   We’ve just had a briefing from PwC. The Lease timeline now looks like this: Now to June 2012: The staff will write up the decisions June 2012: Boards will meet on “logistical” issues (glossed over) Oct, Nov, most likely December 2012: A New Lease Exposure Draft will be crafted January – April 2013: Public Comment period begins April to September 2013: Everyone to digest the comments and draft the final standard End of 2013 (Probably more like Early 2014): Publish the new Lease Accounting Standards 2015: Retroactive reporting 2017: New standard is effective It seems that leases under one year will be treated as “rent expense”. If it doesn’t cross two (annual) balance sheets, it doesn’t really matter. This is good news in terms of clarity, resolution, and moving forward on one of the last remaining items to converge the IFRS and U.S. GAAP standards. There are ambiguities, issues, concerns, et cetera, of course, and there are bright lines (“rules”) that bother the “no rules, please” people and ambiguities (“judgments”) that bother the “clarity, please” people, but at least the train isn’t falling off the tracks.  

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