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Amtrak's Mobile-SOA Oracle SOA Solution at OpenWorld

- by Bruce Tierney

During yesterday's Mobile SOA Session, Innowave presented their ticketing solution implemented for Amtrak which uses Oracle SOA Suite for service-enablement with support for Microsoft Windows Mobile handheld devices. Innowave's Hilal Khan described this chart and highlighted the value of a service-based approach since the data went to handhelds as well as to APEX reports with a single service implementation:

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Certify September Updates

- by Sadia2

We have added some release and platform certifications to MOS Certify. Applications: Oracle Demantra 12.2.2, 7.3.1.5, 7.3.1.4, 7.3.0.2.0, 7.3.0.0.0 Collaboration Technologies: Oracle Beehive 2.0.1.8.0 Database: Oracle Database Client 12.1.0.1.0, Oracle Clusterware 11.2.0.4.0, Oracle Database 11.2.0.4.0, Oracle Real Application Clusters 11.2.0.4.0 E-Business Suite: Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1, 12.0.6, 11.5.10.2 Edge Applications: Oracle AutoVue 20.2.2, 20.2.1, 20.2.0 Enterprise Manager: Enterprise Manager Base Platform - OMS 12.1.0.3.0, Oracle Real User Experience Insight 12.1.0.4.0, 12.1.0.3.0, 12.1.0.1, 11.1 FSGBU Insurance Group: Oracle Health Insurance Claims 2.13.3.0.0 Fusion Middleware: Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 11.1.1.7.1, 7.9.6.4.0, Oracle Discoverer 11.1.1.6.0, Discoverer Administrator 11.1.1.6.0, Discoverer Desktop 11.1.1.6.0, Oracle JDK 1.7.0_40, 1.7.0_25", Oracle JRE 1.7.0_40, 1.7.0_25, Oracle JRockit 6u45 R28.2.7+, Oracle WebCenter Sites 11.1.1.8.0, Oracle WebCenter Sites: Community-Gadgets 11.1.1.8.0, Oracle WebCenter Sites: CIP for File Systems and MS SharePoint 11.1.1.8.0, Oracle WebCenter Sites: CIP for EMC Documentum 11.1.1.8.0 JD Edwards EnterpriseOne: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Business Services Server 9.1.3.0, 9.1.2.0, 9.1.0.0, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Mobile Applications 9.1.2.0 Oracle Fusion Applications: Oracle Fusion Applications 11.1.7.0.0 Primavera GBU: Primavera Unifier 9.13.0.0 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-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Siebel Enterprise: Siebel Application Server 8.2.2.4.0, 8.2.2.3.0, 8.2.2.2.0, 8.1.1.10.0, 8.1.1.9.0, Siebel Database Server 8.2.2.3.0, 8.1.1.10.0, 8.1.1.9.0, Siebel Remote Client 8.2.2.4.0, 8.2.2.3.0, 8.2.2.2.0, 8.1.1.11.0, 8.1.1.10.0, 8.1.1.9.0, Siebel Tools Client 8.2.2.4.0, 8.2.2.2.0, 8.1.1.11.0, 8.1.1.9.0, Siebel SSO Integration 8.2.2.4.0, 8.2.2.3.0, 8.2.2.2.0, 8.1.1.11.0, 8.1.1.10.0, 8.1.1.9.0

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Getting Help with 'SEPA' Questions

- by MargaretW

What is 'SEPA'? The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is a self-regulatory initiative for the European banking industry championed by the European Commission (EC) and the European Central Bank (ECB). The aim of the SEPA initiative is to improve the efficiency of cross border payments and the economies of scale by developing common standards, procedures, and infrastructure. The SEPA territory currently consists of 33 European countries -- the 28 EU states, together with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway and Switzerland. Part of that infrastructure includes two new SEPA instruments that were introduced in 2008: SEPA Credit Transfer (a Payables transaction in Oracle EBS) SEPA Core Direct Debit (a Receivables transaction in Oracle EBS) A SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) is an outgoing payment instrument for the execution of credit transfers in Euro between customer payment accounts located in SEPA. SEPA Credit Transfers are executed on behalf of an Originator holding a payment account with an Originator Bank in favor of a Beneficiary holding a payment account at a Beneficiary Bank. In R12 of Oracle applications, the current SEPA credit transfer implementation is based on Version 5 of the "SEPA Credit Transfer Scheme Customer-To-Bank Implementation Guidelines" and the "SEPA Credit Transfer Scheme Rulebook" issued by European Payments Council (EPC). These guidelines define the rules to be applied to the UNIFI (ISO20022) XML message standards for the implementation of the SEPA Credit Transfers in the customer-to-bank space. This format is compliant with SEPA Credit Transfer version 6. A SEPA Core Direct Debit (SDD) is an incoming payment instrument used for making domestic and cross-border payments within the 33 countries of SEPA, wherein the debtor (payer) authorizes the creditor (payee) to collect the payment from his bank account. The payment can be a fixed amount like a mortgage payment, or variable amounts such as those of invoices. The "SEPA Core Direct Debit" scheme replaces various country-specific direct debit schemes currently prevailing within the SEPA zone. SDD is based on the ISO20022 XML messaging standards, version 5.0 of the "SEPA Core Direct Debit Scheme Rulebook", and "SEPA Direct Debit Core Scheme Customer-to-Bank Implementation Guidelines". This format is also compliant with SEPA Core Direct Debit version 6. EU Regulation #260/2012 established the technical and business requirements for both instruments in euro. The regulation is referred to as the "SEPA end-date regulation", and also defines the deadlines for the migration to the new SEPA instruments: Euro Member States: February 1, 2014 Non-Euro Member States: October 31, 2016. Oracle and SEPA Within the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications, Oracle Payables (AP), Oracle Receivables (AR), and Oracle Payments (IBY) provide SEPA transaction capabilities for the following releases, as noted: Release 11.5.10.x - AP & AR Release 12.0.x - AP & AR & IBY Release 12.1.x - AP & AR & IBY Release 12.2.x - AP & AR & IBY Resources To assist our customers in migrating, using, and troubleshooting SEPA functionality, a number of resource documents related to SEPA are available on My Oracle Support (MOS), including: R11i: AP: White Paper - SEPA Credit Transfer V5 support in Oracle Payables, Doc ID 1404743.1R11i: AR: White Paper - SEPA Core Direct Debit v5.0 support in Oracle Receivables, Doc ID 1410159.1R12: IBY: White Paper - SEPA Credit Transfer v5 support in Oracle Payments, Doc ID 1404007.1R12: IBY: White Paper - SEPA Core Direct Debit v5 support in Oracle Payments, Doc ID 1420049.1R11i/R12: AP/AR/IBY: Get Help Setting Up, Using, and Troubleshooting SEPA Payments in Oracle, Doc ID 1594441.2R11i/R12: Single European Payments Area (SEPA) - UPDATES, Doc ID 1541718.1R11i/R12: FAQs for Single European Payments Area (SEPA), Doc ID 791226.1

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ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for December 4, 2012

- by Bob Rhubart

Exalogic 2.0.1 Tea Break Snippets - Creating and using Distribution Groups | The Old Toxophilist "Although in many cases we, as Cloud Users, may not be to worried how the Virtualisation Algorithm decides where to place our vServers," says The Old Toxopholist, "there are cases where it is extremely important that vServers run on distinct physical compute nodes." There's plenty more on the subject in his blog post. Oracle Endeca (2.3) Record Level Security | Adam Seed Adam Sneed's blog post covers "the basics of security within Endeca Information Discovery, as these basic security objects are required in order to explain the implementation of record level security." ODI Handling DQ | Gurcan Orhan Oracle ACE Director Gurcan Orhan suggests you have fun with these scripts for Oracle Data Integrator. Parleys Testimonial at GlassFish Community Event - JavaOne 2012 Video of Parley's webmaster Stephan Janssen's presentation at the GlassFish Community Event at JavaOne 2012, in which he explains why Parley's moved from Tomcat to GlassFish. Java Spotlight Episode 109: Pete Muir on CDI 1.1 This edition of Roger Brinkley's Java Spotlight Podcast features an interview with CDI 1.1 spec lead Pete Muir of JBoss/Red Hat. Muir talks about the features in CDI 1.1 and what to expect in the future. Webcast: Java Management Extensions with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Dr. Frank Munz and Dave Cabelus do the talking in this on-demand webcast focused on Oracle WebLogic Server 12c with Java Management Extensions (JMX). Using the Coherence API to get Portable Object Format bytes | Bruno Borges Bruno Borges shares a code snippet that illustrates how easy it is to use the Coherence API. Thought for the Day "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." — Anonymous Source: SoftwareQuotes.com

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Announcing Key Functional White Papers for SIM and ReIM

- by Oracle Retail Documentation Team

Oracle Retail has published two new documents on My Oracle Support (https://support.oracle.com) that provide partners and retailers with deeper functional information about two products: Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management (SIM) and Oracle Retail Invoice Matching. Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management Item Configuration White Paper (Doc ID 1507221.1) There is functionality within the Store Inventory Management system related to item configuration that spans across multiple concepts that apply to the application as a whole rather than to a specific area. This white paper covers numerous topics around item configuration including: Item Transaction Levels Item Long Description Pack Size Standard Unit of Measure Standard Unit of Measure Conversion Pack Items Simple Pack Conversion Items (Notional Packs) Ranging Items Item Status Non-Sellable Items Type-2 Item Recognition UPC-E Barcodes Non-Inventory Items Consignment and Concession Items Quick Response Codes Oracle Retail Invoice Matching Financial Transactions (Doc ID 1500209.1) This document explains the financial transactions that are posted by Oracle Retail Invoice Matching (ReIM). The scope of the document is limited to ReIM transactions only, and does not explain Retail Merchandising System (RMS), Finance, or Account Receivable transactions. ReIM follows the double-entry accounting standard, which works by recording the debit and credit of each financial transaction belonging to each party involved. Each transaction means a profit to one account (debit) and a loss to another account (credit). Full invoice match processing is completed in ReIM with payment recommendations communicated to Oracle Accounts Payable. ReIM matches merchandise orders and receipts against merchandise invoices, performing automated and manual matching, as well as discrepancy-resolution processing. Matched invoices are posted to interface staging tables specifying the amount and date to pay, vendor, site ID, General Ledger Chart of Accounts (GL CoA) information, and payment terms. Other payables documents, including debit memos, credit memos and credit notes are also interfaced to Accounts Payable through the ReIM staging tables (IM_AP_STAGE_HEAD and IM_AP_STAGE_DETAIL). For information about how ReIM engages in this processing, see the latest Oracle Retail Invoice Matching Operations Guide. Certain ReIM transactions are not interfaced to Oracle Payables, but instead are interfaced to Oracle General Ledger through the IM_FINANCIAL_STAGE table. When analyzing transactions posted through the staging tables, retailers should note the transaction type, Standard/Credit, as well as the sign in the amount field. Technically, a negative sign on a credit transaction changes the transaction to a debit entry, and vice versa. This document is concerned about the financial meaning of the transactions, and will avoid a discussion of negative numbers in T-charts.

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Sync Google Calendar with SharePoint Calendar

- by dataintegration

The ADO.NET Providers for Google and SharePoint make it easy to retrieve and update data in both Google's web services and SharePoint. This article shows how the SQL interface to data makes it easy to build applications that need to move data from one source to another. The application described here is a demo Windows application that synchronizes calendar events between Google and SharePoint, but the RSSBus Providers can be used to achieve integrations on both the .NET and the Java platforms, including more sophisticated features like full automation. Getting the Events Step 1: Google accounts can have several calendars. Obtain a list of a user's Google Calendars by issuing a query to the Calendars table. For example: SELECT * FROM Calendars. Step 2: In order to get a list of the events from a given Google Calendar, issue a query to the CalendarEvents table while specifying the CalendarId from the Calendars table. The resulting events can be further filtered by using the StartDateTime or EndDateTime columns. For example: SELECT * FROM CalendarEvents WHERE (CalendarId = '[email protected]') AND (StartDateTime >= '1/1/2012') AND (StartDateTime <= '2/1/2012') Step 3: SharePoint stores data in Lists. There are various types of lists, e.g., document lists and calendar lists. A SharePoint account can have several lists of the same type. To find all the calendar lists in SharePoint, use the ListLists stored procedure and inspect the BaseTemplate column. Step 4: The SharePoint data provider models each SharPoint list as a table. Get the events in a particular calendar by querying the table with the same name as the list. The events may be filtered further by specifying the EventDate or EndDate columns. For example: SELECT * FROM Calendar WHERE (EventDate >= '1/1/2012') AND (EventDate <= '2/1/2012') Synchronizing the Events Synchronizing the events is a simple process. Once the events from Google and SharePoint are available they can be compared and synchronized based on user preference. The sample application does this based on user input, but it is easy to create one that does the synchronization automatically. The INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements available in both data providers makes it easy to create, update, or delete events as needed. Pre-Built Demo Application The executable for the demo application can be downloaded here. Note that this demo is built using BETA builds of the ADO.NET Provider for Google V2 and ADO.NET Provider for SharePoint V2, and will expire in 2013. Source Code You can download the full source of the demo application here. You will need the Google ADO.NET Data Provider V2 and the SharePoint ADO.NET Data Provider V2, which can be obtained here.

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3 Reasons You Need To Know Something About Every Technology

- by Tim Murphy

I make my living as a consultant and a general technologist. I credit my success to the fact that I have never been afraid to pick up any product, language or platform needed to get the job done. While Microsoft technologies I my mainstay, I have done work on mainframe and UNIX platforms and have worked with a wide variety of database engines. Each one has it’s use and most times it is less expensive to find a way to communicate with an existing system than to replace it. So what are the main benefits of expending the effort to learn a new technology? New ways to solve problems Accelerate development Advise clients and get new business opportunities By new technology I mean ones that you haven’t had experience with before. They don’t have to be the the one that just came out yesterday. As they say, those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. If you can learn something from an older technology it can be just as valuable as the shiny new one. Either way, when you add another tool to your kit you get a new view on each problem you face. This makes it easier to create a sound solution. The next thing you can learn from working with different products and techniques is how to more efficiently develop solve problems. Many times if you are working with a new language you will find that there are specific design patterns that are used with it in normal use. These can usually be applied with most languages. You just needed to be exposed to them. The last point is about helping your clients and helping yourself. If you can get in on technologies early you will have advantage over your competition in the market. You will also be able to honestly advise you client on why they should or should not go with a new product. Being able to compare products and their features is always an ability that stake holders appreciate. You don’t need to learn every detail of a product. Learn enough to function and get an idea of how to use the technology. Keep eating those technology Wheaties and you will be ready to go the distance in any project. del.icio.us Tags: Technology,technologists,technology generalist,Software Architecture

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We need you! Sign up now to give Oracle your feedback on future product design trends at OpenWorld 2012

- by mvaughan

By Kathy Miedema, Oracle Applications User Experience Get the most from your Oracle OpenWorld 2012 experience and participate in a usability feedback session, where your expertise will help Oracle develop unbeatable products and solutions. Sign up to attend a one-hour session during Oracle OpenWorld. You’ll learn about Oracle’s future design trends -- including mobile applications and social networking -- and how these trends will affect your users down the road. A street scene from Oracle OpenWorld 2011. Oracle’s usability experts will guide you through practical learning sessions on the user experience of various business applications, middleware, and more. All user feedback sessions will be conducted October 1–3 at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel on Howard Street, just a few steps away from the Moscone Center. To best match you with a user feedback activity, we will ask you about your role at your company. Our user feedback opportunities include focus groups, surveys, and one-on-one sessions with usability engineers. What do you get out of it? Customer and partner participants in the past have been surprised to learn how tuned in Oracle is to work that their applications users do every day. Oracle’s User Experience team members are trained to listen carefully, ask specific questions, interpret your answers, and work with designers to create products and solutions that suit your needs. Our goal is to help make you and your users more productive and efficient. Learn about Oracle’s process, and take advantage of the chance to give your specific feedback to the designers who create the enterprise applications of your future. See for yourself how Oracle collects feedback and measures its designs for turning them into code. Seats are limited for Oracle’s user feedback sessions, so sign up now by sending an e-mail to [email protected] with the subject line: Sign Me Up for an Oracle OpenWorld 2012 UX Session. For more information about customer feedback sessions and what you can learn from them, please visit the Usable Apps website. When: Monday-Wednesday during OpenWorld 2012, Oct. 1-3 Where: The InterContinental San Francisco Hotel How to sign up: RSVP now by sending an email to [email protected] with the subject line “Sign me up for an OOW 2012 UX Session.” Learn more: Visit the Usable Apps website at Get Involved.

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Hello NHibernate! Quickstart with NHibernate (Part 1)

- by BobPalmer

When I first learned NHibernate, I could best describe the experience as less of a learning curve and more like a learning cliff. A large part of that was the availability of tutorials. In this first of a series of articles, I will be taking a crack at providing people new to NHibernate the information they need to quickly ramp up with NHibernate. For the first article, I've decided to address the gap of just giving folks enough code to get started. No UI, no fluff - just enough to connect to a database and do some basic CRUD operations. In future articles, I will discuss a repository pattern for NHibernate, parent-child relationships, and other more advanced topics. You can find the entire article via this Google Docs link: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUP-rKyyUMKhZGczejdxeHZfOGMydHNqdGc0&hl=en Enjoy! -Bob

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A quick hello to the Western Kentucky .NET User Group

- by Muljadi Budiman

A few days back, I got a chance to speak at the Western Kentucky .NET User Group meeting in Murray, Kentucky. The opportunity came up because the original speaker, Jeff Blankenburg, had another obligation and was thus unable to come to this meeting. I volunteered to deliver his presentation, which is an overview of MIX10 conference. It was a great experience for me; got to drive around and do a little bit of sight-seeing – can’t say I’ve ever been to Kentucky before, so first trip ever there. I got to meet the user group’s current lead, Tom Turner and got to chat and discuss about all kinds of stuff with the other members. Cheers to Matt Gawarecki and Brandon Sharp! The presentation itself mostly covers new features in Visual Studio 2010, which was recently released on April 12 – got to demonstrate Historical Debugging in IntelliTrace, Parallel Stacks, View Call Hierarchy and show some Extensions. We also covered some of the new functionalities in Silverlight 4 (using webcams, drag & drop support among others) and I got to show off Scott Guthrie’s Windows Phone 7 Twitter app. Altogether, it was quite a bit to cover in 70 minutes or so, but I think everyone enjoyed it. Jeff provided me with the presentation slides (which I modify a bit) and demo applications; so I’m putting it up here for those that may be interested in downloading them. Please keep in mind that all the demos were made with VS2010 RC, so there may be slight tweaks to get it to work on the RTM version.

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DDDNorth2 Bradford, 13th October 2012 - Async Patterns presentation and source code

- by Liam Westley

Many thanks to Andy Westgarth and his team for organising a fantastic conference at the rather elegant Bradford University School of Management. Also, a big congratulations to all the delegates who gave up there free time to come and hear us speak and who were, in general, enthusiastic and asked some cracking questions to keep us speakers on our toes. For those who attended my Async my source code and presentation are now available on GitHub, https://github.com/westleyl/DDDNorth2-AsyncPatterns If you are new to Git then the easiest client to install is GitHub for Windows, a graphical UI for accessing GitHub. Personally, I also have TortoiseGit installed – the file explorer add-in that works in a familiar manner to TortoiseSVN. As I mentioned during the presentation I have not included the sample data, the music files, in the source code placed on GitHub but I have included instructions on how to download them from http://silents.bandcamp.com and place them in the correct folders. What I forgot to mention is that Windows Media Player by default does not play Ogg Vorbis and Flac music files, however you can download the codec installer for these, for free, from http://xiph.org/dshow. I am planning to break down this little project into a series of blog posts, with each pattern being a single blog post over several weeks. In these I will flesh out the background behind the pattern, the basic goal being achieved and how to monitor the progress of the sample data being processed. Basically, what I said during the presentation and is missing from the slides.

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Essbase BSO Data Fragmentation

- by Ann Donahue

Essbase BSO Data Fragmentation Data fragmentation naturally occurs in Essbase Block Storage (BSO) databases where there are a lot of end user data updates, incremental data loads, many lock and send, and/or many calculations executed. If an Essbase database starts to experience performance slow-downs, this is an indication that there may be too much fragmentation. See Chapter 54 Improving Essbase Performance in the Essbase DBA Guide for more details on measuring and eliminating fragmentation: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/esb_dbag/daprcset.html Fragmentation is likely to occur in the following situations: Read/write databases that users are constantly updating data Databases that execute calculations around the clock Databases that frequently update and recalculate dense members Data loads that are poorly designed Databases that contain a significant number of Dynamic Calc and Store members Databases that use an isolation level of uncommitted access with commit block set to zero There are two types of data block fragmentation Free space tracking, which is measured using the Average Fragmentation Quotient statistic. Block order on disk, which is measured using the Average Cluster Ratio statistic. Average Fragmentation Quotient The Average Fragmentation Quotient ratio measures free space in a given database. As you update and calculate data, empty spaces occur when a block can no longer fit in its original space and will either append at the end of the file or fit in another empty space that is large enough. These empty spaces take up space in the .PAG files. The higher the number the more empty spaces you have, therefore, the bigger the .PAG file and the longer it takes to traverse through the .PAG file to get to a particular record. An Average Fragmentation Quotient value of 3.174765 means the database is 3% fragmented with free space. Average Cluster Ratio Average Cluster Ratio describes the order the blocks actually exist in the database. An Average Cluster Ratio number of 1 means all the blocks are ordered in the correct sequence in the order of the Outline. As you load data and calculate data blocks, the sequence can start to be out of order. This is because when you write to a block it may not be able to place back in the exact same spot in the database that it existed before. The lower this number the more out of order it becomes and the more it affects performance. An Average Cluster Ratio value of 1 means no fragmentation. Any value lower than 1 i.e. 0.01032828 means the data blocks are getting further out of order from the outline order. Eliminating Data Block Fragmentation Both types of data block fragmentation can be removed by doing a dense restructure or export/clear/import of the data. There are two types of dense restructure: 1. Implicit Restructures Implicit dense restructure happens when outline changes are done using EAS Outline Editor or Dimension Build. Essbase restructures create new .PAG files restructuring the data blocks in the .PAG files. When Essbase restructures the data blocks, it regenerates the index automatically so that index entries point to the new data blocks. Empty blocks are NOT removed with implicit restructures. 2. Explicit Restructures Explicit dense restructure happens when a manual initiation of the database restructure is executed. An explicit dense restructure is a full restructure which comprises of a dense restructure as outlined above plus the removal of empty blocks Empty Blocks vs. Fragmentation The existence of empty blocks is not considered fragmentation. Empty blocks can be created through calc scripts or formulas. An empty block will add to an existing database block count and will be included in the block counts of the database properties. There are no statistics for empty blocks. The only way to determine if empty blocks exist in an Essbase database is to record your current block count, export the entire database, clear the database then import the exported data. If the block count decreased, the difference is the number of empty blocks that had existed in the database.

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invitation: Oracle Endeca Information Discovery Bootcamp

- by mseika

The Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) Boot Camp is designed to give partners an understanding of OEID’s features, and how it complements the existing Oracle Business Intelligence suite. Participants will learn how to develop & implement solutions using a Data Discovery method. Training is in EnglishWhat will be covered?The Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) Boot Camp is a three-day class with a combination of lecture and hands-on exercises, tailored to make participants aware of the Oracle Endeca Information Discovery platform, and to gain valuable skills for the implementation of projects.The course will follow a combination of lectures and hands-on lab sessions, to allow participants to apply the knowledge they have gained by extracting from sample data sources, and creating an end-user application that will be used to answer several business questions. What You Will Learn Architecture: OEID Components, use of graphs, overview of clustering OEID Installation: Architecture planning, infrastructure requirements, installation process, production hints & tips OEID Administration: Data store management, administrative operations, portal configuration, data sources, system monitoring Indexing: Integration Suite, Data source analysis, Graph (ETL) creation, record design techniques Portlets: Studio portlets, custom portlet development, querying functions Reporting: Studio applications & best practices, visualizations, EQL PrerequisitesYou must bring a laptop with you for the Hands-on labs ENVIRONMENT – LAPTOP REQUIREMENTS For the OEID boot camp, participants will perform the hands-on lab exercises using a virtual machine image. These virtual machines will be provided to participants within a cloud environment, requiring participants to bring a laptop to the Boot Camp that can access a Windows server utilizing Microsoft RDP from their laptop. Participants will not need to install any software onto their laptops, but must ensure that they have the proper software installed for their OS, to connect through RDP to a server. HARDWARE • CPU: Dual-core, x64, 1.8Ghz or higher • RAM: 2GB SOFTWARE • Microsoft Remote Desktop Client • Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, or Google Chrome This boot camp is intended for prospective implementers of Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID), or those in a presales role looking to gain insight into the technical benefits of this new package. Attendees should have experience and familiarity with the basic concepts of business intelligence. Where and When ? Monday, October 15th until wednesday, October 17th included 9:00 - 18:00 Oracle France 15, boulevard Charles de Gaulle 92715 Colombes Access Register Here Limited number of seats !

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Would You Swim Laps in Lake Baikal?

- by rickramsey

source This is the lake where Yuli Vasiliev's countrymen swim laps. Yuli is one of my favorite OTN writers not just because he really knows his stuff. Not just because his writing is clear and accurate. And not just because his English is better than the English of most native speakers. Yo, those are all good reasons. But it's the Lake Baikal thing. Yuli recently wrote two wicked good how-to's about Oracle VM Templates. You should read them. You might gain a gram of Yuli's respect. Two grams, if you can head butt icebergs while you swim. How to Use Oracle VM Templates How to prepare an Oracle VM environment to use Oracle VM Templates, how to obtain a template, and how to deploy the template to your Oracle VM environment. Also how to create a virtual machine based on that template and how you can clone the template and change the clone's configuration. How to Use Oracle VM VirtualBox Templates How to use Oracle VM VirtualBox Templates in Oracle VM VirtualBox. Similar to the article above, but it describes how to download, install, and configure the templates within Oracle VM VirtualBox, instead of on bare metal. Other OTN Technical Articles by Yuli Vasiliev Retrieving, Transforming, and Consolidating Web Data with Oracle Database Setting Up, Configuring, and Using a WebLogic Server Cluster Cube Development for Beginners How to XQuery Non-JDBC Sources from JDBC Advanced Dimensional Design with Oracle Warehouse Builder Using the JDBC Connectivity Layer in Oracle Warehouse Builder High Performance Oracle JDBC Programming Python Data Persistence with Oracle Querying JPA Entities with JPQL and Native SQL - Rick Website Newsletter Facebook Twitter

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BI Applications Mobile Demonstration

- by Mike.Hallett(at)Oracle-BI&EPM

Partners can now run live interactive Demos of the latest version of OBI Mobile on an iPad, and BI Applications have also been made available via OBI mobile app Demos including; Financials, HR, Marketing, Procurement & Spend, Projects and Supply chain. You can download Demo Scripts for these: e.g. Mobile_Marketing_Analytics.pdf The mobile app is using the same dashboards and data as the BI Applications Test Drives, which partners can access here. These existing demo scripts for these BI Applications can be used with the BI mobile app. The instructions regarding the interface will be different, but the story line is the same. If you want the “Mobile Financial Analytics” script ask me @ [email protected] For more instructions on setting up and connecting your iPad, see: Run Live OBI Mobile HD Demos on your iPad Business doesn't stop just because you're on the go. See how Oracle BI Mobile makes consuming BI on the go simple, secure and fast.

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Send on behalf for Multiple users on a mailbox

- by Michel Klomp

the following snippet can be used to add more than one user to the grantsendonbehalfto property with Powershell and the Exchange Management Shell get-mailbox dummy |set-mailbox -grantsendonbehalfto “testuser3? $a = get-mailbox testuser2 | select-object grantsendonbehalfto $b = get-mailbox dummy| select-object grantsendonbehalfto $a.grantsendonbehalfto += $b.grantsendonbehalfto[0] get-mailbox testuser2 |set-mailbox -grantsendonbehalfto $($a.grantsendonbehalfto)

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Oracle Database 12c

- by David Allan

Exciting day today as Oracle Database 12c is released. You can find lots of information on the release on OTN here. With this release comes another milestone on Oracle's Data Integration roadmap - OWB is no longer shipped with the database. You will notice that the OWB documentation is no longer included with the Oracle Database documentation, you can compare and contrast the 11.2 and 12.1 documentation below. OWB 11gR2 is still supported with Oracle Database 12c, you will need 11.2.0.3 plus at least CP2 which has been certified with Oracle Database 12c. The 11.2.0.4 release will wrapper this into one install.

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Elérheto és letöltheto az Oracle Database 12c

- by user645740

Megjelent az Oracle Database ÚJ verziója, az Oracle Database 12c, számos innovációval, újdonsággal, új funkcióval. Az egyik legfontosabb a Multitenant funkció, ami a container database és pluggable database architektúrára épül, ami elsodlegesen az adatbázis konszolidációt és az adatbázis cloud megvalósításokat támogatja. Az Automatic Data Optimization a Heat Map segítségével az adatok automatikus tömörítését és osztályozott elhelyezését teszi lehetové (tiering). Emellett a biztonság, rendelkezésre állás és számos más területen vannak újdonságok. Az új verzió letöltheto: Linux x86-64, Solaris Sparc64, Solaris (x86-64) Oracle Technology Network. Lehet regisztrálni a launch webcastra: here.

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Same SELECT used in an INSERT has different execution plan

- by amacias

A customer complained that a query and its INSERT counterpart had different execution plans, and of course, the INSERT was slower. First lets look at the SELECT : SELECT ua_tr_rundatetime, ua_ch_treatmentcode, ua_tr_treatmentcode, ua_ch_cellid, ua_tr_cellid FROM (SELECT DISTINCT CH.treatmentcode AS UA_CH_TREATMENTCODE, CH.cellid AS UA_CH_CELLID FROM CH, DL WHERE CH.contactdatetime > SYSDATE - 5 AND CH.treatmentcode = DL.treatmentcode) CH_CELLS, (SELECT DISTINCT T.treatmentcode AS UA_TR_TREATMENTCODE, T.cellid AS UA_TR_CELLID, T.rundatetime AS UA_TR_RUNDATETIME FROM T, DL WHERE T.treatmentcode = DL.treatmentcode) TRT_CELLS WHERE CH_CELLS.ua_ch_treatmentcode(+) = TRT_CELLS.ua_tr_treatmentcode; The query has 2 DISTINCT subqueries. The execution plan shows one with DISTICT Placement transformation applied and not the other. The view in Step 5 has the prefix VW_DTP which means DISTINCT Placement. -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Id | Operation | Name | Cost (%CPU) -------------------------------------------------------------------- | 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 272K(100) |* 1 | HASH JOIN OUTER | | 272K (1) | 2 | VIEW | | 4408 (1) | 3 | HASH UNIQUE | | 4408 (1) |* 4 | HASH JOIN | | 4407 (1) | 5 | VIEW | VW_DTP_48BAF62C | 1660 (2) | 6 | HASH UNIQUE | | 1660 (2) | 7 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | DL | 1644 (1) | 8 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | T | 2744 (1) | 9 | VIEW | | 267K (1) | 10 | HASH UNIQUE | | 267K (1) |* 11 | HASH JOIN | | 267K (1) | 12 | PARTITION RANGE ITERATOR| | 266K (1) |* 13 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | CH | 266K (1) | 14 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | DL | 1644 (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Query Block Name / Object Alias (identified by operation id): ------------------------------------------------------------- 1 - SEL$1 2 - SEL$AF418D5F / TRT_CELLS@SEL$1 3 - SEL$AF418D5F 5 - SEL$F6AECEDE / VW_DTP_48BAF62C@SEL$48BAF62C 6 - SEL$F6AECEDE 7 - SEL$F6AECEDE / DL@SEL$3 8 - SEL$AF418D5F / T@SEL$3 9 - SEL$2 / CH_CELLS@SEL$1 10 - SEL$2 13 - SEL$2 / CH@SEL$2 14 - SEL$2 / DL@SEL$2 Predicate Information (identified by operation id): --------------------------------------------------- 1 - access("CH_CELLS"."UA_CH_TREATMENTCODE"="TRT_CELLS"."UA_TR_TREATMENTCODE") 4 - access("T"."TREATMENTCODE"="ITEM_1") 11 - access("CH"."TREATMENTCODE"="DL"."TREATMENTCODE") 13 - filter("CH"."CONTACTDATETIME">SYSDATE@!-5) The outline shows PLACE_DISTINCT(@"SEL$3" "DL"@"SEL$3") indicating that the QB3 is the one that got the transformation. Outline Data ------------- /*+ BEGIN_OUTLINE_DATA IGNORE_OPTIM_EMBEDDED_HINTS OPTIMIZER_FEATURES_ENABLE('11.2.0.3') DB_VERSION('11.2.0.3') ALL_ROWS OUTLINE_LEAF(@"SEL$2") OUTLINE_LEAF(@"SEL$F6AECEDE") OUTLINE_LEAF(@"SEL$AF418D5F") PLACE_DISTINCT(@"SEL$3" "DL"@"SEL$3") OUTLINE_LEAF(@"SEL$1") OUTLINE(@"SEL$48BAF62C") OUTLINE(@"SEL$3") NO_ACCESS(@"SEL$1" "TRT_CELLS"@"SEL$1") NO_ACCESS(@"SEL$1" "CH_CELLS"@"SEL$1") LEADING(@"SEL$1" "TRT_CELLS"@"SEL$1" "CH_CELLS"@"SEL$1") USE_HASH(@"SEL$1" "CH_CELLS"@"SEL$1") FULL(@"SEL$2" "CH"@"SEL$2") FULL(@"SEL$2" "DL"@"SEL$2") LEADING(@"SEL$2" "CH"@"SEL$2" "DL"@"SEL$2") USE_HASH(@"SEL$2" "DL"@"SEL$2") USE_HASH_AGGREGATION(@"SEL$2") NO_ACCESS(@"SEL$AF418D5F" "VW_DTP_48BAF62C"@"SEL$48BAF62C") FULL(@"SEL$AF418D5F" "T"@"SEL$3") LEADING(@"SEL$AF418D5F" "VW_DTP_48BAF62C"@"SEL$48BAF62C" "T"@"SEL$3") USE_HASH(@"SEL$AF418D5F" "T"@"SEL$3") USE_HASH_AGGREGATION(@"SEL$AF418D5F") FULL(@"SEL$F6AECEDE" "DL"@"SEL$3") USE_HASH_AGGREGATION(@"SEL$F6AECEDE") END_OUTLINE_DATA */ The 10053 shows there is a comparative of cost with and without the transformation. This means the transformation belongs to Cost-Based Query Transformations (CBQT). In SEL$3 the optimization of the query block without the transformation is 6659.73 and with the transformation is 4408.41 so the transformation is kept. GBP/DP: Checking validity of GBP/DP for query block SEL$3 (#3) DP: Checking validity of distinct placement for query block SEL$3 (#3) DP: Using search type: linear DP: Considering distinct placement on query block SEL$3 (#3) DP: Starting iteration 1, state space = (5) : (0) DP: Original query DP: Costing query block. DP: Updated best state, Cost = 6659.73 DP: Starting iteration 2, state space = (5) : (1) DP: Using DP transformation in this iteration. DP: Transformed query DP: Costing query block. DP: Updated best state, Cost = 4408.41 DP: Doing DP on the original QB. DP: Doing DP on the preserved QB. In SEL$2 the cost without the transformation is less than with it so it is not kept. GBP/DP: Checking validity of GBP/DP for query block SEL$2 (#2) DP: Checking validity of distinct placement for query block SEL$2 (#2) DP: Using search type: linear DP: Considering distinct placement on query block SEL$2 (#2) DP: Starting iteration 1, state space = (3) : (0) DP: Original query DP: Costing query block. DP: Updated best state, Cost = 267936.93 DP: Starting iteration 2, state space = (3) : (1) DP: Using DP transformation in this iteration. DP: Transformed query DP: Costing query block. DP: Not update best state, Cost = 267951.66 To the same query an INSERT INTO is added and the result is a very different execution plan. INSERT INTO cc (ua_tr_rundatetime, ua_ch_treatmentcode, ua_tr_treatmentcode, ua_ch_cellid, ua_tr_cellid)SELECT ua_tr_rundatetime, ua_ch_treatmentcode, ua_tr_treatmentcode, ua_ch_cellid, ua_tr_cellidFROM (SELECT DISTINCT CH.treatmentcode AS UA_CH_TREATMENTCODE, CH.cellid AS UA_CH_CELLID FROM CH, DL WHERE CH.contactdatetime > SYSDATE - 5 AND CH.treatmentcode = DL.treatmentcode) CH_CELLS, (SELECT DISTINCT T.treatmentcode AS UA_TR_TREATMENTCODE, T.cellid AS UA_TR_CELLID, T.rundatetime AS UA_TR_RUNDATETIME FROM T, DL WHERE T.treatmentcode = DL.treatmentcode) TRT_CELLSWHERE CH_CELLS.ua_ch_treatmentcode(+) = TRT_CELLS.ua_tr_treatmentcode;----------------------------------------------------------| Id | Operation | Name | Cost (%CPU)----------------------------------------------------------| 0 | INSERT STATEMENT | | 274K(100)| 1 | LOAD TABLE CONVENTIONAL | | |* 2 | HASH JOIN OUTER | | 274K (1)| 3 | VIEW | | 6660 (1)| 4 | SORT UNIQUE | | 6660 (1)|* 5 | HASH JOIN | | 6659 (1)| 6 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | DL | 1644 (1)| 7 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | T | 2744 (1)| 8 | VIEW | | 267K (1)| 9 | SORT UNIQUE | | 267K (1)|* 10 | HASH JOIN | | 267K (1)| 11 | PARTITION RANGE ITERATOR| | 266K (1)|* 12 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | CH | 266K (1)| 13 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | DL | 1644 (1)----------------------------------------------------------Query Block Name / Object Alias (identified by operation id):------------------------------------------------------------- 1 - SEL$1 3 - SEL$3 / TRT_CELLS@SEL$1 4 - SEL$3 6 - SEL$3 / DL@SEL$3 7 - SEL$3 / T@SEL$3 8 - SEL$2 / CH_CELLS@SEL$1 9 - SEL$2 12 - SEL$2 / CH@SEL$2 13 - SEL$2 / DL@SEL$2Predicate Information (identified by operation id):--------------------------------------------------- 2 - access("CH_CELLS"."UA_CH_TREATMENTCODE"="TRT_CELLS"."UA_TR_TREATMENTCODE") 5 - access("T"."TREATMENTCODE"="DL"."TREATMENTCODE") 10 - access("CH"."TREATMENTCODE"="DL"."TREATMENTCODE") 12 - filter("CH"."CONTACTDATETIME">SYSDATE@!-5)Outline Data------------- /*+ BEGIN_OUTLINE_DATA IGNORE_OPTIM_EMBEDDED_HINTS OPTIMIZER_FEATURES_ENABLE('11.2.0.3') DB_VERSION('11.2.0.3') ALL_ROWS OUTLINE_LEAF(@"SEL$2") OUTLINE_LEAF(@"SEL$3") OUTLINE_LEAF(@"SEL$1") OUTLINE_LEAF(@"INS$1") FULL(@"INS$1" "CC"@"INS$1") NO_ACCESS(@"SEL$1" "TRT_CELLS"@"SEL$1") NO_ACCESS(@"SEL$1" "CH_CELLS"@"SEL$1") LEADING(@"SEL$1" "TRT_CELLS"@"SEL$1" "CH_CELLS"@"SEL$1") USE_HASH(@"SEL$1" "CH_CELLS"@"SEL$1") FULL(@"SEL$2" "CH"@"SEL$2") FULL(@"SEL$2" "DL"@"SEL$2") LEADING(@"SEL$2" "CH"@"SEL$2" "DL"@"SEL$2") USE_HASH(@"SEL$2" "DL"@"SEL$2") USE_HASH_AGGREGATION(@"SEL$2") FULL(@"SEL$3" "DL"@"SEL$3") FULL(@"SEL$3" "T"@"SEL$3") LEADING(@"SEL$3" "DL"@"SEL$3" "T"@"SEL$3") USE_HASH(@"SEL$3" "T"@"SEL$3") USE_HASH_AGGREGATION(@"SEL$3") END_OUTLINE_DATA */ There is no DISTINCT Placement view and no hint.The 10053 trace shows a new legend "DP: Bypassed: Not SELECT"implying that this is a transformation that it is possible only for SELECTs. GBP/DP: Checking validity of GBP/DP for query block SEL$3 (#4) DP: Checking validity of distinct placement for query block SEL$3 (#4) DP: Bypassed: Not SELECT. GBP/DP: Checking validity of GBP/DP for query block SEL$2 (#3) DP: Checking validity of distinct placement for query block SEL$2 (#3) DP: Bypassed: Not SELECT. In 12.1 (and hopefully in 11.2.0.4 when released) the restriction on applying CBQT to some DMLs and DDLs (like CTAS) is lifted.This is documented in BugTag Note:10013899.8 Allow CBQT for some DML / DDLAnd interestingly enough, it is possible to have a one-off patch in 11.2.0.3. SQL> select DESCRIPTION,OPTIMIZER_FEATURE_ENABLE,IS_DEFAULT 2 from v$system_fix_control where BUGNO='10013899'; DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------------------------------------- OPTIMIZER_FEATURE_ENABLE IS_DEFAULT ------------------------- ---------- enable some transformations for DDL and DML statements 11.2.0.4 1

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EBS Accounts Payables Customer Advisory

- by cwarticki

Blogging to let you know of an important set of Oracle Payables patches that were released for R12.1 customers. Accounts Payable Customer Advisory: Dear Valued Oracle Support Customer, Since the release of R12.1.3 a number of recommended Payables patches have been made available as standalone patches, to help address important business process incidents. Adoption of these patches is highly recommended. To further facilitate adoption of these Payables patches Oracle has consolidated them into a single Recommended Patch Collection (RPC). The RPC is a collection of recommended Payables patches created with the following goals in mind: Stability: Help address issues that are identified by Oracle Development and Oracle Software Support that may interfere with the normal completion of important business processes such as period close. Root Cause Fixes: Help make available root cause fix for data integrity that may delay period close, normal invoice flow and other business actions. Compact: Keep the file footprint as small as possible to help facilitate the install process and minimize testing. Granular: Collection of patches based on functional area that allows customer to apply, based on their individual needs and goals, all three RPC’s at once or in phases. Payables: - New AP RPC (14273383:R12.AP.B) has all data corruption root cause fixes known to date plus tons of other crucial fixes (Note: 1397581.1). - Companion must have RPCs: o Note: 1481221.1: R12.1: Payments Recommended Patch Collection (IBY RPC), August 2012 o Note: 1481235.1: R12.1: E-Business Tax Recommended Patch Collection (ZX RPC), August 2012 o Note: 1481222.1: R12.1: Sub Ledger Accounting (SLA) Recommended Patch Collection (XLA RPC), August 2012 - This time we beat the system far harder on testing and it held up remarkably well. We could not get any data corruption events in the Invoice Cancel/Discard flow (that is the #1 generator) neither we could cause Orphan Events in the system. Therefore this is very good code. Financials: - ALL FIN modules now have RPCs: full listing is in (Note: 954704.1)

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PeopleSoft Reconnect Conference

- by Matthew Haavisto

The PeopleSoft Reconnect Conference is coming in July. This conference is run by Quest, and unlike other conferences, is focused specifically on PeopleSoft. You can learn about the conference and register here. We have a lot of great sessions planned this year for both PeopleSoft applications and PeopleTools. Since this is the Tech blog, I'll highlight some of the PeopleTools and related technology sessions: PeopleSoft Technology Roadmap: Current Features and Future Plans PeopleTools Features for the Smart Functional User Mastering PeopleTools: Using the Peoplesoft Integration Network Mastering PeopleTools: Getting Started with PeopleSoft Update Manager Mastering PeopleTools: Putting Dashboards and Workcenters to Work for You Mastering PeopleTools: Exploiting PeopleTools Tips and Tricks PeopleSoft Administration Across the Enterprise As you can see from this list, we're covering a broad range of topics that will appeal to everyone from your technical staff to savvy functional experts. And these are just the sessions that we in the Oracle/PeopleTools group are presenting. There are also dozens of valuable and interesting sessions being presented by customers and partners. You can view the entire program here. We hope to see you there!

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Agile Documentation

- by Nick Harrison

We all know that one of the premises of the agile manifesto is to value Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation. This is a wonderful idea and it takes a tremendous burden off of project implementations. I have seen as many projects fail because of the maintenance weight of the project documentations as I have for any reason. But this goal as important as it is may not always be practical. Sometimes the client will simply insist on tedious documentation despite the arguments against it. This may be to calm a nervous client. This may be to satisfy an audit / compliance requirement. This may be a non-too subtle attempt at sabotaging the project. Ok, it is probably not an all out attempt to sabotage the project, but it will probably feel that way. So what can we do to keep to the spirit of the Agile Manifesto but still meet the needs of the client wanting the documentation? This is a good question that I have been puzzling over lately! I hope to explore some possible answers more fully here. A common theme that my solutions are likely to follow is the same theme that I often follow with simplifying complex business logic. Make it table driven! My thought is that the sought after documentation could be a report or reports out of a metadata repository. Reports are much easier to maintain than hand written documentation. Here are a few additional advantages that we can explore over time: Reports will take advantage of the fact that different people have different needs and different format requirements Reports and the supporting metadata are more easily validated and the validation can be automated. If the application itself uses this metadata than there never has to be a question as to whether or not the metadata is up to date. It is up to date or the application would not work. In many cases we should be able to automatically gather most of the Meta data that we need using reflection, system tables, etc. I think that this will lower the total cost of ownership for the documentation and may provide something useful beyond having a pretty document to look at. What are your thoughts?

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How to Control Screen Layouts in LightSwitch

- by ChrisD

Visual Studio LightSwitch has a bunch of screen templates that you can use to quickly generate screens. They give you good starting points that you can customize further. When you add a new screen to your project you see a set of screen templates that you can choose from. These templates lay out all the related data you choose to put on a screen automatically for you. And don’t under estimate them; they do a great job of laying out controls in a smart way. For instance, a tab control will be used when you select more than one related set of data to display on a screen. However, you’re not limited to taking the layout as is. In fact, the screen designer is pretty flexible and allows you to create stacks of controls in a variety of configurations. You just need to visualize your screen as a series of containers that you can lay out in rows and columns. You then place controls or stacks of controls into these areas to align the screen exactly how you want. If you’re new in Visual Studio LightSwitch, you can see this tutorial. OK, Let’s start with a simple example. I have already designed my data entities for a simple order tracking system similar to the Northwind database. I also have added a Search Data Screen to search my Products already. Now I will add a new Details Screen for my Products and make it the default screen via the “Add New Screen” dialog: The screen designer picks a simple layout for me based on the single entity I chose, in this case Product. Hit F5 to run the application, select a Product on the search screen to open the Product Details Screen. Notice that it’s pretty simple because my entity is simple. Click the “Customize” button in the top right of the screen so we can start tweaking it. The left side of the screen shows the containership of controls and data bindings (called the content tree) and the right side shows the live preview with data. Notice that we have a simple layout of two rows but only one row is populated (with a vertical stack of controls in this case). The bottom row is empty. You can envision the screen like this: Each container will display a group of data that you select. For instance in the above screen, the top row is set to a vertical stack control and the group of data to display is coming from Product. So when laying out screens you need to think in terms of containers of controls bound to groups of data. To change the data to which a container is bound, select the data item next to the container: You can select the “New Group” item in order to create more containers (or controls) within the current container. For instance to totally control the layout, select the Product in the top row and hit the delete key. This will delete the vertical stack and therefore all the controls on the screen. The content tree will still have two rows, but the rows are now both empty. If you want a layout of four containers (two rows and two columns) then select “New Group” for the data item and then change the vertical stack control to “Two Columns” for both of the rows as shown here: You can keep going on and on by selecting new groups and choosing between rows or columns. Here’s a layout with 8 containers, 4 rows and 2 columns: And here is a layout with 7 content areas; one row across the top of the screen and three rows with two columns below that: When you select Choose Content and select a data item like Product it will populate all the controls within the container (row or column in a vertical stack) however you have complete control on what to display within each group. You can delete fields you don’t want to display and/or change their controls. You can also change the size of controls and how they display by changing the settings in the properties window. If you are in the Screen Designer (and not the customization mode like we are here) you can also drag-drop data items from the left-hand side of the screen to the content tree. Note, however, that not all areas of the tree will allow you to drop a data item if there is a binding already set to a different set of data. For instance you can’t drop a Customer ID into the same group as a Product if they originate from different entities. To get around this, all you need to do is create a new group and content area as shown above. Let’s take a more complex example that deals with more than just product. I want to design a complex screen that displays Products and their Category, as well as all the OrderDetails for which that product is selected. This time I will create a new screen and select List and Details, select the Products screen data, and include the related OrderDetails. However I’m going to totally change the layout so that a Product grid is at the top left and below that is the selected Product detail. Below that will be the Category text fields and image in two columns below. On the right side I want the OrderDetails grid to take up the whole right side of the screen. All this can be done in customization mode while you’re debugging the application. To do this, I first deleted all the content items in the tree and then re-created the content tree as shown in the image below. I also set the image to be larger and the description textbox to be 5 rows using the property window below the live preview. I added the green lines to indicate the containers and show how it maps to the content tree (click to enlarge): I hope this demystifies the screen designer a little bit. Remember that screen templates are excellent starting points – you can take them as-is or customize them further. It takes a little fooling around with customizing screens to get them to do exactly what you want but there are a ton of possibilities once you get the hang of it. Stay tuned for more information on how to create your own screen templates that show up in the “Add New Screen” dialog. Enjoy! The tutorial that might be interested: Adding Custom Control In LightSwitch

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Entity Framework: Connecting to a mdf user database file via localDB during script execution

- by Marko Apfel

Problem If you run the “Generate database from model” wizard and execute the generated script the destination database could be the wrong one (for instance master of the SQL Server). Solution To use an own mdf attachable user database some connection information must specified during script execution. Execute your script opens the dialog “Connect to Server”. Press “Options” and go to the second tab “Connection Properties”. Select “Browse server” in the “Connect to database” dropdown box: Confirm the information dialog with “Yes”. In the following dialog you could choose your user database. Now the schema is created in the user database.

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Early Adopters of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Report Agility and Productivity Benefits

- by Anand Akela

Earlier this month at the Oracle Open World 2012, we celebrated the first anniversary of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c . Early adopters of Oracle Enterprise manager 12c have benefited from its federated self-service access to complete application stacks, automated provisioning, elastic scalability, metering, and charge-back capabilities. Crimson Consulting Group recently interviewed multiple early adopters of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c and captured their finding in a white Paper "Real-World Benefits of Private Cloud: Early Adopters of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Report Agility and Productivity Gains". Here is summary of the finding :- On October 25th at 10 AM pacific time, Kirk Bangstad from the Crimson Consulting group will join us in a live webcast and share what learnt from the early adopters of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. Don't miss this chance to hear how private clouds could impact your business and ask questions from our experts. Webcast: Real-World Benefits of Private Cloud Early Adopters of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Report Agility and Productivity Benefits Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012 Time: 10:00 AM PDT | 1:00 PM EDT Register Today All attendees will receive the White Paper: Real-World Benefits of Private Cloud: Early Adopters of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Report Agility and Productivity Gains. Stay Connected Twitter | Face book | You Tube | Linked in | Newsletter

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