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In my years as an Oracle and SQL Server DBA and the many technical environments I’ve worked in, there’s almost always one database in each place that is a hybrid of OLTP and OLAP.  A highly transactional database that also has reporting requirements, but no separate reporting database.  This type of database is pretty much a guaranteed challenge for any DBA.   On one hand, [...]

We have discussed how to use USER_DEFINED activity in OWB Process Flow in the past. In this topic, we will talk about another option for this property – “SCHEDULER”. With this setting, we can run the external job as a configured OS user. Enable execution of User Defined activity Presume we are using the UNIX [...]

[Editor: This article from Nick Quarmby presents an introductory-level survey of of the general areas that you should consider when sizing an E-Business Suite environment.  Please remember that this blog's mandate is to provide conceptual guidance; we cannot assist directly with specific sizing inquiries for your requirements.  If you have specific questions about sizing for [...]

The JSRs 299/330 are pretty interesting as they offer a nice way to use its flexible structure to easily add new features. For instance inside of the Apache implementation (Apache OpenWebBeans) there is already some extension that adds decent support for the JSF2.0 @ViewScoped annotation. The commit shows that the implementation of this wasn’t that [...]

After a while of non blogging – I started again – this time, under the oracle flag – at blogs.oracle.com/soabpm. Hope to see you there.

Here is a brief analysis of the pre-release announcement for the upcoming January 2010 Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) – Overall, 24 security vulnerabilities are fixed in this CPU, which is a below average number but well within the range of previous CPUs (Oct-09=38, Jul-09=30, Apr-09=43, Jan-09=41, Oct-08=36, Jul-08=45, Apr-08=41, Jan-08=26, Oct-07=51, Jul-07=45, Apr-07=36, Jan-07=51, [...]

Hear Darshan Chandarana, Director, Oracle Financial Services and Sanjeev Sharma, Product Marketing Manager for SOA and Developer Tools, discuss the business and technology challenges faced by MNCs in streamlining payments infrastructures and implementing straight through processing (STP) with confidence.