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The New Stars of blogs.oracle.com

It's been three or four months since blogs.oracle.com launched, and theresponse has been awesome -- well over half a million page views(collectively) thus...

It's been three or four months since blogs.oracle.com launched, and theresponse has been awesome -- well over half a million page views(collectively) thus far.That info is not the purpose of my posthowever. Rather I want to highlight some new blogging "stars" at Oraclewho are using blogs.oracle.com as their platform:Steven Chan - E-Business Suite Technology BlogPerhapsthe best of the bunch. The volume of information here for EBS users issimply incredible, not to mention...

Hammer Time

In a previous post I previewed a new technical article series ("Project Lockdown" from Oracle ACE Arup Nanda - well, now it's here!This is a really important...

In a previous post I previewed a new technical article series ("Project Lockdown" from Oracle ACE Arup Nanda - well, now it's here!This is a really important series for a number of reasons. Most important, it offers extremely valuable information for DBAs who need to take maximum advantage of Oracle's out-of-the-box security features (and who doesn't these days?), including "best practice" checklists for locking your data down over the course of a single day, a week, a month,...

Oracle + Scripting is Groovy

The combination of Oracle Database + open-source scripting languages such as php, python, ruby, et al is really gathering steam, if the popularity of related...

The combination of Oracle Database + open-source scripting languages such as php, python, ruby, et al is really gathering steam, if the popularity of related content on OTN is any indication. "Ruby on Rails on Oracle" and "Wrapping Your Brain Around Oracle and Python" were simply blockbusters and we hope to replicate their success with new multi-part series in the next quarter.Tug Grall's "Grails on Oracle for Java Developers" looks to be on a similar path; Harshad Oak of...

JavaOne Essentials

Am listenting in on Thomas Kurian's general session keynote as I write this. (Mike Lehmann is doing a nice TopLink Essentials JPA demo.) If you've visited OTN's...

Am listenting in on Thomas Kurian's general session keynote as I write this. (Mike Lehmann is doing a nice TopLink Essentials JPA demo.) If you've visited OTN's JavaOne page today, you've noted the announcements re the open-sourced  TopLink Essentials becoming the RI for Java Persistence Architecture (JPA) - thus providing EJB3 infrastructure in Glassfish - the soon-to-be published "Mastering SOA" series on OTN, the imminent donation of Oracle's Ajax renderkit to Apache,...

Persistence Pays Off

It's not common knowledge at this point but Oracle recently open-sourced a wide swath of Oracle TopLink, its object/relational persistence architecture, in the...

It's not common knowledge at this point but Oracle recently open-sourced a wide swath of Oracle TopLink, its object/relational persistence architecture, in the form of TopLink Essentials -- which in fact is rolled into Sun's GlassFish project. (Source is available here.)The news here is that TopLink Essentials has been named the official Reference Implementation for the EJB3 Java Persistence API (JPA), which provides the persistence architecture within the EJB3 spec. As of...

JavaOne Around the Corner

Yes, it's events season -- JavaOne is convening at Moscone Center in SF next week.As usual OTN will be in attendance, throwing free software and "Greatest Hits"...

Yes, it's events season -- JavaOne is convening at Moscone Center in SF next week.As usual OTN will be in attendance, throwing free software and "Greatest Hits" CDs around like so many frisbees. I'll do my best to highlight interesting blogs coming out of the event here.Click here to see a full list of the Oracle activities there!

PSOUG Oracle Day Wrap-Up

John Smiley, an Amazon.com DBA and important contributor to OTN, was kind enough to provide his personal wrap-up of PSOUG's "Oracle Day" event from a couple...

John Smiley, an Amazon.com DBA and important contributor to OTN, was kind enough to provide his personal wrap-up of PSOUG's "Oracle Day" event from a couple weeks back.This event was somewhat drowned out by happenings at IOUG, but the speaker list was no less extraordinary (and Tom Kyte was in attendance, unlike in Nashville).I encourage you to take a look at John's observations....

Closing Out

I haven't seen too much about them in the trade press yet, but Oracle did make some important security-related announcements at IOUG yesterday.The most...

I haven't seen too much about them in the trade press yet, but Oracle did make some important security-related announcements at IOUG yesterday.The most important is the release of Oracle Database Vault, a new option to Oracle Database 10g Release 2 EE, that enables you to restrict access to rows, tables, or entire applications on a user level (based on various business rules). This provides an answer to the "dirty little secret" that most security threats originate from...

Collaborate Nashville, Part 2

Showed up for my first session today -- "Securing Your Oracle Database" -- only to find the room full to the rafters. (Hmmm, I am sensing a pattern here.) But I...

Showed up for my first session today -- "Securing Your Oracle Database" -- only to find the room full to the rafters. (Hmmm, I am sensing a pattern here.) But I did manage to arrive early at the next (and equally popular) session, a RAC SIG program consisting of a customer panel.The panelists - Arup Nanda of Starwood Hotels (an Oracle ACE and frequent OTN contributor), Fan Lee of Remanufacturing Corp., and Logan McLeod of Dell were generous in their descriptions of their...