We are Thankful for YOU! from all of us at the Oracle ACE Program
As we near the end of 2013, we would like to express our gratitude for your continued dedication and enthusiasm of the Oracle ACE program. Whether you are near or far, an ACE newbie or veteran, DBA or architect, you all play an instrumental role in the program. We acknowledge that our support is paramount to your success as an Oracle ACE or ACE Director, however it's your work and commitment that makes the program whole.
It's our dependence on your time and genorosity that helps us maintain the level of integrity and excellence we strive for in the program. Because of you, we have community, with community, we have a network, with network, we have friends, and with friends, we have people to help us celebrate the joys and get through the tough times life so often presents.
For those of you who are not aware, our friend and fellow Oracle ACE Mike Riley is battling stage III rectal cancer. This not only affects Mike, but his family as well -- emotionally, financially, and physically. Oracle ACE Chet Justice was first to realize the "hell" Mike and his family must be going through so about a month back, Chet did an incredible deed. He raised enough money anonymously within 24 hours and surprised the entire family with a 4 pack of box seats to game 5 of the World Series in St. Louis (where Mike and his family reside). Read the amazing story of genorosity and care here. A truly endearing story that brought tears to our eyes. 
The reality is that the excitement numbed the pain only for a night. Over the next several months, Mike will be faced with surgery, chemotherapy, scans, and more surgery. The battle is just beginning and there's a long road ahead for the entire family. A GoFundMe campaign, started by Chet, has been created to help them because let's face it... cancer treatments are expensive and insurance coverage sucks. We invite all of you to visit the Riley family page and make a donation. No amount is too small and all donations are hugely appreciated.
We know this is a busy time of year with the holidays among us, but it also helps us remember 3 of the most important things that matter in life:FAMILY, FRIENDS and HEALTH!
Cheers to you and yours!
~ Vikki Lira and Lillian Buziak
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 Welcome New Oracle ACEs
Initiated November 2013
Call for Papers
OUG Ireland | March 11, 2014 | Dublin, Ireland Submission deadline: Dec 13
For those who participated in the ACE Director briefing at Oracle OpenWorld, you may remember ACE Director Debra Lilley discussing the Apps Advantage. She is looking to update the 2010 42 Real Life Examples of Oracle Fusion Middleware with Applications survey. This will help her see what people are using Fusion Middleware for today and if change has taken place. It gives you the opportunity to showcase your case studies. Take short survey.
Call for Articles
Just a reminder that the official LinkedIn group is here. All other "Oracle ACE" related have been decommissioned. Please join this group if you are not already a member.
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Congratulations to the newest ODTUG Board Members including ACE Director Martin D'Souza and Oracle ACE Mia Urman.
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The Georgia Oracle User Group (GOUSER) will be having their next meeting on Thursday, December 12, 2013. All interested in Oracle technologies are invited to join. The GOUSER group can also be followed at @GOUSER_ORG. More information here.
If you have the enthusiasm for communicating technical ideas and concepts, have a valuable experience or a technical skill that you're keen to share with readers, you should give serious consideration to authoring a book or becoming a technical reviewer. Please contact sheila.cepero@oracle.com for more details |
| Oracle ACE Watch |
NEW ARTICLES
BLOG POSTS
This post by Oracle ACE Gavin Soorma examines how to create an Oracle 12.1.0 physical standby Active Data Guard database using the RMAN DUPLICATE FROM ACTIVE command.
Create Group Using Em12cSometimes you need to create a certain group for enterprise manager to make monitoring easier, especially if you have multiple components such as database , host , application server, etc. Read this post by Oracle ACE Osama Mustafa to learn how to manage them individually.
Oracle BPEL, Retrieving the Validate Activity Fault MessageThe default 'Validate' activity in Oracle BPEl throws an error when a variable doesn't matches it's schema definition. Inspecting the thrown Runtime Fault will give you an empty fault, so it can't be used to retrieve the full error message which does show up in the audit trail. By use of a mediator Oracle ACE Eric Elzinga explains that it can retrieve a non-empty fault object.
A screencast by ACE Director Adam Bien talks about JSON processing is well integrated with JAX-RS 2.0. "Hello JSON" in 3 minutes.
We once knew GlassFish server as a full blown product and now it has deprecated to a toy. What happens next to the GlassFish community? ACE Director Markus Eisele shares his thoughts.
#OOW13 Blogger Meetup VideoIf you missed #OOW13 and/or the blogger meetup, here is a fun videocompilation of the blogger meetup event put together by ACE Director Bjoern Rost, including over 60 bloggers and tweeps, many of them Oracle ACE and ACE Directors.
This blog entry written by Oracle ACE Celvin Kattookaran provides details about the much awaited feature of adding external user(s) and group(s) comes to NUMSys.
He also shares some pointers on Smart View Shared Connection in an XML file.
Oracle ACE Rolando Carrasco digs deeper into the use of PA's and provides some tips that can be used to deploy them.
In his post, Oracle ACE Guy Harrison shares Exadata write-back cache and how it reduced free buffer waits.
What if you don’t want to use the Oracle Universal Installer to install the Golden Gate binaries. Can you still do the installation the old way of unzipping in the directory where you want it installed? Read this post by Oracle ACE Bobby Curtis to find answers. He also provides insight about new parameters required with Golden Gate 12 c.
Oracle ACE Dan Vlamis has added a test drive of Oracle R Enterprise to its growing list of test drives (hosted on the cloud, no downloading of VMs) of Oracle BI, Map Views in OBIEE, Excel Analysis of OLAP Data, and Oracle Advanced Analytics/Oracle Data Mining.
Oracle ACE Rodrigo Mufalani investigates why session lockout was happening for long periods of time.
In this post written by Rob Zoeteweij, he describes the approach for setting up Solution Groups in EM12 c.
NEW BOOKS
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| Oracle ACE Out and About |
- Speaking at Oracle Day Denver (Dec 2013)
Kellyn Pot'Vin - ACE Director, DB
- Speaking at UKOUG Tech13 (Dec 2013)
Over 40+ Oracle ACE and ACE Directors. See list here.
- Speaking at OakTable World UK (Dec 2013)
James Morle (+organizer) - ACE Director, DB
Jonathan Lewis - ACE Director, DB
Alex Gorbachev - ACE Director, DB
Frits Hoogland - ACE Director, DB
Kyle Hailey - Oracle ACE, DB
Doug Burns - ACE Director, DB
Marcin Przepiorowski - Oracle ACE, DB
Christian Antognini - ACE Director, DB
David Kurtz - ACE Director, DB
Mogens Norgaard - ACE Director, DB
- Speaking at ODTUG Webcast: Old Dogs, New Tricks? YES! Oracle Forms 11g New Features (Dec 2013)
Mia Urman - Oracle ACE, OFM
- Speaking at Global Internet Tech Conf and China Softcon(Dec 13)
Eygle Gai - ACE Director, DB
- Speaking at Moderner Staat (Dec 13)
Torsten Winterberg - ACE Director, OFM
- Speakiing at Zusaar Dec 13)
Wataru Morohashi - Oracle ACE, DB
- Teaching Anti-Pattern PL/SQL Programming for AMIS (Dec 13)
Steven Feuerstein - ACE Director, DB
- Speaking at ilOUG DBA SIG (Dec 13)
Ami Aharonovich - Oracle ACE, DB
- Speaking at NYOUG winter conference (Dec 13)
Dan McGhan - Oracle ACE, DB
- Teaching Mastering Oracle Trace Data courses (Dec 13 &Jan 14)
Cary Millsap - ACE Director, DB
- Speaking at BIWA Summit (Jan 14)
Dan Vlamis (+ organizer) - Oracle ACE, BI
Sunil Ranka (+ organizer) - Oracle ACE, BI
Dan Hotka - ACE Director, DB
Brenden Tierney - ACE Director, DB
Stewart Bryson - Oracle ACE, BI
Mark Rittman - ACE Director, BI
Kevin McGinley - ACE Director, BI
Christian Screen - Oracle ACE, BI
- Speaking at DOAG SIG Middleware (Jan 14)
Torsten Winterberg - ACE Director, OFM
Hajo Normann - ACE Director, OFM
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| Architect Corner |
This roundtable discussion features Oracle ACE Directors Lonneke Dikmans, Ronald van Luttikuhuizen, Hajo Normann, Guido Schmutz, and Torsten Winterberg in a wide-ranging conversation on the maturity of Service Oriented Architecture technology and tools, the lingering and typically self-imposed problems that can prevent organizations from realizing the full potential of SOA, and what SOA means in the era of *aaS, mobile computing, and big data. |
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