The Oracle ACE Program Newsletter January 2014 By ACEs, For ACEs

By ACEs, For ACEs January 2014

Oracle ACE Spotlight Kellyn Pot'Vin, Oracle ACE Director Kellyn Pot'Vin is an Oracle ACE Director, Oak Table Member and Sr. Technical Specialist. She specializes in environment optimization tuning and creating systems that are robust and enterprise level. Kellyn works almost exclusively on mult-TB size databases, including Exadata and solid state disk solutions and is known for her extensive work with both the Enterprise Manager 12c and its command line interface. She is the co-author on a number of technical books, hosts webinars for ODTUG, OTN and All Things Oracle and has presented at Oracle Open World, HotSos, Collaborate, KSCOPE, along with numerous other US and European conferences. Kellyn is a strong advocate for Women in Technology, (WIT) citing education on topics regarding stereotypes and presenting opportunities early as the path to overcoming challenges. Kellyn lives in Westminster, CO, which is northwest of Denver and near the beautiful Rocky Mountains. She lives with her partner, Tim Gorman (also an ACE Director) and is the proud mother of three children, Samuel, Caitlyn and Joshua. Her dog, DaVinci, a Jack Russel/Bull Terrier mix, can often be seen in her photos when she's capturing her adventures on telecommuting. She enjoys bike riding, yoga, knitting, painting and reading when she's not furthering the advancement for Women in Technology, the Rocky Mtn. Oracle User Group community and the DBA Kevlar brand on social media. Kellyn is AKA "DBA Goth Cowgirl." You can read more about how that came to be here.
Oracle ACE Program News Welcome New Oracle ACEs Initiated Dec 2013 / Jan 2014 Name Location Focus James Anthony United Kingdom DB Martin Bach Germany DB Deiby Gomez Guatemala DB Chet Justice United States DB Edelweiss Kammerman  Uruguay BI Eduardo Legatti Brazil DB Mike Nader United States BI Martin Nash United Kingdom DB Fabio Prado Brazil DB Danilo Schmiedel Germany OFM Wilfred van der Deijl  Netherlands OFM Luis Weir United Kingdom OFM Alex Zaballa Brazil DB Oracle ACE Dinner at RMOUG 2014 Only a few days until RMOUG, Feb 5-7, Denver, CO. Don't miss out on this annual conference where you will be able to hang and have lunch with your 29 Oracle ACE and ACE Director participants. If you haven't registered yet, there's still time to reserve your spot. You are also invited to join us at the Oracle ACE dinner on Thu, Feb 6, 6:30pm, Maggiano's. Please RSVP to Vikki Lira if you are able to attend. Upcoming Oracle Virtual Developer Days Tuesday, Feb 4, 2014 - 9am to 1pm PT: Building and Deploying Oracle Database Apps Using Modern Talking technique Thursday, Feb 20, 2014 - 9am to 1pm PT: Creating a Foundation for Cloud Applications using Oracle WebLogic and Oracle Coherence Call for Papers DOAG 2014 Business Intelligence | April 3, 2014 | Munich, Germany Submission deadline: Jan 31 DOAG 2014 Database | June 3, 2014 | Düsseldorf, Germany Submission deadline: Jan 31 DOAG 2014 Development | June 4, 2014 | Düsseldorf, Germany Submission deadline: Jan 31 OUG Scotland | June 11-12, 2014 | Linlithgow, Scotland Submission deadline: Feb 10 Austria OUG | June 17, 2014 | Vienna, Austria Submission deadline: Feb 16 Call for Articles OTech Magazine | Spring Edition Submission deadline: TBD UKOUG Oracle Scene Magazine | Summer Edition Submission deadline: April 11 Oracle Press Authoring Opportunity Have expertise in JAX-RS 2.0 or Java Embedded technologies? Contact Senior Acquisitions Editor, Brandi Shailer atbrandi.shailer@mheducation.com to discuss authoring opportunities. Special Packt Publishing Video Discount Receive 50% Oracle ACE discount for Packt's entire video range, including the brand new Oracle Coherence Quickstart and Oracle Data Integrator Essentials - just enter "ACE50VIDEO" at checkout. Meeting the Challenge of Big Data E-Book: Part Two Learn about the power of big data analytics from the eBook Meeting the Challenge of Big Data: Part Two and find value with the torrent of new data that’s available to your organization. Discover how Oracle Engineered Systems, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, provide a powerful platform that will help you meet the challenge of big data and derive new value for your business. Interested in Writing? 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 contactsheila.cepero@oracle.com for more details > back to the top	Oracle ACE Quick Links Oracle ACE Directory Oracle ACE Nomination Forms Oracle ACE Google Map Follow @oracleace on Twitter Join the Oracle ACE group on Facebook Join the Oracle ACE group on LinkedIn Oracle Blogs Oracle Technology Network OTN Discussion Forums Oracle Wiki Oracle.com Subscribe to Oracle newsletters What Are You Doing? Have you published an article? Are you speaking somewhere? Promote yourself here! Submit newsletter item Comments? Suggestions? Contact lillian.buziak@oracle.com
Oracle ACE Watch NEWS Congratulations to our new usergroup board members: NWOUG: Membership Coordinator: Bex Huff Secretary/Advertising: Ray Smith Profit Magazine: Top Trends 2014 The 2014 Top Trends have been published in the latest edition of Profit Magazine. Special thanks to ACE Directors Sten Vesterli, Debra Lilley, Ron Batra and Oracle ACE Satyendra Kumar Pasalapudi for sharing their thoughts and insights. Are you recognized as a leader in your field? If not, are you ready to be? Then Apply to the ODTUG Leadership Program. The Leadership Program is a journey consisting of monthly webinars on subjects ranging from leadership styles, effective communication, mentoring, and ethics as well as the challenges of leading volunteers.Apply today for this very unique opportunity. ADF Mastery Newsletter ACE Director Sten Vesterli has started a monthly ADF newsletter called ADF Mastery. You can sign up to start receiving your free copy here. ODTUG APEX Theming Competition 2014 This is your opportunity to create APEX themes and have them viewed by the entire international APEX community. ACE Director Martin D'Souza and Oracle ACE Christian Rokitta will part of the judging panel. The winner will be crowned 2014 ODTUG APEX Theme Developer of the Year during the Kscope conference, June 22-26. Learn more here. NEW ARTICLES Oracle Magazine: Hide from Prying Eyes, written by ACE Director Arup Nanda Oracle Magazine: Get Started, written by Tom Haunert, interviewed ACE Director Arup Nanda. Listen to the podcast. Oracle Magazine: Marking a Change, written by Jeff Erickson, interviewed ACE Director Kellyn Pot'Vin. OTech Magazine: SOA Made Simple: choosing the right SOA and BPM Suite component based on classification, written by ACE Director Ronald van Luttikhuizen OTech Magazine: Enforcing Principle of Least Privilege, written by Oracle ACE Biju Thomas OTech Magazine: Maturity of Service Oriented Architectures, written by Oracle ACE Douwe Pieter van den Bos OTech Magazine: The World According to Oracle: Oracle OpenWorld 2013 and beyond, written by ACE Director Lucas Jellema OTech Magazine: Enterprise Deployment of Oracle Fusion Middleware Products, Part 1 written by ACE Director Simon Haslam OTech Magazine: Case Management or Business Process Management? written by ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans OTech Magazine: Why I Don't Use WebLogic JMS Topics written by Oracle ACE Ahmed Aboulnaga OTech Magazine: Future is now, ODI 12c written by ACE Director Gurcan Orhan OTech Magazine: From Requirements to Tool Choice, written by ACE Director Sten Vesterli OTech Magazine: NoSQL and Oracle, written by Oracle ACE James Anthony Java Magazine : Fix This Code Challenge, written by Oracle ACE Deepak Vohra Java Magazine : Solution to Fix This Code Challenge, written by Oracle ACE Deepak Vohra OTN: MorphoTrak - Biometrics ID (case study), written by Oracle ACE Aris Prassinos OTN: Oracle Exadata Database Machine: IO Resource Manager (IORM), written by Oracle ACE Deiby Gomez (in Spanish) OTN: Oracle RAC 12c: "Flex ASM" and "Flex Cluster", written by Oracle ACE Deiby Gomez (in Spanish) OTN: Management Recommendations for Oracle SOA Suite 11G. Part 1 of 2, written by Oracle ACE Rolando Carrasco (in Spanish) OTN: Oracle Database 12c: Transporte de Tablespaces de 11.2.0.3 a 12.1 ( Parte III ), written by ACE Director Joel Perez (in Spanish) OTN: Oracle Database 12c: Cloning Plugabble Databases (PDBs) ( Parte I ), (parte II), written by ACE Director Joel Perez and Oracle ACE Wissem El Khlifi (in Spanish) OTN: Oracle Database 12c: Upgrade Oracle Database 12c (Parte I), (Parte II), (Parte III), (Parte IV), written by ACE Director Joel Perez and Oracle ACE Wissem El Khlifi (in Spanish) OTN: Oracle Database 12c: Flex ASM, written by ACE Director Joel Perez and Oracle ACE Wissem El Khlifi (in Spanish) OTN: OBIEE 11.1.1.7 new feature: Custom Print Designs (Custom Print Layouts), written by Oracle ACE Edelweiss Kammermann (in Spanish) OTN: Oracle Database 12c articles, written by Oracle ACE Alex Zaballa (in Spanish) - Truncate Cascade 12c - Queryable Patch Inventory 12c - Dois novos recursos do Oracle Data Pump 12c - Recuperando tabelas com o RMAN 12c GPO: Oracle Database 12c articles, written by Oracle ACE Alex Zaballa (in Portuguese) - 12c - Multiple Indexes on the same set of Columns - 12c- SQL*Loader Express - 12c - Invisible Columns - 12c - Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (MGMTDB) OTN: Oracle Database 12c: Transporte de Bases de Dados Cross-Platform (parte I), (parte II), written by ACE Director Joel Perez, Mahir M. Quluzade & Oracle ACE Rodrigo Mufalani (in Portuguese) BLOG POSTS Tag Cloud This post written by ACE Director Lucas Jellema explores Data Visualization with an HTML 5 Canvas based Tag Cloud powered by JSON. Configure OHS mod_wl_ohs.conf Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) is the Web server component for Oracle Fusion Middleware. It provides a HTTP listener for Oracle WebLogic Server and the framework for hosting static pages, dynamic pages, and applications over the Web. In his blog, Oracle ACE Osama Mustafa describes how to configure Oracle WebTier for Redirecting Purpose. Best practices in solution architecture for Oracle EBS, OBI, Hyperion Planning Oracle ACE Alex Antonatos shares his hands on tips for best practices when designing your Oracle financial footprint information using R12, Hyperion and OBI. Adding Targets and Keeping it Clean Here is a post describing ACE Director Kellyn Pot'Vin's client's environment that shows just how important it is to ensure your server environment is kept pristine. "Which Way Do I Go?" ACE Director Debra Lilley guest posts on the Oracle AppAdvantage Blogand talks about how people are transforming their businesses using Oracle Technology. Twelve new DBA commands for Oracle 12c ACE Director Julian Dontcheff share 12 new commands in Oracle 12c that will help DBA's with database administration, consolidation, security and availability features. ACE Director Markus Eisele's latest posts from his German Heise Blog - NetBeans and WildFly grow together - JavaLand Highlights - Influence Java EE 8 (Survey Part 2) Seconds_behind_master vs. Absolute slave lag Read this post by Oracle ACE Shlomi Noach to learn about getting the definite metrics your application can trust. SOA Governance FAQ What is SOA Governance? Why do I need it? What are the benefits of implementing SOA Governance and SOA the most common pitfalls? This and many other questions are answered in the SOA Governance FAQ by Oracle ACE Luis Weir. Luis also describes the different components that build up the Oracle Foundation Pack (former AIA Foundation Pack) and also provide some useful architectural diagrams describing its key components. Practical Example for ADF Active Data Service ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis describes in his post the practical approach to implement Active Data Service push update mechanism in ADF applications, leveraging Oracle DB offered notifications functionality over JDBC. Oracle PL/SQL Code Execution from TimesTen This post written by Oracle ACE Gennady Sigalaev describes the example of execution of Oracle PL/SQL code from TimesTen. If you're not using Hugepages, you're doing it Wrong! Read this brief discussion of hugepages and why they're important for Oracle database configuration provided by Oracle ACE Mark Bobak. How to Check Broken Job for Oracle Scheduler (DBMS_SCHEDULER)? Oracle ACE Surachart Opun blogs an example with Oracle Scheduler and how DBAs can check broken job for Oracle Job (dbms_job) at *_JOBS.BROKEN column. DBAs have changed the use from DBMS_JOB to DBMS_SCHEDULER. Oracle 11g New Optimizer Hint: APPEND_VALUES for Improving Insert Performance One of the most common ways to improve the performance of an INSERT operation is to use the optimizer hint called APPEND. Find out why in Oracle ACE Ami Aharonovich's latest guest post. Look who's tweeting now - Sending OEM Notifications via Twitter Oracle ACE Leighton Nelson shares detailed steps for sending Tweets from Oracle Enterprise Manager in his latest post. NEW BOOKS Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 6th Edition by ACE Director Steven Feuerstein. Order a signed copy directly from Steven! It supports a good cause! (available now) Practical Oracle Database Appliance by Oracle ACE Bobby Curtis, ACE Director Yury Velikanov, et al. (available now) Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation by Oracle ACE Luis Weir and Andrew Bell. (available now)