The Oracle ACE Program: Newsletter | March 2015, Spotlight Osama Mustafa, Oracle ACE

The Oracle ACE Program Newsletter | March 2015

Oracle ACE Spotlight Osama Mustafa Oracle ACE Osama Mustafa is founder of both Gurus Solutions Company and the Jordan Amman Oracle User Group, the latter being the first user group in Jordan related to Oracle technology.  Osama provides database implementation solutions in the EMEA region, and his specialties include Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, Exalytics and Exalogic. He also is a frequent speaker at Oracle User Group events around the world, and also loves organizing RAC ATTACK and Fusion Middleware ATTACK events. A busy writer, Osama wrote the book Oracle Penetration Testing and has published articles in Oracle Magazine, OTECH Magazine, and UKOUG Oracle Scene magazine. He enjoysblogging about Oracle and Fusion Middleware, and makes many contributions to the Oracle community by participating on the Oracle Community Platform, attending conferences, and producing webinars..  In his spare time, Osama likes to modify and race cars and compete in bodybuilding competitions!   Oracle ACE Program News Congratulate the New Oracle ACEs!   NAME LOCATION FOCUS René Antúnez Mexico DB Bertrand Drouvot France DB Tony Heljula UK BI Deepak Jain United Arab Emirates MW & SOA Sayan Malakshinov Russia DB Robert van Mölken Netherlands MWS & SOA Evgeniy Rasyuk Russia BI Antón Rodríguez Spain Apps Oracle Community Tips & Tricks for ACEs  As we wrote last month, please make sure to update your Oracle Community profile. Send us a link to it so that we can add it to your ACE Directory profile. Send us a note if you don’t have your ACE badge associated to your Community profile and we’ll fix it!  Tip#2 - Submit An Idea: Do you have an idea of how we can make the community better and more useful for you? Visit Oracle Community Ideas to create an Idea, discuss that idea with others in the community, and see how many votes your Idea gets. You will even earn the "Thinker" badge for creating your first Idea!  Calling all PaaS Experts – Request for Support for internal Oracle Business Project  Are you available to share your experience, feedback and recommendations on the Oracle PaaS offering ? We are a small global team of business executives within Oracle, reviewing our PaaS offering and considering “How we might deliver a compelling PaaS offer that grows the Oracle Eco-System”. If you are willing to share your thoughts, ideas and suggestions – please send a note to Vikki and she will put you in contact with the team to arrange a brief call. Upon your participation, their final presentation with aggregated results and findings will be shared with all participants. OTN Virtual Technology Summit  Now Available On-Demand  The Oracle Technology Network (OTN) latest Virtual Technology Summit is now available OnDemand. Click here to be taken to a program overview where you can pick from four technical tracks, each with a unique focus on specific tools, technologies, and tips. All tracks are available for immediate viewing:  Database  Want to take advantage of the compelling enhancements within Oracle Database 12c?Join the Database sessions and choose from two sub-tracks: Database Administration - focused on upgrade strategies and techniques and the Database Application Developer track giving a first look at APEX 5.0, see the latest in MySQL Utilities for DevOps, advanced tips and techniques for PL/SQL, plus RestFUL Web Services and JSON Support. Java How can you get the most out of Java, wherever it is? From the largest servers to the tiniest devices, find out how to improve the compatibility and security of large applications; how to work with Maven, HTML5, and JavaScript and; how to get started with IoT, wearables and more. Join these technical sessions and learn how to take advantage of Java’s depth and breadth. Middleware "Integration" means different things to architects and developers, so we are running Middleware sessions to cover both bases. The Open Source and Integration track focuses on WebLogic, Coherence, Maven, and developing Java EE applications. In the Data Integration and Warehousing track we’ll focus on Oracle Data Integrator, GoldenGate and other technologies for meeting the challenges of working with varying data formats. Operating Systems, Virtualization Technologies, and Hardware Oracle Solaris Studio is a complete suite of tools that helps application developers of Oracle Middleware, Oracle Database, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, and Tuxedo to run apps with higher performance and fewer errors on Oracle SPARC and x86 systems. Attendees can participate in hands-on labs that showcase two of the tools: Code Analyzer and Performance Analyzer.   Oracle ACE Watch NEW ARTICLES OTN: ORACLE ADF 12c: Criando Business Logic Group (in Portugese), by Oracle ACE Associate Waslley Souza OTN: Oracle BPM 12c Advanced Error Handling and Recovery - Part 1, by Oracle ACE Associate Antonis Antoniou OTN: Oracle Cloud Integration: "On Premise to Cloud” (in Spanish), by Oracle ACE Director Joel Pérez and Oracle ACE Associate Arturo Viveros OTN: Oracle Database em High Availability usando Microsoft Windows Clusters Server (MSCS) e Oracle Fail Safe (in Portugese), by Oracle ACE Associate Carlos H. Y. Furushima OTN: ADRCI - Automatic Diagnostic Repository Command Interpreter (in Portugese), by Oracle ACE Alex Zaballa OTN: Tutorial: Creating JDeveloper Audit Rules - Part 1, by Oracle ACE Director Wilfred van der Deijl and Oracle ACE Richard Olrichs OTN: ACE Director on Choosing the Right User Group Conference, by Oracle ACE Director Debra Lilley BLOG POSTS J2EE User Management Using DataWarehouse Builder, by Oracle ACE Osama Mustafa Retrieve OS Information Using SQL, by Oracle ACE Wissem El Khlifi SQL*Plus Scripting- Login SQL File, by Oracle ACE Director Dan Hotka Regular Expressions Functions with Oracle Data Integrator, by Oracle ACE Associate Danny Bryant OracleText: Inserts and Fragmentation, by Oracle ACE Franck Pachot Finding Usable Oracle Indexes, by Oracle ACE Janis Griffin exp & expdp: Export File to Remote Server, by Oracle ACE Deiby Gomez Introducing OraOpenSource, by Oracle ACE Director Martin D’Souza Oracle ASM, by Oracle ACE Associate Kamil Stawiarski Getting Started with VMware vSphere 5.5: Part I, by Oracle ACE Leighton Nelson Automated Security Deployment : Oracle IAM Deployment Wizard, by Oracle ACE Associate Sudipto Desmukh Separating Numbers From Characters in OBIEE 11g, by Oracle ACE Associate Vishal Pathak Bounce Counter Mismatch, by Oracle ACE Ray Smith Using Expression Language in Fusion HCM, by Oracle ACE Tim Warner Change Application Configuration at Run Time through a Properties File (Part 2), by Oracle ACE Director Timo Hahn VIDEO Upgrading to Oracle SOA Suite 12c | Oracle ACE Director Danilo Schmiedel – Two Minute Tech Talk on OTN ArchBeat Predictive Queries | Oracle ACE Director Brendan Tierney – Two Minute Tech Talk on OTN ArchBeat XPLAN_ASH Active Session History - Part 3, by Oracle ACE Director Randolf Geist Cómo crear un Catálogo de APIs/Servicios en unos simples pasos a través de ORACLE API CATALOG 12c, by Rolando Carrasco NEW BOOKS Advanced Java EE Development with WildFly, by Deepak Vohra (available March)   Oracle ACEs Out and About Speaking at OUG Ireland 2015  (March) Liron Amitzi – Oracle ACE Jason Arneil – Oracle ACE Bobby Curtis – Oracle ACE Bill Dunham – Oracle ACE Uli Bethke – Oracle ACE Associate Tim Hall – Oracle ACE Director Roel Hartman – Oracle ACE Director Heli Helskyaho – Oracle ACE Director Jonathan Lewis – Oracle ACE Director Debra Lilley – Oracle ACE Director Alex Nuijten – Oracle ACE Director Gurcan Orhan – Oracle ACE Director Brendan Tierney – Oracle ACE Director David Kurtz – Oracle ACE Director Marcin Przepiorowski – Oracle ACE Martin Widlake – Oracle ACE Speaking at the Hotsos Symposium  (March) Christian Antognini – Oracle ACE Director Jim Czuprynski – Oracle ACE Director Maris Elsins – Oracle ACE Riyaj Shamsudeen – Oracle ACE Director Jared Still – Oracle ACE Speaking at UTOUG Training Days  (March) Alex Gorbachev – Oracle ACE Director John King – Oracle ACE Director Peter Koletzke – Oracle ACE Director Scott Spendolini – Oracle ACE Director Speaking at the Calgary OUG  (March) Simon Pane – Oracle ACE Associate Speaking at OUG Norway 2015  (April) Roel Hartman – Oracle ACE Director Heli Helskyaho – Oracle ACE Director Alex Nuijten – Oracle ACE Director Gurcan Orhan – Oracle ACE Director Brendan Tierney – Oracle ACE Director Ronald van Luttikhuizen – Oracle ACE Director Speaking at Collaborate  (April) Christian Antognini – Oracle ACE Director Susan Behn – Oracle ACE Ludovico Caldara – Oracle ACE Jim Czuprynski – Oracle ACE Director Julian Dontcheff – Oracle ACE Director Deiby Gomez – Oracle ACE Maris Elsins – Oracle ACE Dan Hotka – Oracle ACE Director Michelle Kolbe – Oracle ACE Abhay Kumar – Oracle ACE Associate Cary Millsap – Oracle ACE Director Franck Pachot – Oracle ACE Simon Pane – Oracle ACE Associate Bert Scalzo – Oracle ACE Riyaj Shamsudeen – Oracle ACE Director Jared Still – Oracle ACE Biju Thomas – Oracle ACE Mia Urman – Oracle ACE Director Kai Yu – Oracle ACE Director Alex Zaballa – Oracle ACE Sarah Zumbrun – Oracle ACE Associate ODTUG Mobile Day  | Netherlands (April) Luc Bors – Oracle ACE Lonneke Dikmans – Oracle ACE Director Dimitri Gielis – Oracle ACE Director Roel Hartman – Oracle ACE Director John King – Oracle ACE Director Kevin McGinley – Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman – Oracle ACE Director Edward Roske – Oracle ACE Director Scott Spendolini – Oracle ACE Director Mia Urman – Oracle ACE Director Sarah Zumbrum – Oracle ACE Associate