Oracle ACE Spotlight August 2015

The Oracle ACE Program Newsletter | August 2015

Oracle ACE Spotlight In Memoriam, Karen Morton Oracle ACE Oracle ACE Karen Morton, 50, passed away recently and Oracle ACE Director Cary Millsap has written a beautiful memorial for her that is excerpted below. My Friend Karen, by Cary Millsap My friend Karen Morton passed away on July 23, 2015 after a four-month battle against cancer. You can hear her voice here. I met Karen Morton in February 2002. The day I met her, I knew she was awesome. She told me the story that, as a consultant, she had been doing something that was unheard-of. She guaranteed her clients that if she couldn’t make things on their systems go at least X much faster on her very first day, then they wouldn’t have to pay. She was a Give First person, even in her business. That is really hard to do. After she told me this story, I asked the obvious question. She smiled her big smile and told me that her clients had alwayspaid her—cheerfully . It was an honor when Karen joined my company just a little while later. She was the best teammate ever, and she delighted every customer she ever met. The times I got to work with Karen were bright spots in my life, during many of the most difficult years of my career. For me, she was a continual source of knowledge, inspiration, and courage. Read more on Cary’s blog. Is there someone you want to see highlighted in the Oracle ACE Spotlight? Send your vote to Jennifer Nicholson.   Oracle ACE Program News Congratulate New Oracle ACEs!   NAME FOCUS LOCATION Antonis Antoniou MW Cyprus PS Janakiram Apps India Martin Widlake DB UK Xu Cui DB China Eric Benner Solaris USA Davi Arnaut MySQL USA Zhaoyang Wang MySQL China Oren Nakdimon DB App Israel Wayne Van Sluys BI USA James Lui DB USA Rohan Walia Middleware Singapore  Oracle Community Tips & Tricks for ACEs Did you know that expanding your activity in Oracle Community is a one of the paths to achieving the next ACE status level? To get started, find spaces in your area of expertise and follow them by clicking "Follow" in the space banner. You'll see user questions as they come in, and can provide Helpful and Correct answers to other users, moving your way up the expertise tracks and building your reputation as a community expert!  Now Available OnDemand - July 2015 OTN Virtual Technology Summit  Hear from Oracle ACE's, Java Champions and Oracle product experts. Register Now.   Oracle ACE Watch NEW ARTICLES OTN: Unleashing Hyperion Planning Security Using ODI This article by Oracle ACE Associates Rodrigo Radtke and Ricardo Giampaoli demonstrates how to generate and maintain leaf-level member security settings based on attribute dimension within a global Hyperion Planning application, using only ODI and Hyperion Planning application metadata repository information. OTN: Oracle Database 12c: In-Memory, Part I (in Portugese), by Oracle ACE Director Joel Perez OTN: Powerful and Easy ADF Data Control for XML Data, by Oracle ACE Richard Olrichs and Oracle ACE Director Wilfred van der Deijl Toadworld: Restore and Recovery Pluggable Database (PDB) after dropping Pluggable Database (PDB) in Multitenant Environment, by Oracle ACE Ravi Kumar Oracle Scene Magazine: My Journey to Oracle ACE, by Oracle ACE René Antúnez Meet a Volunteer, Oracle ACE Jason Arneil Common Mistakes When implementing 12c Oracle Enterprise Manager, by Oracle ACE Associate Philip Brown Histograms - Pre-12c & Now, by Oracle ACE Associate Anju Garg HCM Community Applications Innovation Day, by Oracle ACE Director Debra Lilley I/O Error on a Datafile: Instance Crash or Datafile Offline?, by Oracle ACE Franck Pachot Oracle RDBMS Read & Write Fundamentals, by Oracle ACE Director Martin Widlake BLOG POSTS ADF Basics: How to invoke model layer methods from managed bean (Best Practice to write business logic in ADF), by Oracle ACE Ashish Awasthi Adding Storage Cells : Appliance Mode, by Oracle ACE Associate Philippe Fierens Oracle 12 and Latches, by Oracle ACE Director Frits Hoogland Putting Data Guard Traffic on Dedicated Network Interface, by Oracle ACE Associate Ilmar Kerm Oracle Access Manager Create A WebService for Authentication using Access Gate, by Oracle ACE Associate Abhay Kumar Object Type with Optional Attribute: Extra Constructor Function, by Oracle ACE Director Alex Nuijten An Explanation of Methodic Concepts for Oracle DRM (Data Relationship Management) for RDM (Reference Data Management) from MDM (Master Data Management) Institute, by Oracle ACE Director Gurcan Orhan Oracle Process Cloud Service - Consuming ADF BC REST Service in Web Form, by Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis Charting Number of R Packages Over Time (Part 1), by Oracle ACE Director Brendan Tierney The Month of June – A Blessed One, by Oracle ACE Director Sarah Zumbrum NEW BOOKS Look Smarter Than You Are With Essbase 11.1.2, by Oracle ACE Directors Edward Roske and Tracy McMullen and Oracle ACE Associate Robert Gideon. This book is the first released on Essbase that covers the 11.1.2.4 version and includes completely updated screen shots throughout the book as well as an all new chapter on Essbase hybrid aggregation databases. Toad for Oracle Unleashed, by Oracle ACE Director Dan Hotka and Oracle ACE Bert Scalzo. This book covers everything a Toad user needs to know to maximize its value and increase their productivity. Toad experts Bert Scalzo and Dan Hotka share key insights and best practices that any Toad user from novice to expert will find valuable. Oracle Exadata Expert's Handbook, by Oracle ACE Directors Tariq Farooq, Syed Jaffar Hussain, and Charles Kim Six renowned Oracle technology experts have brought together core technical information, experience, best practices, and insider tips in a concise reference. Covering both 11g and 12c versions of Oracle Exadata software, they deliver hands-on coverage of best practices, setup, migration, monitoring, administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. VIDEO OTN: Two Minute Tech Talk with Oracle ACE Director Debra Lilley: Extending Oracle Cloud Applications with PaaS4SaaS What are your options for extending cloud applications Oracle ERP and HCM? Oracle ACE Director Debra Lilley, Vice President of Cloud Services for Certus Solutions, explains the basics of PaaS4SaaS and the use of the Java Cloud Service to extend cloud apps. Podcast: BPM: Challenges and Changes What's happening in the world of Business Process Management? What's new with Oracle BPM? How does Oracle Process Cloud change the picture? Insight from an expert panel including Oracle ACE Dan Atwood and Oracle ACE Director Antonis Antoniou. Podcast: Esbbase Evolution: ASO, BSO, Hybrid Listen in as a panel of experts, including Oracle ACE Director Cameron Lackpour, Oracle ACE Tim German, Bill Bradstreet, Dan Pressman, and product management director Steve Liebermensch, discuss the BSO/ASO Hybrid Aggregation Mode in Oracle Essbase, otherwise known as Hybrid Essbase. Podcast: Integrations of Oracle Cloud Applications with On-Premise Applications, by Oracle ACE Kashif Manzoor   Oracle ACEs Out and About OTN Latin America Tour | August 3 – 28, 2015 Francisco Alvarez – Oracle ACE Director Rene Antunez – Oracle ACE Plinio Arbizu – Oracle ACE Director Ronald Bradford – Oracle ACE Director Rolando Carrasco – Oracle ACE Nelson Calero – Oracle ACE Gustavo Gonzalez – Oracle ACE Director Alex Gorbachev – Oracle ACE Director Kyle Hailey – Oracle ACE Tim Hall – Oracle ACE Director Heli Helskyaho – Oracle ACE Director Edelweiss Kammermann – Oracle ACE Debra Lilley – Oracle ACE Director Dan Morgan – Oracle ACE Director Frank Munz – Oracle ACE Director Rita Nunez – Oracle ACE Associate Enrique Orbegozo – Oracle ACE Kerry Osborne – Oracle ACE Director Ronald Francisco Vargas Quesada – Oracle ACE Director Edward Roske – Oracle ACE Director Bjoern Rost – Oracle ACE Director Alex Zaballa – Oracle ACE OOUG (Ohio Oracle Users Group) | August 13, 2015 John King – Oracle ACE Director NoCOUG Summer Conference | August 20, 2015 Craig Shallahamer – Oracle ACE Director OUG Poland – First Meeting! Poland | August 31, 2015 Kamil Stawiarski – Oracle ACE Associate SOA/BPM SIG Kick OffNetherlands | September 1, 2015 Jan van Zoggel – Oracle ACE Robert van Mölken – Oracle ACE Associate Oracle MidlandsBirmingham, UK | September 1, 2015 Christian Antognini – Oracle ACE Director Paris Oracle Meetup Paris | September 4, 2015 Franck Pachot – Oracle ACE Ludovico Caldara – Oracle ACE Trivadis Performance Days Zurich | September 9-10, 2015 Christian Antognini – Oracle ACE Director Frits Hoogland – Oracle ACE Director Jonathan Lewis – Oracle ACE Director LVOUG Meetup Riga, Latvia | September 15, 2015 Maris Elsins – Oracle ACE Infratects Top Gun 2015 US Conference Plano, TX | September 17-18, 2015 John Booth – Oracle ACE Stewart Bryson – Oracle ACE Director Cameron Lackpour – Oracle ACE Director Kevin McGinley – Oracle ACE Director Tim Tow – Oracle ACE Director Jake Turrell – Oracle ACE Associate RAC Attack! 12c Geneva | September 17, 2015 Ludovico Caldara – Oracle ACE COUG MeetingSchaumburg, IL | September 17, 2015 Tim Gorman – Oracle ACE Director NEOOUG MeetingIndependence, OH | September 18, 2015