Architects and Communication Podcast
I recently participated in an OTN TechCast with Bob Rhubart, manager of the Architect community on the Oracle Technology Network, and Jeff Davies, Oracle Sr. Principal Product Manager and author. We talked about the communication issues that face software architects. Take a listen:
2 Comments | Filed in Oracle | Tags: architect, podcastSQL Indexing Video
Another nice video from Stephane Faroult about database indexing. Stephane’s videos are always interesting.
3 Comments | Filed in Oracle | Tags: sql, videoGoogle Reveals Documents from the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG)
Search Google for site:ioug.org filetype:pdf, you get tens of useful documents there. Aren’t some of these documents supposed to be hidden behind their membership login?
A Special Oracle Blog
Harald van Breederode is an Oracle DBA trainer working for Oracle University in The Netherlands. He is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) and an Oracle Certified Master (OCM). He is also blind.
Thanks to Joel Goodman for letting us know that Harald has recently started a blog. On his blog, Harald writes:
I became blind at age 40 and it took a while before I realized how important Braille actually is. Without it I would certainly have lost the notion of layout and it would almost be impossible to perform any serious programming work. I use Braille mostly on my laptop where I use a Braille display to feel what you can see, but I use it also in my daily life to identify any medicine I might have to take for example.
By the way, Louis Braille was the inventor of braille, a world-wide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing.
Harald has a good post about Capturing SQL Statements. Also on his blog, you can find a list of papers he co-authored as well as presentations he created.
Blog added to OraNA.info.
Update: Joel Goodman also started a new blog.
3 Comments | Filed in Oracle | Tags: blogCool Oracle BI Publisher Demos
Nice Oracle BI Publisher demonstration library.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/xml-publisher/demoshelf/shelf.html
Getting Started with Oracle Portal
I inherited a big Oracle Portal recently and was tasked to maintain, support and enhance it. But of course before doing that, I had to learn it. So, if you’re getting started with Oracle Portal, this post gives you a few pointers to more information about this product.
Oracle Application Server Portal 10g Release 2 (10.1.4) is a part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware. It is a declarative environment for building, deploying, and maintaining enterprise portals and Intranets. The latest Oracle Portal version as of the date of this post is 10.1.4.2. Here is the latest Portal upgrade maze:
Source: My Oracle Support Doc ID: 262623.1
You can find Portal in the Knowledge Navigator on My Oracle Support under
Knowledge Home > Oracle Technology > Fusion Middleware > Portal Tools > Portal
The Oracle Portal home page on OTN contains links to many useful and important Portal resources, there is no need to re-list them here.
I have also found the following helpful:
- Publishing Discoverer worksheets in Oracle Portal
- Blog: Oracle’s Portal or WebCenter?
- Portal and WebCenter: How to choose?
- How to prevent Oracle Portal edit mode
- Paper: Enabling enterprise provisioning and security with Oracle Portal [PDF]
In my quest to optimize the performance of our Portal, I came across these useful resources:
- Performance & Sizing
- Portal Performance Monitoring in Oracle Application Server Portal
- Improving Page Performance
- How Can I Maximize Performance?
- Tuning Performance in OracleAS Portal
- Timing and Caching Statistics
Moreover, a simple search for Portal on OraNA.info brings back many relevant hits from the Oracle blogosphere.
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