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Log Buffer #257, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

With new year many new projects, new technologies, new frameworks and new ideas are springing up at the speed of light and bloggers in the database arena are keeping up with this pace and this Log Buffer Edition is also living up to that pace and cover…

Posted 03 February 2012 † Fahd Mirza § Oracle ‡ Comments Off °

All about Security – SQL Injection

I recently did a web seminar on Oracle Database Security (you can see a replay of it here).  We had over 1,300 live attendees (glad I couldn’t see you all – that would be scary) and the feedback was pretty good.We also received a few questions, we…

Posted 02 February 2012 † Thomas Kyte § ‡ Comments Off °

Big Data…

I’ll be doing a web seminar on Big Data on February 16th at 10am Pacific Time.  Here is the info:Big Data Essentials: What You Need to Know, February 16th, 10:00 am – 1:30 pm PTBig data is big news these days. But you don’t base IT investment …

Posted 02 February 2012 † Thomas Kyte § ‡ Comments Off °

Viewing Figures

It’s time for another landmark. The blog has just hit 2,500,000 views (taking three weeks less than the previous half million increment) – here’s a little breakdown on the numbers. First the top five across the lifetime of the blog: AWR / Statspack menu 40,714 Updated from time to time NOT IN 33,983 Feb 2007 Cartesian [...]

Posted 02 February 2012 † Jonathan Lewis § ‡ Comments Off °

E-Business Suite and APEX integration (overview)

For me there are two main use cases to integrate Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) with Oracle Application Express (APEX):In my APEX application I want to include/integrate data that exist in EBSe.g. I want to include my employees that are in EBS HRThe EBS…

Posted 02 February 2012 † Dimitri Gielis § ‡ Comments Off °

Google Connect is dead, long live the Google+ badge…

The Google Friend Connect badge I’ve been displaying on my website homepage and this blog is no more. Google have canned that widget.  Instead it’s been replaced by a Google+ badge. Unfortunately, the G+ badges currently only support Google+ pages, so I can’t connect it to my regular G+ profile, only the ORACLE-BASE.com G+ page. [...]

Posted 02 February 2012 † Tim... § ‡ Comments Off °

blog maintenance

Time to upgrade Drupal again. Yesterday version 7.12 was released and this blog is currently running a very outdated (and probably insecure) 7.4. Although Drupal 7 included automatic update for modules and themes, updating the core Drupal software stil…

Posted 02 February 2012 † andyc § ‡ Comments Off °

BYOD Is Absolutely Top-Down

I’m glad someone finally pointed this out about the BYOD movement: Who Has Apples at Work? In Many Cases, It’s the Bosses (h/t Between the Lines) From my long-past days in IT, I remember the added pressure of supporting executives, regardless of what they were carrying. When it came to support, we jumped, e.g. I once [...]

Posted 02 February 2012 † Jake § ‡ Comments Off °

Is Siri a Disappointment?

Well, this is interesting: Is it time to say goodbye to Siri? A few months ago, when I finally upgraded my wife’s OG iPhone, I initially bought the 4, but settled on the 4S because she thought Siri sounded useful and cool. I told her my opinion, basically that voice was a neat feature that no one [...]

Posted 02 February 2012 † Jake § ‡ Comments Off °

Trending, Unplugged Vacations

I suspect many people now take workcations, given how common tablets and smartphones are and how easy it has become to do work on the go, and similarly how hard it has become to disconnect from the internets. One trend I wholeheartedly endorse is the rise of the unplugged getaway, which is tougher (and pricier) [...]

Posted 01 February 2012 † Jake § ‡ Comments Off °