Tag: Oracle
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Some Re-Engineering may be Required
Greg Rahn’s post about The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing – Set Processing vs Row Processing is so good, everybody considering a migration from a standard RDBMS to a VLDB platform (such as Exadata, as in Greg’s example) should be forced to read it. To paraphrase Greg: the performance improvements of the new…
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Oracle Licensing
Go read the Licensing Consulting blog! I know this is a non-technical post for once, but it’s a very good read for anybody remotely interested in the financials and business methods of Oracle and other Database vendors, to some extent. Good posts to start with are Oracle ULA contract agreement risk factors and The Oracle…
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Oracle CPU July 2010
Oracle’s Critical Patch Update July 2010 is out, with two easy to exploit DoS vulnerabilities in the Database network stack (although one on Windows only), and one critical vulnerability in the OLAP component – let’s just hope that this one opens the DB for attack if OLAP is actually linked in… because I guess most…
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Oracle CPU July 2010 Pre-Release
Oracle’s Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement – July 2010 arrived online, and the nice folks at Integrigy already published their standard CPU pre-release analysis. I’m a bit worried about the number of highly critical Database alerts, four out of six vulnerabilities are remotely exploitable without authentication. Hope that’s just on Windows (as was often the…
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Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Launch
Oracle is inviting for its Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Launch on 7. July. Charles Phillips, President, and Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Product Development are going to be at the London launch event, and will be broadcasted to local events throughout Europe. I may go to the Zurich launch event.
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How Good Is Your Database Storage Management?
Oracle asks How Good Is Your Database Storage Management? I’ve not had time to go through the storage assessment form, so this is more a reminder for me to eventually look at it than anything else.
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Oracle Application Express 4.0
Oracle released APEX 4.0 a couple days ago. I’d be interested to hear if anybody knows of any enterprise grade deployments where APEX is used as a (lower tier) application layer, instead of full J2EE servers such as JBoss or Websphere.
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Quest to combine Oracle with Hadoop
Quest to combine Oracle with Hadoop: another one to show that Oracle is the clear market leader, and everybody trying to position themselves around them. Quest Software has announced a new partnership with Cloudera to create an Oracle connector for the Apache Hadoop database. […] The new tool not only handles data transfers, but also…
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Netezza with Oracle Compatibility
Hooray, Netezza licensed Oracle database compatibility technology from EnterpriseDB. Should give them a boost in the warehouse migration front. And shows that selling its Oracle compat layer has become quite a business on its own for EnterpriseDB, who already sold it to IBM for DB2 as well. The Netezza Migrator product allows organizations to make…
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OEM 11g Rollout Best Practices
The Oracle Enterprise Manager blog has some Tips for rolling out a new EM11g site. Only for those who deal with OEM infrastructures, but very good stuff for those who do need it.