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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 [...]
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…
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 Instead it’s been replaced by a Google+ badge.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. [...]
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 Yesterday version 7.12 was released and this blog is currently running a very outdated (and probably insecure) 7.4.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…
SAP Data Warehouse Engineer
Access Data Consulting Corp denver, COJob description: …and 3rd Parties for this positionIT Solution Design Engineer with significant Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence experience. The individuals time will be split between working SAP BW…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
Subquery Factoring
It’s always worth browsing through the list of Oracle’s bug fixes each time a new release or patch comes out because it can give you clues about where to look for problems in your production release – and how to anticipate problems on the upgrade. This article is an example of a fix that I [...]
Installing Oracle VM Manager 3.0.3 under Dom0 host, or How to save resources on your sandbox
If you are wondering why anyone would possibly need to Install Oracle VM Manager in such an unsupported way, please read my previous Oracle VM 3 related blog post. In this post, I will share with you my experience installing OVMM 3.0.3 under OVM 3.0.3 …
