Oracle Infogram

Oracle Linux
From the Oracle Linux blog: Configuring mrepo to mirror ULN package channels.
Siebel
OracleBI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 and Why Fusion is More than just Applications, from Siebel Essentials.
PeopleSoft
From the On The Peoplesoft Road blog: Oracle 11gR2 DataBase FileSystem (DBFS) and Peopletools 8.53.
Enterprise Computing
The benefits of an action plan when managing data infrastructure, from the Pythian blog...and please remember to cc your Oracle team when you do.
RDBMS Indexing
Richard Foote's Oracle Blog continues the discussion on the clustering factor: Important !! Clustering Factor Calculation Improvement (Fix You).
Fusion
Switching JDKs for JDeveloper/WLS Explained, from the Fusion Applications Developer Relations.
Data Integration
At Oracle's Data Integration blog: ODI - Integrating more social data.
Tuxedo
From Tuxedo Tidbits: The Realities of Rehosting – Four Customer Stories.
Oracle Retail
Looking for Oracle Retail webcasts? Here’s the archive: Archived Advisor Webcasts for Oracle Industry Solutions.
NetBeans
From Geerjan's Blog(Random NetBeans Stuff): Graphic/Touch Panel System Development on the NetBeans Platform.
…and Finally
Another great thing is on the way, traveling beyond light speed. The problem comes when you get there. The principle of the world remains the same: Wherever you go, there you are: Warp speed, Scotty: Faster than light drives a reality?  from Foxnews.What I really love about the idea is keeping the ship standing still and moving the universe around you. It reminds me of what someone told me once on a submarine when I asked how the inertial navigation system worked. He said, well, in layman’s terms, it doesn’t tell you where you are; it tells you all the places you aren’t.
Unfortunately as we reach 'warp capable civilization' status, we'll have to travel to the stars...to find work: Moshe Vardi: Robots Could Put Humans Out Of Work By 2045.
And at least we’ll have something to eat: Synthetic Hamburger Patty Grown in Test Tubes Only Cost $325,000 to Make.
I predict that within 10 years you will be able to buy a mix that allows you to print burgers in your home 3d printer. And yes, I am depressed to say, there will be buyers.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Advanced Customer Support Services

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Our engineers provide proactive and preventive support using advanced diagnostic tools to help you increase system availability, reduce risk and accelerate ROI across the Oracle stack—applications, middleware, database, servers and storage systems. Choose from a portfolio of mission critical support services that you can tailor to your IT and business needs.  Learn more at:  http://www.oracle.com/us/support/advanced-customer-services/overview/index.html

Security
Time for my quarterly (or more often) warning on our old nemesis: 10 Reasons SQL Injection Still Works

EPM
The Business Analytics - Proactive Support blog let's us know that: EPM 11.1.2.3.00 is available on eDelivery.
BI
Over at the Oracle Business Intelligence Blog: Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 Available and 11.1.1.6.10 Bundle Patch for OBIEE Now Available.
APEX
(YABAOAE) Yet Another Blog About Oracle Application Express let's us know that Oracle Application Express 4.2.2 now available.
Dimitri Gielis Blogdiscusses: Goodies - APEX 4.2.2 included Libraries.
He also does a little crystal ball gazing: Oracle Database 12c and APEX.
RDBMS
From That Jeff Smith: How to Synch your Oracle SQL Developer Data Model to a Different Database.
This posting from The Oracle Instructor is useful: How to audit sys into an OS file owned by root.
A little peek into the possible future of clustering factors from Richard Foote, the indexing guru: Important !! Clustering Factor Calculation Improvement (Fix You).
A good hands-on technical article over at Oracle DBA--Tips and Techniques: 11g Data Guard Cascading Standby Database.
From Karen Morton: Using Optimizer Hints for Oracle Performance Tuning.
Eddie Awad pointed out this really valuable item over at Ask Tom, Tom Kyte's perennially awesome Q&A on all things Oracle: Walid -- Thanks for the question regarding "advantage of private synonyms over public synonyms", version 11.2.
At Oracle Scratchpad, some great news. It looks like Jonathan Lewis is moving into webinars. I've seen Jonathan present live, and this going to be really great. Here's the posting at Oracle Scratchpad: Webinars.
Big Data
Eddie Awad'sTweeterization is excellent as always. He pointed to this one: Oracle Introduces Big Data Appliance Applications.
Coding
Another great items pointed out by Eddie Awad recently is at Making the Complex Simple blog: What Makes Code Readable: Not What You Think.
Fusion
At the Fusion Applications Developer Relations blog:  FindingCode Artifacts for Customization (Part 2).
Part 1 is here.
Oracle Service Bus
From OTN: Fault Handling and Prevention for Services in Oracle Service Bus.
Linux
Some good slides on Linux Performance Analysis and Tools.
…And Finally
From the Singulairy Hub comes this fun item: A Box With A Hidden Video Camera Documents Journey Through The Mail.
At io9, Old Spock battles New Spock in the greatest car commercial ever. You don’t have to be a Trekkie to get all the gags in this, but it definitely helps. 

Exalogic
Exalogic: System Administrator-Friendly Software at Oracle Exalogic, the Exalogic Elastic Cloud product management blog.
XML
At the XML Orbblog: Analysis of JSON use cases compared to XML.
VM
Designing, Creating and Testing an Oracle VM 3.2 Environment at Oracle's Virttualization Blog.
Linux
From TECHSOURCE, the Linux version of the seven deadly sins. Only the karma on these is more immediate. For goodness’ sake don't try this at home. And don't try it at work. Find a Linux box you don't like and check out: The 7 Deadly Linux Commands...if you dare.
Performance
From the Striving for Optimal Performance blog: ITL Deadlocks (script). Or, how to show people you can break the database without even writing any SQL at all.
Over at Oracle SQL Tuning Tools and Tips: Differences between TKPROF and Trace Analyzer TRCANLZR (TRCA).
Richard Foote, guru of all things indexing, brings us: Storage Indexes vs Database Indexes IV: 8 Column Limit (Eight Line Poem).
RDBMS
Flash drives have been a hot and controversial subject for ages. Here's a good summation before you invest, at the specialty blog flashdba: Does My Database Need Flash?
Mobile Security
Some pretty solid predictions from CSO, Security and Risk: 4 Mobile Security Predictions to Help CIOs Plan for the Future.
Demantra
At the Oracle Demantra blog: EBS Weblogic Demantra Logging Into Application Servlet Mode.
Java
The Jave Sourcebrings us the ambitiously titled posting: Everything on the NetBeans Platform.
Hyperion
Oracle Announces New Release of Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System.
BPM
The Oracle Middleware Blog has a quick but handy posting on a post-upgrade process they had to go through: How to Enable Web Forms Manually.
Oracle Support
The Oracle Wikiinforms us that there is OTN Forums Migration and Upgrade right around the corner.
...And Finally
After years of dithering, I finally got an iMac for our home. No regrets at all, elegant, and much familiar territory from my iPad, but there is a lot to learn. Here's a handy set of tips: 10 Awesome OS X Tips and Tricks, at Online Tech Tips.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Magazine
The May / June issue of Oracle Magazine is now available.  It features articles on Oracle Cloud, SOA and more.  Be sure to check it out. 

Better Life Through Unix
At jarneil, The thoughts of Jason Arneil, a really elegant way to recover an accidentally dropped datafile (all caveats apply, as the author points out). This is a good reminder that in this age of GUIs and apps, the power of Unix commands and Unix scripting is still going to come to the rescue if you know a few secrets: Recovering from rm -rf on a datafile.
Security
Continuing last week’s discussion of man in the middle attacks: Anatomy of a phish - how to spot a Man-in-the-Middle attack, and other security tips, from nakedsecurity.
At CSO: Social engineering in penetration tests: 6 tips for ethical (and legal) use.. Some of the most succesful security attacks in history have been pulled off using social engineering (not to mention a zillion movie scenes: “These are not the droids you are looking for”). It helps the good guys to use them to test employees, but this article points out some of the perils, particularly the litigious ones.
RDBMS
At Oracle related stuff: ASM AU Size And LMT AUTOALLOCATE.
At the Oracle EMEA Value-Added Distributor News blog: a New Resource Kit: Advanced Data Compression.
And at James Morle's Blog:
Optimal Oracle Configuration for Efficient Table Scanning (Part One)
and
Optimal Oracle Configuration for Efficient Table Scanning (Part Two).
OBIEE
From RittmanMead: OBIEE, OEM12cR2 and the BI Management Pack Part 1: Introduction to OEM12cR2.
Java
 From InfoQ: 9 Fallacies of Java Performance.
Hyperion
At Cameron's Blog For Essbase Hackers: Going under the covers with TRACE_MDX.
WLS
At the WebLogic Partner Community EMEA: Setting Up, Configuring, and Using an Oracle WebLogic Server Cluster.
SOA
From Service Technology Magazine: Industrial SOA.
Virtualization
At the OTN Garage: Eight Cylinders of Virtualization. I think it's like The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, but in a V8 version.
Web Services
At the Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon RDS for Oracle Database - Data and Network Encryption.
Data Integration
At Oracle's Data Integration blog: Active-Active Database Replication with Conflict Detection and Resolution.
MySQL
At the DZone Performance Zone: Rotating MySQL slow logs safely.
...And FinallyLooks like the lasers are deployed and the disrupters are in the wings: Open-air plasma device could revolutionize energy generation, US Navy’s weaponry. 

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Technology Network
Oracle Technology Network has a wide array of technical articles on Big Data, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Performance and more.  Bookmark this handy link:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/index.html

Hyperion
How to track MDX queries against Essbase at the Business Analytics - Proactive Support blog.
SOA
At the Oracle SOA Suite - Team Blog: Video Demo: Hybrid Cloud Integrations using Oracle SOA Suite.
Ops Center
At The Ops Center blog: a how to on Migrating Virtual Machines.
NFS
From Scott Pack at TheNubbyAdmin.com: Solving NFS Mounts at Boot Time.
DBA
At the Oracle Database blog a great listing of what the old Whole Earth Catalog called 'access to tools': Useful Commands and Information.
RDBMS
Guy Harrison discusses Optimizing Oracle database with SSD in a slide presentation.
From TANEL PODER'S BLOG: IT & MOBILE FOR GEEKS AND PROS: Oracle Database 11.2 Upgrade and Migration slides.
SQL Developer
From That Jeff Smith: Oracle SQL Developer: Database Object Shortcuts?
Security
Who knows more about hacking, espionage than FSB-sponsored security genius Eugene Kaspersky?He explains a key concept: What is a Man-in-the-Middle Attack?
It's that time: Oracle Critical Patch Update for April 2013.
And of course an announcement on Java: Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2013.
ZFS and Linux
ZFS is ready for your Linux desktop, from Linuxaria.
Big Data
I usually stick to purely technical articles for the Infogram, but our announcement of a couple of new products is causing a lot of buzz in both the technical and business communities (like this one at Yahoo: Oracle Announces New In-Memory Applications and Faster Performance for All Oracle Applications on Oracle Engineered Systems.), so here is our announcement: New Additions to the Oracle Big Data Appliance Product Family Help Customers Jumpstart Initial Big Data Projects and Scale More Cost-Effectively.
...And Finally
I have a great interest in the digital singularity, so this item really got my attention: DARPA Building Robots With ‘Real’Brains. At National Defense Magazine.
Speaking of The Singularity, part of the concept is a smoother interface between artificial and 'biological' intelligence. Here's an exciting new step in that direction: A video game that teaches how to program in Java, at Kurzweil.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Siebel Versus Salesforce - Faceoff
For an interesting article comparing Siebel and Salesforce, check out:
http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/feature/Oracle-Siebel-vs-Salesforce-faceoff-Siebel-is-more-versatile

Fusion
From the Oracle Fusion Applications blog: How Floating IP's Work During Fusion Apps Server Migration.
SOAP
Faulty SOAP? I was researching an error for a customer and came across this handy article at Jenkov.com: SOAP Fault.
Linux
From The ORACLE-BASE Blog: Oracle Linux : Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)…
and from Oracle's Linux Blog: Reasons You Should Consider Migrating From SUSE Linux (SLES) to Oracle Linux. Now they don't mention this as a reason, but I think that since the editor of the Infogram is both an Oracle employee and an Oracle stockholder, you should really make the move.
And if all that didn’t convince you, here’s more help from OTN Garage: Migrating to Oracle Linux: How to Identify Applications To Move
Storage
From OTN Garage: Is Tape Storage Still Harder to Manage Than Disk Storage?
GoldenGate
Over at Oracle DBA – Tips and Techniques: Deploying the Oracle GoldenGate Plug-in on OEM 12c Cloud Control. A nice step by
OBIEE
Optimising OBIEE performance ("Tuning") over at Rittman Mead.
BI
At BI & Analytics Pulse, a new white paper: Big Data Analytics - Advanced Analytics in Oracle Database.

Web Services
Amazon recently made some changes as shared by TechCrunch: AWS Scales Relational Database Service By Tripling Storage And IOPs.
CRM
At Oracle CRM EMEA Partner Community, something customers have been looking for quite a while: Oracle Fusion CRM - Lotus Notes integration solutions by iEnterprises.
Solaris
At Patch Corner: Solaris 10 1/13 patchset released and latest Solaris 10 Kernel PatchIDs.
MySQL
At the Oracle's MySQL Blog: MySQL Replication: Self-Healing Recovery with GTIDs and MySQL Utilities.
…And Finally
I’m a Navy vet, so this article about our new laser weapon made me smile: The future is now: Navy to deploy lasers on ships in 2014. I mean come on, when someone’s son or daughter comes home from boot camp and tells mom and dad what they’re going to be, and it’s: ‘Laser Weapon Technician’, that is just too cool. There are a few problems, like fog and mirrors, but it’s a great start. I imagine the opposition is already engineering their countermeasure, known as the RBM (Really Big Mirror) defense system.
In the ironic-stuff-that-was-inevitable department: National Vulnerability Database taken down by vulnerability-exploiting hackpublished over at ArsTechnica.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Oracle Advisor Webcasts
Oracle has many Advisor Webcasts available to assist with your learning needs.  Subject matter experts prepare these presentations and deliver them through WebEx. Topics include information about Oracle support services and products.

There are currently two types of Advisor Webcasts,

1. Product specific webcasts, which share best practices, troubleshooting guidance, release information , and

2. Support Tools and Processes Webcasts, designed to help you better utilize Oracle's support tools and procedures.

If you prefer to read about current events, Oracle Premier Support News provides you information, technical content, and technical updates from the various Oracle Support teams. For a full list of Premier Support News, go to My Oracle Support and Document ID 222.1. 

Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle WebCenter Alerts reminds us: Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Call for Papers - Deadline is April 12, 2013.
SOA
From the Tuxedo Tidbits blog: Integrating Oracle Tuxedo Applications into a SOA Environment.
Linux
How to Update An Oracle Linux Kernel Without Rebooting, at OTN.
At The Register: Production-ready ZFS offers cosmic-scale storage for Linux.
Exalogic
Patching Oracle Exalogic – updating Linux on the compute nodes part I at the WebLogic Partner Community EMEA blog.
RDBMS
You Probably Need Parallel Except When You Don’t from Rittman Mead Consulting.
From readwrite enterprise: Relational Databases Aren't Dead. Heck, They're Not Even Sleeping.
EBS
Chris Warticki's Blog - Oracle Support lets us know about the: NEW YouTube Channel for Oracle E-Business Suite!
SQL Developer
At That Jeff Smith's blog: Oracle SQL Developer: What’s Next?
Hyperion
At the Edgewater Ranzal blog: Ushering in the New Era of Hyperion Strategic Finance.
Updates
Hot off the tickertape from Oracle WebCenter Alerts: Oracle WebCenter 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7).
From RedStack, an announcement on What’s new in BPM 11.1.1.7 (PatchSet 6).
Chris Warticki lets us know about: OAM certification with EBS 11i.
Upgrading OBIEE to 11.1.1.7, from Rittman Mead.
Backup (and Recovery, Hopefully)
From the SQL Rockstar, Thomas Larock: HOW TO SURVIVE ANY DATABASE DISASTER. I believe it involves hoarding lots of canned goods and digging a hole.
Data Warehousing
The Data Warehouse Insider fills us in on: Three Little Hive UDFs: Part 1.
Solaris
On YouTube, someone who looks exactly like how you picture a UNIX engineer (except for the lack of suspenders): Why Engineering Did Not Provide a Direct Upgrade Path to Oracle Solaris 11.
Videos
At Oracle Technology Network's Blog: What You're Watching: Top Ten OTN Videos.
From Cary Millsap: And now, ...the video about The Method R Profiling Ecosystem.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Support Videos
Check out the new Support videos that focus on Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft. These videos not only walk through the latest enhancements, but also highlight Oracle's ongoing commitment.


• (JD Edwards and Oracle Premier Support) - http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/2127725329001

• (EBS and Oracle Premier Support) - http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/2127755698001

• (PeopleSoft and Oracle Premier Support) - http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/2127766864001


Visit My Oracle Support Note:432.1 to learn more about upgrading to the latest versions of JD Edwards, EBS and PeopleSoft products.

TTS
I was researching an issue for an upcoming move for a customer and found this excellent summation on transportable tablespaces at Oracle DB/EM Troubleshooting: Master Note: Transportable Tablespaces (TTS) -- Common Questions and Issues.
RDBMS
From the charmingly named Triggers Considered Harmful, Considered Harmful blog: And what about table constraints?
Some magic from The Oracle Alchemist: Cloning Your Oracle Installation.
OEM
From Oracle Enterprise Manager by way of Eddie Awad's tweet: Using Advanced Notifications in Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.
WebCenter
At Oracle WebCenter & ADF Architecture Team (A-Team): Java Object Cache in a clustered WebCenter Spaces environment.
Support
At the Get Proactive—The Insider's Track blog: Improve Your Hardware Support Experience.
WLS
The WebLogic Partner Community Newsletter March 2013 is available from the WebLogic Partner Community EMEA blog.
Linux
A new Oracle Linux blog is out there: Oracle Mainline Linux Kernel Development.
Solaris
Video from the lab where older Solaris gear is tested for performance. From OTN.
EBS
Oracle EBS 12.1.3 JDBC Connection Lock Issue is discussed by Pythian.
At the Oracle Apps Blog: R12 Cloning: adcrdb.sh missing from file system.
BI
A small, cold cup of water cast into the face of the report users lined up at your desk from Rittman Mead: Report Flexibility, or Split-Second Performance : Pick One or the Other.
SOA
From the Oracle SOA Suite - Team Blog, some wisdom on Oracle Event Processing for Oracle Java Embedded: Push Fast Data to the Edge.
...And Finally
Okay, it's not often you say: 'Wow, cool spreadsheet, dude!', but here it is: This epic accountant turned your dull Excel spreadsheet into an awesome RPG, at TNW The Next Web.
Eddie Awad recently tweeted this article: 12 Most High-Powered Ways to Use Google Search Queries in Daily Life.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

OracleDBsupport - The Official Oracle Database Support Twitter Account

Come follow us on Twitter. We have a new official Oracle Database Support twitter account:

       • OracleDBsupport https://twitter.com/OracleDBsupport

Stay current on the latest Oracle Database Support news and events including important product announcements, alerts, updates, new releases, patches, webcasts and much more.

Storage
You no longer need to build additions to your home for your data. Use this instead: How to Multiply the Capacity of Oracle Storage Systems With Hybrid Columnar Compression.
Financial Services
It's a big world, so working FATCA may be on your plate or in your future: FATCA Compliance - Boon Or Bane for Foreign Financial Institutions?, from The Financial Services Blog.
SQL
I'm not sure if Pig makes it as a language to replace SQL, but I sure would like to be able to hear someone say: Man, this code is a real pig. And answer: Yes, it is Pig: Pig Eye for the SQL Guy, from Hortonworks.
RDBMS
www.xmldb.nl About Oracle, XMLDB and other interests…discusses: HOWTO – Oracle Shared Server Setup.
Performance
Webinar - Back to the Future: Oracle SQL Performance Firefighting using AWR at the Karen Morton blog.
At TANEL PODER'S BLOG: IT & MOBILE FOR GEEKS AND PROS: Performance and Scalability Improvements in Oracle 10g and 11g
At orawin.info a posting on indexes: When unused – isn’t.
Tuxedo
At Tuxedo Tidbits: Application Service Version- Oracle Tuxedo 12c.
SOA
Be the coolest nerd around, get a poster for your office: Oracle SOA Poster-BPEL Process 2.0 by EAIESB at the SOA & BPM Partner Community Blog.
Java
From The Java Source: Beta period for NEW Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect OCM Exam (1Z0-807) underway through April 13th.
At Java XML and JSON Binding: JAXB and java.util.Map.
EPM
At Business Analytics - Proactive Support: EPM System 11.1.1.x is approaching End of Premier Support.
Oracle Open World
It’s rolling around again:
Call for Papers Portals (information and link to submit)
OpenWorld:http://www.oracle.com/openworld/call-for-papers/information/index.html
JavaOne: http://www.oracle.com/javaone/call-for-papers/information/index.html
MySQL Connect: http://www.oracle.com/mysqlconnect/call-for-papers/information/index.html
 2013 San Francisco Event Websites 
OpenWorld: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html
JavaOne:http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html
MySQL: http://www.oracle.com/mysqlconnect/index.html
...and Finally
From Scientific American, more and more people are discovering what Infogram readers already know: 3D Printing Promises to Change Everything.
Travel
Many of our customers have offices in China, as does Oracle. This article from I came across yesterday at 有道学堂移动版 (YouDao Dictionary Mobile School) has some genuinely useful tips: 20 China travel tips.
When Buzzwords Meet
Cloud-computing ‘Internet for robots’ launched, at Kurzweil News: Cloud-computing ‘Internet for robots’ launched.

Exadata
From Oracle Tips and Tricks — David Fitzjarrell blog, some words of wisdom on Smart Scans: You Can Never Be Too Smart.
At the Oracle Learning Library: Exadata Smart Flash Log Self-Study Module.
Performance
From the ORACLE DIAGNOSTICIAN: “Snapshot too old” as a performance issue in disguise.
BI
At Business Analytics - Proactive Support: OBIEE 11g 11.1.1.6.8 is Available For BI Enterprise and Exalytics.
SOA
SOA & BPM Partner Community Blog brings us: New SOA articles from product management.
From A-Team - SOA: OSB Performance Tuning - RouterRuntimeCache.
NetBeans
From NetBeans Web Client blog: NetBeans IDE 7.3 is out!
WLSGood tip, and a listing of the whole great series so far from Online Apps DBA: One Stop Shop for Apps DBA’s: WebLogic Admin Server Start-up hanging at “Initializing self-tuning thread pool”.

Oracle Retail
Contributions from Yin-Jen Su on Oracle Retail:
Upcoming webcasts for Retail in March and April
Retail Advisor Webcast: RIB Retail Diagnostic and Monitoring Tool (RDMT) Functionality and Usage (Doc ID 1531747.1)Retail Advisor Webcast: Mobile Point of Service – Functional and Technical Overview v13.4.1 (Doc ID 1531749.1)Oracle Retail Support Resources and Offerings (Doc ID 1533310.1)
There is also a recorded webinar available:
RIB Retail Integration Hospital Administration Tool (RIHA) Installation and Usage (Doc ID 1456291.1) – click on Archived 2013 tab.
RDBMS
At Triggers Considered Harmful, Considered Harmful blog (I've always loved that name): Implementing attribute and tuple constraints.
Java
At Java Training Beat a link to the Oracle Secure Java Coding Guidelines Self-study.
Hadoop
Over at RittmanMead: Introducing some Short Tutorials for Hadoop.
APEX
Martin Giffy D'Souza on Oracle APEX is publicizing a contest from RedGate for some copies of their Source Control for Oracle product. All you have to do it some APEX wizardry: Who's Birthday is it in "n" number of days?
Mobile Computing
Oracle Executive Spends Four Weeks with Just a Mini, at VoX.
…And Finally
How You Can Get Up to $1,000 in Hidden Credit Card Benefits. No, it’s not a spam link, it’s a one-geek-team from LifeHackerinvestigating how to get some underused benefits from your credit card.
The Oracle Alchemist shows us the toys of the near future: Wearable Computing and Personal Data Collection. You know you want them. Get those credit cards warmed up.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

Get Proactive!
I know I have posted on this before, but it is an extremely valuable resource.  Oracle's Get Proactive program is designed to help you prevent and resolve issues.  It also has best practices for upgrading.  Start at Note:432.1.  Select the product you are interested in.  (You may have to scroll down to see the selection box.)  Then select the Prevent, Resolve or Upgrade button.  Specialized information and a list of key notes will be displayed for the product you selected.  This is a great place to gather information on how to best operate and maintain your systems. 

Exadata
Over at the Oracle Learning Library: Exadata Smart Flash Log Self-Study Module.
Linux
From OTN: How to Prevent Silent Data Corruption.
Performance
At Oracle SQL a suggestion something might need correcting in the docs: Bug in documentation about dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats or in the dbms_stats itself.
Back when I was a developer I wrote a lot of complex SQL. That's not necessarily a good thing, because elegance in coding, as in thought, is demonstrated by being easily explained. But there are times when the business rules are complex and the SQL follows. Here is an interesting article on Tuning very complex SQL at the Oracle Diagnostician.
Over at Kerry Osborne’s Oracle Blog, a link to some good postings over at Randolf Geist's blog: Dynamic Sampling Posts.
Big Data
A white paper on InformationManagement and Big Data AReference Architecture from OTN.
GoldenGate
The Oracle Alchemist has a good overview of GoldenGate: Oracle GoldenGate in the Enterprise.
Java
A Devops Basics video on how to Detect Java Memory Leakson YouTube.
PeopleSoft
At the PeopleSoft Wiki, a suggestion: Backup before Migrating a Project.
Hyperion
Tax Provisioning: Simplify, Standardize then Automate, at the Enterprise Performance Management Blog.
BI
The Changing World of Business Intelligence, an overview, at RittmanMead Consulting.
WLS
At the blog with the intriguing title of Whitehorses comes this technical article on A small and clean WebLogic cold backup.
Support
Chris Warticki's Blog - Oracle Support reminds us about Customer Resource: Events.

Contributions by Angela Golla, Infogram Deputy Editor

March / April Oracle Magazine Now Available
http://www.oraclemagazine-digital.com/oraclemagazine/20130304
This issue includes the mix of news, community, customer-focus, and technology stories you've come to expect in Oracle Magazine. This issue looks at cloud computing, with customer feature articles on Oracle Cloud (www.cloud.oracle.com) and an Oracle private cloud deployment.