Application Development

TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook – Oracle Edition

All Things Oracle on 12 June 2013 with 0 comments

Download your free copy of TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook – Oracle Edition and use the recipes to work better, faster, and do things you never knew you could do with SVN. If you’re new to source control, this book provides a concise guide to getting the most out of Subversion. Both TortoiseSVN and Subversion have very good reference books available… Continue Reading →

Performance is a Feature: Here is the Specification

Cary Millsap on 11 June 2013 with 0 comments

 Weds July 31st, 2013  Central Europe: 17:00 UK: 16:00 East USA: 11.00 Central USA: 10.00 Pacific USA: 08.00 Register now To many people who build and run software, “performance” is a side-effect, an afterthought of designing and building “proper” features like buttons that book orders and reports that explain profitability. But great performance at scale doesn’t happen by accident. The first step to great… Continue Reading →

Put your Oracle Database in Source Control

All Things Oracle on 10 June 2013 with 1 comments

The first time you consider it, it may seem a strange idea to put a database into source control but, on reflection, it makes sense. The reason to do so is the same reason that you put anything else in source control: to be able to revert to previous releases with minimal effort. Imagine that, after you release version 1.0… Continue Reading →

Oracle Database Replay for your Workload Test

Satishbabu Gunukula on 30 May 2013 with 7 comments

Database replay was introduced in Oracle 11g R1, and it allows you to capture workloads on a Production system and replay them in your Development or test environments while maintaining the unique characteristics of the workload. This enables the user to test a variety of system changes such as hardware/software migration, operating system/ database upgrade, patches, database config changes etc…. Continue Reading →

Continuous Integration with Jenkins and Red Gate Oracle Tools

Neil Anderson on 28 May 2013 with 0 comments

 Weds June 19th, 2013  Central Europe: 17:00 UK: 16:00 East USA: 11.00 Central USA: 10.00 Pacific USA: 08.00 Register now Continuous integration is not just for application developers. Database code is still code, so the considerable benefits of continuous integration are also available to Oracle database developers. All you need are the right tools. This session will look at how to setup continuous integration… Continue Reading →

End to End Metrics: Building a performance bridge between the Developer and the DBA

Lasse Jenssen on 16 May 2013 with 0 comments

Watch video End-to-end metrics bridge the gap between the developer and the DBA, the Developer and Oracle, and the DBA and the application. Most applications today are n-tiers using a connection pool on the application tier, which makes them very hard to trace. With a little bit of collaboration between developers and DBAs, tracing can be turned on very easily… Continue Reading →

Oracle Database 12c and APEX

Dimitri Gielis on 16 May 2013 with 0 comments

The below content is based on a David Peake‘s presentation at OOW 2012 and APEX World 2013. As the Oracle Database 12c is not out yet at the time of writing, note that things might be different in the final product. The Oracle Database 12c is a major release in Oracle history, as it contains a complete redesign of the underlying architecture. Two… Continue Reading →

Developing your First Oracle Cloud Application

Morten Egan on 09 May 2013 with 5 comments

Prerequisites A local database, for development SQL Developer version 3.2.20.09.87 or higher (Download) Wallet Manager Getting started To get started, we first need an account on the Oracle cloud. So go to Oracle Cloud, login with your OTN account and request a trial period. You will need to enter a credit card for verification, but it will not get charged… Continue Reading →

Console Wrapper 1.0.4

Martin Giffy DSouza on 11 April 2013 with 0 comments

Console Wrapper 1.0.4 is officially out. You can download it from the project page: https://code.google.com/p/js-console-wrapper/ The only change for this release was to resolve an IE 9/10 issue which I previous blogged about. If you’re using any of the ClariFit plugins you may want to update the $console_wrapper.js file that’s included with each plugin. I’ll be sure to include the update file for each of… Continue Reading →

SQL’s MEDIAN Function

Jonathan Gennick on 09 April 2013 with 0 comments

Article #3 in my ongoing series covering SQL statistic functions in Oracle Database is now up. The topic is the median: MEDIAN: For When You Don’t Really Mean It Median is useful in typifying a data set when the data might be skewed, or in the presence of extreme outliers. For example, the U.S. Census Bureau reports median household income… Continue Reading →