Thursday Twitter - 1/2/14 (Part 2)

The first follow up to Thursday's post to catch up on all of the awesome information coming out of Twitter over the past few weeks!

Announcements:

https://twitter.com/otnarchbeat/status/415471074756022272 - There is a new ACE Director out there!  Congrats to Danilo Schmiedel!

https://twitter.com/acolvin/status/416347832564469760 - Andy Colvin tells us that a new version of Exadata Storage Server has been released and also it has new cell-to-cell communications too https://twitter.com/acolvin/status/416370394535178240.

https://twitter.com/rmoug_org/status/416390992908926976 - If you didn't know, Oracle made a 1.5B move towards the cloud.  Adobe, Salesforce: your move.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/416591893469077504 - Premier Support ended for several products with the new year!

Training/Free Stuff:

https://twitter.com/oraclepress/status/415526159552884736 - Want a free chapter of the Oracle Fusion Applications Development and Extensibility Handbook?

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/415527311623352320 - Learn about SLA and Procurement in this webinar.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/416106991166431232 - A good article bringing together a lot of OpenWorld presentations for SOA/BPM!

https://twitter.com/enkitec/status/416317137188188160 - Learn Exadata Offloading efficiency in Optimization courses from Enkitec!

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/416610593408172032 - Kyle Hailey shares a post about Harvard data visualization course lectures and slides being online!

General News/Information:

https://twitter.com/tmmdv/status/415381725938585600 - Timur Akhmadeev shares his Pythian blog post on how to calculate if you have enough redo space.

https://twitter.com/alanc/status/415385339394412544 - Want to read a really great detective story about trying to find out why power supplies were dying on the same day in a data center?  You do, it's got an awesome ending too!

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/415512212791640064 - Having some problems in R12 with incorrect depreciation on member assets?

https://twitter.com/dbakevlar/status/415512465766883328 - Kellyn Pot'Vin shares 10 productivity sites/apps for working remote.

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/415563869617389568 - Clean up your SOA QA environment!

https://twitter.com/agonen/status/415866934266052608 - Learn from the Oracle documentation about the UTL_CALL_STACK procedure!

https://twitter.com/gokhanatil/status/416094191455055872 - Here is a script for looking at your ASM information.

https://twitter.com/oratweets/status/416114989754097664 - Iggy Fernandez starts a really good series of articles on NoSQL.

https://twitter.com/gokhanatil/status/416137525376602112 - Do you know the history of Exadata?  Are you sure you know the whole story?

https://twitter.com/yvelik/status/416181102064435201 - Yury Velikanov gets EBS 11i forms to run on Windows 8 64-bit due to his secret weapon!

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/416267256809947137 - Have you used the PO Approvals Analyzer tool?

https://twitter.com/leight0nn/status/416294888473251840 - Leighton L. Nelson identifies a bug with R3 of EM12c which wasn't there in R2.

https://twitter.com/flashdba/status/416335285547708418 - Did you know Oracle has changed Smart Flash Cache Compression to be part of the ACO license?

https://twitter.com/moh/status/416438130099494912 - What do you think about programming late into your life?  Great response here for young versus old!

https://twitter.com/bertranddrouvot/status/416501692453367808 - Bertand Drouvot believes that this is a must for any DBA toolkit!

https://twitter.com/osamaoracle/status/416547091562119168 - Really love this comment from Osama Mustafa!!  I think this could fill an entire volume for a book on support!

https://twitter.com/uwehesse/status/416559874508464128 - Uwe Hesse recommends a post from Jonathan Lewis on random slowdowns, and it is a very good article!!

https://twitter.com/oracle_ebs/status/416591831733133312 - Have you looked at the BI Publisher Consolidated Reference document on MOS?

https://twitter.com/oracleblogs/status/416591893238386688 - Do you know why there hasn't been a new R12.1.3 RUP for Procurement?

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/416613245236281344 - Kyle has a post about ZFS fundamentals for throttling!

https://twitter.com/oracle_edu/status/416640773065416704 - What were the top 13 classes for Oracle University in 2013?

https://twitter.com/chrisantognini/status/416650737779605504 - Did you know that the parameter _px_xtgranule_size controls the size of block range granules when accessing external tables?

https://twitter.com/leight0nn/status/416669705051443200 - Configuring F5 equipment for use with OEM 12.1.0.3?  There looks to be a surprise waiting for you, but Leighton had your back with details!

https://twitter.com/RaySmithAce/status/416687245504950273 - Ray Smith shares a post about a new option in OEM12c R3 direct from Oracle!

https://twitter.com/kylehhailey/status/416778286744608769 - Kyle has an awesome point here, that we need to automate or die.

Conference News:

https://twitter.com/markrittman/status/416666891185557504 - Get an advance look at Mark Rittman's presentation for BIWA14!

Social Media/DevOps:

https://twitter.com/clicktips/status/415504739741093888 - Did you know Google has some free tools for seeing where your visitors are?

https://twitter.com/alyssaebs/status/415590381913243648 - A good presentation on modeling DevOps!