R12: How to configure Workflow Notification Mailer to use Cloud servers

If you are on EBS R12 you probably need to look at the "Configuring an Oracle Workflow Notification Mailer with Cloud E-Mail Servers" document 2077434.1 on MOS to find out how you take your application to the next level!

Oracle Cloud: DaaS customers need to patch due to excessive I/O

Tonight we get an article from MOS entitled "ALERT: Customers with Database as a Service instances must apply a critical patch as soon as possible" from document ID 2068023.1 which is important because specific disk volumes can grow to 90%, prevent backups from running, and a negative I/O performance issue can occur!

Weekend Learning: Oracle Data as a Service

Last year I posted a nice article I found about DaaS (Data as a Service), but did you know that Oracle now has their own DaaS product?  It was news to me too!  This post from the Oracle Cloud Solutions site lead me over to the Oracle Data as a Service for Business and Oracle Data as a Service for Marketing data sheets but I thought the highlight was the mention of Oracle's BlueKai product which sounds like a centralized source to allow your customers to opt-out from multiple platforms/campaigns with a single touch point.

Food for thought: Cloud Security

This post raises a good question: Why are more people and organizations not choosing to go with Software as a Service as their first option when it makes sense?  The answer is: cloud security.  I thought it was amazing that 50% of organizations are putting sensitive data into the cloud, but the figures of about 1/3 of companies have any type of cloud security policy shows how immature this field is right now and how dangerous it could be for organizations.  Lots of ideas, and articles, in this one.  Chew on it a bit.

Weekend Homework: Oracle Virtual Networking

When I initially looked over the article about Oracle Virtual Networking, from the OTN Garage, I was impressed with all of the information and diagrams but it did seem a bit overwhelming until I had a chance to focus on it and now I want more.  Of course there are some links in here to the Oracle Fabric Interconnect page and other good content, yet the content of the article is more than enough to engage the reader and get those mental juices flowing so one can think about their current installation for how they might be able to tweak or outright change it.  Do yourself a favor this weekend and spend a few minutes with this homework, and let me know what you think.

Introduction to Data as a Service via Social Media

I read this article several weeks ago which introduced me to the concept of Data as a Service (which does seem to be a natural extension of the I(nfrastructure)aaS, P(latform)aaS and S(oftware)aaS that we all know and love already.  The slides really do the introduction justice as the example is easy to understand for how social media is digested and analyzed between "public data" or application data among many different dimensions.  It is also an extension of the Oracle Cloud offering as well, since the KPIs and other devices which you can use to gather data really belong in a large repository type receptacle with easy to use features.  Great article, very informative, and just touches the surface of a new concept enough that I want to go out and learn more.

Oracle Multitenant

Here you can find a podcast about Oracle Multitenant, which is of course a new solution provided with Oracle Database 12c, but you should start your research with this visual right here that shows the new Oracle Multitenant architecture containing memory, processes and the containerized databases.  Also from the second link you can get access to the webcast for Oracle Database 12c as well!

More is better: Oracle and Microsoft together

Along the "in case you haven't already heard this" vein, Oracle software can now run on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Server Hyper-V installations.  If you're curious, My Oracle Support notes 1563794.1 and 417770.1 are your reference documents for these installations.

Cloud Control to Major Tom

In case you hadn't heard already from here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or here, or even here, 12c has been released for download.  That's not the whole story though, since you'll want to know why to upgrade or even how to do it step by step as a RAC on your laptop, on Linux 5 and 6, and on Linux 6 using VirtualBox.

So all of that really leaves us in the what do we already know category.  Luckily for us some of the top Oracle minds are already sharing with us:  Kerry Osborne is making a recent presentation on 12c Adaptive Optimization available to us, Jonathan Lewis is giving us great ideas about how to start debugging with 12c, letting us know about a new view naming constraint, and whether or not the with function is deterministic yet, and there is an introduction from Tom Kyte to a new error logging package named UTL_CALL_STACK and a new feature called SQL Text Expansion driven by EXPAND_SQL_TEXT.  All said, no release is complete without webcasts, or certifications!

Whew, I think that's the most links I've ever put in a single post!  I hope you've enjoyed this "metapost" which has brought together some of the best 12c links of the week.