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Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 171 Issue 4 Sun Servers Sign in Register Password Help Membership types How to Benefit from Optimizing Hardware with Oracle Database Solaris MySQL Linux Exadata Servers OpenStorage Top10 Developer Sysadmin VDI Networking Virtualization Java Technology JavaFX Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Ten Minute Webinar Explains the Process of Selecting Optimal Implementations May 23, 2012, Volume 171, Issue 4 In less than 10 minutes , learn more about how to benefit from optimizing Oracle hardware with Oracle . Database Oracle Performance Expert Randal Sagrillo's technical overview shows how the Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database
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Using DNS Client Configuration Using Svccfg in Solaris 11 is the subject of Matthew Mattoon's post on ITNNewsCast, which he wrote in response to the increasing frequency of users moving configurations from configuration files into the Service Management Framework. Mattoon provides the code for four steps:
View existing DNS client configuration
Update existing DNS client configuration
Review changed DNS client configuration
Export DNS client configuration
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There is a fashion trend in programming languages. While some come and go, others come and stay, according to a survey by TIOBE software. Among the currently popular -- one might more correctly say enduring -- languages, according to TIOBE's survey are these:
Java; C; C+; C++; Objective-C; PHP; Visual) Basic; Python; Perl; JavaScript
The survey includes a brief definition of each and an assessment of their respective importance along with the recommendation that as many as possible of the 10 should be in every developer's tool kit.
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In Episode 83 of the Java Spotlight, Scott Kovatch discusses Mac OS X Java development. Kovatch is the lead engineer for the Mac OS X port and, in his earlier roles, was technical lead of Apple's Java team and developer of the first implementation of Java Web Start for Mac OS X. Dalibor Topic takes his usual seat on the Java All Star Developer Panel.
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Roger Brinkley interviewed Harshad Oak, Kevin Nilsonk Yara Senger, and Kayalvizh Jayave at JavaOne India 2012. Oak is the founder of IndicThreads & Rightrix Solutions; Nilson is a Java Champion and VP of Engineering at Just.Me; Senger is the partner and director of education and teacher Globalcode; and Jayavel is the JDuchess Chennai Lead and Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology, SRM University. Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Ashwin Rao, Netbeans Product Manager, are on the Java All Star Developer Panel.
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Oracle has just released Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1.16, a maintenance release containing bug fixes and stability improvements, was just released at the community or Oracle download sites. This is particularly good news, at least in blogger Fat Bloke's eyes, for users of preview builds of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
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Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 171 Issue 4 Solaris Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c to Deploy and Manage Solaris 11 OS Solaris MySQL Linux Exadata Servers OpenStorage Top10 Developer Sysadmin VDI Networking Virtualization Java Technology JavaFX Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Post Outlines the Benefits to Users May 23, 2012, Volume 171, Issue 4 Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c provides the ability to define Solaris 11 OS and Software Profiles comprised of Oracle Solaris 11 packages , user-supplied custom packages , scripts , and other files . Leon Shaner posts on how users can benefit from using
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Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 171 Issue 4 Oracle Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Optimized System for Oracle Unified Directory Solaris MySQL Linux Exadata Servers OpenStorage Top10 Developer Sysadmin VDI Networking Virtualization Java Technology JavaFX Oracle Trademarks Previous Next SPARC Hardware , Matched and Tuned for OUD Software May 23, 2012, Volume 171, Issue 4 OOS4OUD , or Oracle Optimized System for Oracle Unified Directory is a matched and tuned set of SPARC hardware and OUD software configured by the Optimized Systems Team and the Directory Team to deliver top performance , posts Darin Pendergraft on oracle.com . He explains that the
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Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 171 Issue 4 Networking Sign in Register Password Help Membership types How to Get Started Configuring Your Network in Oracle Solaris 11 Solaris MySQL Linux Exadata Servers OpenStorage Top10 Developer Sysadmin VDI Networking Virtualization Java Technology JavaFX Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Changes bring a more consistent and integrated experience May 23, 2012, Volume 171, Issue 4 With changes in implementation and the names of network interfaces and the commands and methods for administering and configuring them , the Oracle Solaris 11 network architecture is significantly different from previous releases of Oracle Solaris . Andrew
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In his post on Oracle Linux components Wim Coekaerts explains his opinion of Oracle Linux as "... the best enterprise Linux solution available." In large part, he attributes this excellence to the over 100,000 hours of QA testing that have already been conducted on Oracle Linux. Coekaerts contends that both the excellence (and the ease of use by customers) of the Oracle support program further ensure confidence in Oracle Linux. According to Coekaerts, the focus at Oracle on Linux is twofold: enhancing Linux to run Oracle products and making Linux a better OS.
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In part two of his series on "Best Practices for JavaFX 2.0 Enterprise Applications" James L. Weaver continues the illustration of his presentation with the TweetBrowser application, to which he includes a download link. Weaver argues that readers who study the TweetBrowserModel class will develop the skills necessary to determine whether to use the REST/FX libraries to invoke REST services in their applications. Also, studying the HistoryStack class and its usage in TweetBrowser might offer some ideas on implementing Back button navigation in future applications, he writes.
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There is a newly released white paper from Oracle entitled "Operational Impact of Deploying Engineered Systems (Exadata)" available at the Exadata Partner Community Collaborative Workspace (for community members only -- registration and log in are required). The paper considers how the traditional role of system administrators responsible for managing individual portions of the technology stack are now able, with the integrated nature of lifecycle management in an engineered system, to perform their duties more comprehensively in a less complex environment that delivers improved performance and reduced management costs.
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"Most companies' log files carry too much noise. For a better log management system, turn the normal model on its head ...
When it comes to log management, most administrators follow the traditional route of generating all possible events that might need to be captured, then choosing which events should create actionable alerts. The centralized log management system then picks up, centralizes, and correlates these entries. The result is information overload, much akin to the log entries generated by the average firewall..."
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Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 171 Issue 3 VDI Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Illumos Solaris ZFS MySQL Top10 LibreOffice Performance Sysadmin VDI Networking Virtualization Java Technology Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Data Sheet:Describes Features , Capabilities May 18, 2012, Volume 171, Issue 3 The Oracle data sheet on Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure describes the three-tiered solution client , session and virtual desktop which prevents the end user from connecting directly to the corporate data center . Users can deploy the Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure on multiple servers linked together into a
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The post "Tips for Updating Your Oracle Solaris 11 System from the Oracle Support Repository" by Peter Dennis explores Support Repository Updates (SRUs) and how best to maintain systems with the latest updates or a selected set of updates from Oracle. Dennis examines some of the more advanced uses of the Image Packaging System (IPS) and assumes a basic knowledge of the update process using the pkg(1) command-line utility.
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Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 171 Issue 3 Virtualization Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle VM 3.1 Illumos Solaris ZFS MySQL Top10 LibreOffice Performance Sysadmin VDI Networking Virtualization Java Technology Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Oracle VM Server for x86 is a free server virtualization solution May 18, 2012, Volume 171, Issue 3 Oracle VM Server for x86 Release 3.1, the latest release of Oracle�s server virtualization solution designed to support rapid application deployment and simplify data center management from applications to disk , is available . The solution's enhanced user interface is designed to significantly simplify ease of
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A new SPECjEnterprise20 benchmark result was set for Oracle WebLogic Server running on Oracle's Sun Fire x86 servers, together with Oracle Linux and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 that achieved 8,310.19 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. Juergen Kress describes this new mark as a 53 percent improvement upon the previous best two-processor result and showcases the performance of Sun Fire x86 servers, based on new Intel Xeon E5 processors, running Oracle software across multiple tiers.
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Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 171 Issue 3 Oracle Sign in Register Password Help Membership types How to Deploy Oracle RAC On Zone Clusters Illumos Solaris ZFS MySQL Top10 LibreOffice Performance Sysadmin VDI Networking Virtualization Java Technology Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Enables Ability to Run Multiple Versions of an Oracle Database Simultaneously May 18, 2012, Volume 171, Issue 3 In a lengthy how-to on deploying Oracle RAC on zone clusters Vinh Tran provides the code samples for the procedure and the screen shots that illustrate it . Tranh explains that by installing Oracle RAC inside a zone cluster , you can run multiple instances of an Oracle database at
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"PHP and MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 5th Edition," Kevin Yank's book that covers everything from installing PHP & MySQL under Windows, Linux, and Mac through to building a live web-based content management system, has been released by SitePoint. The book is written for beginners but nevertheless covers more advanced topics such as the storage of binary data in MySQL, and cookies and sessions in PHP. It comes complete with a set of handy reference guides for PHP & MySQL that include:
MySQL syntax
MySQL functions
MysQL column types
PHP functions for working with MySQL
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The MySQL Developer Tools team has released MySQL Workbench version 5.2.40, the next maintenance release of its flagship product, which contains more than 28 bug fixes applied over version 5.2.39. The team reports that, in addition to the new Query/SQL Development and Administration modules, version 5.2 features improved stability and performance - especially in Windows, where OpenGL support has been enhanced, and the UI was optimized to offer better responsiveness. Sources and binary packages for several platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are available as downloads.
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Using Oracle Validated Configurations is strongly urged in a post by Durgam Vahia, who describes the program as offering " ... pre-tested, validated architectures, with documented best practices for software, hardware, storage, and network components. This integrated approach helps improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of solutions, with faster, lower-cost implementations." The Oracle integrated stacks free the customer from the burden of testing a stack in their respective environments. They simply choose the Oracle Validated Configuration certified for their situation. Support is available for any and all components of each of the Oracle Validated Configurations.
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Oracle's desktop virtualization portfolio now includes three new releases: Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.4; Sun Ray Software 5.3; and Oracle Virtual Desktop Client 3.1. Among the improvements delivered by these releases are the up to 720p High Definition (HD) video playback on Oracle Sun Ray thin client devices; the new security features including support for 802.1x identity-based network authentication enhance security; expanded storage options; and the ability to copy and paste between local applications on the client device and remote virtual desktops, new HD multimedia capabilities, and enhanced integration of smart card authentication provided by Oracle Virtual Desktop Client 3.1.
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: Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 171 Issue 2 MySQL Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Meet The MySQL Experts Podcast : Managing Scalability of MySQL Enterprise Edition Illumos ZFS MySQL Linux Exadata SPARC Storage OpenStorage Top10 LibreOffice VDI Java Technology JavaFX Security Trademarks Previous Next MySQL Thread Pool Is the Tool May 10, 2012, Volume 171, Issue 2 On this episode of Meet the MySQL Experts Podcast , Mikael Ronstrom , senior MySQL Architect , discusses how the MySQL Thread Pool improves MySQL . Scalability Ronstrom summarizes the typical problems that commonly crop up when scalability is called for , one of them , historically , being
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Companies that are building appliances with some Linux distro as the embedded OS can do better, argues Wim Coekaerts, than rely on community-based and/or community-maintained versions or even those commercial Linux distros that come with distribution and access restrictions. The alternative, Coekaerts suggests, is Oracle Enterprise Linux. Customers have complete access to the code and are able to use Oracle Enterprise Linux as they choose, without contract restrictions, nor even any license or activation key. This is one distro that can manage across all the use cases, says Coekaerts.
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Each year, Oracle releases its publication "Oracle for SAP Technology Update," as it has just done. Like its predecessors, the 2012 issue provides updates and information about Oracle products and services for SAP customers. The publication features content about running SAP on the Exa stack, including technical articles and customer cases. Users can download the 2012 issue as a PDF.
