Category: Oracle Database

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Today, Oracle announced that ABC Fine Wine & Spirits has upgraded the Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service with the help of SkillNet Solutions. ABC Fine Wine & Spirits differentiates their shopping experience with a superior product assortment, outstanding service and competitive pricing by empowering its associates with modern and intuitive tools. ABC Fine Wine & Spirits operates 130 stores across Florida, selling beer, wine, spirits, cigars and gourmet food items. “We are continuously assessing how our stores and services meet our customers’ needs. We are committed to providing the best overall shopping experience possible. We place ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit, one of the world’s leading providers of cloud-based financials / ERP, HR, Professional Services Automation (PSA) and omnichannel commerce software suites, announced today that TBI (Telecom Brokerage Inc.), the nation's largest master agent and technology services distributor, has continued its rapid growth since graduating to NetSuite from QuickBooks and an industry-specific solution called RPM Telco. TBI relies on NetSuite to run end-to-end processes, spanning financials, quoting, order management, billing, customer relationship management (CRM) and project management. Additionally, NetSuite’s powerful and flexible SuiteCloud development platform has enabled TBI to embed the ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Empowering innovative businesses to launch competitive pricing models in the era of digital commerce, Oracle today announced Oracle Monetization Cloud. The new cloud service accelerates time to market for digital and subscription-based products and services by enabling the full life cycle of customer on-boarding, offer creation, robust rating and discounting, billing, customized invoicing and reporting. Enterprises are increasingly focused on generating recurring revenues and developing lasting customer relationships by extending from one-time purchases to recurring business models. Agile billing capabilities are required to help digital service providers monetize new offerings and differentiate their services in ... Read More

Feed: Kamran Agayev's Oracle Blog. Posted by Kamran Agayev A. on July 24th, 2017 After dealing with root.sh script to configure 3 node clusterware environment I succeeded but ended up with the following error when post configuration OUI returned the following error and was unable to create container database for  Oracle Grid Infrastructure Management Repository: There was no information in the mentioned log file, however the trace of database creation job was enabled and I was able to find a long trace file under the log directory, where I saw the following message: set newname for datafile 1 to new; ... Read More

Feed: Kamran Agayev's Oracle Blog. Posted by Kamran Agayev A. on July 24th, 2017 Today while deconfiguring one failed node from the clusterware I faced some Perl related issues that blocked me to run ./rootcrs.pl command. After installing few required packages I was able to deconfigure the node. Check the steps and let me know if it helped you and if you had different errors [root@oratest02 install]$ ./rootcrs.pl -deconfig -force -verbose-bash: ./rootcrs.pl: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory I checked for perl and didn’t find it.[root@oratest02 install]$ which perl/usr/bin/which: no perl in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/oracle/.local/bin:/home/oracle/bin:/home/oracle/.local/bin:/home/oracle/bin:/u01/app/12.2.0.1/grid/bin)If the perl wasn’t installed by ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: bscalzo; I’m often asked by people “Which database is best?” That’s an extremely subjective question which nonetheless can be answered objectively. If by best they mean which database I prefer, then the answer is obviously Oracle. I’ve spent over 30 years working with Oracle databases. I’m an Oracle ACE, routinely speak at Oracle events, and have written 10 books mostly on Oracle database topics. But that’s a completely subjective answer based upon personal preference due to comfort zone. If however by best they instead mean which database I prefer for a given use case or ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: Vicky Harp; On Monday, June 12, 2017, a security researcher discovered that sensitive personal data of nearly all the 200 million registered voters from the USA was left exposed to the Internet. The owner stored the data on a publicly accessible cloud server -- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) object storage -- without any protection against public access. Consequently, anyone with an Internet connection could have accessed the data, simply by navigating to a six-character subdomain of Amazon. S3 is notorious for being left unlocked to the public, even by some of the largest organizations ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: billellis; B-tree indices in Oracle are powerful.  Sometimes a very good index can be even better.  Precise for Oracle helps DBAs recognize this situation.This screen excerpt (please click on it to enlarge) from Precise for Oracle identifies that 20% of execution time is spent accessing the index TD_FN_X1 in a Heavy Index Range Scan.  This SQL statement sums AMOUNT for similar FIRST_NAMEs.                                                               Checking on ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: bscalzo; We are pleased to announce the general availability of DB PowerStudio 16.6. Existing users may upgrade to this latest version via the online downloads. New users may download the trial version from the IDERA Website.DB PowerStudio combines four innovative products (DBArtisan, Rapid SQL, DB Change Manager and DB Optimizer) to help database professionals build and maintain mission-critical database systems, streamline database change management processes, capture workloads for performance review, plus quickly pinpoint and tune SQL performance bottlenecks. What’s New in DBArtisan and Rapid SQL 16.6? Additional Oracle Database Feature Support The Database Explorer has been updated to now include complete ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Empowering organizations to move workloads to the cloud while keeping their data on their own premises, Oracle today announced significant expansion of the breadth of services available through Oracle Cloud at Customer. The portfolio now spans all of the major Oracle PaaS categories and for the first time, also features Oracle SaaS services. Since its introduction just over a year ago, Oracle Cloud at Customer has experienced unprecedented growth with leading global organizations across six continents and more than 30 countries adopting the solution, including AT&T and Bank of America. Oracle Cloud at Customer is ... Read More