DOAG Conference 2011 - Call for Papers

And once again this year the largest european Oracle User Group (Deutsche Oracle User Group - DOAG) is calling for papers for the DOAG Conference 15th til 17th November in Nürnberg / Germany. Details for the upcoming conference can be found under http://www.doag.org/konferenz/doag/2011/ The Call for Papers form can be found under http://mydoag.doag.org/termine/cfp.php?id=422990 The Call for Papers is still open until 15th June 2011, so hurry...

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Oracle JRockit is now free, but ...

Oracle announce that the usage of the Oracle JRockit JVM is now free :-) See Oracle News: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/173782 Sounds really good, but ... there is a small restriction inside this news announcement: Premium offerings such as JRockit Mission Control, JRockit Real Time, Java for Business and Enterprise Support will continue to be made available for an additional chargeSo only the core functionalities are free of charge, the cool features like Mission Control or Real Time still have to be paid ...

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Implementing Oracle WebLogic AdminServer as Windows Service

Today my fight with the Oracle Internet Directory 11.1.1.4.0 from yesterday continues (http://dirknachbar.blogspot.com/2011/05/fighting-with-tns-03505-failed-to.html), but this time the problem were related to the Oracle WebLogic Server. I wanted to implement the startup of the underlying Oracle WebLogic AdminServer and ManagedServer of the Oracle Internet Directory installation as a Windows Service. For this Oracle provides an installation script %WL_HOME%\server\bin\installSvc.cmd which should be called by a wrapper script which we have to create...

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Fighting with "TNS-03505: Failed to resolve name" and OID 11g

I am currently setting up an Oracle Internet Directory 11.1.1.4.0 for the usage of tnsnames resolution and run in a nice error. The installation and setup were straight forward (even as I had to do it under Windows :-) ), I created a test tnsnames entry in my new OID 11g with the Net Manager from an Oracle Client 11.1. So far so good. But when I wanted to test my new tnsnames entry in the OID with a simple tnsping, I receive immediately following...

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Firefox Search Plugin for Oracle Fusion Middleware Documentation

Some weeks ago a friend of mine (Gregory Steulet, http://www.dbi-services.com/) has published some nice Firefox Search Plugins for Oracle Database Documentation and MySQL Documentation. As I am a pure fan of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Stack I ask him, if he could create also a Firefox Search Plugin for the Oracle Fusion Middleware Documentation and he did it :-) His blog entry for the annoucement can be found here: http://www.dbi-services.com/index.php/blog/entry/stop-looking-for-oracle-fusion-and-oracle-grid-control-documentation-use-the-dbi-services-firefox-add-ons The...

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Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.5.0 Patch Set 4 for selected Components available

Since about 10 days now are patches for selected components of the Oracle Fusion Middleware are available in the My Oracle Support (http://support.oracle.com/). The patches are available for following Operating Systems at the moment: Linux x86 Linux x86-64 Windows 32-bit Windows 64-bit Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit) Oracle Solaris on SPARC (32-bit) Oracle Solaris on x86-64 Oracle Solaris on x86 IBM AIX on Power Systems (64-bit) HP-UX PA-RISC (64-bit) For...

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