Oracle ADF is the development platform for the Oracle Fusion Applications and is the core development platform for the Oracle Fusion Middleware solution too. As more and more companies adopt Oracle ADF for their own development needs developers and managers are often faced with the question of how to get up to speed with this…

Oracle ADF is the development platform for the Oracle Fusion Applications and is the core development platform for the Oracle Fusion Middleware solution too. As more and more companies adopt Oracle ADF for their own development needs developers and managers are often faced with the question of how to get up to speed with this…

WikiLeaks has dramatically changed how organizations deal with data security. Without getting into the politics, this session will discuss how to mitigate data breaches in your APEX applications. It will follow your data through its “chain of custody”, and provide insights on securing it at each step. It will cover not only things to do…

A humorous but serious look at Oracle's DATE, TIMESTAMP and INTERVAL types. In particular, focusing on the common misuse, alternate best practices and techniques for generating date ranges, filling in missing dates within existing data, manipulating timezones and Daylight Saving Time and exposing some quirks of manipulating the data types including illegal-yet-valid dates and indexing.…

A humorous but serious look at Oracle's DATE, TIMESTAMP and INTERVAL types. In particular, focusing on the common misuse, alternate best practices and techniques for generating date ranges, filling in missing dates within existing data, manipulating timezones and Daylight Saving Time and exposing some quirks of manipulating the data types including illegal-yet-valid dates and indexing.…

(Presented at Oracle Open World 11) "Throw more hardware at the project to keep up the speed" is a phrase heard all too often among IT professionals. Sometimes, additional hardware doesn't solve performance problems. When dealing with computer systems, XML documents are an effective method to communicate real time information between two or more computers.…

(Presented at Oracle Open World 11) "Throw more hardware at the project to keep up the speed" is a phrase heard all too often among IT professionals. Sometimes, additional hardware doesn't solve performance problems. When dealing with computer systems, XML documents are an effective method to communicate real time information between two or more computers.…

You want to engage the mobile market, but what's the best approach? A native application in the iTunes store, or a mobile version of your web site? With the latest ADF Mobile tools, you get the best of both worlds, because you can make native applications with nothing more than standard HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript!

This talk will provide tips for using SQL against an Oracle Database. It will discuss how to exploit a selection of lesser known features and also how to avoid traps and pitfalls. Examples of redundant and undocumented functions, such as OVERLAPS, REVERSE and the range of SYS_OP functions will be covered and some of the…

This paper re-introduces Perl as a language of choice for many solutions for DBA's and developers. Discover what makes Perl so successful and why it is so versatile. Perl can automate all those manual daily tasks and is truly platform independent so that your scripts can now run on Linux, Unix and Windows. Perl may…