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While reading “The Route to Success” by
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oracle/10-jan/o10frame.html), I noticed
that EmpView is executed without adding
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In “Tuning Your View Objects” by Steve Muench
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.com/oramag/oracle/06-may/o36frame.html),
Muench writes,
If parts of your application do not need the
functionality provided by entity-based view
objects, you can improve performance by
using a read-only view object instead.
Is the above still valid in Oracle Application
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generation in the ViewObject and b) reuse of
attribute-level UI hints, what other benefits
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only entity objects have an EntityCache?
Jangvijay Singh
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to an entity all of whose attributes you have
marked to be nonupdatable.
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may 24–26, Washington Dc
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Join global regulators; federal officials; gover-
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rate compliance and risk officers to learn about
compliance structures, quantification, reporting,
awareness, technology, and programs.
Oracle sun High Performance
computing (HPc) consortium
may 29–30, Hamburg, germany
foracle.com/goto/hpcc
at the Oracle Sun HPC Consortium, customers,
partners, and potential partners will learn about
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international supercomputing
conference
may 30–June 3, Hamburg, germany
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of supercomputing.
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June 6–9, grapevine, texas
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June 13–17, Washington Dc
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in the discovery, development, and lifecycle man-
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and related products.
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June 13–16, Hollywood, Florida
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The association of Shareholder-Owned electric
Companies sponsors this event, which covers
smart grids, renewable energy, electrical trans-
mission, carbon capture and storage, and more.
OHUg global 2010 conference
June 13–16, las vegas, nevada
fohug.org
users of Oracle human capital management appli-
cations will convene for education, networking,
keynotes, and specialized sessions. The confer-
ence will be preceded and followed by full-day
educational sessions and invitation-only events.
UKOUg conference series
On enterprise performance management
and Oracle’s Hyperion product line:
June 16–17, london, england
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June 22–23, Heathrow, england
On Oracle’s siebel product line:
June 30, reading, england
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These product family–specific conferences,
sponsored by the uK Oracle user Group, offer
a range of topics for users at all levels. Oracle
personnel and peer experts will share information
and provide a forum for discussion and knowl-
edge sharing.
ace10 annual conference and
exposition
June 20–24, chicago, illinois
fawwa.org/ace10
This american Water Works association event
explores water resource sustainability, system
sustainability, workforce sustainability, and
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exposition features more than 500 providers of
technology and services.
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June 22–24, las vegas, nevada
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This insurance industry event addresses the
strategic and tactical challenges facing senior-
and executive-level claims professionals. Learn
about scaling the claims department, optimizing
claims processing through automation, using
business intelligence to identify fraud, and more.
ODtUg Kaleidoscope
June 27–July 1, Washington Dc
fodtugkaleidoscope.com
Sponsored by the Oracle Development Tools
user Group, this annual event features more than
170 technical sessions, four full-day symposia,
hands-on training, and a community service day.
Oracle applications strategy Update
global tour 2010
various cities
foracle.com/events/applicationstour
Join Oracle executives for “Smart Strategies:
your Roadmap to the Future,” an exclusive
briefing on business trends and technology shifts,
and their impact on organizational strategies.
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The Techcast Show: Mark Reinhold’s
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fotn.oracle.com/syndication/techcasts
Justin Kestelyn, Oracle Technology network editor
in chief, talks with Mark Reinhold, principal engi-
neer for Java Platform, Standard edition and the
Java Development Kit (JDK), about JDK 7.
oracle exadata: a single source of Truth
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In today’s hypercompetitive environment,
business analysts need to perform more predictive
analytics, and they want the answers yesterday.
But managing separate business intelligence, data
mining, and online analytical processing (OLaP)
servers and ensuring fast query performance
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address this challenge using Oracle exadata.
PoDcasTs
Sustainability Reporting, Planning, and
Management
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John O’Rourke, senior director of product
marketing for Oracle enterprise performance
management solutions, discusses the drivers
behind sustainability reporting.
Author Aleksander Seovic on Oracle Coherence
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aleksander Seovic, author of Oracle Coherence
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mance, and reliability with Oracle Coherence.
Author Charles Kim on Oracle Data Guard
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Charles Kim, coauthor of the Oracle Data Guard
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Author John Scott on Oracle
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Oracle aCe Director John Scott, coauthor of Pro
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Brian “Bex” Huff, author of Transforming Infoglut!:
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Content Management, discusses how to glean
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content management framework.
The Role of Oracle Essbase in Enterprise BI
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Most Enterprise Architecture Conversations
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S0a expert Todd Biske, Jordan Braunstein of
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talk about what’s wrong with most of the talk
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Oracle + Sun Product Strategy Series
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These sessions detail Oracle’s plans for Sun’s
major hardware and software technologies.
Oracle Real Application Testing: Managing
Change with Confidence
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Learn how to assess the impact of changes on
production Oracle databases with Oracle Real
application Testing.
Reduce Costs and Simplify Management of
Oracle WebLogic Server
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Hear how Oracle Management Pack for WebLogic
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Hear how upgrading your standalone application
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Maximize Your Data Center ROI While
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Learn how to ensure disaster recovery, deliver IT
service continuity, and improve resource utilization
with Oracle GoldenGate.
The “New Normal”: An Applications
Management Outsourcing Perfect Storm
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The Hackett Group’s erik Dorr discusses the
drivers behind business agility, IT performance,
and application management transformation.
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latest Release of Oracle Database lite available
Oracle has announced Oracle Database
Lite Release 10.3.0.3, a comprehensive
tool for developing mobile and embedded
applications.
The new Oracle Database Lite environment
enables users to access data on mobile clients,
regardless of their connection status, freeing
them from the performance constraints of
network bandwidth. The small-footprint,
open source SQLite database runs on mobile
clients and can synchronize bidirectionally
with an Oracle Database instance when a con-
nection is available. The Oracle Database Lite
Mobile Server enables the synchronization
with the back-end database server.
Oracle Database Lite features a common
access card that enables smart card user
authentication for applications that require
Oracle introduces Oracle communications Data model
Now available, the Oracle Communications
Data Model is a standards-based data
model designed and optimized for Oracle
data warehouses, including the Sun Oracle
Database Machine. It provides a high-
performance off-the-shelf data ware-
housing platform specific to the com-
munications industry that gives commu-
nications service providers a fast, reliable,
cost-effective, and easy-to-use way to get
the most out of data. The data model fea-
tures a standards-based, industry-specific
data warehouse schema for communica-
tions service providers. With prebuilt data
mining, online analytical processing, busi-
Oracle Provides enhanced Talent management Options
Oracle has released integrations between
its PeopleSoft 9.1 talent management
applications and PeopleSoft human capital
management solutions. These integrations
enable PeopleSoft human capital manage-
ment customers to take advantage of the
PeopleSoft 9.1 talent management busi-
ness process enhancements while retaining
their existing implementations. PeopleSoft
9.1 talent management applications offer
solutions for performance management,
succession planning, career development,
and compensation, as well as recruiting and
learning tools to help organizations attract,
more security. Device reregistration enables
multiple users to use the same device on dif-
ferent days or during different shifts.
“As companies look to more cost-
effectively run global operations, workers
need to be able to efficiently access data
without interruption or hassle, despite their
physical location—which is why demand for
mobile applications continues to grow across
many industries,” says Marie-Anne Neimat,
vice president of software development
at Oracle. “Oracle Database Lite’s support
for mobile applications built on the open
source SQLite database addresses this need
and helps improve productivity for a large
community of mobile workers who can now
access their enterprise Oracle Database, no
matter where their jobs take them.”
ness intelligence metadata, and industry
measures, it gives communications service
providers faster insight into customer
management, marketing, and network and
product development. The data model can
be used in any application environment
and is extendable.
“Organizations are seeking tuned,
standards-based solutions offering predict-
able deployment; integration with existing
systems; and the performance, scalability,
and reliability to meet their data ware-
housing needs,” says Ray Roccaforte, vice
president of data warehousing and analytics
at Oracle.
hire, train, and motivate the best candidates.
“Customers have told us they want
to adopt the PeopleSoft 9.1 talent man-
agement solution very quickly, prior
to upgrading core human resources,”
says Paco Aubrejuan, vice president of
PeopleSoft Enterprise development at
Oracle. “We are delivering PeopleSoft 9.1
talent management to PeopleSoft human
capital management integrations to enable
these customers to take advantage of the
newest integrated talent management
functionality now without requiring them
to upgrade.”

oracle soa governance 11g is introduced
Now available, Oracle SOA Governance
11g enables organizations to more effec-
tively manage the SOA lifecycle. Consisting
of Oracle Enterprise Repository, Oracle
Service Registry, SOA management with
Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Oracle
Web Services Manager, the Oracle Fusion
Middleware component enables organiza-
tions to manage their heterogeneous soft-
ware project artifacts under a unified gover-
nance umbrella.
Oracle SOA Governance 11g is fully inte-
grated with Oracle SOA Suite 11g and Oracle’s
AmberPoint, a leader in SOA management
(see page 22 to read more about AmberPoint).
The new product provides organizations
more continuity in a closed-loop governance
oracle acquires convergin
Oracle has agreed to acquire Convergin, a pro-
vider of real-time service brokering solutions.
Convergin’s Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE)–based service broker plat-
form enables communications service
providers to manage services for a wide
range of networks and application plat-
forms, including prepaid charging. The
solution enables service providers to focus
on launching new services while moving to
next-generation networks.
Convergin products complement the
Oracle Communications integrated product
new oracle enterprise Pack for eclipse 11g release available
Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g Release
11.1.1.4 delivers significant extensions to
developers and open source communities
that build Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
(Java EE) and Web services applications for
the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform where
Eclipse is the preferred integrated develop-
ment environment. The pack’s enhancements
significantly reduce the number of code cycles
and increase code quality by catching errors at
design time.
The release delivers Oracle WebLogic
Server service component architecture (SCA)
support to help developers define a server
and easily configure Oracle WebLogic Server
SCA libraries and metadata as well as an
Oracle WebLogic Server Java Message Service
process that covers both Oracle and third-
party applications.
“As organizations expand SOA deploy-
ments, managing the numerous software
artifacts in both SOA and application integra-
tion projects can be a complex and expensive
process,” says Amlan Debnath, senior vice
president, Oracle product development.
“With the launch of Oracle SOA Governance
11g, Oracle becomes the only vendor to offer
a unified management approach for both
best-of-breed SOA and packaged applica-
tions within a single platform. This unified
governance umbrella not only helps organiza-
tions deliver new business capabilities more
efficiently but also helps ensure that they are
closely aligned with key business objectives.”
suite, including Oracle Communications
Billing and Revenue Management; Oracle
Communications Converged Application
Server, Standard Edition; and Oracle
Communications Service Fulfillment.
“As communications service providers
transition from legacy telephony networks
to next-generation networks, the combina-
tion of Oracle and Convergin will accelerate
service innovation while reducing network
complexity and cost,” says Bhaskar Gorti,
senior vice president and general manager,
Oracle Communications.
(JMS) deployment descriptor editor that
helps simplify and streamline authoring of
JMS configuration files. The release also fea-
tures AppXRay, a design-time dependency
analysis and visualization tool that makes
it easy for Java developers to work in a team
setting, reduce runtime debugging, and
improve code quality. Other new features
include WYSIWYG Web page editing and
JAX-WS Web service validation.
“With the new AppXRay feature, Oracle
Enterprise Pack for Eclipse provides a means
of easily visualizing the complex dependen-
cies of your application, resulting in higher-
quality code and faster development time,”
says Ted Farrell, chief architect and senior vice
president of tools and middleware at Oracle.
Briefs 21
oracle Tuxedo 11g Unveiled
Oracle has launched Oracle Tuxedo 11g, an
industry-leading application server that
enables enterprises to rehost C/C++, COBOL,
and other mission-critical applications. Part of
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle Tuxedo
11g provides a standards-based application
development model with support for Ruby
and Python in addition to C/C++ and COBOL.
Two new components of Oracle Tuxedo 11g
are (1) Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime
for CICS and Batch 11g and (2) Oracle Tuxedo
Application Rehosting Workbench 11g. These
tools redefine the process of mainframe
migration to open systems by automating
rehosting, which reduces the time, cost, and
risk of migration projects and improves ROI.
Key capabilities in Oracle Tuxedo
Application Runtime for CICS and Batch 11g
include the Customer Information Control
System (CICS) runtime, which runs IBM CICS
applications unchanged in an applications
grid environment; the 3270 terminal server,
which provides complete legacy terminal
support; distributed CICS resource manage-
ment, which simplifies resource management
and administration by enabling customers
to run CICS jobs in a distributed configura-
tion; the Oracle Tuxedo job enqueuing service
for batch, which delivers IBM JES2–like job
submission and management capabilities;
and the batch execution environment, which
enables organizations to support IBM batch
applications by supporting job control lan-
guage (JCL) and other batch utilities.
Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting
Workbench 11g includes tools for ensuring
application integrity, file migrators for flat
files, indexed sequential access method
(ISAM) files, and DB2 databases as well as
migration tools for JCL and COBOL assets.
“Global organizations need the best-
possible application server for mission-
critical C/C++ and COBOL applications to
ensure uninterrupted operation and service
delivery in a cost-effective way,” says Frank
Xiong, vice president of software development
at Oracle. “With the new Tuxedo Application
Runtime solution and increased support for
SOA application development and enhanced
language support, Oracle Tuxedo 11g sets
the standard for scalability and performance
and provides customers with an industrial-
strength alternative to mainframe systems.”
oracle magazine May/June 2010
22 Briefs
Oracle announces major Healthcare Push
Oracle has announced Oracle Healthcare
Transaction Base 6.1 and has introduced an
enterprise healthcare analytics solution.
Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base offers
a multiple-use data repository that enables
healthcare organizations to normalize the
structure and vocabulary of administrative,
clinical, and financial healthcare data to help
reduce costs and improve patient care. It
includes expanded Web services support for
addressing meaningful-use requirements for
continuity-of-care documents.
Oracle’s enterprise healthcare analytics
Oracle launches Oracle fleXcUBe 9.0
Transfer agents and fund managers can
expand their businesses and even manage
popular variants of hedge fund structures
with Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing 9.0,
Oracle’s solution for transfer agencies.
The new release is a single technology
platform that enables transfer agents and
fund managers to sustain market positions by
expanding business with popular hedge fund
variants such as simple, master-feeder, fund
of funds, and side pocket. It also includes a
variety of equalization fee methods and sup-
ports accrual and payment of equalization
fees based on fund performance.
Oracle also offers improved management
of operations compliance through its Oracle
Oracle communications Order and service management 7.0 available
Oracle has released Oracle Communications
Order and Service Management 7.0 to equip
communications service providers with a
new way of orchestrating customer and tech-
nical information across front- and back-
office systems for improved offer design,
order cycle time, and accuracy. The solution
offers rapid design and order delivery to help
service providers unify historically disparate
processes by more efficiently introducing
new offers, capturing and fulfilling new
orders, and providing visibility across the
entire order lifecycle.
Oracle Communications Order and
Service Management 7.0 includes Oracle’s
Siebel Customer Relationship Management,
Oracle Product Hub for Communications,
and Oracle Application Integration
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solution integrates data from electronic
medical records, clinical systems, patient
accounting, enterprise resource planning,
research, and other healthcare systems to
enable healthcare providers to rapidly unlock
value from their clinical and operational data.
“The ability to aggregate patient informa-
tion into a comprehensive data repository
and access that information in near real
time to improve decision-making is a critical
differentiator for healthcare organizations,”
says Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president
and general manager, Oracle Health Sciences.
Mantas Know Your Customer and Oracle
Mantas Anti Money Laundering software.
Oracle FLEXCUBE 9.0 is supported across a
range of geographies and entities and uses
multiple products, currencies, languages,
and time zones. It is also integrated with
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise
Edition to provide comprehensive reporting.
“Oracle FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing 9.0
is a comprehensive transfer agency and fund
distribution system that can help transfer
agents and fund management companies
address their business challenges and
manage complex workflow procedures,” says
Joseph John, executive vice president, Oracle
Financial Services Software.
Architecture Foundation Pack Extension for
Communications. It makes low-cost, in-flight
order changes by enabling representatives to
adjust existing orders to reflect new requests,
and the updated orders automatically revise
order fulfillment plans already completed or in
process. This sequence helps accelerate order
completion and reduce manual workarounds.
“Oracle Communications Order and
Service Management 7.0 and the Oracle
Communications solution for rapid offer
design and order delivery can help commu-
nications service providers cost-effectively
accelerate offer introduction and decrease
order delivery time from days to minutes
while improving accuracy,” says Dan Ford,
vice president of product marketing,
Oracle Communications.
Oracle to Buy amberPoint
Oracle has agreed to acquire AmberPoint,
a provider of SOA management solutions.
AmberPoint’s solutions help organizations
diagnose and resolve issues in application
performance and business transactions,
such as insurance claims processing or
account provisioning, in which multiple
applications need to work together.
“AmberPoint and Oracle share a vision
of providing customers with comprehen-
sive SOA management capabilities that
support modern IT environments and are
also complete, open, and integrated,” says
Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of
product development at Oracle. “We expect
that the addition of AmberPoint’s products
to Oracle SOA Suite will provide stronger
end-to-end governance that enables cus-
tomers to manage the entire lifecycle of
SOA-based solutions, providing visibility
and management across heterogeneous
environments.” 
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Oracle Database lite
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Oracle communications Data model
oracle.com/technology/products/bi/
db/ocdm
Peoplesoft enterprise applications
oracle.com/us/products/applications/
peoplesoft-enterprise
Oracle sOa governance
oracle.com/technologies/soa/soa-suite.html
Oracle and convergin
oracle.com/convergin
Oracle enterprise Pack for eclipse 11g
oracle.com/tools/enterprise-eclipse-
pack.html
Oracle Tuxedo 11g
oracle.com/us/products/middleware/tuxedo
Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base
oracle.com/us/industries/healthcare/
046614.html
Oracle Healthcare analytics
oracle.com/us/industries/healthcare/
058441.html
Oracle fleXcUBe investor servicing 9.0
oracle.com/us/industries/financial-
services/046709.html
Oracle communications Order and service
management
oracle.com/us/industries/communications/
018751.htm
Oracle and amberPoint
oracle.com/amberpoint

oracle and Sun, engineering
from applications to Disk
Combined companies will deliver complete solutions with
best-of-breed components.
J ohn Fowler, executive vice president of
systems at Oracle and former executive
vice president, network systems, at Sun,
sat down with Oracle Magazine Senior
Managing Editor Caroline Kvitka to talk about
Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, what it means for
customers, and merging technologies. The
following is an excerpt from that interview.
Download a podcast of the full interview at
oracle.com/magcasts.
Oracle Magazine: What are some of the cus-
tomer benefits of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun?
Fowler: It’s very exciting because we’re
bringing together two of the world’s leading
technology companies. Oracle has built
leadership technology through the entire
database, middleware, and application set,
and together with Sun, which invented Java
as well as building many of the other under-
lying technologies for storage and servers,
we now can put together complete solutions
for customers with best-of-breed standalone
components, as well as making these com-
ponents work together better and be serviced
as one whole entire infrastructure. This has
been tremendously exciting for customers all
through the integration planning.
Oracle Magazine: We’re hearing the phrase
engineering from applications to disk. What
does that mean?
Fowler: I think it really means two things.
One of them is that the combined compa-
nies are now engineering all the standalone
components from the very concept of
“where do you start with storage?” all the
way through the applications that deliver
business value. But the other side of this is,
how do we actually engineer these to work
together? Now in the combined compa-
Peter SteMBer
nies we’re able to take the world’s leading
enterprise software portfolio and engineer
it and test it together with the operating
John Fowler, executive vice President of Systems
at oracle
system and hardware technologies in order
to ensure that we have the best-possible
performance, the highest reliability, and the
highest energy efficiency.
Oracle Magazine: Can you give me an
example of one thing that Oracle and Sun
are doing around this concept of engineering
from applications to disk?
Fowler: One of the things that Sun and
Oracle worked on together over the past
decade was evolving Solaris [now Oracle
Solaris] to be a great operating system to run
Oracle Database. Today, as the combined
companies, we’ve integrated database
performance and regression testing. We’re
testing all our servers and storage together
with the operating system so you know when
you get these products from us that they’ve
been tested to work together and will be
serviced at an extremely high level. That’s
something we’re doing today. It started liter-
ally the day after the acquisition closed.
IntervIew By Caroline KvitKa 23
Oracle Magazine: What is Oracle’s high-level
plan for hardware?
Fowler: Oracle’s technical strategy is to
be complete, open, and integrated. We
bring the basic philosophy to the hardware
product portfolio: how do we actually take
each of the components, make sure they’re
best-of-breed—whether they’re servers or
storage—and build around open interfaces,
but also make them work together better?
As an example, we are evolving our storage
and server portfolio through increased
investment to run the complete Oracle stack
in a superior way in terms of performance
and service, as well as ensuring that all these
products can be used with other applica-
tion software. Oracle will be investing more
than Sun did in SPARC servers and [Oracle]
Solaris, so that we’ll have complete mission-
critical servers and operating system tech-
nologies. Oracle is also investing heavily in
storage because of all the changes coming in
storage technology both in devices and per-
formance for enterprise customers.
Some of the things that we’re doing
around integration include bringing
together Oracle Enterprise Manager, the
enterprise management tools, with Sun’s
systems management tools so that you
can manage a complete application as
well as the hardware and operating system
stack in one cohesive way and see all your
service and all your technology patches and
updates through My Oracle Support. These
are all examples of things that we’re doing
around both individual components as well
as making them work together.
Oracle Magazine: Speaking of storage tech-
nology, you’ve said that Flash is going to turn
the storage industry upside down. Why is
Flash so important?
Fowler: Since the beginning, storage was
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24 IntervIew
always on mechanical devices—spinning disk
drives with motors and servers—and there-
fore very slow. Flash actually moves storage
to solid state so that storage can be 10 or
20 times faster than it ever was before. Very
rarely in the world of hardware do you get a
situation where in one generation you move
to something that’s 10 to 20 times faster.
One of the interesting things about the
Sun acquisition is that both Oracle and Sun
were independently investing heavily in
software to take advantage of this revolution,
and so we have both Flash hardware tech-
nologies and software technologies in the
database as well as in the operating system
to take advantage of this 10- to 20-times
performance. You certainly see that as an
example in the Oracle/Sun partnership
around the Sun Oracle Database Machine,
where our Flash technology was engineered
together in an architecture that combines
database and storage for truly breathtaking
increases in performance and manage-
ability. I think this is going to be one of the
most exciting areas in technology happening
today. It will completely reset what people
can do around all their applications and not
just the database.
Oracle Magazine: How does Flash work in
hybrid storage pools?
Fowler: At Sun we coined the term hybrid
storage pools, and the basic idea is that Flash
is much, much faster than disk, but it’s a
bit more expensive in terms of how much it
costs you to store a given amount of data.
So we developed software to automatically
manage a pool of Flash together with regular
disk drives, so that you can effectively have
your cake and eat it too. You can have large
amounts of cheap storage, but all the things
that you frequently access are automatically
on Flash for extraordinary performance. This
is how we’re able to deliver unbelievable
performance, energy efficiency, and low cost
in our ZFS Storage Appliance. We’re using
slow and energy-efficient bulk disk drives
together with very large amounts of Flash,
and that gives us a unique value proposition
for both performance and cost.
Oracle Magazine: What’s unique about the
lIsten to the podcast
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“I can’t wait to see what we’re going to produce
over the next one, two, and three years when
we combine these engineering teams.”
—John Fowler, Executive Vice President of Systems at Oracle
ZFS Storage Appliance, and what’s impor-
tant about the role of Flash in the device?
Fowler: One of the things we’ve done in the
ZFS Storage Appliance is integrate Flash as
a core part of the technology. Because of the
way we’ve engineered the software, unlike
today’s conventional storage devices, we
can essentially have arbitrarily sized pools of
Flash for both read and write performance
coupled with inexpensive disks. That gives
us breathtaking performance 3 to 10 times
the performance of existing encumbrance in
the storage world at a fraction of the energy
consumption.
ZFS was designed from the beginning
to incorporate not just Flash but very large
memory arrays. With ZFS we’re able to mix
and match whatever cost point of storage
without requiring the customer to manage
it, and that’s the unique thing about it. We
actually manage the underlying infrastructure
of DRAM and Flash automatically for the
customer to deliver the best-possible perfor-
mance. That’s part of how it’s a breakthrough.
Oracle Magazine: What key technologies and
engineering methods are part of the Sun
Oracle Database Machine?
Fowler: The Sun Oracle Database Machine
includes the database and storage server
software. We have incorporated Flash
hardware technologies plus our ultradense
storage servers, which allow us to mix Flash
and regular storage. Another key break-
through is that we incorporated Sun’s design
on the InfiniBand switch, which is a very
high-performance network that runs 8 to 10
times faster than conventional storage net-
works today to allow for extraordinary levels
of performance between the database and
storage nodes. All those together add up to
the incredible performance that you see in
the Sun Oracle Database Machine.
Because we’ve integrated the software
and hardware, we now offer an integrated
management umbrella. Customers that
buy the Sun Oracle Database Machine liter-
ally can roll it in. They can plug into power
and Ethernet and then turn it over to their
database administrator, so that he or she
can administer it without actually requiring
conventional storage and systems admin-
istration, which is a huge labor savings
when it comes to deploying all transaction
processing [TP]. You’ll see everything there:
Flash technologies, how we’ve designed
physical servers, very high-performance net-
working, integrated software, and integrated
management that just gives a completely
different approach to all TP.
Oracle Magazine: What are you most looking
forward to now that Oracle and Sun are
operating as one?
Fowler: I’m an engineering leader at heart, so
I am the most excited about my thousands
of engineers getting together with the thou-
sands of engineers at Oracle and seeing what
kinds of things we can produce. Through the
integration plan, we were able to do quite
a bit of planning and working together, but
it’s still not the same as working together as
combined companies where we can really go
after intellectual property and new ideas and
making things work together. The engineers
are champing at the bit, and I can’t wait to
see what we’re going to produce over the next
one, two, and three years when we combine
these engineering teams. 
caroline Kvitka is
senior managing editor
of Oracle Magazine and
Profit.
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Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid
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links e-F@ctory with Oracle
Oracle partner Mitsubishi Electric
Automation, a provider of industrial
automation solutions, has linked Oracle
Manufacturing Operations Center to
its e-F@ctory manufacturing solution.
Mitsubishi Electric is the first indus-
trial automation hardware vendor with
a tested, approved connection to Oracle
Manufacturing Operations Center.
e-F@ctory integrates Mitsubishi Electric’s
manufacturing control hardware and net-
works with enterprise IT systems. Benefits
include real-time information about plant
production; monitoring and logging of
machine performance to reduce downtime;
accurate production scheduling; and moni-
toring of stock quality, quantity, and usage.
e-F@ctory users realize efficiency increases
up to 65 percent.
Prospective e-F@ctory customers can
work with the two companies to test-drive
Mitsubishi Electric Automation hardware
and Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center
integration on up to three machines on their
plant floors.

oracle Java wireless client now on Brew mobile Platform
Qualcomm, a developer of advanced wire-
less technologies, products, and services, has
integrated Oracle Java Wireless Client with
Qualcomm’s Brew Mobile Platform (Brew
MP). This combination provides handset
manufacturers and developers with a turnkey
solution to incorporate Java technology into
Brew MP–based mobile devices and ensures
seamless integration and coexistence of Java
applications with native Brew MP applications.
sYstime announces integration Between agile Product lifecycle
management applications and JD edwards enterpriseone
Oracle Platinum Partner SYSTIME has
announced an Oracle Application Integration
Architecture process integration pack that
connects Oracle’s Agile product lifecycle
management (PLM) applications with
Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. The PLM
process integration pack integrates the two
products in a way that reduces the cost and
risk associated with third-party or custom
PLM integrations.
Oracle and SYSTIME collaborated on the
new integration, which features predefined
templates for design release of new product
accenture and oracle Plan technology solutions for social
service agencies
Oracle Platinum Partner Accenture and
Oracle are jointly developing software for
social service agencies. The Accenture Case
Management Solution for Child Welfare on
Oracle will incorporate Oracle’s Siebel Case
Management, Oracle Policy Automation
rules engine, and Accenture’s experience
in developing child welfare solutions. The
new software will provide a foundation and
structure for next-generation child welfare
services consistent with the Accenture Public
Service Platform.
Benefits of the new software include
support for workload management and case-
oracle Partner Kickoff coming in June
Members of the Oracle PartnerNetwork are
encouraged to visit Oracle Red Network,
a single entry point for critical informa-
tion about Oracle’s products, corporate
objectives, and selling strategies for fiscal
Brew MP is a mobile operating system
that delivers smartphone functionality across
many tiers of devices. Brew MP enables capa-
bilities such as touch screen, rich multimedia,
window management, open platform exten-
sibility, and support for application develop-
ment. Customization and configuration tools
from Oracle enable device manufacturers to
fine-tune solutions to target devices without
modifying the Java implementation.
definitions, product launches, and change
management of previously launched
products. Bidirectional data exchange
between the Agile and JD Edwards systems
ensures synchronization of engineering
change status and material attribute
information.
The integration provides multiple layers
of validation to ensure that data exchanges
are complete and properly formatted, and
its end-to-end process monitoring tracks
the change process queue to address data
exchange latency and process completion.
worker effectiveness, improved client services
and collaboration, and enhanced oversight
and outcome-focused program delivery.
Oracle will also develop a social service
foundation pack, and Accenture will develop
Oracle Application Integration Architecture
process integration packs to address social
service agencies’ disbursement and collec-
tions requirements. The project will integrate
Oracle’s Siebel Case Management with
Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financials systems for
disbursements, embedding Oracle Policy
Automation to ensure policy-based determi-
nation of eligibility.
year 2010. Starting in June 2010, the FY10
Partner Kickoff will be available on demand
in Oracle Red Network. Partners can also
access the same training sessions given to
Oracle sales at Oracle Red Network.
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Deloitte Helps oracle customers
go green
Oracle Platinum Partner Deloitte has
launched an initiative to help companies
use their Oracle applications and technolo-
gies to enable a sustainable enterprise.
Deloitte’s initiative incorporates technology
solutions, business practices, governance
programs, and change management to help
companies reduce waste and improve pro-
ductivity. Deloitte’s green services center on
sustainability reporting, green datacenter
practices, environmental compliance, and
supply chain optimization.
Sustainability reporting involves lever-
aging enterprise systems to track and
analyze environmental metrics; implement
governance, risk, and compliance frame-
works; and speed report generation.
Green datacenter practices include virtu-
alization to consolidate servers, storage man-
agement to reduce storage requirements and
decrease energy use, consolidation of global
applications, and better workload manage-
ment to maximize processing power.
Environmental compliance and supply
chain optimization helps companies rede-
sign business processes and use applications
to manage environmental compliance of
products, optimize supply networks, imple-
ment lean manufacturing, reduce transpor-
tation and energy costs, improve logistical
efficiencies, and decrease paper waste.
eVerge group accelerates oracle
Project analytics Deployments
eVerge Group, an Oracle Platinum Partner,
has launched Project Analytics Express, a
fixed-fee, accelerated implementation of
Oracle Project Analytics that relies on eVerge
Group’s knowledge and experience in busi-
ness intelligence.
With Project Analytics Express, eVerge
Group deploys Oracle Project Analytics with a
methodology, a standard project plan, and a
readiness checklist. Project Analytics Express
relies on prebuilt data models; extract, trans-
form, and load (ETL) adapters; dashboards;
and reports to reduce the cost and time
required to implement the software. The
fixed-fee pricing helps organizations budget
for and control spending associated with
Oracle Project Analytics.
oracle magazine May/June 2010
30 Partner news
eagle Business solutions announces “solid cloud” Offering
Oracle partner Eagle Business Solutions has
introduced a cloud-based solution that com-
bines storage from Oracle Gold Partner Pillar
Data Systems with Oracle Database tech-
nology for virtualized application hosting,
business continuity, and disaster recovery.
Known as the Solid Cloud, the Eagle
Business Solutions offering uses Pillar
Axiom storage to provide specific, guaran-
teed service-level agreements; managed
services; redundancy; and dependability
Oracle Partners achieve Platinum status
Three members of the Oracle
PartnerNetwork—Hitachi Consulting UK,
Intelligroup, and Thunderhead—have
achieved Oracle Platinum Partner status.
Oracle Platinum Partners receive dedicated
virtual account management, priority place-
ment in the Oracle PartnerNetwork Solutions
Catalog, one free validated application inte-
gration, joint marketing and sales opportuni-
ties, and discounted training.
Hitachi Consulting UK was recognized
for its expertise across many Oracle applica-
tions and technologies, including Oracle
E-Business Suite human capital manage-
ment, financials, and supply chain man-
agement applications; SOA technologies;
Oracle Application Integration Architecture;
and Oracle Business Intelligence Suite,
Enterprise Edition Plus.
Intelligroup, an information technology
and outsourcing services provider, achieved
iBm launches solution workbench
Oracle partner IBM has announced the IBM
Solution Workbench for Oracle, a project
lifecycle tool suite. From project startup to
go-live, the IBM Solution Workbench sup-
ports Oracle enterprise resource planning
and customer relationship management
str supports secure e-mail Delivery
Oracle Platinum Partner STR Software has
released AventX Mail SC (secure and con-
firmed). AventX Mail SC provides Oracle
E-Business Suite users the ability to securely
e-mail any Oracle E-Business Suite docu-
ment (and receive confirmation of successful
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sPaDac Joins Oracle
equivalent to a mature software-as-a- Partnernetwork
service provider, without limiting the SPADAC, a provider of spatially enhanced
customer to one specialized application. technology solutions to government and
The Solid Cloud can take the specific shape commercial organizations, has joined the
each customer needs, while remaining Oracle PartnerNetwork as an independent
solid enough to support business-critical software vendor. SPADAC provides data man-
applications. The Pillar Axiom application- agement products that combine actionable
aware storage system allows the matching spatial information, human terrain, and social
of multiple application characteristics to networking elements with predictive analytics
appropriate service levels within a single technologies to help organizations make
storage platform. objective decisions in complex operational
and business situations. Its offerings include
Signature Analyst, an advanced geospatial
predictive analytics tool; and EarthWhere, a
Oracle Platinum Partner status for its exper- geospatial content management tool that cat-
tise in Oracle Applications including Oracle alogs, provisions, and disseminates geospatial
E-Business Suite financial management data. SPADAC has customers in the defense,
and supply chain management applications; intelligence, homeland security, civilian gov-
Oracle Hyperion Financial Management; ernment, and commercial markets. 
Oracle Hyperion Planning; Oracle Fusion
Applications strategy; and Oracle Fusion weB lOcatOr
Middleware. Intelligroup provides solutions
and services to the high technology, life sci- team informatics
ences, manufacturing, and consumer prod- teaminformatics.com
ucts markets, among others. Fadel Partners
fadelpartners.com
Thunderhead, a provider of customer
mitsubishi electric automation
communications management solutions, meau.com
was recognized for its expertise in Oracle Qualcomm
solution areas including financial services, brewmp.com
public sector, Oracle Database, and Siebel sYstime
applications. Thunderhead’s NOW software systime.net
platform transforms the way organizations accenture
accenture.com
create and deliver communications through
Oracle Partner Kickoff
document automation and multichannel oracle.com/partners/campaign/032525.htm
customer communications. Deloitte
oracle.com/green/deloitte-sensible-steps-
toward-sustainability.pdf
eVerge group
evergegroup.com
projects with a standardized, integrated
eagle Business solutions
toolset, method, and asset repository to sim- eaglebusinesssolutions.com/portal
plify, track, and accelerate Oracle application Pillar Data systems
implementations. Project simplification and pillardata.com
testing optimization are among the solu- Hitachi consulting UK
tion’s benefits. hitachiconsulting.com
intelligroup
intelligroup.com
thunderhead
thunderhead.com
receipt.) AventX Mail SC encrypts the trans- iBm
port layer and provides password protec- ibm.com/oracle
tion to ensure recipient privacy over Secure str software
Sockets Layer. It also features a comprehen- strsoftware.com
sive reporting functionality that provides an sPaDac
spadac.com
audit trail for each message sent.
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Transformation Time
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of Sun Developer Network (including events, and Java developer programs globally. .com) is senior director,
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lip Service
Meeting enterprise architecture
communication challenges is critical.
E nterprise architecture encompasses
people, process, and tools. Of those
elements, the one that poses the greatest
obstacle to successful enterprise architecture
is the one that enjoys a good night’s sleep,
loves a nice hot shower, and sometimes
cheats on its diet. That makes effective
communication a high priority in any
enterprise architecture effort, along with the
recognition that technical expertise alone
won’t get the job done.
“Enterprise architecture is not just
about modeling and design,” says Jeremy
Forman, an enterprise architect with Oracle’s
Enterprise Solutions Group. “Reaching
different stakeholders requires the soft
skills of conversation, persuasion, and
facilitation.” But that can be a problem for
some architects.
“We’re technical people, and we’re used
to having technical conversations,” says
SOA author, blogger, and veteran enterprise
architect Todd Biske. “The audience isn’t
always technical and doesn’t necessarily
respond to the different ways that we
communicate. Trying to find a way that’s
effective for the audience is a really big
hurdle for people who are used to writing
code their whole lives.”
Biske got over that hurdle at one company
by working with a communications expert.
“That person was invaluable in improving
the way that we communicated,” Biske says.
Brenda Bernal Hughes, enterprise
architecture services leader at Cisco
Systems and Oracle Magazine’s 2009
Security Architect of the Year, calls in the
communication cavalry.
“I have a dedicated group focusing just on
communications, community development,
and organizational adoption,” says Hughes.
The group regularly evaluates messaging,
metrics, and methods of communication.
“We get a pulse on what’s working and try to
May/June 2010 Oracle.cOm/Oraclemagazine
drive IT-wide behavior and process change.”
Driving change requires an understanding
of stakeholder expectations, advises Biske.
“If they already have their own preconceived
notions of what architecture is or isn’t,
trying to find common ground for effective
communication across all stakeholders can
be a real challenge,” he says.
Meeting that challenge is a matter
of focus. “It’s really about tailoring your
message and making it relevant for your
audience segment,” says Hughes.
technical expertise
alone won’t get
the job done.
“At the top, it’s all about communicating
architecture, more about selling the
business value and how it ties to the overall
IT strategy,” Hughes says. “When you move
down the chain, it’s all about making it
relevant for people and letting them know
how architecture could make their lives
much easier.”
That message is especially important
when communicating with developers. “All
too often, there’s a perception that architects
are actually making things more difficult,
that they’re taking away the freedom to
innovate,” says Biske.
Developers must realize that the changes
imposed by the architecture are driven by
business needs and aren’t simply the whims
of ivory-tower architects. “But getting that
message out and getting people to understand
it is a difficult dance,” says Biske.
When communicating about architecture,
the medium is as important as the message.
“Sometimes an e-mail communication out
to the community is fine for status updates
and things of that nature,” says Hughes. “But
architect By BoB RhuBaRt
if you want to introduce change and want
people to get it, you really need to get them
in a room in a training session, face to face.”
Getting the medium and the message
right takes planning. “I’ve had the
most success when there was a full
communication plan that started with
broad, large-audience communication and
then drilled down into specific team-level
or even individual-level communications,
all on the same subject,” says Biske. “We
made sure that we supplied the appropriate
stakeholders with the appropriate
information multiple times to really reinforce
what we were trying to do.”
“Anybody who thinks they can take a
one-and-done approach to communicating
anything is not going to be successful,”
Biske says.
But in the end, enterprise architecture
has to be more than just talk. “You have to
make sure that stakeholders can see it, feel
it, touch it—that they know what it is,”
says Hughes, “that it’s not just this term on
the wall.” 
Bob rhubart
(bob.rhubart@oracle
.com) is manager of the
architect community
on oracle technology
network (otn). he is the
host of the archBeat podcast series and the
author of the archBeat blog (blogs.oracle
.com/archbeat).
next StepS
liSten to the podcasts
bit.ly/arCQ0Z
get more Otn architect information
otn.oracle.com/architect
reaD more about enterprise architecture
otn.oracle.com/architect/entarch

making Friends Down Under
Building connections comes easily to new Zealanders.
L ynne O’Donoghue is the global user
group liaison for her country’s user group.
That her country is New Zealand—“a small
geographic area,” as she describes it—means
she’s worn a lot of hats for the New Zealand
Oracle Users Group (NZOUG).
“I’ve held a number of positions—I’ve
looked after the finances, I’ve been vice presi-
dent, I’ve held other positions,” she says.
And because New Zealand is “at the end
of the earth, except for Antarctica,” the job of
the global user group liaison is to “connect
with other user groups around the world to
share ideas and experiences—as well as con-
tent—so that we can enrich the experience
of our users and also be part of the world,”
O’Donoghue says.
That’s exactly what I found her doing the
day I talked to her on the Oracle campus,
where she was representing NZOUG at
the International Oracle Users Group
Community conference. Back in New
Zealand, though, NZOUG uses a combina-
tion of face-to-face and online learning to
stay in touch.
“We run WebEx sessions on our
Website,” O’Donoghue says. “Presenting
over the Web lets us get coverage over the
whole country. And at our annual confer-
ence, we have both overseas and local pre-
senters, which gives our members a global
view but shows how products and services
are delivered in a local context.”
NZOUG serves the entire country. “We
cover all of the Oracle products and services
within New Zealand,” O’Donoghue says. The
group’s members work in both applications
and technology areas, although the differen-
tiation isn’t as strong as it used to be.
“We used to differentiate between tech-
nology and applications, but we do this less
neil MacBeth/Getty iMaGes
and less now,” she says. “Even within the
technology area, differentiating between
database technologies and development tech-
nologies is less relevant—there’s such huge
crossover now.”
lynne o’Donoghue, global User group liaison, new
zealand oracle Users group.
This blending of boundaries between
technology and applications has advantages.
“People in New Zealand do not have highly
specialized jobs,” O’Donoghue says. “We tend
to have very broad jobs, so that works well
within our community—that the products
are coming together and the technology and
applications are coming together, because
that’s sort of what people do anyway.”
That’s because companies in New
Zealand tend to be small on a global scale,
O’Donoghue says. “Most organizations don’t
have a large number of employees, so there’s
not really room to be highly specialized in your
area,” she says. “If you look after databases for
an application, you probably look after many
databases for many applications, and they
may be Oracle and non-Oracle. So you’ll tend
to have a very broad range of responsibilities.”
The experience is similar on the applica-
tions side. “You may be looking after one
system or multiple systems,” she says. “It’s
very normal to look after multiple systems—
human resources, finance, everything all
together. You tend to know about business
processes very well, and about all the applica-
tions that support those business processes.
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Having this broad but deep knowledge gives
us the understanding to appreciate Oracle’s
strategy in bringing the applications closer
together, and to take advantage of that where
it is most relevant for the business.”
She acknowledges that this experience
is unique. “It’s different than in North
America, where the volume of activity is far
greater,” she says. “It’s fun, though. We have
a lot of variety.”
Connections are important to NZOUG, pre-
cisely because the country is small. “If you’re
having a problem, we’ll call people in other
organizations and find out if they’ve got the
same issue. And we’ll ask what they did about
it or how they fixed it. It’s really about sharing.
It’s not about the problems you’re having, it’s
about how we can solve problems,” she says.
Likewise, NZOUG has a good relationship
with Oracle New Zealand. “We always invite
Oracle to our board meetings—and they
attend,” she says. “When Oracle New Zealand
puts on an event, there’s communication
with the user group, and we often do an intro-
ductory presentation, so it’s a close and suc-
cessful partnership.”
It’s the kind of relationship they barely
have to work at. “It’s a friendly work environ-
ment, and that crosses over from personal
life to professional life and the user group
communities, O’Donoghue says. “It’s just
part of our Kiwi nature.” 
Jeff erickson is a
senior editor with oracle
Publishing.
nexT sTeps
reaD about nzoUg
nzoug.org
WaTCH Up Close lynne o’Donoghue video
oracle.com/us/products/040703
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The Upside of Downtime
pleasurable pastimes help these three peers work smarter.
melanie camerOn
company: Southwest Windpower, a producer
of small wind turbines for generating clean
electricity
Job title: Acting international controller
location: Flagstaff, Arizona
length of time using Oracle products:
15 years
What’s your favorite tool or technique on
the job? Asking questions. Systems and
accounting are both pretty easy, once the
issues are understood—but problems come
up when there’s a lack of understanding on
one side about the challenges on the other
side. So I just ask away.
What technology has most changed your
life? Spreadsheets for accounting, which I
discovered back in the early ’80s. As far as
Oracle technologies, the self-service aspects
of the procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and
manufacturing applications we’re using have
made my life as an accountant easier, since
they leave more time for analysis instead
of rekeying data or providing information
now available in the portals. The self-service
features reduce the cost of processing
transactions and answering questions,
reducing staff within the finance department
without increasing head count elsewhere.
How do you use wireless technologies? I
don’t. I don’t believe in multitasking—when
I work, I’m at my desk and working.
When I’m not at work, I’m not using
technology—but I find that by not being
connected, insight and understanding about
work issues come to me more easily.
MAy/JunE 2010 Oracle.cOm/Oraclemagazine
James mOrle
company: Scale Abilities, a consultancy
specializing in the design and implementation of
very large Oracle-based systems
Job title: Owner/proprietor
location: Cirencester, England
length of time using Oracle products:
20 years
How did you get started in IT? I started at
age 10 on a SC/MP. I moved on to BBC Micro
a year or so later, and by age 13 I was writing
professional games and utility software for
that platform. My first real IT job was using
UNIX and Informix 4GL, shortly followed
by Oracle6. A couple years later, I was
implementing the world’s largest Oracle7
system, a pan-European rollout across
3,000 concurrent users and a four-node
Oracle Parallel Server.
Which new features in Oracle Database
are you finding most valuable? Oracle
Database 11g Release 2 has some amazing
functionality, but I think the Edition-Based
Redefinition feature steals the crown.
Availability isn’t just about the database;
the database is an important part, but so
are the other components, especially the
application. Edition-Based Redefinition
is the enabler to make logical application
changes without disrupting availability.
What’s your favorite thing to do that doesn’t
involve work? I play lead guitar in a rock
band. I think it’s important to exercise both
cortices of the brain, and playing Metallica
and Iron Maiden tracks with my own twist
seems to do that for me.
Learn more about the Oracle ACE program at otn.oracle.com/community/oracle_ace
Peer-TO-Peer by bLAir CAMpbELL
rODrigO almeiDa
company: Discover Technology, a provider of
support, training, and management related to
Oracle products, and a manufacturer of software
based on Oracle and Java technology
Job title: Oracle DbA
location: São paulo, brazil
Oracle credentials: Oracle Certified Associate
(Oracle9i Database), with 12 years of experience
using Oracle products
Which new Oracle technologies are currently
sparking your interest? Right now I’m
studying the features of the Sun Oracle
Database Machine and Oracle Exadata V2
for Oracle Database 11g Release 2, including
Oracle’s Sun FlashFire technology, smart-
scan processing, and storage indexing. I’m
expecting Oracle Exadata V2 to help reduce
the size of our databases, consolidate data,
and save money, while enhancing safety and
increasing I/O per second.
What technology has most changed your
life? Linux for operating systems and
PlayStation 3 for my personal life.
What green practices do you use in your DBA
work? I create virtualization servers for our
Oracle environment using Oracle VM and
consolidate those servers on a single server.
This requires less energy and fewer materials
and creates less CO2. I also use digital books
and materials to study—I’ve stopped buying
paperbacks. Once we’ve completed our new
environment with Oracle Exadata V2, it will
help migrate all old versions of the database
to Oracle Database 11g Release 2, which will
reduce energy consumption and make us
greener as well. 
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end products and services.” This “One Fujitsu” strategy
has created a $47 billion company with some 190,000
employees—one of the largest IT providers in the world,
with a global corps of experts and a comprehensive, end-
to-end suite of services and technologies.
Much of the company’s offerings and expertise are

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focused on Oracle technology and appli-
cations. Indeed, the move to the One
Fujitsu model positions Fujitsu to extend
and strengthen its long relationship with
Oracle, which encompasses everything
from applications, middleware, data-
bases, infrastructure and edge solutions
to Oracle’s recently acquired Sun tech-
nologies. “Oracle and Fujitsu have
worked together for more than 20 years,
covering a variety of initiatives,” says
Judson Althoff, senior vice president of
Worldwide Alliances and Channels at
Oracle. “With One Fujitsu, our joint
customers have the opportunity to draw
on the technologies and expertise of two
worldwide organizations that have the
depth and reach to help bring greater
integration, flexibility and efficiency to
IT—which empower customers of all
sizes to compete more effectively in the
global economy.”
Fujitsu’s Global Transformation
The maxim “think global, act local” has
been around for some time—and tradi-
tionally, Fujitsu has put more weight on
the “act local” element, which allowed
various Fujitsu companies to focus on
their specific technologies and geo-
graphic markets. But now Fujitsu is
taking a more holistic approach. With its
One Fujitsu governance model, the
company is transcending those tradi-
tional local boundaries and strength-
ening the “think global” element of the
equation.
The company has established a
Global Business Group, which directs
marketing, delivery, client management
As one of the world’s largest IT providers, Fujitsu can continue to work
closely with customers in a given market, while backing those efforts with the
deep resources, expertise and best practices of a global company.
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and business management for Fujitsu
operations outside of Japan. “As a more
global company, we can bring greater
consistency to the customers we work
with, especially those who operate
globally,” says Christou. “We can
leverage scale and worldwide expertise to
strengthen development, deliver solu-
tions and drive innovation.” In essence,
the new structure allows Fujitsu to con-
tinue to work closely with customers in
a given market, while backing those
efforts with the deep resources, expertise
and best practices of a global company.
A number of significant changes have
already taken place in Fujitsu’s operations.
For example, in North America, the
company has established Fujitsu America,
which brings together the wide-ranging
consulting services offered by Fujitsu Con-
sulting, the platform sale and maintenance
capabilities of Fujitsu Computer Systems,
and the retail solutions of Fujitsu Trans-
action Solutions. The integration of these
three companies has created a unified
structure for the provision of compre-
hensive IT solutions in North America. In
Europe, Fujitsu Siemens Computers has
been converted into a consolidated sub-
sidiary and has increased collaboration
with Fujitsu Services, providing skills
across the breadth of Oracle applications,
middleware, databases and infrastructure.
In Australia, Fujitsu’s acquisitions of IT
services and consulting firms have
improved its ability to deliver integrated
services in that region. And in China,
Fujitsu’s operations are being consolidated
into two organizations to drive greater col-
laboration across that large market.
The reach and strength of Fujitsu’s
globalization efforts can be seen in the
company’s Global Infrastructure Services
group, which provides integrated out-
sourcing services. This group encom-
passes 85 data centers worldwide, as well
as 47 service desks that offer the ability
to respond in 26 languages—a vital
capability in global business. Through
this group, Fujitsu experts around the
world collaborate on infrastructure services
such as data center services, desktop
services and help desk services to provide
a uniform level of services worldwide.
Seamless Access to Services,
Systems and Expertise
Such efforts are giving customers increas-
ingly seamless access to Fujitsu products
and services from one source. “We can
provide end-to-end technology, services
and expertise for Oracle users, from con-
sulting to design, build, implement and
maintain activities,” says Takanori
Katayama, corporate vice president of
Fujitsu. For Oracle users, these offerings
include:
• Comprehensive IT, business and
infrastructure services. These include a
number of Oracle-specific managed and
professional services, covering applica-
tions, infrastructure and business impera-
tives such as operational excellence and
customer experience. Companies can
turn to Fujitsu for services such as appli-
cation management, outsourcing, imple-
mentation, upgrades, training and
international 24/7/365 support. With
more than 2,500 Oracle professionals
worldwide, Fujitsu is an Oracle Global
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Partner and an Oracle Platinum Partner,
and has experience and expertise with
Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, People-
Soft, and JD Edwards and Oracle edge
and industry solutions, as well as Oracle
Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database.
One of the world’s largest Oracle E-
Business Suite solutions was imple-
mented and run by Fujitsu. And Fujitsu
is drawing on this Oracle expertise in its
own global transformation efforts. Last
year, the company implemented its own
Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
reporting system across some 30 coun-
tries in just three months. This is now
being used by the Global Business
Group’s regions, as well as by the group’s
executive management team and Fujitsu
Limited in Japan.
• A range of data center technologies.
As a global organization, Fujitsu will con-
tinue to focus on the creation and
delivery of “Dynamic Infrastructures”
supporting Oracle applications and tech-
nologies. The company’s Dynamic Infra-
structures strategy is designed to provide
companies with choice in cost-effective,
tailored, flexible infrastructures that
enable greater business efficiency and
agility. This portfolio encompasses four
main categories: Infrastructure Products
and Services, Infrastructure Solutions,
Infrastructure as a Service and Managed
Infrastructure. Dynamic Infrastructures
combine products, solutions and services
that enable companies to assign IT
resources dynamically to services as
required, and to choose sourcing models
that best fit their businesses, bringing IT
flexibility and efficiency to the next level.
Oracle, Sun and the New Fujitsu
As the long-standing partnership between
Fujitsu and Oracle evolves, the two com-
panies can build on a strong foundation.
They have a shared focus on innovative
applications and middleware solutions,
service-oriented architectures, data man-
agement, business-critical computing and
grid computing. Today, Fujitsu is the only
company that supports three out of five
strategic Oracle development plat-
forms—Linux, Windows and Solaris—
running on Fujitsu’s Intel-based
PRIMERGY servers and SPARC Enter-
prise servers. And the two companies
work together in Oracle-focused tech-
nical centers in Germany, Turkey, Russia
and the UK; these are complemented by
a Mobile Migration Center that can be
set up on customer premises.
This multifaceted relationship has led
to clear results in a number of areas. For
example, in the middleware arena,
extensive cooperation has led to Fujitsu
being authorized to sell Oracle Fusion
Middleware and Oracle Database. The
two companies have also worked
together to develop FlexFrame for
Oracle, a pre-integrated, dynamic, IT
infrastructure solution. The first auto-
mated management solution for Oracle
grid computing, it delivers agility, scala-
bility, high availability and reduced costs
for both native and virtual servers. For
example, when a European railway
company used the solution to consol-
idate servers, the effort paid for itself in
two and a half years and led to projected
savings of €3 million a year. Similarly, a
US university used the FlexFrame
“We can provide end-to-end technology,
services and expertise for Oracle users, from consulting
to design, build, implement and maintain activities.”
EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
Under its One Fujitsu strategy,
Fujitsu has created a truly global
organization. The company:
• Is one of the largest IT
providers in the world, offering
comprehensive, end-to-end
services and technologies.
• Offers a full spectrum of
managed and professional
services covering applications,
middleware, databases and
infrastructure, and business
imperatives such as operational
excellence and customer expe-
rience.
• Provides a range of data center
technologies designed for cost-
effective, tailored, flexible
infrastructures that enable
greater business efficiency and
agility.
• Builds on a strong relationship
with Oracle that encompasses
applications and edge solutions,
middleware solutions, service-
oriented architectures, grid
computing, cloud computing,
and Sun and SPARC tech-
nologies.
• Is an Oracle Platinum Partner
and has more than 2,500 Oracle
professionals.
solution to consolidate 500 servers down
to 175, dramatically increase server uti-
lization and reduce IT overhead by as
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much as 60 percent. Based on these results, and participates jointly with Oracle in spon-
Fujitsu was given the Oracle Innovation Award soring eco-friendly events.
for the solution. An increasingly important area of focus for
Fujitsu has also been recognized with a both companies is cloud computing. Here,
Fujitsu number of Oracle-related awards. Customers Fujitsu brings several strengths to the table. The
recently voted to name Fujitsu a Cost-efficient company has long been a leader in telecommu-
has deep Partner of the Year, Public Sector Partner of the nication and enterprise technologies and data
Year, E-Business Suite Partner of the Year, Shared center technologies, which will play a key role
expertise in Services Partner of the Year, and Database Partner in delivering cloud computing services. It also
of the Year. Oracle UK gave Fujitsu the 2010 has extensive experience in outsourcing, pro-
SPARC tech- award for Technology System Integrator Partner viding infrastructure as a service and software as
of the Year, which acknowledges the company’s a service, and managing the systems of its
nology, and it Oracle focus and success with Oracle technology, numerous customers. “As a global company, we
middleware and applications. Fujitsu was recog- are committed to leveraging our expertise to
has been an nized as a “Strong Performer” in the “Forrester create and integrate cloud-based systems, while
Wave™ Oracle Service Providers, Q4 2009,” keeping an eye on delivering the technology’s
Innovation Forrester Research Inc. (October 2009). potential business benefits, such as lowering the
“Fujitsu has a large footprint in the Oracle cost of IT, increasing security and reliability,
Partner of community, and the One Fujitsu approach lets us and accelerating customers’ innovation,” says
leverage that footprint to help companies use IT Chiseki Sagawa, president of the Service-
Sun’s for more effectively,” says Takanori Katayama. Oriented Platform Office at Fujitsu.
Oracle’s recent acquisition of Sun, he adds, is Fujitsu is combining basic research, server,
years. only expanding that footprint. Fujitsu has deep software and other development resources for
expertise in SPARC technology; it has provided the cloud under the auspices of a new Cloud
SPARC technology to Sun and been an Inno- Architect Office. Among other things, this
vation Partner of Sun’s for years. “The Sun acqui- office is bringing together solutions experts
sition strengthens the Oracle partnership even from different vertical industries to tap into
more,” he says. their real-world experience and know-how
For example, Fujitsu and Oracle Japan have from the frontline of business. Fujitsu has also
established a SPARC Enterprise-Oracle Database created a Cloud Implementation and Verifi-
Solution Development Center. The center is cation Center, which is charged with quickly
charged with testing and development using translating the innovations produced by the
SPARC Enterprise, Exadata and Oracle Database Cloud Architect Office into the development
11g, creating solutions for next-generation and implementation of new infrastructures.
standard IT infrastructures and developing Business is always changing, and as a truly
approaches that companies can use to migrate to global company, Fujitsu will be better equipped
those infrastructures. “The Oracle and Fujitsu to help companies adapt to that change. “We
technologies are a natural fit in this area,” says can give customers simpler, more seamless
Stephen Boyle, group vice president of access to our offerings and our knowledge,” says
Worldwide Strategic Alliances at Oracle. “Such Richard Christou. “That enables us to work all
joint efforts are designed to give companies the more effectively with companies to help
effective, integrated SPARC and Oracle tech- them apply IT to the business in order to be
nologies that can help them increase performance more efficient, agile and successful.”
while reducing complexity.”

From Green to the Cloud For more information on Fujitsu’s

Looking forward, there are a number of areas global approach, and on Fujitsu products,
services and information for Oracle users,
where the two companies’ philosophies are in please visit the Fujitsu-Oracle site at
synch. These include consolidation, simplifi- www.fujitsu.com/oracle
cation, integration, grid computing and,
increasingly, green computing. Fujitsu has been
committed to environmental activities since the
mid-1990s, supports Oracle’s green initiatives

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STARK DOMINATION
STARK INDUSTRIES POWERS INTO A NEW CORPORATE STRATEGY.
BY SCOTT SMITH
W e no longer make weapons,” Tony Stark declared in an
internal memo to his Stark Industries executive staff
last year.
Since then, the world’s premiere futurist in the “Iron Man
Age” of technology has been steeling himself for his biggest
challenge yet—a heavy jolt of change. The tycoon-turned-
superhero is busy transforming Stark Industries from a
munitions manufacturer into a communications company.
Founded as an engineering and manufacturing firm that
specialized in security measures, Stark Industries—then
called Stark Enterprises—became a corporate superpower
by developing munitions; it held that position by expanding
into other fields including aeronautics, technology, and
fringe science. Stark himself has undergone a crisis of
conscience, causing him to rethink the kind of company he
wanted to lead.
Since the “no more munitions” memo, the shift in
corporate strategy has not gone entirely smoothly. Powerful
political leaders have pressured Stark to turn over to the
military the patents for his Iron Man armor technology. So
MAY/JUNE 2010 ORACLE.COM/ORACLEMAGAZINE
far, Stark has resisted these forces, but the organizational
turnaround of Stark Industries may prove to be a job
requiring even greater willpower.
Corporate transformations are difficult for large
organizations because most companies operate with
heterogeneous IT environments. These can be
cumbersome, hindering the adaptability and
responsiveness that leads to growth and innovation,
and costly to operate. (Approximately 70 percent of an
enterprise’s IT budget is spent on maintaining existing
systems; only 30 percent is earmarked for new capabilities.)
If Stark Industries hopes to break from these shackles,
Tony Stark will need powerful partners willing to take
ownership of these integration challenges. And like
many CEOs in fast-moving companies, he is relying on
an alliance with tech giant Oracle to ensure the demands
on IT infrastructure are met with a swift and smooth
implementation.
Oracle has the capacity to make this work. In addition to
its powerful software technologies, the company has added
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GETTING READY FOR STARK EXPO

Tony Stark is relaunching the Stark Expo, the trade show
founded by his father. Its theme is “Better Living Through
Technology,” and like its counterpart, Oracle OpenWorld,
Stark Expo is planned as a showcase of the triumph of
ingenuity over the constraints of a data-driven world.
Oracle has officially signed on as the exclusive sponsor
of the expo’s Japanese Garden Pavilion, an East-meets-
West exhibit of the latest innovations in green business
practices. One thing is for sure: Stark will need Oracle
Enterprise Manager to troubleshoot his systems through-
out the trade show.
• Oracle Enterprise Manager can diagnose whether
a system is buckling under the peak demands of a
larger-than-expected opening day crowd and make
rapid adjustments to resource allocation.
• To safeguard against attacks, Oracle Enterprise
Manager senses whether the Stark Expo system is
vulnerable to nefarious intruders and prevents
unauthorized access to data and applications.
• Oracle Enterprise Manager can also determine
when capacity is no longer being taxed and return computing architecture that allows them to scale resources
all systems to their normal responsiveness and to the demands of their workload. Once all corporate
availability.
networks have been migrated to a virtualization model,
Stark Industries will have the perfect foundation for a
processing punch with Oracle Exadata Storage Server and secure and lasting cloud infrastructure.
most recently, hardware. This comprehensive “applications Finally, by implementing Oracle Enterprise Manager
to disk” strategy gives Oracle’s enterprise customers for system diagnostics and management, Stark Industries
an entire technology stack (including applications, will have the only troubleshooting solution in the
middleware, database, servers, storage, virtualization, marketplace that monitors and configures server utilization
and operating systems) combined with exceptional across all physical, virtual, and private cloud computing
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performance (by way of throughput, server, and storage environments.

speed enhancements). “Technology becomes an extension of human
Add to this lineup Oracle’s suite of next-generation performance,” says Stark. 
grid technologies and cloud computing solutions, and
Stark Industries might just have the key components to Scott Smith is a senior writer with Oracle Publishing.
exceed expectations.
The long-term success of Stark Industries will depend on NEXT STEPS
Stark’s ability to reduce complexity and increase efficiency
in every corner of its operations. First, company engineers READ more about Iron Man 2
oracle.com/ironman2
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sailinG HOMe
WitH tHe prize
Oracle Data Mining supports yacht crew as
BMW OraCle racing wins the america’s Cup.

B MW ORACLE Racing won the 33rd

America’s Cup yacht race in February
2010, beating the Swiss team, Alinghi,
decisively in the first two races of the
best-of-three contest.
BMW ORACLE Racing’s victory in the
America’s Cup challenge was a lesson in
sailing skill, as one of the world’s most
experienced crews reached speeds as
fast as 30 knots—three times faster
than wind speed and, some say, faster
than any boat in history. But if you listen
to the crew in their postrace interviews,
you’ll notice that what they talk about
is technology.
“The story of this race is in the
technology,” says Ian Burns, design
coordinator for BMW ORACLE Racing.

The BmW oracle racing yacht, USA,

relied on an experienced crew and oracle
Data mining to sail faster than the wind
and capture the america’s cup.
By Jeff eriCksOn
Gilles Martin-raGet/BMW OraCle raCinG

oracle magazine May/June 2010

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From the drag-resistant materials encasing its hulls to its
unprecedented 223-foot wing sail, the BMW ORACLE Racing’s
trimaran, named USA, is a one-of-a-kind technological juggernaut.
No less impressive are the electronics used to guide the vessel and
fine-tune its performance. Each crewmember is equipped with
a PDA on his wrist that has customized data for his job: what the
load balance is on a particular rope, for example, or the current
aerodynamic performance of the wing sail. The helmsman’s
sunglasses display graphical and numeric data to help him fine-tune
the boat’s direction while he keeps two hands on the wheel and
the effectiveness of each adjustment, allowing the crew to ascertain
the amount of lift it’s generating; and fiber-optic strain sensors on the
mast and wing to allow maximum thrust without overbending them.
But collecting data was only the beginning. BMW ORACLE Racing
also had to manage that data, analyze it, and present useful results.
The team turned to Oracle Data Mining in Oracle Database 11g.
Peter Stengard, a principal software engineer for Oracle Data
Mining and an amateur sailor, became the liaison between the
database technology team and BMW ORACLE Racing. “Ian Burns
contacted us and explained that they were interested in better

BoB adler
visually scans the sea, the boat, the crew, the sails, and the wing. understanding the performance-driving parameters of their new
The America’s Cup is a challenge-based competition in which boat,” says Stengard. “They were measuring an incredible number
the winning yacht club hosts the next event and,
“With data mining we could check data against the things we saw, and we could find things that weren’t
within certain guidelines, makes the rules. For the otherwise easily observable and findable,” says ian Burns, design coordinator for BmW Oracle racing.
33rd America’s Cup, the competing teams could not
agree on a set of rules, so the event defaulted to an
unrestricted format for boat design and cost.
“All we knew were the length of the boat and
the course configuration,” says Burns. The boats
were allowed a maximum length of 90 feet, and
the course would be 20 miles out windward and 20
miles back. “Within those parameters,” says Burns,
“you could build as fast a thing as you can think of.”

Learning by Data
The no-holds-barred rules for this race created what
Burns calls an “open playground” for boat designers.
The innovative and costly vessels that resulted were
one-of-a-kind creations with unpredictable sailing
characteristics that would require a steep learning
curve and lots of data.
“One of the problems we faced at the outset
was that we needed really high accuracy in our data
because we didn’t have two boats,” says Burns.
“Generally, most teams have two boats, and they sail
them side by side. Change one thing on one boat,
and it’s fairly easy to see the effect of a change with
your own eyes.”
With only one boat, BMW ORACLE Racing’s
performance analysis had to be done numerically by
comparing data sets. To get the information needed,
says Burns, the team had to increase the amount
of data collected by nearly 40 times what they had
done in the past.
The USA holds 250 sensors to collect raw data:
pressure sensors on the wing; angle sensors on the
adjustable trailing edge of the wing sail to monitor

WaTcH the video

BMW ORACLE Racing: Onboard Technology
bit.ly/cd6yVi

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“the design of the boat was
of parameters across the trimaran,
important, but once you’ve
collected 10 times per second, so there got it designed, the whole
were vast amounts of data available
for analysis. An hour of sailing race is down to how the
generates 90 million data points.”
After each day of sailing the boat,
guys can use it.”
—Ian Burns, Design Coordinator for BMW ORACLE Racing
Burns and his team would meet to
review and share raw data with crew
members or boat-building vendors using a Web application built
with Oracle Application Express. “Someone in the meeting would
say, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we could look at some new combination
of numbers?’ and we could quickly build an Oracle Application
Express application and share the information during the same
meeting,” says Burns. Later, the data would be streamed to Oracle’s
Austin Data Center, where Stengard and his team would go to work
on deeper analysis.
Because BMW ORACLE Racing was already collecting its data in an same thing.”
Oracle database, Stengard and his team didn’t have to do any extract,
transform, and load (ETL) processes or data conversion. “We could
just start tackling the analytics problem right away,” says Stengard.
“We used Oracle Data Mining, which is in Oracle Database. It gives
us many advanced data mining algorithms to work with, so we have
freedom in how we approach any specific task.”
Using the algorithms in Oracle Data Mining, Stengard could
help Burns and his team learn new things about how their boat was
working in its environment. “We would look, for example, at mast
rotations—which rotation works best for certain wind conditions,”
says Stengard. “There were often complex relationships within the
data that could be used to model the effect on the target—in this
case something called velocity made good, or VMG. Finding these
relationships is what the racing team was interested in.”
Stengard and his team could also look at data over time and
with an attribute selection algorithm to determine which sensors
provided the most-useful information for their analysis. “We could
identify sensors that didn’t seem to be providing the predictive power
they were looking for so they could change the sensor location or add
sensors to another part of the boat,” Stengard says.
Burns agrees that without the data mining, they couldn’t have
made the boat run as fast. “The design of the boat was important,
but once you’ve got it designed, the whole race is down to how the
guys can use it,” he says. “With Oracle database technology, we
could compare our performance from the first day of sailing to the
very last day of sailing, with incremental improvements the whole
way through. With data mining we could check data against the
things we saw, and we could find things that weren’t otherwise easily
observable and findable.”
Flying by Data
The greatest challenge of this America’s Cup, according to Burns, was
managing the wing sail, which had been built on an unprecedented
scale. “It is truly a massive piece of architecture,” Burns says. “It’s 20
47
stories high; it barely fits under the
Golden Gate Bridge. It’s an amazing
thing to see.”
The wing sail is made of an
aeronautical fabric stretched over
a carbon fiber frame, giving it the
three-dimensional shape of a regular
airplane wing. Like an airplane wing,
it has a fixed leading edge and an adjustable trailing edge, which
allows the crew to change the shape of the sail during the course of
a race.
“The crew of the USA was the best group of sailors in the world,
but they were used to working with sails,” says Burns, “Then we
put them under a wing. Our chief designer, Mike Drummond, told
them an airline pilot doesn’t look out the window when he’s flying
the plane; he looks at his instruments, and you guys have to do the
A second ship, known as the performance tender, accompanied
the USA on the water. The tender served in part as a floating
datacenter and was connected to the USA by wireless LAN.
“The USA generates almost 4,000 variables 10 times a second,”
says Burns. “Sometimes the analysis requires a very complicated
combination of 10, 20, or 30 variables fitted through a time-based
algorithm to give us predictions on what will happen in the next few
seconds, or minutes, or even hours in terms of weather analysis.”
Like the deeper analysis that Stengard does back at the Austin Data
Center, this real-time data management and near-real-time data
analysis was done in Oracle Database 11g. “We could download the
data to servers on the tender ship, do some quick analysis, and feed it
right back to the USA,” says Burns.
“We started to do better when the guys began using the
instruments,” Burns says. “Then we started to make small
adjustments against the predictions and started to get
improvements, and every day we were making gains.”
Those gains were incremental and data driven, and they
accumulated over years—until the USA could sail at three times the
wind speed. Ian Burns is still amazed by the spectacle.
“It’s an awesome thing to watch,” he says. “Even with all we have
learned, I don’t think we have met the performance limits of that
beautiful wing.” 
Jeff erickson is a senior editor with Oracle Publishing.
next StepS
reaD more about oracle Data mining
oracle.com/us/products/database/options/data-mining
Hear a podcast interview with ian Burns
bit.ly/americasCupPodcast
DoWnloaD oracle Database 11g release 2
otn.oracle.com/software/products/database
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by david bauM

Public and Private clouds

making
it Work
Companies are using Oracle technologies to
build private clouds, and integrate with public
clouds, while ensuring security.

hen Embry-Riddle Aeronautical

University needed to integrate
public and private cloud services with
a variety of internal applications, the
institution turned to Oracle for the
middleware technology to tie it all
together. The result was a secure yet
flexible set of IT services that feature
elastic capacity, high user service levels,
and unwavering business continuity.
I-Hua CHen

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Embry-Riddle uses Oracle Identity Manager to manage a large, “The low cost and obvious convenience of cloud services makes
dynamic user population efficiently and securely, automatically them appealing, but you need to be able to control access, manage
provisioning and deprovisioning access privileges and requirements identities, and provision resources safely,” says Eric Fisher, director
as students, faculty, and staff change. This identity management of middleware at Embry-Riddle. “Oracle identity management
system, part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, tools help us overcome some of the resistance with respect to ‘who
enables the university to avail itself of both public and private owns my data,’ data security, authorizing access to IT resources,
cloud computing services, as well as hosted applications from an management, control, and so forth.”
application service provider—and yet still provide users with a Embry-Riddle is not alone in looking to clouds. Cloud
consistent online experience. computing—essentially on-demand access to a shared pool of
computing resources—is gaining
in popularity with many enterprise
IT departments. In particular,
companies are focusing on their
own clouds, which are operated and
managed in-house. Commonly called
“private clouds” and based on proven
technologies such as grid comput-
ing, virtualization, clustering, SOA,
and identity management, these
new architectures can scale incre-
mentally while providing the flexibility
to adjust resources to meet dynamic
business priorities.
Private clouds have certain
advantages over public clouds—
among others, greater control over
security, data privacy, compliance,
and quality of service. “A private
cloud for the exclusive use of a
single organization can deliver many
of cloud’s agility and efficiency
benefits while maintaining control
over security and privacy, regulatory
compliance, and legal and contractual
issues, particularly at larger
enterprises in security-sensitive
domains,” says Richard Sarwal,
senior vice president of product
development at Oracle.
Many companies agree with this
assessment. In a survey of 95 IT
executives that was conducted at the
2009 Supercomputing Conference in
Portland, Oregon, nearly 85 percent of
respondents said they intend to keep
their cloud initiatives within their own
firewalls. A full 49 percent of the IT
executives surveyed—representing the
research, manufacturing, government
Charity de Meer

and education industries—cited

“The low cost and obvious convenience of cloud services makes them appealing, but you need to be able to control access,
security as a chief concern with
manage identities, and provision resources safely,” says eric Fisher, director of middleware at embry-riddle. cloud computing.

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“We use oracle identity management to degree audit system, and others. “Oracle
Virtual Directory was particularly useful in
create and manage all the accounts in real these implementations because it enabled us

time on this cloud system.” to provide the required custom operational

attributes quickly, without making extensive
—Eric Fisher, Director of Middleware, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University modifications to our enterprise directory,”
says Fisher.
Managing identities in the Cloud
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University educates more than 35,000 Federated serviCes MaxiMize options
students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at Next up, according to Fisher, is cross-domain user access with Oracle
residential campuses in Prescott, Arizona, and Daytona Beach, Identity Federation 11g, a multiprotocol federation server that will
Florida; through its worldwide campus at more than 170 centers in extend the university’s existing identity and access-management
the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East; and through systems. “LDAP authentication is a good first-generation
online learning. This diverse and geographically dispersed learning solution, but we’re interested in using SAML to support federated
environment challenges the IT department to provide secure access authentication,” he says. With Oracle Identity Federation 11g, the
to campus services and applications as well as to meet student and university will be able to securely share identities among vendors
employee demands for online self-service functionality. and hosting models without increasing the cost of managing,
“Oracle Identity Management Suite doesn’t care where a server maintaining, and administering user identities and credentials.
is located,” says Fisher. “By utilizing this Oracle software, we have Embry-Riddle also plans to use Oracle Access Manager
been able to implement a single-sign-on solution to our hosted to centralize its single sign-on process so it can more easily
e-mail service and several other applications, both on premises and accommodate additional information systems and applications,
off. Within a couple of milliseconds, Oracle can create, update, and both on premises and off. “If a particular department comes to us
manage user accounts just as we do for our internal directory.” with a new vended application, Oracle gives us a lot of different ways
he university used Oracle Identity Management to streamline that we can manage accounts,” Fisher says.
authentication for its public cloud–based e-mail service. “We This flexibility also maximizes the effectiveness of the university’s
use Oracle Identity Management to create and manage all the IT staff since it means they can outsource responsibility for third-
accounts in real time on this cloud system, and we use a token party applications along with much of their routine maintenance,
API mechanism written for Oracle Portal to provide single sign-on,” leaving the IT team to focus on issues of strategic importance. Fisher
says Fisher. Students can log in to the university portal, click on a cites the university’s learning management system as an example.
link, and be placed into their e-mail accounts The system is hosted and managed by an
without presenting another credential. “This application service provider, but Embry-
virtual infrastructure minimizes the amount snapshots Riddle’s users can access it directly through
of support calls we receive from people trying embry-riddle aeronautical University the university portal.
to access their mail,” Fisher adds. erau.edu “Clearly, the application service provider
The new identity management system location: Prescott, Arizona, and Daytona knows its software better than we do, so
Beach, Florida
replaces a manual process for implementing we prefer to let it handle upgrades and so
industry: Education and research
nearly 2,000 account changes each day, employees: 4,310 forth,” Fisher says. “Once you have worked
which previously took at least 24 hours oracle products: Oracle Identity and out issues of identity and access control,
to complete and resulted in a delay in Access Management Suite, Oracle Identity obtaining services from a public cloud can
delivering updates to students. Fisher’s team Management, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle be very cost effective. The cloud provider
Identity Manager, Oracle Internet Directory,
now spends about 30 minutes per day on already has the facilities, the bandwidth, the
Oracle Virtual Directory, Oracle Database,
these activities. The Oracle software has also Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Portal data storage—all of which we would have
decreased the number of account-related to duplicate ourselves to provide that same
help desk calls by 40 percent, thanks to advanced innovations service. Oracle has opened the door for us to
the improved self-service options available advancedinnovationsinc.com utilize a lot more of these types of services in
location: Limerick, Ireland
through Oracle Identity Manager. the future.”
industry: Supply chain management
In addition, the university uses Oracle employees: 40
Virtual Directory to provide account and oracle products: Oracle Database, MySQL, evolutionary teChnology
authentication services for its cloud-based Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Public and private clouds are enabled
antispam solution, as well as for hosted enterprise collaboration, Agile product lifecycle by proven Oracle technologies that have
management applications, Oracle E-Business
applications such as a flight management been evolving for years: grid computing,
Suite, Oracle business intelligence solutions
system, self-help/help desk system, virtualization, SOA, and management

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“We’ve turned our enterprise portal into and orchestrates global supply chain networks
that design, build, and deliver electronic
an ‘extra enterprise portal’ using Oracle’s products for its customers. “If you come to

superior middleware technology.” Advanced Innovations with an idea for a new

—Michael Higgins, Senior Vice President of Information Technology, Advanced Innovations
automation. Virtualization and grid architectures, with mechanisms
such as virtual stack “images” that can be deployed, moved,
and scaled easily on shared infrastructure, provide the basis for
instant-on applications and elastic capacity. Oracle Enterprise
Manager orchestrates the aggregate resource pool, monitors
performance, and controls resources using the dynamic provisioning
mechanisms exposed by the grid.
Advanced Innovations, a world leader in the orchestration of
global supply chain networks, which is headquartered in Limerick,
Ireland, relies on Oracle software hosted in a public cloud to meet
the needs of its global customers and supply chain, design, and
manufacturing partners. Advanced Innovations’ cloud computing
model is the engine for its international business.
Michael Higgins, senior vice president of information technology
at Advanced Innovations, describes the business as one that creates
MP3 player, we’ll get it designed for you, we’ll
get it prototyped for you, we’ll go through what’s
called NPI, or new product introduction,” he
says. “And when you’re happy with the product, we’ll then make you
500,000 of them. We manage the activities of partners throughout
the world to do it all for you.”
Advanced Innovations doesn’t directly employ designers. It
doesn’t have a prototype shop. And it doesn’t have any factories of its
own. What it does have is deep relationships with experts in centers
of competence that it has identified around the globe, orchestrated
by about 40 Advanced Innovations employees.
Virtual collaboration is central to everything these employees
do. That’s why locating computing services in the cloud makes so
much sense.
“Many of our users are not Advanced Innovations employees, so
we’re providing applications for our customers, our manufacturing
partners, our supply chain partners, our transport-logistics partners,
and so on,” Higgins says. “We’ve turned our enterprise portal into

Private Cloud Oracle Enterprise

A private cloud is for the exclusive Manager
use of one organization. A private PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PaaS)
platform-as-a-service is a Oracle Fusion Oracle
development and deployment Database
Middleware Cloud Computing
platform that typically includes Cloud computing is a
database, middleware, and model for on-demand
development tools INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IaaS) access to a shared pool
of computing resources.
Oracle Sun Server and
Virtualization Storage Systems

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an ‘extra enterprise portal’ using oracle and Sun offer a complete Stack for cloud computing upgraded software. In the current
Oracle’s superior middleware cloud, all Higgins did was push
technology. We store those Oracle offers a complete, open, and and the Oracle Solaris operating a button to clone the existing
integrated portfolio of software system, which includes built-in
records—customer records, infrastructure. Once Advanced
and hardware for building and virtualization and management
purchase orders, all of that— managing private clouds as an capabilities. Innovations verified that the
in our Oracle E-Business internal service provider, for taking “Oracle software and Sun upgrade was successful, they shut
advantage of public clouds, and hardware create the industry’s
Suite application running on down the extra instances. “The
for developing cloud services that most comprehensive solution,”
Oracle Database.” can be offered by cloud service says Richard Sarwal, senior vice only cost we incurred was the
providers. These components president of product development hourly billing for the additional
include leading technologies such at Oracle. “Oracle provides technol-
Shedding ServerS servers during the time we used
as Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion ogy to build private clouds or run in
The company decided it could Middleware, Oracle VM, and Oracle public clouds, and Oracle provides them,” Higgins says.
be more nimble if it moved its Enterprise Manager. applications that are deployed in Higgins has put his finger on
Oracle’s acquisition of Sun a private shared-services environ-
Oracle software into a cloud an important enabler of both
significantly expands the portfolio, ment or via a public SaaS [soft-
environment. Oracle’s flexible including Sun servers, storage, ware-as-a-service] cloud.” public and private clouds: server
licensing and support policies virtualization. Instead of each
enable Advanced Innovations application running on dedicated
to run the Oracle software in either its own datacenter or in public hardware and software that must be procured, configured, and
clouds. “We want to get entirely away from owning servers,” says provisioned, in a virtualized server world, the technology stack can
Higgins. “Our goal is to be entirely cloud-based in terms of all of our be prepackaged as a virtual machine image. These prepackaged
production application delivery.” assets can be quickly and easily deployed on virtualized servers where
dvanced Innovations now has a complete Oracle technology they may be cloned or “live migrated” to different virtual servers to
stack deployed in a public cloud, including Oracle Database, optimize available resources.
Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebCenter, and Oracle enterprise Oracle VM is a highly efficient server virtualization solution
collaboration software, which handles e-mail and streamlines that supports Oracle VM Templates for deploying preinstalled and
collaboration among the company and its customers, partners, and preconfigured software images, including cloning and live migra-
suppliers. Soon, Advanced Innovations will run Oracle E-Business tion of those images. This supports rapid deployment and upgrading
Suite and Oracle business intelligence software in the cloud as well. from test to production environments, and the elastic scalability
“We’ve seen an incredible improvement in our communications of production environments to accommodate growth and spikes
and collaboration capability by leveraging Oracle enterprise collab- in workload.
oration capabilities and Oracle WebCenter in this environment,” Higgins loves being able to deploy and scale the infrastructure
Higgins says. without buying, installing, configuring, and provisioning servers.
Higgins describes the typical interaction with one of the Moreover, as great as the cost savings are, the business benefits are
company’s design partners to illustrate the benefit of this virtual even more compelling.
infrastructure. “In the past, if we had come up with a new schematic “Now that most of our IT assets are in the cloud, our total cost of
for a printed circuit board, the designer would bundle up the ownership is down 40 percent for the server infrastructure,” he says.
CAD/CAM diagrams and e-mail them to an engineer in Limerick,” “Even better, we’re now delivering application functionality that is
he says. “The engineer in Limerick would calculate the cost and 100 percent aligned to our unique business model.” 
other specs on the new board, then forward that information to
an engineer in our China office to be handed over to a procure-
David Baum (david@dbaumcomm.com) is a freelance business writer
ment officer.”
based in Santa Barbara, California.
That process has changed. “Today, using the Oracle collaboration
software, the designer simply uploads the CAD/CAM documents nexT STepS
into a secure team workspace,” Higgins says. “We can assign access
privileges to employees or other partners who need to see that reaD more about cloud computing
package of documents. The system provides versioning control, oracle.com/us/technologies/cloud
checkout control, access control. We don’t have to bother with ViSiT the cloud computing center
otn.oracle.com/tech/cloud
putting files on servers or mailing them around. They’re available
learn more about the Supercomputing conference iT survey
through the Oracle software as workspaces in the cloud.” bit.ly/ComputingConferenceexecSurvey
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CapaCity on demand oracle Secure Backup cloud module
At the outset of the cloud deployment, Advanced Innovations otn.oracle.com/software/tech/cloud
decided to do a major Oracle upgrade. In the past, the company oracle identity management
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T he completion of Oracle’s acquisition
of Sun in January 2010 was big news
for Sun customers, but it’s also big news
for Oracle customers and enterprises
in general. The combined assets of the
two companies offer organizations an
unsurpassed breadth of products from
disk and storage systems to servers,
database, middleware, applications, and
management tools. The combination of
Oracle’s enterprise software with Sun’s
software, hardware, and storage systems
provides a complete stack that can be
integrated into solutions that are optimized
for higher performance, improved
reliability, and enhanced security. (See the
“Delivering a Complete Technology Stack”
sidebar on page 58 for more information.)
“Having a complete stack is something
57
that we’ve wanted for years,” says David
Maitland, CIO and director of corporate
services at Atomic Weapons Establishment
(AWE). “The combination of Oracle and Sun
products now provides us a top-to-bottom,
integrated, open-infrastructure stack.”
Based in the U.K., AWE is a government-
owned, contractor-operated establishment
charged with providing and maintaining
warheads for the country’s nuclear
deterrent. AWE’s employees conduct
advanced scientific research and manage
advanced design and production facilities.
“Over the years, we’ve needed to adopt a
systems integration role. We have to spend
a lot of money and a lot of time trying to get
whole stacks of technology infrastructure
to work together,” says Maitland. “We really
look forward to Oracle being our single
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“We feel particularly satisfied with Oracle’s demonstrated commitment to maintaining
these technologies going forward,” says David Maitland, CIO and director of corporate
services at AWE.
port of call for future consultation. That will help us to substantially
reduce our costs.”
Maitland is pleased that the Sun product line will continue to be
supported and improved. “Technologies like Sun’s file systems are
particularly close to our hearts because of our high-performance
supercomputing needs,” he says. “We feel particularly satisfied
with Oracle’s demonstrated commitment to maintaining these
technologies going forward. We feel very comfortable now that
they’ve found a good home.”
Robert Shimp, group vice president of sales support and
marketing at Oracle, says that maintaining high service levels is
important. “We are dedicated to delivering without interruption
the quality of support and service that our customers have come
to expect from Oracle and Sun, and more,” he says. “Software and
hardware performance and reliability will be unmatched. And our
open standards–based technology will give customers choice.”
The acquisition not only expands Oracle’s range of products to
include servers and storage solutions; Oracle also has announced
increased investment in Oracle’s Sun technologies. The addition of
the Sun product line—as well as the increased R&D investment—
will bring improvements to each best-of-breed component as well
as to the entire Oracle stack.
“In the software group, we’re focusing on exploiting trends
in processors, system design, storage, and networking to deliver
fundamental breakthrough innovations combining Oracle
software and Sun hardware—and breakthrough improve-
ments in performance, scalability, reliability, and security,” says
Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of product development
at Oracle.
John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Oracle, agrees
that the acquisition will mean huge improvements in the two
companies’ product lines.
“Thousands of engineers at Sun have been building mission-
critical enterprise infrastructure—from the core technologies of
microprocessors to system servers, storage, and networking,” Fowler
says. “Now we’ll be joining that with the community of thousands of
developers at Oracle who work on the world’s #1 enterprise software
solutions. Together, we’ll be able to build vastly better best-of-breed
components as well as a completely integrated stack.”
ne way that the integrated stack can benefit
customers is by simplifying product integration.
Jean S. Bozman, research vice president for IDC’s
Enterprise Platforms Group, says that companies
are focusing on how their IT projects can be
done most cost effectively, given concerns
about IT-related operational expenditures.
“New projects typically require hardware
and software integration at the customer site,” she says. “The idea
that Oracle’s and Sun’s engineers could work directly together within
the company to do a lot of that system integration work—getting
this work done more simply, more quickly, and getting new projects
to the deployment stage more rapidly than they would have in the
past—would be very, very attractive to customers.”
Ensuring the value of existing investments, managing risk, and
reducing complexity have been key concerns for Mark Kamlet,
executive vice president and provost at Carnegie Mellon University.

DELIVERING A COMPLETE TECHNOLOGY STACK

t will
“Our software strategy is to deliver a complete,
open, and integrated stack,” says Thomas Kurian, and storage. r
A ange
base, operating system, virtual machine, servers, lower the cost of ownership, reduce change man-
agement risk, and get integrated support across

executive vice president of product development
at Oracle.
That complete stack now provides a full-scale
infrastructure solution. With the addition of
Sun’s servers, storage, and software technologies
ch
As a result, organizations can move away from
spending resources integrating individual tech-
nologies to deploying top-to-bottom solutions
that are integrated and extensible.
Moreover, by using Oracle’s preintegrated
sets of products.
“We are always looking for ways to simplify
what we do and manage,” says Norm Fjeldheim,
senior vice president and CIO at Qualcomm.
“The Oracle acquisition of Sun will reduce opera-
JOHN BLYTHE

such as Oracle Solaris and Java, Oracle’s portfolio hardware, software, and management solutions, tional costs for customers and makes a lot of
encompasses applications, middleware, data- organizations can shorten deployment times, sense to me.”

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Oracle’s acquisition of Sun mitigates these key concerns in three

primary ways.
First, Carnegie Mellon already runs both Oracle and Sun
technologies, relying on these products for everything from the
underlying hardware to middleware and Java software programs. The
continuing availability of Sun products protects Carnegie Mellon’s
IT investment. “It’s very pleasing to know that the Sun systems we
rely on will continue to be available and will continue to get even
better,” says Kamlet. “The acquisition protects a very important
investment for us.”
Second, Kamlet also believes that the acquisition will simplify
technology coordination and integration and make support and
troubleshooting significantly easier.
“Oracle is now the first organization that vertically spans the entire
technology stack,” he says. “And that gives Oracle the potential for
coordinating and optimizing across the different layers of the stack.
This infrastructure is something that has stupendous potential, and
as customers we’d be the beneficiaries of those enhancements.”
Third, combining the Oracle and Sun product lines lowers risk for
Carnegie Mellon.
“The technology stack has become very complicated, and
there are growing issues about the risk of change management.
In addition, trying to get so many layers of technology working

snapshots
atomic Weapons establishment
awe.co.uk “We want integrated solutions,” says mark Kamlet, executive vice president and provost
at carnegie mellon University. “We want things that we can plug in and that work. With
location: Aldermaston, Berkshire, England the sun acquisition, oracle will be providing them, and we’ll be the beneficiaries.”
industry: Defense
employees: 4,900
oracle products: Oracle Database, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Identity correctly with products from so many companies is an immense
Management, Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite, Siebel
hassle,” says Kamlet. “We want integrated solutions. We want
Customer Relationship Management, Oracle E-Business Suite, StorageTek
modular disk systems, StorageTek tape libraries, Sun Storage Archive appliances. We want things that we can plug in and that work.
Manager, Sun QFS, Sun SPARC Enterprise Server With the Sun acquisition, Oracle will be providing them, and we’ll
be the beneficiaries.”
carnegie mellon University Providing unmatched performance, scalability, and reliability will
cmu.edu
continue to be Oracle’s key goals.
location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
industry: Education “We’ll be engineering Oracle and Sun products to provide
employees: 4,000 fundamental improvements in reliability,” says Oracle’s Kurian. “We
oracle products: Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters, also will be providing the lowest cost of ownership to customers,
Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Hyperion Planning, Oracle Crystal Ball, Hyperion both through automated management as well as simplified support
Data Integration Management, Oracle Essbase, Oracle Hyperion Financial
for our customers across products.”
Reporting, Hyperion Web Analysis, Sun x86-based servers, Sun SPARC
Enterprise Servers, Oracle Waveset (formerly Sun Identity Manager)
EnginEEring a Solution
Qualcomm At its heart, Qualcomm—which designs and supplies a wide range of
qualcomm.com electronics that enable mobile computing and digital products—is
location: San Diego, California
an engineering company. Consequently, Sun’s engineering-oriented
industry: Telecommunications
employees: 12,000 solutions have played an important role in Qualcomm’s success.
oracle products: Oracle Database, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Identity “We rely on Oracle to run our business, but we have relied even
Management, Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics, more on Sun to run our engineering applications,” says Norm
Oracle master data management products, Oracle customer relationship Fjeldheim, senior vice president and CIO at Qualcomm. “The
RichaRd Kelly

management applications, Oracle Application Integration Architecture, Sun

engineering tools that we use to create our products run on Sun
SPARC Enterprise Servers
hardware and software, and that’s an important part of our business.

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We’ve been longtime Sun customers, going back to 1992, and it’s
been a great partnership over the years.”
For Fjeldheim, Oracle’s acquisition of Sun is a like a safe harbor
for his technology infrastructure.
“I was worried about another company picking up Sun and
killing the product line,” says Fjeldheim. “So I really like what
Oracle’s doing. I like Oracle’s track record of acquisitions. Being
able to depend on Sun—and now Oracle—Solaris means that I can
invest in these products and not worry about moving to another
platform. I can count on the Sun products being supported and
advanced. My investments in Sun equipment will not be lost.”
Just as important is the investment that Oracle has committed
to key Sun technologies.
“I’m really excited to see additional R&D investment on the
Sun hardware and storage side platforms,” says Fjeldheim. “That
level of R&D spending is good news for Sun customers.”
s part of the acquisition, Oracle also
takes over the management of Java, an
object-oriented, multithreaded, platform-
independent environment for application
development and deployment. Java
is used in a wide variety of computing
platforms—from embedded devices and
mobile phones to enterprise servers—and
is the foundation for Web and networked services, applications,
and platform-independent desktops. More than 2.1 billion mobile
devices powered by Java are in use, as well as 2.5 billion Java cards
and 800 million Java desktops.
“Java is one of the crown jewels that is coming to Oracle as part
of this acquisition,” says Oracle’s Kurian. “Java is, by far, the most
popular programming language in enterprises, with close to 10 “i like Oracle’s track record of acquisitions,” says norm Fjeldheim, senior vice president
and ciO at Qualcomm. “Being able to depend on Sun—and now Oracle—Solaris means that
million developers in the world building applications with it. We’ll i can invest in these products and not worry about moving to another platform.”
enhance and extend the reach of the Java programming model to
support the emerging application development paradigm.” applications. Now organizations will be able to leverage the core
In addition, Oracle plans to integrate and simplify the runtime strengths of both companies through a new, integrated enterprise
platform for Java while optimizing it for both existing and emerging software and hardware stack that both reduces complexity and
deployment architectures. Oracle also plans to invest in and revitalize increases agility.
the Java developer community both by offering best-of-breed “By acquiring Sun, Oracle will be able to provide an integrated
Java technology and by making the Java community process more hardware and software solution, in which all the components of
participatory to people from a variety of different organizations. the technology stack are optimized to work well together,” says
Sun has long been known for industry-leading, standards-based Qualcomm’s Fjeldheim. “This optimization will enable Oracle
computer systems, software, and storage. And Oracle has been solutions to perform faster and more reliably. Oracle and Sun will be
well-known for its high-performance databases, middleware, and able to do that better together than separately.” 

Open StOrage David a. Kelly (dkelly@upsideresearch.com) is a business, technology,

Oracle’s Sun open storage combines advanced software with industry- and travel writer who lives in West newton, Massachusetts.
standard hardware, enabling companies to save on storage costs.
Sun open storage systems will enable companies to expand their infra- next StepS
structure without sacrificing initial investments. Other benefits include
• The combination of Sun open storage with Sun FlashFire,
creating world-record performance for storage infrastructure reaD more about the Sun acquisition
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• The ability to deploy in Oracle Solaris, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and DOWnlOaD Oracle’s Sun products
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 Java Developer
Java dEvElOpMEnt Kit 7
Dynamic language Support
on the Java virtual machine
a new bytecode and a new linkage mechanism offer
better support for dynamically typed languages.
J ava Development Kit (JDK) 7 is a prototype
of what could be in the next release of Java
Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). JDK 7
introduces several key features to improve the
performance, usability, and security of the
Java platform. Of particular interest to Java
developers is the addition of support for Java
Specification Request (JSR) 292. The addition
of a new Java bytecode, invokedynamic, for
method invocation, and an accompanying
linkage mechanism that makes use of a new
construct called a method handle, will enable
implementers of compilers for dynamically
typed languages such as JRuby and Jython to
generate bytecode that runs extremely fast in
the Java virtual machine (JVM).
As a result, you should see more of your
favorite dynamically typed languages avail-
able in the Java ecosystem, along with a
performance boost in code generated by
dynamically typed language compilers that
run in the JVM. This article will help you take
advantage of the new invokedynamic Java
bytecode instruction for the JVM and the new
method handle linkage mechanism.
Dynamically TypeD languages
anD The JVm
If you said that the JVM is a program that
executes Java programs translated into
machine-independent bytecode, your state-
ment would be correct but incomplete. The
JVM does execute Java programs translated
into bytecode, but it is not limited to han-
dling translated Java programs. Increasingly,
JVM implementations of dynamic languages
are becoming available. These include JRuby,
an implementation of the Ruby program-
ming language; Jython, an implementation
of the Python programming language; the
Groovy scripting language; and Rhino, an
implementation of JavaScript.
This is great news for application devel-
opers. The flexibility offered by dynamic lan-
guages, especially scripting languages, makes
these languages particularly attractive for
application prototyping and experimentation
as well as for applications that evolve rapidly.
This flexibility stems from dynamic typing.
A language that is dynamically typed verifies
at runtime that the values in an application
conform to expected types. By comparison,
a statically typed language such as the Java
programming language does most of its type
checking at compile time, checking the types
of variables but not of values. The Java lan-
guage also allows some dynamic type checking
of values, especially receivers of virtual or
interface method calls. But even these calls
require a static type for the receiver.
It is easier to write code in dynamically
typed languages than in statically typed
languages, because the former have more-
permissive type matching rules and can
perform many type conversions automati-
cally. Dynamic typing is also more flexible
than static typing, because it enables pro-
grams to generate or configure types based
on runtime data. These behaviors can help
you create applications more quickly than
you would when coding them in a statically
typed language.
a problem for Dynamically
TypeD languages
The first step in bringing dynamic lan-
guages to the JVM was JSR 223: Scripting
for the Java Platform, a specification that
defined an API for accessing Java code from
code written in dynamic scripting lan-
guages. JSR 223 also specified a framework
for hosting scripting engines in Java appli-
cations. A scripting engine is a program that
executes scripting code, either by compiling
Java By Ed Ort and JanicE J. HEiss 63
or interpreting it. This specification and its
implementation made it much easier to
create applications that include both Java
code and scripting code. Although support
for JSR 223 has stimulated the development
of scripting engines for the JVM, developers
of these scripting engines have faced a
troublesome obstacle.
When developers write engines that
compile dynamically typed languages to run
in the JVM, they have to satisfy the require-
ments of the Java bytecode the JVM executes.
Until now, that bytecode has been designed
exclusively for statically typed languages,
especially in its treatment of method invoca-
tion. This design has been a pain point for
script engine developers generating byte-
codes for method invocation.
byTecoDe requiremenTs for
meThoD inVocaTion
A statically typed language does its type
checking before execution, at compile time.
What this means for a method invocation is
that the compiler, in addition to the bytecode
it generates, needs to know the type of the
value returned by the method as well as the
types of any receiver or parameters specified
in the call.
Consider the following Java code snippet:
String s = “Hello World”;
System.out.println(s);
Note that the type of parameter for the
method is known. It’s a String. The println()
method doesn’t return a value, but if the
code example did call a method that does
return a value, the type of the return value
would need to be specified. The receiver of
the call, System.out, also has a statically
known type, java.io.PrintStream.
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64 Java
Armed with the needed type information,
the javac compiler can generate the appro-
priate bytecode instructions:
ldc #2
// String “Hello World”
astore_1
getstatic #3
// Field System.out
aload_1
invokevirtual #4
// Method PrintStream.println
If you’re not familiar with bytecode, the
important thing to understand is that a lot of
the bytecode execution in the JVM involves
operations on values in an operand stack.
The operand stack is the virtual machine
equivalent of the hardware registers in a real
machine. Most of the bytecode instructs
the JVM to push a value in a local value onto
the operand stack, pop a value off the stack
into a local variable, duplicate a value in the
stack, swap values in the stack, or execute
operations that produce or consume values
on the stack.
For example, here’s a commented version
of the bytecode:
ldc #2
// Push the String “Hello World”
onto the stack
astore_1
// Pop it and store it in local
variable #1
getstatic #3
// Push the static field System
.out
aload_1
// Push the String referenced
from local variable #1
invokevirtual #4
// Pop the String and PrintStream,
call println.
Clearly the invokevirtual bytecode instruc-
tion is different from the other bytecode
instructions in the example. It invokes a
method in addition to manipulating the
operand stack. The full information for the
invokevirtual bytecode instruction (noted in
the code simply as #4) includes the meth-
od’s class, name, and signature, as follows:
May/June 2010 Oracle.cOm/Oraclemagazine
• The receiver class providing the method:
java.io.PrintStream
• The method name: println
• The number (1) and type (reference to
String) of the method argument.
• The method’s return type: V for void (that
is, no return value is pushed onto the stack)
The signature is encoded as the constant
string (Ljava/lang/String;)V, whose format
describes the effects of the invocation on the
operand stack.
In response to the invokevirtual bytecode
instruction, the JVM looks for a method
with the supplied name and signature—in
this case, println:(Ljava/lang/String;)V in
the java.io.PrintStream class. If the method
isn’t in that class, the JVM will search up the
chain of the class’s superclasses. Note that
as a matter of static typing, the receiver class
(PrintStream) must match the type of the
operand pushed onto the stack (System.out).
If the code had attempted to load any other
kind of object for the receiver, the JVM would
have rejected the code as unverifiable.
AwkwArd Attempts At meeting run on top of the JVM.
dynAmic requirements
Because dynamically typed languages don’t
provide type information until runtime,
implementers must try various approaches
to meet the bytecode verification require-
ments for method invocation, none of which
is optimal. For example, suppose the fol-
lowing code snippet exists in a hypothetical
dynamically typed language:
function max (x,y) {
if x.lessThan(y) then y else x
} as String and Integer cannot serve directly as
Note that no type is specified for the
receiver or the arguments—after all, dynami-
cally typed languages do not provide type
information until runtime. As a result, the code
does not meet the verification rules for method
invocation, which require that types be known
in advance. The code can’t be directly compiled
into bytecode on the Java platform.
You might solve this problem by creating
language-specific Java types for the return
value and the method arguments, especially
those that act as method call receivers. For
example, a dynamically typed language
implementation might change the previous
code snippet to
MyObject function max
(MyObject x,MyObject y) {
if x.lessThan(y) then y else x
}
The language-specific base type MyObject
must contain the method isLessThan and any
other methods a dynamic language might
want to use, in order to meet the bytecode
requirements for the method invocation.
You might also solve the problem of
receiver typing through reflected invocation.
This approach uses a java.lang.reflect.Method
object to invoke the method. Using a Method
object to do the method invocation circum-
vents having to directly invoke the method
and, as a result, bypasses the requirement
of having to specify the type of the returned
value or the types of any parameters.
A third approach you might try is to avoid
bytecode altogether and create a language-
specific interpreter for method invocation to
Let’s take a look at each option.
Creating a language-specific base type
meets the requirements of the Java byte-
code, but it is limited by the need to statically
type each receiver to a prescribed base type.
One problem with this technique is that a
language implementer must think up a list of
all methods in advance to put into the base
type. Future methods, such as those defined
by an end user, must be simulated less
directly with a catchall method—often called
invoke or apply. Also, JVM system types such
receivers of language-specific method calls.
The reflected invocation approach has
restrictions of its own. For example, a java
.lang.reflect.Method object provides access
to a method on a class or an interface—just
what an implementer of a dynamic language
needs—but the method must come from
a specific Java type available at runtime.
Although dynamic languages can provide
type information at runtime, not all of them
can provide normal Java types for reflection.
This is particularly true for dynamic languages
such as JRuby or Rhino, which have inter-
preters. This problem can be overcome if the

language defines its own notion of method
(a “RubyMethod,” say), but then another
problem arises: simulation overhead. The
JVM’s native calling sequence (which, as we
saw, uses an operand stack) must be simu-
lated by a slow and clumsy alternative such
as explicit argument arrays. In the end, the
simulation overheads inherent in reflected
method objects slow down dynamic code at
every language-specific method call.
Finally, running an interpreter on top of
the JVM to handle method invocations is
relatively slow, certainly slower than having
the JVM directly handle the processing.
JSR 292: The NexT STep iN DyNamic
LaNguage SuppoRT
JSR 292 aims to solve the problems inherent
in trying to fit a square peg (method invoca-
tion in a dynamically typed language) into
a round hole (the statically based Java byte-
code requirements). It does this by intro-
ducing the new invokedynamic Java bytecode
instruction for the JVM and the new method
handle linkage mechanism.
ByTecoDe iNSTRucTioNS foR
meThoD iNvocaTioN
Since its inception, the JVM specification
has specified four bytecodes for method
invocation:
• invokevirtual. Invokes a method on a
class. This is the typical type of method
invocation.
• invokeinterface. Similar to invokevirtual
but invokes a method on an interface.
• invokestatic. Invokes a static method on
a class. This is the only kind of invocation
that lacks a receiver argument.
• invokespecial. Invokes a method without
reference to the type of the receiver. (This
kind of invocation is restricted to construc-
tors, superclass methods, or private
methods.)
Let’s examine two of these bytecodes:
invokevirtual, because it’s the most typical
type of method invocation, and invokeinter-
face, because it’s similar in format to the
new invokedynamic instruction.
The invokevirtual instruction. Recall the
invokevirtual bytecode instruction that was
shown in the earlier bytecode example.
Here it is again, with a slightly more
detailed presentation:
invokevirtual #4
//Method java/io/PrintStream
.println:(Ljava/lang/String;)V
The invokevirtual part of the instruction
is the 1-byte operation code. The remainder
of the instruction, #4, is the 2-byte operand,
which provides information about the
method call in an abstract way. The operand
refers to an entry in a pool of constants, the
structure of which need not concern us here.
The entry contains a symbolic reference that
bundles together information pertinent to the
method invocation. The information includes
the receiver class that contains the method,
the method name, and the method signature.
The method signature specifies the method’s
return type and the types of its arguments.
Thus, the syntax of the invokevirtual byte-
code instruction consists of an opcode and a
constant pool index as follows:
invokevirtual <method-specification>
The invokeinterface instruction. An
invokeinterface bytecode instruction for a
Java program might look like this:
invokeinterface #9, 2
//InterfaceMethod java/util/
List.add:(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z
The syntax for the invokeinterface byte-
code instruction is as follows:
invokeinterface <method-
specification> <n>
Just as with invokevirtual, the <method-
specification> is a 2-byte constant pool
index specifying an interface name, a
method name, and a signature. Also, <n> is
a 2-byte operand that specifies the number
of arguments.
As is the case for invokevirtual, the signa-
ture specifies the method’s argument types
as well as the method’s return type. In this
example, the <method-specification> speci-
fies that the interface is java.util.List and the
method is add. The type signature specifies
that the method takes arguments of type
65
java.lang.Object, represented by Ljava/lang/
Object, and returns a Boolean result, repre-
sented by the Z code.
The <n> value in the example is 2, indi-
cating that the method takes two arguments,
including the receiver. This extra count could
be determined from the signature.
The invokedynamic instruction. The syntax
of the new invokedynamic bytecode instruc-
tion is similar to that of the invokeinterface
instruction.
invokedynamic <method-specification>
<n>
However, unlike the invokeinterface
instruction, the <method-specification>
needs to specify only a method name and a
signature. There is no mention of a receiver
class. In this case, the 2-byte number <n>
must be 0. Some JVMs may use this internally
to link the instruction to runtime structures.
An invokedynamic bytecode instruction
might look like this:
invokedynamic #10
//NameAndType lessThan:
(Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/
Object;)Z
Significantly, the invokedynamic byte-
code instruction enables an implementer of
a dynamic language to translate a method
invocation into bytecode without having
to specify a target type that contains the
method. The method specification in this
case is a simplified constant pool reference
that specifies only a method name and a type
signature. The signature specifies the return
type of the call and the types of method
arguments. As with invokestatic, none of the
arguments is singled out as a receiver.
But wait. How does the JVM find the
method if the receiver type isn’t supplied?
After all, the JVM needs to link to and invoke
a real method on a real type. The answer to
that question is that JSR 292 also includes
a new linkage mechanism for dynamically
typed languages. When the JVM sees an
invokedynamic instruction, it uses this new
linkage mechanism to get to the method it
needs. This mechanism works through what
are called method handles.
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66 Java
A New DyNAmic LiNkAge mechANism:
methoD hANDLes
JDK 7 includes a new package, java.dyn, that
contains the classes associated with dynamic
language support in the Java platform. One of
the classes in the package is MethodHandle.
A method handle is a simple object of type
java.dyn.MethodHandle that anonymously
encapsulates a reference to a JVM method. A
method handle is callable, just like a named
reference to a method. Like regular methods,
method handles are typed, so there is no pos-
sibility of popping the wrong number or wrong
types of arguments from the operand stack.
Method handles are unique because they
are accessed via a pointer structure rather
than via a linked name. And unlike reflective
methods (which are also anonymous encap-
sulations of Java methods), method handles
can be “bound” to language-specific data.
(The details of the binding process, called
“partial application,” are explained in the
technical paper cited at the end of this article.)
The point here is that method handles are
designed to provide a flexible way to answer
the question, “What does my invokedynamic
instruction actually invoke?”
As with the other invoke instructions,
the first time an invokedynamic instruction
is executed, it is linked. When this linking
happens, a method handle is assigned to the
individual invokedynamic instruction as its
particular target. Each time that particular
instruction is executed, the JVM invokes the
target method handle. Interestingly, the
target of any given invokedynamic instruc-
tion can change over time in response to
changes in the dynamic language program.
Another part of this new linkage mecha-
nism is the bootstrap method. A bootstrap
method is a method handle that is called once
for each invokedynamic instruction when the
instruction is linked. The bootstrap method
specifies which target method to assign ini-
tially to the instruction. Each class that con-
tains at least one invokedynamic instruction
must also specify a bootstrap method.
The bootstrap mechanism provides a
way for a language runtime to participate
in method dispatching at runtime, but the
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approach also enables the JVM to bypass the
language runtime if the method dispatch
decision doesn’t change. When the JVM must
link an invokedynamic instruction, it calls a
bootstrap method. A call into a language-
supplied method like this is termed an up-call,
but normally a linked invokedynamic instruc-
tion performs no up-call but, rather, directly
invokes the instruction’s own target method.
A method handle is quite simple. All it
contains is a type token of class java.dyn
.MethodType that describes a specific type,
corresponding to the fixed type signatures
of the invoke instructions. (Naturally, the
target of an invokedynamic instruction must
agree exactly with the static signature of the
instruction itself.) Also, a method handle
implicitly has invocation methods associated
with it. To call a method handle, you call its
invocation method in much the same way
as you call object methods such as List.add.
In this case, the call is always of the form
MethodHandle.invokeExact(. . .), where the
signature is arbitrary but must always match
the called method handle’s own type.
Because each method handle has its own
type, it will accept only an invoke call of that
type. If the type of the call doesn’t match
the type of the method handle, the method
handle will throw an exception. There is also a
method called invokeGeneric, which instructs
the JVM to attempt minor argument conver-
sions such as casting and boxing.
Here, for example, is a snippet of bytecode
that calls a method handle:
getfield #678
//MyClass.myMH
ldc #999
//123456
invokevirtual #44
//Method java/dyn/
MethodHandle.invokeExact(I)I
istore 5
In this example, the call is to a method handle
named myMH with a single int argument. The
call also expects an int type to be returned.
The method handle has to accept that sig-
nature type. Before allowing the call, the JVM
will verify (each time) that the method handle
includes a type token that matches the call’s
signature—in this case, (I)I. In response, the
method handle directs the JVM to the appro-
priate target function. Method handles are
unique in that they appear to contain an infi-
nite number of methods named invokeExact,
one such method for each possible signature.
But any given individual method handle can
only respond to exactly one such method call,
which matches its own method type. This
feature is called “signature polymorphism.”
AN eAsier Life for JAvA DeveLopers
Over the years, the JVM has been host to a
growing number of languages, including
implementations of dynamically typed lan-
guages such as Ruby and Python. Support for
dynamically typed languages in the JVM is
very attractive to application developers who
build applications in these languages. That’s
because dynamic typing gives developers a
lot of flexibility and the JVM delivers a lot of
execution efficiency. However, implementers
of compilers for dynamically typed languages
have found it difficult to meet the JVM byte-
code requirements for method invocation.
JSR 292 addresses that problem by providing
a new bytecode, invokedynamic, and a
new linkage mechanism based on method
handles. It is one of several revisions to the
Java SE platform that can make your life as a
Java developer easier. 
ed Ort is a former Sun staff writer. Janice
J. Heiss is a Java acquisitions editor at Oracle.
nexT STePS
reaD more about
support for dynamically typed languages in
Java Se 7
java.sun.com/developer/technicalarticles/
DynTypeLang/
the technical theory behind invokedynamic
www.cs.iastate.edu/~design/vmil/2009/papers/
p09-rose.pdf
the JDK 7 release
java.sun.com/features/jdk/7
the JDK 7 project
openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7
JSr 292: Supporting Dynamically Typed
languages on the Java Platform
www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292
learn about the Da vinci machine Project
openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm
WaTcH The TechCast Show: Mark Reinhold’s
JDK 7 Roundup
otn.oracle.com/syndication/techcasts
 System Administrator BACKUP BY KEMER THOMSON 67

STORAGETEK ENTERPRISE BACKUP

Next-Generation
Data Backup
StorageTek Enterprise Backup software,
Sun chip multithreading servers, and Oracle Solaris
deliver end-to-end data protection.

D atacenter administrators in all industry

segments and in companies of all sizes
face a similar array of archive challenges:
Oracle’s evaluation of the requirements
established the number of backup targets
that could be supported and provided an
The base reference architecture includes a
single StorageTek Enterprise Backup master
backup server managing multiple StorageTek
explosive data growth, pressure to provide understanding of the system configuration Enterprise Backup software storage node
promised service levels, “forever” archive and steady-state CPU utilization required to servers. These storage node servers are
data retention and retrieval requirements, reach that performance level. attached to virtual tape libraries, Serial ATA
and rising energy costs. As a result, data pro- In this architecture, StorageTek Enterprise (SATA) disk pools, network-attached storage
tection environments are becoming larger, Backup software is used to provide disk- and (NAS) disk pools, EMC Avamar deduplication
more complex, and increasingly diverse. tape-based data protection as well as archival solutions, and tape libraries that store the
And while administrators are facing these and recovery management. The solution backup data and deduplication metadata. The
challenges with a comprehensive backup scales to support an enterprise network with architecture provides a choice of servers for
solution, they also have to control costs and numerous clients running a mix of Oracle the various backup roles: any Sun CMT server
build a platform that will continue to meet Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, Linux, and Windows. model can be configured as the StorageTek
growing future demands. The multitier architecture includes backup Enterprise Backup software management
To address these challenges, Oracle clients, a management console and backup console, backup server, or storage node, and a
has developed an open, intelligent, and server, one or more storage nodes, and a wide single server can function in multiple roles.
highly scalable general-purpose archive variety of disk and tape devices that can be The configuration in Figure 1 serves
solution with state-of-the-art technology configured at the discretion of the system a network environment with numerous
and breakthrough cost structures. Using administrator in charge of the installation. backup clients running heterogeneous oper-
Oracle’s StorageTek Enterprise Backup
software and powered by Oracle’s Sun chip
multithreading (CMT) servers and the Oracle AIX HP/UX Linux Oracle Microsoft
Backup Backup Backup Solaris Windows
Solaris operating system, this solution Clients Clients Clients Backup Backup
Clients Clients
delivers next-generation data protection
1 Gb TCP/IP 1 Gb TCP/IP 1 Gb TCP/IP 1 Gb TCP/IP 1 Gb TCP/IP
for large and small heterogeneous envi- 10 Gb and 1 Gb Ethernet Client Network / VLAN
1 Gb 10 Gb 10 Gb 10 Gb 10 Gb
ronments alike. And it provides virtually StorageTek Enterprise StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software Backup Server/Storage Nodes
unlimited scalability with central manage- Backup Software Management SPARC Enterprise SPARC Enterprise Blade T6320
Console Backup Server/Storage Node T5220 Server T5240 Server Server Module
SPARC Enterprise
ment and end-to-end data protection across T5120 Server
heterogeneous technologies.
StorageTek Enterprise
Backup Software Avamar
THE BACKUP ARCHITECTURE Deduplication Node
Storage Pools
10 Gb 8 Gb FC 8 Gb FC 8 Gb FC
Oracle’s data backup architecture is 10 Gb Ethernet Backup Network / VLAN 8 Gb Fibre Channel SAN
designed as a solution for providing network 10 Gb NFS 4 Gb FC 4 Gb FC 4 Gb FC

backups of heterogeneous clients. Based

on common implementations of existing
customer environments, the target environ-
ment includes backup clients connected via
Enterprise Backup Software Storage Units Virtual Tape Libraries Modular Disk Tape Drives Tape Libraries
a LAN with 1 gigabit Ethernet network links. Storage 7000
Unified Storage System
StorageTek Virtual Tape Library
Plus System
StorageTek
6140 Array
StorageTek
10000B and LTO 4
StorageTek SL500,
SL3000, and SL8500
Modular Library Systems
A key objective of this architecture is to
achieve competitive price/performance. Figure 1: Oracle’s next-generation backup architecture

ORACLE MAGAZINE MAY/JUNE 2010

68 BACKUP
ating systems, all of which are configured
to simultaneously back up their data to the
Avamar solution. Although this architecture
demonstrates many data backup method-
ologies, none of the backup devices relies on
any other backup device for performance.
Despite the fact that this architecture
includes multiple StorageTek Enterprise
Backup software storage node servers, a
single storage node server or a single storage
node/backup server can be deployed to
support different network backup workloads.
This design provides a highly scalable solu-
tion, because additional storage node servers
and archive devices can be added as needed.
ENTERPRISE BACKUP SOFTWARE
StorageTek Enterprise Backup software
provides a high-performance, scalable data
protection solution for heterogeneous envi-
ronments of any size. A single management
console is used for all backup and recovery
operations, enabling backup administrators
to centrally manage their backup, archive,
and recovery infrastructure.
The software accommodates multiple
servers working together under the admin-
istrative control of one server. In this rela-
tionship, the StorageTek Enterprise Backup
software administrative control server is des-
ignated to be the backup (master) server, with
the other servers designated as storage node
(media) servers operating under the control
of the backup server. A backup server and its
associated storage node servers are referred to
collectively as a StorageTek Enterprise Backup
software storage domain. Large networks
may require more than a single StorageTek
Enterprise Backup software domain.
The centrally located management
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Oracle JDevelOper/Oracle applicatiOn DevelOpMent FraMewOrk
libraries You can
Depend on
Modularize your applications by using
Oracle application Development Framework libraries.
T ask flows in Oracle Application
Development Framework (Oracle ADF)
help you organize an application around
the end-user tasks it supports. But as an
application grows, the number of task flows
and related business components inevitably
increases. The more application artifacts
you pile into a single workspace, the harder
it is to understand the application’s logical
organization and the slower navigation
becomes. In addition, frequently updated
“catalog” files such as DataBindings.cpx can
become problem areas for team develop-
ment, requiring frequent merge-conflict
resolution as different developers work on
different task flows. This column shows how
Oracle ADF libraries can help address these
problems by enabling a more modular appli-
cation architecture.
An Oracle ADF library is a standard Java
archive (JAR) file that contains Oracle ADF
components along with information that
enables Oracle JDeveloper to simplify browsing
and reusing them. This information also
enables Oracle JDeveloper to help you manage
library dependencies. By using Oracle ADF
libraries, you can assemble your application
from task flows and business components
that are developed in separate workspaces.
To begin, download the starter workspace
at otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/10-may/
o30frame.zip and ensure that you’re using
the studio edition of the Oracle JDeveloper
11.1.1.2 production release, available as a free
download on Oracle Technology Network
(OTN) at otn.oracle.com/software/products/
jdev. Start by extracting the contents of the
o30frame.zip file into the root directory of
the C: drive on a machine running Microsoft
Windows. If you choose a different loca-
tion or are running on a different platform,
you’ll need to adjust the path references
accordingly in the rest of this column. Now
open the C:/FrameworksMayJun2010/
MainApp/MainApp.jws workspace in Oracle
JDeveloper. Before proceeding, adjust the
properties of the connection named scott
in the Application Resources zone of the
Application Navigator until you can success-
fully test a connection to a SCOTT schema. If
you need to create the tables in SCOTT, use
the provided CreateDeptEmpTables.sql script
in the MainApp workspace’s Model project.
SAMple AppliCATion overview
The sample application enables users to
maintain department and employee data.
It is modularized into four separate work-
spaces. The entities workspace contains the
core entity object layer used by all the task
flows. The empFlow workspace contains
the task flows for managing employees
and depends on the core entities library.
The MainApp workspace provides a simple
“main menu” page that enables users to
launch the empflow and deptflow task
flows, which it references from Oracle ADF
libraries. The DeptFlow workspace contains
a partially completed task flow for managing
departments. The Libs directory contains all
the Oracle ADF libraries for the application
as a whole.
To get a quick overview of what the appli-
cation does, right-click the viewController
project and choose run. When your browser
opens, you’ll see a simple page with two links.
Click the Manage employees link to display
a list of employees. Select an employee, click
edit, change the employee’s salary, and click
Save. Note that the changed value is reflected
in the employee list. Click Done to return to
the initial page. The Manage Departments
link isn’t functional. To bring it to life, you’ll
complete the DeptFlow workspace, using
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techniques that mirror those already in use
by the empFlow workspace.
In the Application Navigator for
the MainApp workspace, expand the
viewController project’s Application Sources
and note that it contains a DataBindings.cpx
file in the oramag.mainapp.view package.
Open the web Content folder, and note that
it contains a single Home.jspx page. This
“main menu” page contains links that call
task flows to enable end users to perform
the tasks available to them. Expand the page
Flows folder, and double-click the adfc-
config node.
In the task flow diagram, you can see that
the Home view activity contains a control
flow line for calling the empflow task flow.
However, the empflow task flow is not part of
this project. If you double-click the empflow
task flow call activity in the diagram, the
called task flow will open in the editor. If you
try to move any of the activity nodes to a new
location on the diagram, you won’t be able
to, because this diagram is read-only. To
understand why, position your cursor over
the empflow.xml tab title area to study the
tooltip that appears (after a short delay). It
shows the name of the file displayed in this
editor. (If the tooltip disappears before you
can finish reading it, move your cursor off
the tab title and then hover over it again to
get a few more seconds to study it.) You can
see that the file path contains empFlow.jar.
This is the name of the Oracle ADF library
archive file that contains the task flow. That
library is produced by the sample applica-
tion’s empFlow workspace. The MainApp
workspace’s viewController project reuses
the empflow task flow from that library.
Next, open the empFlow workspace
by choosing File -> open from the Oracle
JDeveloper main menu and selecting the
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C:/FrameworksMayJun2010/EmpFlow/
EmpFlow.jws file. Note that the EmpFlow
workspace’s contents replace the MainApp
workspace’s contents in the Application
Navigator. (The control at the top of the
Application Navigator displays the name of
the current workspace and enables you to
select any other open workspace to make it
current when necessary.)
In the EmpFlow workspace’s
ViewController project, expand the Web
Content folder and the Page Flows folder it
contains. Note that the empflow task flow
appears there. Also expand the Application
Sources folder and the package nodes it
contains until you see this workspace’s
DataBindings.cpx file. Note that it is in the
oramag.empflow.view package. When you
create supplementary workspaces to produce
task flows in a library, each workspace must
use a unique default package name so that
the DataBindings.cpx file in that workspace’s
ViewController project does not conflict
with any other DataBindings.cpx file used in
the application. The EmpFlow workspace’s
ViewController project uses the oramag
.empflow.view default package name to avoid
clashing with the DataBindings.cpx file in the
MainApp workspace’s ViewController project.
To see the default package name setting,
double-click the ViewController project in
the EmpFlow workspace to open the Project
Properties dialog box. On the Project Source
Paths page, note the Default Package field
at the bottom. When you create a new work-
space, the first step is to ensure that you
have configured a unique default package
name for both your Model project and your
ViewController project. This way, when you
begin building components, the files will be
created in the correct, unique location.
Click Cancel to dismiss the dialog box. In
the sections that follow, you’ll complete the
deptflow task flow, deploy it in an Oracle ADF
library, and then reuse the new task flow in
the MainApp application.
USing A LiBrAry FroM thE
rESoUrCE PALEttE
The deptflow task flow lives in the DeptFlow
workspace. Open this workspace in Oracle
JDeveloper by choosing File -> open
from the main menu and selecting the
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C:/FrameworksMayJun2010/DeptFlow/
DeptFlow.jws file. The Model project already
contains a DeptModule application module,
so the first order of business is to create a
view object to work with the list of depart-
ments. The entity objects used by all of the
application’s task flows were developed in a
separate Entities workspace and deployed to
an Entities.jar Oracle ADF library. You’ll start
by adding the appropriate Dept entity object
from this library to the current project to
build a view object on top of it.
as an application
grows, the number
of task flows and
related business
components
inevitably increases.
Choose View -> resource Palette to
display Oracle JDeveloper’s palette of reus-
able resources, which helps make quick work
of this task. To reference resources, such as
Oracle ADF libraries, on the file system, you
add one or more entries called file system
connections to the Resource Palette. A file
system connection provides a nickname for
a directory on disk where reusable resources
reside. Click the folder-with-a-plus-sign icon
to the left of the Resource Palette’s search
box, and choose new Connection -> File
System from the menu. When the Create
File System Connection dialog box appears,
enter Libraries for Connection name and
click Browse to choose a directory path. Find
the C:/FrameworksMayJun2010/Libs direc-
tory, click it, and then click Select. Click test
Connect to ensure that the directory path is
correct. If it is, click oK.
A new File System node appears in the
Resource Palette. Expand it to reveal the
new Libraries connection, and expand that
to see the Entities.jar Oracle ADF library.
Expand this library node and the Business
Components folder it contains, and then
select the Dept entity object in the oramag
.model.entities package. Click the Model
project in the Application Navigator to
ensure that it is the active project, and then
right-click the Dept entity object in the
Resource Palette and choose Add to Project.
When the Confirm Add ADF Library dialog
box appears, click Add Library. This action
performs two configuration tasks under the
covers. First, it updates the current (Model)
project to depend on this new Oracle ADF
library by adding the JAR file to the ADF
Library entry in the project’s library list.
Second, it imports the package of Oracle ADF
business components containing the Dept
object, so that these components are avail-
able to reference in the design-time editors.
Next, create a view object to retrieve
the department rows. In the Application
Navigator, right-click the oramag.deptflow
.model package node in the Model project
and choose new View object. When the
Create View Object dialog box appears, com-
plete the following steps:
1. Enter DeptView for the new view object’s
name, leave the default Updatable access
through entity objects option selected,
and click next.
2. Expand the oramag.model.entities
package in the Available list, select the
Dept entity, click > to shuttle it into the
Selected list, and click next.
3. Click the >> Add All button to add all the
attributes to the view object, and click
Finish to create the view object.
Double-click the DeptModule application
module to open it in the editor. On the Data
Model page, select DeptView in the Available
View objects list, enter Departments in
the new View instance field (below the
Available View objects list), and click > to
add a new view instance with this name to
the data model.
CrEAting LiBrAriES AnD ConFigUring
DEPEnDEnCiES
Each project that will be part of a set of reus-
able components should produce its own
Oracle ADF library JAR, so now you’ll create
a new Oracle ADF library deployment profile
for the DeptFlow workspace’s Model project’s
components. In a subsequent step, you’ll
also create an Oracle ADF library deployment
profile for the ViewController project.
Start by double-clicking the Model project
to open the project properties editor. On
the Deployment page, click new to create a

new deployment profile. When the Create
Deployment Profile dialog box appears,
set Archive Type to ADF Library JAR File,
enter DeptFlowModel in the Name field,
and click OK. In the Edit ADF Library JAR
Deployment Profile Properties dialog box
that appears, on the JAR Options page,
change the default path and filename to
C:\FrameworksMayJun2010\Libs\
DeptFlowModel.jar. Click OK once to
dismiss this dialog box and OK again to close
the Project Properties dialog box.
To create the new library archive, right-
click the Model project and choose Deploy
-> DeptFlowModel. When the Deploy
DeptFlowModel dialog box appears,
click Finish to start the process. Click the
Deployment tab in the Log window to see
the results of the deployment operation. You
should see something like “Wrote Archive
Module to C:\FrameworksMayJun2010\
Libs\DeptFlowModel.jar” in the log. To
refresh the list of libraries in the Resource
Palette, right-click the Libraries file system
connection node and choose Refresh.
Note that the new DeptFlowModel.jar now
appears in the list. The steps you just per-
formed to create a new Oracle ADF library
JAR deployment for the model components
are the same as the steps completed ahead
of time to create the reusable Entities.jar
Oracle ADF library you used earlier.
By default, Oracle JDeveloper configures
your ViewController project to depend on
the compiled output of the Model project, so
that pages can reference your model objects
through the Oracle ADF model data-binding
layer. When you produce an Oracle ADF library
JAR for your model components, you must
first add the model components library JAR
to the ViewController project’s library list
and then update the project’s dependency
settings to use the new JAR instead of the
compiled output. The first step is to click the
ViewController project in the Application
Navigator to make it the current project. Then,
right-click the DeptFlowModel.jar node in the
Resource Palette and choose Add to Project.
When the confirmation dialog box appears,
click Add Library to complete this task.
To update the project’s dependency set-
tings, double-click the ViewController project
to open the Project Properties dialog box and
then open the Dependencies page. Select the
Model.jpr entry in the Dependent Projects
and Archives list, and click the pencil icon to
edit it. In the Edit Dependencies dialog box,
note that the check box next to Build Output
is checked. Click the check box next to the
DeptFlowModel deployment profile. When
you do this, an Adjusting Dependencies alert
appears to let you know that the two check
boxes are mutually exclusive; click OK. Now
the DeptFlowModel deployment profile is
checked as a dependency, and the original
check box is cleared. Click OK to close the
Dependencies page.
While you’re here, you can also create the
Oracle ADF library deployment profile for
the ViewController project. It will contain the
task flows you will finish building shortly. On
the Deployment page, click New. Select the
ADF Library JAR File archive type, provide the
name DeptFlow for the profile, and click
OK. On the Edit ADF Library JAR Deployment
Profile Options dialog box’s JAR Options
page, change the default path and filename
to C:\FrameworksMayJun2010\Libs\
DeptFlow.jar, click OK, and click OK again
to close the Project Properties dialog box.
Next, you’ll finish building the pages in
the deptflow task flow and then deploy the
DeptFlow Oracle ADF library you just created.
Expand the ViewController project and the
Web Content folder inside it. Double-click the
ListDepartments.jspx page name to open the
page in the editor. Expand the Data Controls
section of the Application Navigator, and
expand DeptModuleDataControl. If you don’t
see the Departments data collection, click
the refresh icon in the Data Controls section
title bar. Drag the Departments data collec-
tion, and drop it onto the page below the two
existing buttons. In the Create menu, choose
Table -> ADF Read-only Table. When the Edit
Table Columns dialog box appears, check
the Row Selection and Sorting check boxes
at the top and click OK. Now double-click
EditDepartments.jspx to open it in the editor.
Drag the Departments data collection, and
drop it onto the page below the two existing
buttons. In the Create menu, choose Form ->
ADF Form. When the Edit Form Fields dialog
box appears, accept the defaults and click
OK. Finally, deploy the new DeptFlow Oracle
ADF library containing the task flow. Right-
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click the ViewController project, and choose
Deploy -> DeptFlow. When the Deploy
DeptFlow dialog box appears, click Finish. To
verify that everything has gone as expected,
select the Deployment tab of the Log window
and scroll to the bottom. You should see a
confirmation message like “Wrote Archive
Module to C:\FrameworksMayJun2010\
Libs\DeptFlow.jar.” Right-click the Libraries
file system connection in the Resource
Palette and choose Refresh to update the list
of available libraries.
USiNg A TASK FLOW FROM A LibRARy
With the deptflow task flow library now in
place, the last step is to integrate it into
the “main menu” page. Start by switching
the current workspace back to MainApp,
using the list at the top of the Application
Navigator. Double-click the Web Content
folder’s adfc-config node in the Application
Navigator to open it in the editor. Expand
the DeptFlow.jar node inside the Libraries
file system connection node in the Resource
Palette and the ADF Task Flows folder it
contains. Drag the deptflow task flow from
the Resource Palette, and drop it onto the
task flow diagram. Confirm the addition of
the Oracle ADF library by clicking Add Library
in the alert that appears. Choose View ->
Component Palette, and select the Control
Flow Case tool in the palette. Click the task
flow diagram’s Home activity, and then click
the deptflow task flow call activity to connect
the two activities with a control flow case.
Enter the name ManageDepartments on
the line. Double-click the Home activity to
open the page in the visual editor. Select
the Manage Departments commandLink
component on the page, and in the Property
Inspector, set its Action property value to
ManageDepartments to correspond to the
new control flow case you created.
When you use the Resource Palette
to add a component from an Oracle ADF
library, Oracle JDeveloper automatically
adjusts your current project’s library list to
include the library JAR file and any JAR files
that library depends on. To confirm this,
double-click the ViewController project and
select the Libraries and Classpath page of
the Project Properties dialog box. Scroll to
the bottom of the Classpath Entries list,
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and note that two new libraries have been
added to the list. The Oracle ADF library
contains the path(s) to the Oracle ADF
library JAR file(s) on which the project is
directly dependent. The Oracle ADF Library
Dependencies library contains the path(s)
to the library JAR files that are required by
the direct dependencies. If you select the
ADF Library entry in the list and click Edit,
you will be able to see that this project
depends directly on the EmpFlow.jar and
DeptFlow.jar libraries that contain the task
flows being called by the main menu page.
Click Cancel, select ADF Library
Dependencies, and click View. You can see
that this application indirectly depends on
the DeptFlowModel.jar and EmpFlowModel
.jar libraries that contain the task flow–
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OraCle DeVelOPer tOOls FOr Visual stuDiO

Time for a .NET Tune-Up

tune your .net application’s use of Oracle Database with
Oracle Developer tools for Visual studio.

D eveloping a .NET and Oracle applica-

tion in Microsoft Visual Studio follows a
typical lifecycle. It includes many steps, such
as creating users and roles, assigning
privileges, creating tables and stored proce-
dures, generating SQL scripts, writing .NET
code with Oracle Data Provider for .NET
(ODP.NET), and checking everything into
source control.
Another important phase of the develop-
ment lifecycle involves tuning your applica-
tion’s use of Oracle Database to maximize
performance. Luckily, tools that enhance per-
formance are among the major new features
in Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio
Release 11.1.0.7.20. Oracle Performance
Analyzer analyzes your application’s use of
Oracle Database under load and provides
recommendations for resolving performance
problems. SQL Tuning Advisor tunes SQL—
both ad hoc SQL typed in at development
time and SQL flagged by Oracle Performance
Analyzer as poorly performing. These tools
leverage Oracle Database’s Automatic
Workload Repository (AWR) feature, which
captures database statistics, and Automatic
Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) feature,
which analyzes these statistics and generates
recommendations for fixing problems.
In this article, we will use these tools to
help us clean up a poorly performing applica-
tion, aptly named ReallyBadCode.
SYSDBA privileges to use Oracle Performance
Analyzer, and the HR user will need the
ADVISOR privilege to use SQL Tuning Advisor.
The application we will develop requires
two new tables based on the HR schema.
From Visual Studio, right-click the root
node of Server Explorer and create a new
Oracle connection, as HR. Next, right-
click the HR connection and choose Query
Window. In the query window that opens,
enter create table employees2 as
select * from employees and click the
execute button (the green arrow in the query
window toolbar). Next, erase that statement,
enter create table departments2 as
select * from departments, and again
execute the statement.
tuning SQL
To follow along, download the Visual Studio
project associated with this article, available
at otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/10-may/
o30odpodt.zip. Open the Visual Studio
project; you’ll see that the bulk of the code
in the main source file (ReallyBadCode.cs) is
shown in Listing 1. Take a close look at it. It
creates a connection pool and then repeat-
edly executes a query, with the WHERE
clause in the query changing dynamically
with every loop. It then fetches all the data
for each query.
Consider the large query created against
the HR.EMPLOYEES, HR.DEPARTMENTS,
HR. EMPLOYEES2, and HR.DEPARTMENTS2
tables. Given that we’re still in the develop-
ment phase without access to real-world pro-
duction data, how can we tell if that query will
perform well? Well, one way is to put it into
SQL Tuning Advisor and see what comes back.
Copy and paste the query from the code
into the HR query window you opened earlier.
The query in the .NET code is missing a value
at the end of the WHERE clause, so just add
the number 0 at the end. Your query should
look like this:
select employees2.salary
from employees2, departments2
where employees2.department_id=
departments2.department_id
and employees2.salary <3000 union
select employees.salary
from employees, departments
where employees.department_
id=departments.department_id
and employees.salary =0;

Setup
To follow along with the example in this
article, you will need Oracle Data Access
Components Release 11.1.0.7.20 or later, a
bundle that includes both Oracle Developer
Tools for Visual Studio and ODP.NET. You will
also need Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or
2005, Oracle Database 10g or later with the
linDy GrOeninG

sample database (and HR schema) installed,

and licenses for both Oracle Diagnostics Pack
and Oracle Tuning Pack. You’ll also need Figure 1: SQl Tuning Advisor

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74 .NET
Locate the wrench icon in the query
window toolbar, and click it to launch SQL
Tuning Advisor (see Figure 1). Alternatively,
you can right-click anywhere in the query
window and select Tune SQL from the menu.
The exact result you get may vary,
depending on your database configuration.
But, as shown in Figure 1, you will most
likely see three results in the Tune SQL tab
at the bottom of the query window: one
RESTRUCTURE SQL and two STATISTICS
finding types. You can read the detailed
result descriptions by hovering your cursor
over the Recommendations column for each
finding. Alternatively, you can click the View
Report button, in the lower right corner of
the window, to open a text file that contains
additional details in an easy-to-read format.
In this example, the STATISTICS recom-
mendations warn that the DEPARTMENT2
and EMPLOYEES2 tables have not been
analyzed because statistics are not being
collected for them. To enable statistics col-
lection, simply highlight each STATISTICS
recommendation and click the Implement
Recommendation button for it.
Next, look at the RESTRUCTURE SQL rec-
ommendation. The text indicates a warning
that UNION is an expensive operation and
that you should use UNION ALL if possible.
So modify the SQL to use UNION ALL, and
then click the wrench icon again.
This time you should see some INDEX
warnings, which mean that you are missing
indexes. Again, the number of index rec-
ommendations you see here can vary,
depending on your system configuration. In
my case, I see four of them. Click the View
Report button to easily view all your INDEX
recommendations at once.
Next, go to the query window and paste the
CREATE INDEX statements suggested in your
report. Don’t erase the original SQL state-
ment from the query window, because you
will want to re-execute it later. By highlighting
each CREATE statement and then clicking
the execute arrow, you can have the query
window execute only the SQL you highlight.
Finally, highlight the original SQL state-
ment and click Tune SQL one more time. This
time, SQL Tuning Advisor should respond
with a “no recommendations” message. So
although it still isn’t a pretty piece of SQL,
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the performance is now probably as good as minutes for this particular test. Five minutes
we are going to get at design time. of database time (the actual time Oracle
Database spends processing our requests)
TunIng The RunnIng AppLIcATIon is required to receive any results, with more
Now, modify the SQL statement in the actual database time often resulting in better
application code to use the UNION ALL analysis. Generally database time is only a
statement that was recommended by SQL fraction of the actual time you set here.
Tuning Advisor. Change the password and Finally, click the Start button to begin the
datasource parameters in the connect string timer countdown. When the timer reaches
if needed, build the project, and then choose 0, the results (if any) will appear in the panel
Start Without Debugging from the Visual below. Don’t stop your application until
Studio Debug menu. you’ve verified that you have received good
Back in Server Explorer, create a new results as described below.
Oracle connection with SYSDBA privileges (if If sufficient time was spent in analysis,
you don’t have one). While the application you should see several findings listed in the
is still running, right-click the SYSDBA con- tree control on the left side of the lower pane
nection and select the oracle performance of Oracle Performance Analyzer (see Figure
Analyzer menu item to launch the Oracle 3). The key findings you should see are Hard
Performance Analyzer interface (see Figures Parse Due to Literal Usage and Session
2 and 3). Set the duration of the analysis in Connect and Disconnect. Sometimes both
hours and minutes. I recommend 20 to 30 findings will appear, and other times you
code listing 1: Main() function of the ReallyBadCode application
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string constr = “User Id=hr; Password=hr; Data Source=;
Max Pool Size = 50; Connection Lifetime = 1”;
int sal = 3000;
while (true)
{
sal++;
GC.Collect();
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
OracleConnection con = new OracleConnection(constr);
con.Open();
StringBuilder sbSQL = new StringBuilder();
sbSQL.Append(“select employees2.salary from employees2, departments2 where
employees2.department_id = departments2.department_id and
employees2.salary<3000
union select employees.salary from employees, departments where
employees.department_id = departments.department_id and
employees.salary = “);
sbSQL.Append(sal);
OracleCommand cmd = new OracleCommand();
cmd.Connection = con;
cmd.CommandText = sbSQL.ToString();
OracleDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
dr.FetchSize = 10;
while (dr.Read()) {
}
dr.Close();
}
}
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need to fix one finding and then rerun Oracle p_salary.OracleDbType = MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\ODP
Performance Analyzer to see the other. OracleDbType.Decimal; .NET\<your ODP.NET Version>, and set the
(In some cases, due to your specific data- p_salary.Value = sal; PerformanceCounters value to 4095 to
base or network configuration, you may be cmd.Parameters.Add(p_salary); enable all counters. (For more information,
missing one of these findings entirely.) see the ODP.NET online help.)
If you didn’t run the analysis long enough The Session Connect and Disconnect Next, with the .NET application running,
to receive either finding, you can rerun finding is a little more difficult to understand. run Windows’ Performance Monitor
Oracle Performance Analyzer for a longer After all, we are using connection pooling, (perfmon.exe). Click the + sign to add a
time period or find information later in the which by definition keeps connections open counter to watch, go to the Performance
article about how to extend the analysis time for us—excessive connections and discon- Object list and choose Oracle Data Provider
without having to start all over again. You nections should not be an issue. However, for .NET, and add HardConnectsPerSecond
might see additional findings, such as CPU given this clue, we can take advantage of as well as SoftConnectsPerSecond from the
Usage and Soft Parse, but as we shall see, ODP.NET’s performance counters to examine list of available counters.
these turn out to be side effects of the two the connection pool in action. To enable all Watching these counters makes it clear
primary problem findings and will disappear performance counters, run Registry Editor that hundreds of soft connects (requests from
once those issues are fixed. (regedit.exe), navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_ the pool for an already existing connection)
For each main finding, click each of the
child nodes in the tree control to read more
about each finding. Key information is usually
found in the Recommendations nodes’
Rationales pane (which happens to be blank
for these findings) and in the Description
field in the Action nodes. The Action node
for Hard Parse Due to Literal Usage has this
description: “Investigate application logic
for possible use of bind variables instead of
literals.” The Action node for Session Connect
and Disconnect states, “Investigate applica-
tion logic for possible reduction of connect and
disconnect calls. For example, you might use a
connection pool.”
The code makes it clear that we have
violated the most sacrosanct of all database
programming best practices: we have modi-
fied the SQL statement with literal strings
rather than bind variables! Without bind
variables, Oracle Database is generally forced
to reparse the entire SQL statement—a very Figure 2: launching oracle Performance analyzer from Server Explorer
costly operation—and key resources in the
form of open cursors for each statement are
consumed on the server. By using a bind
variable, we can cut this down to a single
parse and one open cursor.
To add a bind variable, first modify the
SQL statement to include the bind variable
placeholder “:salary”
Replace sbSQL.Append(sal); with
sbSQL.Append(“:salary”);
Next, add these lines of code just before
the call to ExecuteReader:

OracleParameter p_salary = new

OracleParameter(); Figure 3: oracle Performance analyzer

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76 .net
are occurring each second. Every few seconds,
though, several hard connections (real Oracle
Database authentications) occur. These hard
connections are what Oracle Performance
Analyzer is complaining about. Even a few
unneeded hard connections per second can
spoil performance, and with a properly tuned
connection pool, this should not happen.
To resolve the problem, go back to the
code and examine the connection pool con-
nection string attributes—starting with the
Connection Lifetime attribute. By specifying
this attribute and setting it to one second,
we have unwittingly designated that all
connections returned to the pool that have
been alive for more than one second will get
hard-disconnected from Oracle Database and
destroyed rather than put back into the pool.
Furthermore, because we are not per-
forming a Close() and Dispose() on the con-
nection objects when we are done with them
(another ODP.NET best practice), the garbage
collector takes longer than one second to
return the connection to the pool. When this
happens, one of the next requests for a con-
nection from the pool will necessarily result in
a hard connect. Not good.
We can fix this problem by either greatly
increasing the connection string value
or removing it entirely. Because it’s not
really needed in this example, delete the
Connection Lifetime attribute reference.
Next, add con.Close() and con.Dispose()
to the end of the program to address the
garbage collector issue mentioned above.
Finally, reset the registry entry of the perfor-
mance counters to 0 to turn them off, lest
they contribute to bad performance.
Tuning is an iterative process. When you
fix one problem, you often uncover others.
So it is important to repeatedly tune, fix, and
repeat until no more problems are found.
For this example, build and run the modified
application and then run Oracle Performance
Analyzer again.
This time when the timer counts down
and the results are displayed, you should see
an Unusual Network Wait Event finding with
the following description: “Investigate the
cause for high ‘SQL*Net message to client’
waits.” (Note: depending on your specific
database and networking configuration, you
may not receive this finding.) Looking up
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more information about these waits reveals
that the application is likely suffering from
low SQL*Net throughput. Now look at the
code and note the Fetchsize setting, 10. That
setting specifies only 10 bytes of data per
round-trip, whereas the default fetch size is
about 130K! It looks as if someone dropped a
zero or two.
Remove the Fetchsize code (so it will use
the default), and run Oracle Performance
Analyzer again. This time you should have
no significant results, so you are done tuning
(for now). If you would like to see the results
of prior Oracle Performance Analyzer runs,
look in the ADDM Tasks node (found in
Server Explorer under the schema of the user
running Oracle Performance Analyzer) and
double-click the task in which you are inter-
ested to redisplay the results.
PerforMAnce AnAlysis WiThouT using
The TiMer inTerfAce
So far we have used only the Oracle
Performance Analyzer timer interface to do
the performance analysis. Internally, this
interface first creates what is called an AWR
snapshot when the timer is started. This snap-
shot is a collection of statistics. Then a second
snapshot is created when the timer expires
and an ADDM task is created, with the two
snapshots defining the analysis period. The
actual analysis of the snapshots occurs within
the ADDM task. The results of the ADDM task
analysis are immediately displayed in the
Oracle Performance Analyzer window. The
AWR snapshots and ADDM tasks are then
listed in Server Explorer (see Figure 2).
Using the Server Explorer nodes, menus,
and dialog boxes, it is possible to perform
these steps manually instead of using the
timer. You can create an AWR snapshot by
going to the AWr snapshots Server Explorer
node, right-clicking, and choosing new AWr
snapshot. The dialog box that appears gives
you the option of two levels of statistics gath-
ering, Typical or All. One benefit of manually
creating snapshots is that you have the option
of collecting a larger number of statistics if you
so choose. (However, gathering all statistics
does affect database performance).
After creating one snapshot, wait until the
desired analysis time has elapsed and then
create a second one. Then right-click the new
snapshot node in Server Explorer and choose
new ADDM Task . The dialog box that appears
will ask for two snapshots, identified by the
times they were taken. After you provide them
and click oK, the analysis will be displayed in
the Oracle Performance Analyzer window.
This manual method enables you to
avoid waiting the entire time again when
you use the timer and end up with too little
database time to get the desired results. If
that happens, simply keep the application
running and wait a bit longer. Then create a
new AWR snapshot and a new ADDM task.
In the New ADDM Task dialog box, select the
original snapshot created by the timer as the
starting time and the new snapshot you just
created as the ending time. Another benefit
of this manual method is that you have the
flexibility of shutting down or restarting
Visual Studio during the analysis period if
necessary, because the timer is not running.
suMMAry
In this article, we simulated part of the
development lifecycle of an Oracle Database
and .NET application by testing ad hoc SQL
as well as running performance tests of the
application under load. The new SQL Tuning
Advisor and Oracle Performance Analyzer
features of Oracle Developer Tools for Visual
Studio make it easy for Visual Studio devel-
opers to handle these key tasks as part of the
overall job of building an Oracle Database
and .NET application. 
christian Shay (christian.shay@oracle.com)
is a principal product manager at Oracle.
next StePS
reaD more Shay
cshay.blogspot.com
DOWnlOaD
ODP.net and Oracle Developer tools for
Visual Studio
otn.oracle.com/software/tech/windows/odpnet
the sample application for this article
otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/10-may/
o30odpodt.zip
learn more about Oracle and .net
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Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide
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 Database Application Developer | PL/SQL Best PrActice PL/sQL By Steven FeuerStein 77

OraCLe DataBaSe 11g reLeaSe 2

on Working in Parallel
Finish faster with DBMS_ParaLLeL_eXeCute.

I have to perform DML [data manipula-

tion language] operations on millions of
rows of data. Writing the SQL statement to
• RUN_TASK runs the named task after
chunking has been defined.
• TASK_STATUS obtains the status of the task.
Suppose I need to apply a raise in salary
(specified by a percentage) to all the
employees in our company. In case my paral-
perform the changes isn’t hard, but man- • STOP_TASK stops the task. lelized task fails for some reason, I want to
aging rollback segments and getting the • RESUME_TASK resumes the task. be able to retry a specified number of times
process to finish in an acceptable amount of • DROP_TASK removes the task when it has to complete it.
time are. Does Oracle Database 11g Release been completed. Listing 1 displays the code for imple-
2 offer any new features that can help? All these subprograms and any others in menting a parallelized apply_raise procedure.
Each new version of Oracle Database DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE—except for Table 1 explains the use of DBMS_
brings an ever-widening array of built- TASK_STATUS—perform a commit. PARALLEL_EXECUTE subprograms in the
in or supplied packages that extend the Let’s look at a few examples of how to apply_raise procedure in Listing 1. The steps
capabilities of Oracle Database. Oracle use this package. We will start with the in lines 6 through 28 create the task, specify
Database 11g Release 2 is no exception: it simplest approach: chunking by ROWID. chunking, and run the task. If you are sure
contains more than 50 new packages (all
documented in Oracle Database PL/SQL code Listing 1: Chunking by rOWiD in the apply_raise procedure
Packages and Types Reference), including
DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE. SQL> PROCEDURE apply_raise (
DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE now pro- 2 pct_in IN NUMBER
3 , retries_in IN PLS_INTEGER DEFAULT 2
vides the ability to break up a large table 4 )
according to a variety of criteria, from 5 IS
ROWID ranges to key values and user- 6 c_update_statement CONSTANT VARCHAR2 (1000)
7 := ‘UPDATE /*+ ROWID (dda) */ EMPLOYEES emp
defined methods. You can then run a SQL 8 SET emp.salary = emp.salary * (1.0 + pct_in/100)
statement or a PL/SQL block against these 9 WHERE ROWID BETWEEN :starting_rowid AND :ending_rowid’;
different “chunks” of the table in parallel, 10 c_task_name CONSTANT VARCHAR2 (20) := ‘Give Raise’;
11 l_attempts PLS_INTEGER := 1;
using the database scheduler to manage 12 BEGIN
the processes running in the background. 13 DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.CREATE_TASK (c_task_name);
Error logging, automatic retries, and 14
15 DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.
commits are integrated into the processing 16 CREATE_CHUNKS_BY_ROWID (task_name => c_task_name
of these chunks. 17 , table_owner => USER
To use DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE to run 18 , table_name => ‘EMPLOYEES’
19 , by_row => TRUE
tasks in parallel, your schema will need the 20 , chunk_size => 1000
CREATE JOB system privilege. You can then 21 );
use the following subprograms of the built-in 22
23 DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.
package (these are the most commonly used 24 RUN_TASK (task_name => c_task_name
of the package’s routines) to achieve your goal: 25 , sql_stmt => c_update_statement
• CREATE_TASK creates a named task to be 26 , language_flag => DBMS_SQL.native
27 , parallel_level => 10
managed by DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE. 28 );
• CREATE_CHUNKS_BY_ROWID defines by 29
ROWID the various chunks of the total set of 30 LOOP
31 EXIT WHEN DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.TASK_STATUS (c_task_name) <>
rows to be modified by the SQL statement. 32 DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.FINISHED
• CREATE_CHUNKS_BY_SQL defines, by 33 OR l_attempts > retries_in;
a user-specified SQL statement, the 34 l_attempts := l_attempts + 1;
35 DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.RESUME_TASK (c_task_name);
chunking of data. 36 END LOOP;
• CREATE_CHUNKS_BY_NUMBER_COL 37
defines, by a numeric column, the 38 DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.DROP_TASK (c_task_name);
39* END apply_raise;
chunking of data.

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the task will complete or if you do not want

to recover from any failures, you can simply
columns—start_id and end_id—both of
which must be ROWIDs or numbers. Each
With new features of
proceed to line 38 and drop the task. row retrieved from this query against the Oracle Database 11g
Given that any number of errors can
occur during execution of DML statements,
“chunking table” must specify the start and
end values of the chunk.
release 2, it is much
however, you may want to build into your Suppose I want to execute my update easier to parallelize
parallel task execution the ability to check
the status of the task and resume it if a
against employees by ranges of department
IDs. I can create a chunking table (see Listing
execution of DmL
failure has occurred. Lines 30 through 2) and then modify my apply_raise proce- operations.
35 in the apply_raise procedure address dure. To do this, first I change the WHERE
that challenge. clause of the update statement to specify Then I define the query used to specify the
As you can see, DBMS_PARALLEL_ ranges of department IDs: chunking rows:
EXECUTE offers an elegant, high-level API
for specifying the parallel execution of a c_update_statement c_chunk_statement
DML statement. CONSTANT VARCHAR2 (1000) CONSTANT VARCHAR2 (1000)
:= ‘UPDATE EMPLOYEES emp := ‘SELECT start_id, end_id
Chunking by user sQL statement SET emp.salary = FROM department_chunks’;
As an alternative to chunking by ROWID, emp.salary * (1.0 + pct_in/100)
you can provide your own query to specify WHERE department_id Finally, I create chunks by this SQL state-
how you want your data chunked and modi- BETWEEN :starting_deptid ment, specifying that ROWIDs are not used:
fied in parallel. The query must contain two AND :ending_deptid’ ;
DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.
CREATE_CHUNKS_BY_SQL (
Line(s) significance
task_name => c_task_name
6 The SQL statement that performs the required update. The hint explicitly chooses a table scan by rowid for the
employees table. I also include two placeholders (:starting_rowid and :ending_rowid). This statement will be executed , sql_stmt => c_chunk_statement
with DBMS_SQL, and the placeholders will be replaced with specific ROWID values as determined by chunk size , by_rowid => FALSE
(see line 20).
);
10 Defining the task name in a constant to avoid using the hard-coded literal throughout the program.
13 Creating the new task. The remainder of the apply_raise proce-
15–21 Specifying chunking by ROWID for this task and the specified table. The by_row parameter is set to TRue so that the dure remains unchanged.
chunk size (next argument) refers to the number of rows, not the number of blocks (by_row = FaLSe).
23–28 Running this task for the specified uPDaTe statement with 10 simultaneous jobs.
Chunking by numeriC CoLumn
30–33 Starting up a simple loop. exit the loop if the task status returns “finished” (specified through a package constant) or if If the table I am changing contains a numeric
the number of attempts exceeds the retry parameter.
column whose values can be used to define
35 Calling the ReSuMe_TaSK procedure to resume the task, finishing any incomplete tasks.
the ranges of rows to be updated in parallel, I
38 Dropping the task when it is completed or retries are exhausted. can specify chunking with this procedure:
table 1: Use of DBms_ParaLLeL_eXecUte subprograms in the apply_raise procedure
DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.CREATE_
code Listing 2: Creating a chunking table CHUNKS_BY_NUMBER_COL (
task_name IN VARCHAR2,

CREATE TABLE department_chunks (start_id INTEGER, end_id INTEGER) table_owner IN VARCHAR2,

/ table_name IN VARCHAR2,
table_column IN VARCHAR2,
BEGIN
INSERT INTO department_chunks chunk_size IN NUMBER);
VALUES (1, 500);
In other words, I simply need to provide
INSERT INTO department_chunks
VALUES (501, 1000); the name of the numeric column. Oracle
Database 11g Release 2 then computes
INSERT INTO department_chunks the MIN and MAX values of the specified
VALUES (1001, 1500);
column and divides the ranges evenly, as
COMMIT; specified by the chunk size. To implement
END; this approach, I would change the original
/
apply_raise procedure.

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First, I change the WHERE clause of
the update statement to specify ranges of
department IDs:
c_update_statement
CONSTANT VARCHAR2 (1000)
:= ‘UPDATE EMPLOYEES emp
SET emp.salary =
emp.salary * (1.0 + pct_in/100)
WHERE department_id
BETWEEN :starting_deptid
AND :ending_deptid’ ;
Next, I create chunks by the department_
id column:
DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE.
CREATE_CHUNKS_BY_NUMBER_COL (
task_name => c_task_name
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, table_owner => USER
, table_name => ‘EMPLOYEES’
, table_column => ‘DEPARTMENT_ID’
, chunk_size => 1000
);
The remainder of the apply_raise proce-
dure remains unchanged.
DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE provides
many more subprograms and supports many
more features than can be covered in this
column. For example, rather than simply
asking to run a task with RUN_TASK, you can
control chunk execution by getting a specific
chunk with GET_ROWID_CHUNK and then
executing it with EXECUTE IMMEDIATE. You
can then immediately resolve any errors and
decide if you want to commit the changes.
This introduction to DBMS_PARALLEL_
EXECUTE should make it clear that with Oracle
Database 11g Release 2, it is much easier to
parallelize execution of DML operations. 
79
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Quest Software’s
PL/SQL evangelist. He
has published 10 books
on Oracle’s programming
language, including
Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle PL/SQL
Best Practices (O’Reilly Media). Feuerstein’s self-
appointed mission in life these days is to improve
the quality and quantity of PL/SQL code testing.
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Oracle WarehOuse builder 11g release 2

oracle Warehouse
Builder 11g release 2 and
Heterogeneous Databases
use code template mappings to transform non-Oracle
database data at the source.

D evelopers using Oracle Warehouse

Builder have always been able to
leverage the features and scalability of Oracle
• Oracle target code templates, for encap-
sulating database-resident mapping (for-
merly known as Oracle Warehouse Builder
through the code template framework.
Source platforms that work out of the
box with code templates include Oracle
Database to load, transform, and store their mapping) logic and making it available in Database, files, IBM DB2 UDB, and
data warehouse data. Oracle Warehouse a code template mapping Microsoft SQL Server, and support for other
Builder provides a graphical point-and-click • Function code templates, for deploying platforms such as Oracle Essbase and
environment that helps you easily map data functions, packages, and procedures in a MySQL can be added through Oracle meta-
between sources and targets with a set of code template mapping base scripting.
rich SQL and PL/SQL transformations and Code templates provide the technology Developers can still choose to access
manage the full data warehouse project foundation for three key new Oracle non-Oracle databases through gateways or
lifecycle, from capture of the data model to Warehouse Builder features: heterogeneous Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), but
deployment across multiple environments. database support, support for CDC, and the new code template framework makes
Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release support for code template mappings. setting up connections to other databases
2 extends this capability to non-Oracle Heterogeneous database support. Oracle easier and does not require configuration
sources and targets by leveraging tech- Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2 sup- steps outside of Oracle Warehouse Builder.
nology from another Oracle product, Oracle ports access to a range of Oracle Database Support for CDC. Oracle Database has had
Data Integrator. Code templates based on instances and non-Oracle databases native capabilities for the identification and
Oracle Data Integrator knowledge modules
implement best practices for connecting
to, extracting, validating, and integrating
data from a wide range of databases and
middleware sources. Code templates use a
mix of languages and substitution variables
to leverage the native capabilities of various
datasources. You can also write new code
templates for features or datasources not
built into Oracle Warehouse Builder.
Code templates that handle various
aspects of the extract, transform, and load
(ETL) process come in six categories:
• Load code templates, for extracting data
from sources
• Integration code templates, for integrating
(loading) data into targets
• Control code templates, for validating and
checking data quality
• Change data capture (CDC) code tem-
plates, for tracking new and changed data
in source tables Figure 1: specifying the sQl server database location

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transportation of new and changed data

from datasources since Oracle9i Database.
CDC code templates remove the complexity
of identifying such data, through tech-
niques such as mining the source database
redo log or applying triggers to capture
changes prior to a database commit. The
code templates that ship with Oracle
Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2 provide
this functionality for several Oracle and
non-Oracle database datasources. Select
the tables for which to track changes when
defining your database module, and Oracle
Warehouse Builder will handle the technical
details in the background.
Code template mappings. Probably the
most significant new feature for Oracle
Warehouse Builder developers, though,
is support for code template mappings.
Code template mappings combine the
familiarity and flexibility of traditional Figure 2: creating the template mapping module

Oracle Warehouse Builder mappings (now

called database-resident mappings) with
the integration possibilities provided by
code templates.
For example, with code template map-
pings, you can extract data natively from
a non-Oracle database; perform a JOIN
between tables directly on the source data-
base platform; and then load the result,
using a MERGE statement, into an Oracle
Database instance, thereby following SQL
best practices at both the source and the
target. The remainder of this article steps
through a simple example.
Code TemplaTe mapping example:
Cross-plaTform daTa inTegraTion
Let’s take two Microsoft SQL Server 2005
tables containing customer and address
data, join them, and then incremen-
tally load data from them into an Oracle
Database 11g table.
To work through this example, you
need Oracle Database 11g Release 2
(which comes with Oracle Warehouse
Builder 11g Release 2 already installed)
or you can install the Oracle Warehouse
Builder 11g Release 2 standalone soft-
ware in an Oracle Database 10g Release
1 (or higher) instance. To use the default
Oracle Warehouse Builder schema in an
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 installation,
Figure 3: code template mapping logical view
unlock the OWBSYS and OWBSYS_AUDIT
accounts. Among other things, the
OWBSYS account (or another schema you
might have created for the same purpose)
consists of the repository that houses the
workspaces and workspace users. In turn,
each workspace contains one or more
projects. To get started, run the Repository
Assistant to create a workspace and a
project to use for this example. See the
Oracle Warehouse Builder Installation and
Administration Guide for details.
preliminary setup. In addition to Oracle
Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2, you need
the source Microsoft SQL Server database
and Microsoft’s JDBC driver, which enables
Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2 to
connect natively to Microsoft SQL Server
2005. Download Microsoft SQL Server
2005 JDBC Driver 1.0 from the Microsoft
Web site. Uncompress the archive, and copy
the sqljdbc.jar file from the package to the
$OWBHOME/owb/lib/ext directory.
The built-in code templates that access
non-Oracle database data consist of Java
code that executes in a Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition (J2EE) container on
the Control Center Agent (also new in this
release), the J2EE runtime included with
Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2.
Code template mappings are deployed to
the Control Center Agent. A module that
ties connection and process to the agent is
defined during the course of this example, so
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To start the Control Center Agent, execute
the ccastart script within the $OWBHOME/
owb/bin/unix or $OWBHOME/owb/bin/
windows directory:
oracle@ora11g cd /u01/app/oracle/
product/11.2.0/owb11gR2/owb/bin/
unixoracle@ora11g ./ccastart
The first time the Control Center Agent
is started, you must enter a password
for the Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J)
Administrator account. You will need the
password later in this example, so make a
note of it.
With the server components in place, we
can turn to the Oracle Warehouse Builder
client application, Design Center, to get
started creating the modules—the con-
tainers that identify a location and define the
load, transform, or other actions—we’ll need
for this integration.
Step 1: Create the SQL Server source module.
To begin, do the following:
1. Log in to the Design Center applica-
tion as a workspace user. In the Projects
pane, open your project and locate the
Databases node.
2. Double-click the Databases node to
display the list of available platforms.
3. Right-click the SQL Server node, and
select New -> SQL Server Module to
launch the Create Module wizard.
4. Name the module SS_SOURCE, and
select Native Database Connection for
the access method to use the native
JDBC drivers.
5. Click OK to continue. The wizard prompts
you to create a new database location.
6. Accept the default name, SS_SOURCE_
LOCATION1, and complete the other
connection details for the SQL Server
database, as shown in Figure 1. For this
example, the location details are as
follows:
User Name: SA (the default system
administrator account in SQL Server
2005)
Password: password (change this to
the relevant password for your source
database)
Host: 172.16.233.130 (again, change
as appropriate)
Port: 1433
Database Name: SampleDB (change as
appropriate)
Schema: dbo (the default “database
owner” schema in SQL Server 2005)
Version: 9.0 (also supports 7.0 and 8.0)
7. When the connection details are correct,
click OK to close the dialog box. On the
next page of the wizard, check the Import
after Finish check box to automatically
start the metadata import process when
this wizard finishes.
8. Click Next, and click Finish to close
the Create Module wizard. The Import
Metadata wizard launches.
9. Select Table for Object Type, and then
select the tables whose metadata you
want to import. For this example, my
tables are CUSTOMERS and ADDRESSES.
10. Click Next, and click Finish to complete
this process.
Step 2: Create the Oracle Database target
module. The Oracle Database target module
identifies the location of the Oracle Database
instance and the table for the transformed
data. For this example, because we are using
a MERGE transformation to incrementally
load the data, the table requires a primary
key. To create this module in your project
1. Right-click the Oracle node in the
Databases list (under the Project
Navigator in Design Center).
2. Select New -> Oracle Module to launch
the Create Module wizard.
3. Name the module CUST_DW.
4. Enter the connection details for the target
database. Select Import after Finish to
launch the Import Metadata wizard when
the Create Module wizard finishes.
5. After defining the module, create (or
import) the metadata for your target
table. For this example, I’ve named the
target CUSTOMERS_FULL.
Step 3: Create the template mapping
module. To take advantage of the new het-
erogeneous connectivity features in Oracle
Warehouse Builder, you must create your
data mapping as a code template mapping.
Code template mappings are created in the
Template Mappings area of a project. Before
you can create a code template mapping,
however, you must define a template
mapping module that connects to a Control
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Center Agent, as follows:
1. In the Project Navigator of the Design
Center, locate the Template Mappings
node within your project.
2. Right-click the Template Mappings node,
and select New Mapping Module to
launch the Create Module wizard.
3. Enter a name for the new module.
For this example, we’ll use
DEFAULT_AGENT.
4. Click Next to continue. You are prompted
to create a location pointing to a Control
Center Agent.
5. Click the Edit button to create the loca-
tion, and enter the connection details for
the Control Center Agent, as shown in
Figure 2. For example,
User Name: oc4jadmin
Password: welcome1 (password you
entered in “Preliminary Setup”)
Host: ora11g.rittman (change as
appropriate)
Port: 23791
Port Type: RMI
Instance Name: <leave blank>
Application Name: jrt
HTTP Port: 8888
With the source, target, and container
modules defined, you can now create the
code template mapping.
From the Projects pane, right-click
the DEFAULT_AGENT template mapping
module created in the previous steps and
select New Mapping.
1. Enter a name for the mapping, such as
SAMPLE_CODE_TEMPLATE_MAP.
2. Click OK to create the empty mapping.
3. Add the two SQL Server source tables to
the mapping canvas.
4. Add a joiner transformation operator to
the mapping canvas.
5. Connect the two source tables to the joiner.
6. Define the JOIN condition.
7. Add the Oracle Database target table to
the mapping.
8. Connect the Oracle Database target table
to the joiner transformation, so that the
mapping looks like that in Figure 3.
9. Click the Oracle Database target table
within the mapping, and locate the
Property Inspector pane, which should
now be showing the list of properties for
the table.
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10. Within this list of properties, locate the
Conditional Loading group and ensure
that Match by Constraints is set to
ALL_CONSTRAINTS.
The logical view is complete, so we can
now define the execution view.
Step 4: Create the execution view for the
code template mapping. Execution units
are new in this release of Oracle Warehouse
Builder. They are used to associate related
mapping operations with a specific code
template. This particular code template
mapping requires two execution units: one
that executes on the SQL Server source
and another that executes on the Oracle
Database target.
After defining the execution units, you
will use two code templates to perform the
data mapping:
• LCT_SQL_TO_ORACLE, a load code tem-
plate that extracts from any generic SQL
database source and loads into a tempo-
rary Oracle Database table
• DEFAULT_ORACLE_TARGET_CT, an Oracle
Database target code template that acts
as a “wrapper” around classic Oracle
Warehouse Builder SQL and PL/SQL
mapping functionality
To create these two execution units and
assign their code templates, return to the
Design Center. With your mapping open
and with Execution View selected, click the
Default Execution Units button in the top
left corner. The two execution units needed
for this project are created automatically.
1. With Execution View selected, click the
SS_SOURCE_LOCATION1_EU execution
unit. A multitabbed panel appears by
default, under Execution View.
2. Locate the SS_SOURCE_LOCATION_EU –
Code Template tab under Execution View.
3. Select the Integration/Load Code
Template subtab, and then choose the
PUBLIC_PROJECT/BUILT_IN_CT/LCT_
SQL_TO_ORACLE code template.
4. Repeat this process for the CUST_DW_
LOCATION_EU execution unit (which
runs on the target Oracle Database
instance ), but select the PUBLIC_
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ORACLE_TARGET_CT code template.
Step 5: Deploy the code template mapping.
The mapping is now ready to deploy to the
Control Center Agent, where it will run. There
are a couple of different ways to do this; the
simpler one is to open the Control Center
Manager from the Tools menu of Design
Center and then do the following in the
Control Center navigation tree:
1. Expand the project node under which you
created the code template mapping, and
then expand the location node associated
with the mapping module containing the
code template mapping.
2. Expand the mapping module node con-
taining the code template mapping.
3. Select the code template mapping created
in Step 4, and in the Object Details panel,
select Create as the Deploy Action.
4. Click the deploy icon.
Check for any warnings or errors that
may be generated during deployment, but
you can safely ignore any VLD_2753 and
VLD-2752 warnings on the source execution
unit—they will be suppressed in a future
patch release.
Finally, run your code template mapping
and check that data has been transferred
as expected into your Oracle Database
instance. As with database-resident map-
pings, you can start and then monitor
the progress of your mapping, using the
Control Center Manager, or you can start
it directly from within the Project Navigator.
For this example, we’ll run the template
mapping from the Project Navigator and
then display the results of the execution
in the log.
Step 6: Execute the code template mapping.
In the final step, do the following:
1. Select the SAMPLE_CODE_TEMPLATE
mapping within the Projects pane, right-
click it, and select Start.
2. The code template mapping executes.
You can watch the progress of the execu-
tion in the Log pane.
Note that the first time you run this
mapping, some of the steps relating to work
table creation may display a warning (excla-
mation mark) icon because the mapping
drops a work (temporary) table before creating
it in a subsequent step (standard practice).
The Best of Both Worlds
As you have seen in this example, the new
code template mapping capability enables
you to leverage the strengths of non-Oracle
source databases without losing the benefits
of classic Oracle Warehouse Builder integra-
tion, load, and control code mappings. Oracle
Database–specific transformation operators—
such as dimension operators, cube operators,
and match-merge operators—can be used
with the new code templates to support both
heterogeneous and Oracle Database–specific
data transformations.
By mixing and matching database-
resident and code template mappings in
your process flows, you can create data inte-
gration processes that leverage the capabili-
ties of both types of mapping. Check out the
Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2
documentation on Oracle Technology
Network for more details.
Code templates bring the heterogeneous
data connectivity and data integration capa-
bilities of Oracle Data Integrator into the
Oracle Warehouse Builder toolset, giving you
the ability to load, validate, and integrate
data across a wider range of datasources.
Best of all, because code templates are
written with a well-documented template
language and a set of substitution variables,
you can extend them or write your own to
suit your own particular circumstances. 
Mark Rittman is an Oracle ACE director
and cofounder of Rittman Mead Consulting, a
U.K.-based Oracle partner providing specialized
business intelligence, data warehousing, and
performance management solutions.
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oRaCLe DaTabaSe 11g ReLeaSe 2

looking at edition-Based
redefinition, Part 3
our technologist concludes his exploration of
edition-based Redefinition.

I n the last issue of Oracle Magazine

(March/April 2010), I continued to
describe what I consider to be the killer
feature of Oracle Database 11g Release 2:
Edition-Based Redefinition. If you recall from
the last issue, Edition-Based Redefinition
gives you the ability to perform an online
application upgrade of your application.
This is the third and final installment of a
series of columns examining this new feature.
If you have not read the prior two installments,
I encourage you to do so before reading this
tioning view in each edition retrieves just the
columns from the table that the application
using the particular edition needs.
Let’s begin by recapping where we are in
our example. We have an application table
we are going to use in the standard sample
schema HR: the EMPLOYEES table, specifi-
cally. This master list of all employees for
some company includes attributes such
as their first names, last names, e-mail
addresses, and phone numbers. We’ll
pretend that this table has historically
chased and is now part of a global company.
To adhere to the standards of the new parent
company, the purchased company must
change how it stores phone numbers. It
will now store and display all numbers in
two fields: a country code field and a phone
number field. So for example, using two
sample phone numbers, the before and after
storage would be
Before After
PHone_numbeR CounTRy_CoDe PHone#

column, because this column builds on the been part of an application for a U.S.-based 650.507.9876 +1 650.507.9876

example we’ve been working with. company so the phone numbers are stored 011.44.1644.429262 +44 1644.429262

Last time, our application upgrade was
not just a simple patch of our application.
It not only replaced some PL/SQL units
(patching) but also updated the physical
structure of a table involved in our applica-
tion. It was a true application upgrade that
included changes to objects whose type
is editionable (our PL/SQL units in the
example) and also to some objects whose
type is not editionable (our table structures).
The following object types are editionable:
• Synonyms
• Views (including editioning views, which
we’ll define below)
• All PL/SQL object types (functions, proce-
dures, packages, and so on)
All other types of database objects are
noneditionable. By deliberate design, a table
can never be an editioned object. That’s
because it holds data and the developer
needs to decide explicitly which data (that is,
which table columns) will be unchanged by
the upgrade and which table columns will be
replaced. Recall from the previous column
that to create the illusion (to our application)
that a table is editioned, we hide physical
schema changes to it with an editioning view.
The different occurrence of the same edi-
in a format a U.S.-based company would rec-
ognize easily. U.S. phone numbers are stored Now this small change (but there is no
with just an area code and then the seven- such thing as a small change, really) involves
digit number—for example, 650.507.9876. a couple of steps. Specifically, we have to
International numbers are stored in a format • Modify the schema so the EMPLOYEE table
that has the U.S. escape code (used to dial has two new columns: COUNTRY_CODE
an international number) followed by the and PHONE#
country code and then the phone number— • Modify the schema so the EMPLOYEE table
for example, 011.44.1644.429262. doesn’t have a PHONE_NUMBER column
But this fictitious company has been pur- anymore
code listing 1: Increasing the size of the emPLoyeeS_RT table
SQL> insert into employees
2 select * from
3 (
4 with data(r)
5 as
6 (select 1 r from dual
7 union all
8 select r+1 from data where r <= 100
9 )
10 select rownum+(select max(employee_id)
11 from employees_rt),
12 FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME, EMAIL,
13 PHONE_NUMBER, HIRE_DATE, JOB_ID,
14 SALARY, COMMISSION_PCT, MANAGER_ID,
15 DEPARTMENT_ID
16 from employees_rt, data
17 );
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• Create a new index on PHONE# for a search of an editioning view. That view provided application release—in effect enabling us to
screen (and maybe other indexes as well, a buffer between our application code and virtually drop the PHONE_NUMBER column
but we’ll stick with just one index) the underlying physical schema. The edi- in version 2 of our application—without
• Mass-move the existing data from tioning view we introduced in the example, affecting version 1.
PHONE_NUMBER to COUNTRY_CODE and coupled with the nonblocking fast add We also created a new index on the newly
PHONE# column feature of Oracle Database 11g added columns, using the ONLINE and
• Replace the application code in the data- Release 1 and above, enabled us to add the INVISIBLE capabilities. Starting with Oracle
base that relies on the PHONE_NUMBER two new columns without having any impact Database 11g Release 1, the CREATE INDEX
column on the existing application. The editioning ONLINE operation is 100 percent online—it
In my previous column, we walked view also enabled us to hide the existing never locks the table at any point, as it did
through the concept and implementation PHONE_NUMBER column from the new in prior releases. The new INVISIBLE option
enables us to create the index without
code listing 2: Reviewing the data in eMPLOyeeS_RT affecting query plans in the existing applica-
tion version. We used this option because
adding an index could make some queries go
SQL> select phone_number, country_code, phone#
2 from employees_rt faster, others run at the same speed, and yet
3 where country_code is null a third category of queries go slower. Because
4 and rownum <= 5
we didn’t test the existing application query
5 union all
6 select phone_number, country_code, phone# plans with this new index, we wanted to keep
7 from employees_rt the new index hidden.
8 where country_code is NOT null
We left the example in the last issue at
9 and rownum <= 5;
the “mass-move the existing data” stage.
PHONE_NUMBER COUNTRY_CODE PHONE# We described how a single mass update to
—————————————————————————— ——————————————————— ———————————————————
move the data would tend to lock the entire
650.507.9833
650.507.9844 table. During the mass update, all other
515.123.4444 transactions against the EMPLOYEES table
515.123.5555
would be blocked; version 1 of the applica-
603.123.6666
011.44.1344.429268 +44 1344.429268 tion would, in fact, be offline. Additionally,
011.44.1344.467268 +44 1344.467268 once the single mass update was complete,
011.44.1344.429278 +44 1344.429278
if the existing (version 1) application inserted
011.44.1344.619268 +44 1344.619268
011.44.1344.429018 +44 1344.429018 a new row or modified the PHONE_NUMBER
column in an existing record, those changes
10 rows selected.
would not be reflected in the new columns.
SQL> select count(*), We would lose those changes.
2 count(distinct dbms_rowid.rowid_block_number(rowid)) cnt_blk In order to overcome these obstacles,
3 from employees
we looked at two new features. First we
4 /
discussed the DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE
package. (We first looked at that feature,
COUNT(*) CNT_BLK
which I nicknamed “do-it-yourself paral-
—————————————— ————————————
11118 138 lelism,” in Oracle Magazine, November/
December 2009, otn.oracle.com/oramag/
code listing 3: Creating chunks for the mass update oracle/09-nov/o69asktom.html). Using
DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE, we’ll be able
SQL> begin to update every row in the table in tiny
2 dbms_parallel_execute.create_task(‘update employees_rt’); ”chunks,” using whatever degree of paral-
3 dbms_parallel_execute.create_chunks_by_rowid lelism we desire—anywhere from parallel 1
4 ( task_name => ‘update employees_rt’,
5 table_owner => user, (serial) to 1,000—and hence we will never
6 table_name => ‘EMPLOYEES_RT’, have to lock the entire table but, rather, will
7 by_row => false, lock only a chunk at a time. Second, we intro-
8 chunk_size => 10);
9 end; duced a new trigger type: the crossedition
10 / trigger. Crossedition triggers will be used
only during the application upgrade process
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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sible after the upgrade process is complete).
Crossedition triggers can be used to forward
a change from the old version of the applica-
tion to the new version. They can also be used
to reverse a change made by the new applica-
tion back to the old application schema.
So, to catch up, I’ll assume you already
have the following in place:
• The DEMO account we’ve been using.
• A new VERSION2 edition created as a child
of the ORA$BASE edition.
• A copy of the HR.EMPLOYEES table,
code listing 4: Looking at chunks in uSeR_PaRaLLeL_eXeCuTe_CHunKS
renamed EMPLOYEES_RT (“RT” stands
for “Real Table”—my naming conven-
tion) in the DEMO schema. This table was
altered to include our two new columns.
Additionally, the EMPLOYEES_PHONE#_
IDX index was altered.
• The original EMP_PKG in the ORA$BASE
edition that represents our application code;
it knows how to create a new employee and
how to show the existing data.
• The EMPLOYEES editioning view in the
ORA$BASE edition, which selects just the
columns from EMPLOYEES_RT that the
existing version of our application expects.
• A forward crossedition trigger,
EMPLOYEES_FWDXEDITION, that converts
an old-style phone number into the new
two-column-style phone number.
This was all provided in the second
column installment (see otn.oracle.com/
oramag/oracle/10-mar/o20asktom.html
for the code). We left the end of that example
with a simple
SQL> update employees
set phone_number = phone_number;
109 rows updated.

SQL> select chunk_id, status, start_rowid, end_rowid

That did the mass move of our data,
2 from user_parallel_execute_chunks
3 where task_name = ‘update employees_rt’ and the forward crossedition trigger would
4 and rownum <= 5 ensure that any subsequent changes
5 /
made by the existing application would
CHUNK_ID STATUS START_ROWID END_ROWID be reflected in the new columns. But that
——————————————— ———————————————— —————————————————————————————— —————————————————————————— UPDATE would lock the entire table as it
134 UNASSIGNED AAAVkkAAEAAAA/YAAA AAAVkkAAEAAAA/fCcP
progressed through the rows—it would have
135 UNASSIGNED AAAVkkAAEAAAA/oAAA AAAVkkAAEAAAA/vCcP
136 UNASSIGNED AAAVkkAAEAAAA/wAAA AAAVkkAAEAAAA/3CcP been an offline operation, and our goal was
137 UNASSIGNED AAAVkkAAEAAAA/4AAA AAAVkkAAEAAAA//CcP to make this an online upgrade. So, the steps
138 UNASSIGNED AAAVkkAAEAAABwIAAA AAAVkkAAEAAABwPCcP
we will cover to complete the application
upgrade example will be
code listing 5: Running the uPDaTe eMPLOyeeS_RT task
• Use DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE to update
the table in small chunks, permitting con-
SQL> begin
current access by the mass move and the
2 dbms_parallel_execute.run_task
3 ( task_name => ‘update employees_rt’, existing application
4 sql_stmt => ‘update employees_rt • Install the new application code while the
5 set phone_number = phone_number
existing application is still running
6 where rowid between :start_id
7 and :end_id’, • Install a reverse crossedition trigger that
8 language_flag => DBMS_SQL.NATIVE, will enable us to execute both the old and
9 parallel_level => 2 );
the new application code concurrently for a
10 end;
11 / “hot rollover”—one that requires no down-
time at all
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
• Clean up after the new application version
is the only version being used
code listing 6: Installing the new application
Using DBMs_PARALLEL_EXECUTE
SQL> alter session set edition = version2; So let’s pretend we did not perform that
Session altered. UPDATE but instead added the columns
to the EMPLOYEES_RT table and put the
SQL> forward crossedition trigger in place. We now
SQL> select object_name, object_type, status, edition_name
2 from user_objects_ae want to update every row in EMPLOYEES_RT
3 where object_name in ( ‘EMPLOYEES’, ‘EMP_PKG’ ); to get the forward crossedition trigger to
fire, hence transforming and copying the
OBJECT_NAME OBJECT_TYPE STATUS EDITION_NAME
————————————————————————————————————————————— ———————————————————— ————————————— ————————————————— data from the old column into the two new
EMPLOYEES VIEW VALID ORA$BASE columns. Enter the DBMS_PARALLEL_
EMP_PKG PACKAGE VALID ORA$BASE EXECUTE package.
EMP_PKG PACKAGE BODY VALID ORA$BASE
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Architecture, I spent quite a few pages code listing 7: Replacing the view and package
describing how to perform batch opera-
tions “in parallel,” using a do-it-yourself SQL> create OR REPLACE editioning view employees
parallelism approach. The approach was 2 as
3 select EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME,
to break up a table into ranges, using 4 LAST_NAME, EMAIL, COUNTRY_CODE, PHONE#,
rowids (see asktom.oracle.com/pls/ …
asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ 9 /

ID:10498431232211 for an overview of View created.

that approach) or primary key ranges (see
otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/06-jan/ SQL> create or replace package emp_pkg
2 as
o16asktom.html, ”Splitting Up a Large Table,” …
for an overview of that approach). Although 9 EMAIL in employees.EMAIL%type,
the approaches I described were straightfor- 10 COUNTRY_CODE in employees.COUNTRY_CODE%type := null,
11 PHONE# in employees.PHONE#%type := null,
ward, they were always rather manual. You 12 HIRE_DATE in employees.HIRE_DATE%type,
had to take my “technique” and tweak it for …
your specific circumstances. 18 return employees.employee_id%type;
19 end;
Well, tweak no more. In Oracle Database 20 /
11g Release 2, we have a simple way to
accomplish exactly what I was trying to Package created.

demonstrate. The new DBMS_PARALLEL_ SQL> create or replace package body emp_pkg
EXECUTE package can split up a large 2 as
table by rowid ranges, by key value, or by a 3
4 procedure show
user-defined method. The table is broken …
up logically, and the database processes 9 ( select first_name, last_name,
each of the ranges in the background, 10 country_code, phone#, email
11 from employees
using the scheduler, with error logging, 12 where last_name like
retries, and more. Before we use DBMS_ 13 show.last_name_like
PARALLEL_EXECUTE, however, we’ll have 14 order by last_name )
15 loop
to (for purposes of demonstration) scale 16 dbms_output.put_line
up our EMPLOYEES_RT table, because it is 17 ( rpad( x.first_name || ‘ ‘ ||
very small right now. First we’ll make it 100 18 x.last_name, 40 ) ||
19 rpad( nvl(x.country_code, ‘ ‘), 5 ) ||
times larger, as shown in Listing 1. 20 rpad( nvl(x.phone#, ‘ ‘), 20 ) ||
Listing 1 uses a new Oracle Database 11g 21 x.email );
Release 2 feature—a recursive WITH sub- 22 end loop;
23 end show;
query—in lines 4 through 9 to generate 100 24
rows. The listing also performs a Cartesian 25 function add
join with the EMPLOYEES_RT table, which 26 ( FIRST_NAME in employees.FIRST_NAME%type := null,
27 LAST_NAME in employees.LAST_NAME%type,
creates a result set that has each row in 28 EMAIL in employees.EMAIL%type,
EMPLOYEES_RT repeated 100 times. It also 29 COUNTRY_CODE in employees.COUNTRY_CODE%type := null,
uses rownum plus the current maximum 30 PHONE# in employees.PHONE#%type := null,
…
EMPLOYEE_ID to generate a new primary 37 )
key on our table and inserts these new rows, 38 return employees.employee_id%type
instantly making our table 100 times larger 39 is
40 employee_id employees.employee_id%type;
than it was (well, 101 times larger, techni- 41 begin
cally). We can review the data as it now exists 42 insert into employees
in Listing 2. 43 ( EMPLOYEE_ID, FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME,
44 EMAIL, COUNTRY_CODE, PHONE#, HIRE_DATE,
Note how some of the rows have the 45 JOB_ID, SALARY, COMMISSION_PCT,
new columns filled in already. We didn’t …
insert them that way—that was the work of 55 end add;
56
the forward crossedition trigger we put in 57 end;
place. We’ve set it up already so that if we 58 /
INSERT or UPDATE the PHONE_NUMBER
Package body created.
column in the existing application, the

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forward crossedition trigger will automati- code listing 8: Looking at both application versions installed
cally forward the change from the columns
used by the old version to the columns SQL> select object_name, object_type, status, edition_name
used by the new version. So this dem- 2 from user_objects_ae
3 where object_name in ( ‘EMPLOYEES’, ‘EMP_PKG’ );
onstrates that any newly created data in
the old application version will maintain OBJECT_NAME OBJECT_TYPE STATUS EDITION_NAME
the values in the new application version ————————————————————————————————————————————— ———————————————————— ————————————— —————————————————
EMP_PKG PACKAGE BODY VALID ORA$BASE
format transparently for us.
EMP_PKG PACKAGE VALID ORA$BASE
Next, here are the steps to use EMPLOYEES VIEW VALID ORA$BASE
to perform the mass update of the EMP_PKG PACKAGE BODY VALID VERSION2
EMP_PKG PACKAGE VALID VERSION2
EMPLOYEES_RT table without locking
EMPLOYEES VIEW VALID VERSION2
the entire table. We need to update all
the existing rows, touching the PHONE_ 6 rows selected.
NUMBER column to get the data copied
from PHONE_NUMBER into the COUNTRY_ code listing 9: Creating the reverse crossedition trigger
CODE and PHONE# columns. Our existing
table is about 138 blocks (as shown in SQL> create or replace trigger employees_revxedition
Listing 2), and we’d like to update about 10 2 before insert or update of country_code,phone# on employees_rt
3 for each row
percent of it at a time. (EMPLOYEES_RT is 4 reverse crossedition
a small table; on a larger table, you’d likely 5 declare
use a much smaller percentage to avoid 6 first_dot number;
7 second_dot number;
locking too much of the table at a time). 8 begin
So we’ll break it up into chunks that are 10 9 if :new.country_code = ‘+1’
blocks or thereabouts in size. The method 10 then
11 :new.phone_number :=
for doing that is shown in Listing 3. 12 :new.phone#;
The PL/SQL block of code in Listing 3 13 else
did two things: first it created a named task 14 :new.phone_number :=
15 ‘011.’ ||
we’ll manipulate further. The first thing it 16 substr( :new.country_code, 2 ) ||
did to that task was to add table chunks by 17 ‘.’ || :new.phone#;
using the CREATE_CHUNKS_BY_ROWID 18 end if;
19 end;
procedure. When the code called that 20 /
routine, the routine read the EMPLOYEES_
RT table and broke it up into chunks of Trigger created.

about 10 blocks apiece (chunk_size=>10).

Note that this CREATE_CHUNKS_BY_
ROWID API allows for two ways of chunking
up a table: based on numbers of blocks or
numbers of rows. Because the code says
by_row=>false, the API used the block
chunking method. The result of the PL/SQL
procedure in Listing 3 is visible in the new
USER_PARALLEL_EXECUTE_CHUNKS view
in Listing 4.
We can see a series of chunks, rowid
ranges in fact, that logically divide this table
up into pieces. Each of those rowid ranges in
Listing 4 is nonoverlapping, but the ranges
completely cover the table (the union of all
of them encompasses the entire table). This
is how we can break our single update into
n smaller updates that do not conflict with
each other.
Now we are ready to perform our update.
This is accomplished via the code in Listing
5, which ran our task, using two threads of
execution (parallel_level=>2). I used 2 just
to demonstrate that you can chunk some-
thing up into many more chunks than you
ultimately run concurrently. We know we
have at least five chunks (displayed in Listing
4), but we’re running only two at a time.
The update we execute is parameterized to
accept a rowid range and works only on the
records in that range. So, using “parallel 2,”
we updated every row in the table—bit by
bit—locking only a small subset of the table
at a time. This enabled the existing applica-
tion to function normally while we did our
mass move of data at the same time.
NOTE: Executing the task in parallel
requires using a schema that has been
granted the CREATE JOB privilege, because
RUN_TASK will use the scheduler to run the
updates in parallel. If you execute the task
sequentially, this is not necessary.
After that operation is done and we are
satisfied with the results, we can drop the
task we created:
SQL> begin
2 dbms_parallel_execute.drop_
task(‘update employees_rt’);
3 end;
4 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully
completed.
We can be safe in the knowledge that all
legacy data has been converted and updated
in the new application and that the forward

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crossedition trigger will automatically
convert and update in the new application
any “new legacy” data that is created, as well
(by the forward crossedition trigger).
InstallIng the new applIcatIon code
Now we’d like to install our new applica-
tion code. We do that the same way we did
in the first installment of this three-part
series: we simply switch to the new edition
and CREATE OR REPLACE our editionable
objects (the EMPLOYEES editioning view
and the EMP_PKG package). Note that
for brevity, not all of the code is shown in
Listing 6, which shows just the modifica-
tions to the existing code.
This listing shows that we are using
the VERSION2 edition, and right now all
the code is inherited from the existing
version (version 1) of our application in the
ORA$BASE edition.
Now we replace the view and package, as
shown in Listing 7.
And now we can see that we have both
versions installed, as shown in Listing 8.
InstallIng a ReveRse
cRossedItIon tRIggeR
The editions are installed but not quite
ready to go yet. The code in ORA$BASE is all
set, but the code in VERSION2 is not quite
ready. What if we call the EMP_PKG.ADD
routine in VERSION2? It will populate the
COUNTRY_CODE and PHONE# column but
not the PHONE_NUMBER legacy column!
Enter the reverse crossedition trigger, shown
in Listing 9.
Here we have a trigger that fires only in
the context of the VERSION2 application
and maintains data in the old application
version’s format. It will either store just
the phone number without a country code
for U.S. phone numbers or store the U.S.
representation of a foreign phone number,
using the 011.country_code.phone_number
format. Once that is in place, we can use the
new application code in VERSION2:
SQL> begin
2 dbms_output.put_line
DoWnloAD oracle Database 11g release 2
otn.oracle.com/software/products/database
May/June 2010 orAcle.com/orAclemAgAzine
3 ( emp_pkg.add further enhances the online application
4 ( first_name => ‘Tom’, upgrade process. Not only are we eliminating
5 last_name => ‘Kight’, downtime during the application upgrade,
6 email => ‘TKYTE’, but we are also eliminating it during the
7 country_code => ‘+44’, switchover to the new version.
8 phone# => In the online version of this column,
‘703.123.4567’, at otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/
9 hire_date => sysdate, 10-may/o30asktom.html, I provide addi-
10 job_id => ‘IT_PROG’ tional information on setting the default
) ); edition and doing final cleanup on your
11 end; application upgrade. 
12 /
502
Tom kyte is a database
PL/SQL procedure successfully
evangelist in Oracle’s
completed.
Server Technologies
division and has worked
SQL> exec emp_pkg.show( ‘Kight’ );
for Oracle since 1993. He
Tom Kight +44 703.123.4567 TKYTE
is the author of Expert
Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g
PL/SQL procedure successfully
Programming Techniques and Solutions (apress,
completed.
2005) and Effective Oracle by Design (Oracle
Press, 2003), among others.
We can see that the data is input correctly.
Further, in ORA$BASE we can verify that the
nexT sTeps
legacy data format is still valid:
Ask Tom
SQL> connect demo/demo Tom Kyte answers your most difficult technology
Connected. questions. Highlights from that forum appear in
demo> exec emp_pkg.show( ‘Kight’ ); this column.
asktom.oracle.com
Tom Kight 011.44.703.123.4567 TKYTE
reAD more Tom
Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g
Remember that because the database’s Programming Techniques and Solutions
default edition is ORA$BASE, any session amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/
-/1590595300
will use—will see—that edition by default.
Oracle Database Concepts 11g Release 2 (11.2)
So simply by logging in again, we are running download.oracle.com/docs/cd/e11882_01/
the old version of the application and seeing server.112/e10713/toc.htm
the old output format with the PHONE_ reAD more about
NUMBER column. edition-Based redefinition
“edition-Based Redefinition”
otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability/pdf/edition_
settIng the default edItIon based_redefinition.pdf
To make using the new edition the default, “a Closer Look at the new edition”
we will use an AFTER LOGON trigger to set otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/10-jan/
o10asktom.html
the edition for each newly created session.
“edition-Based Redefinition, Part 2”
This will enable new sessions to see the new otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/10-mar/
version of our code while enabling existing o20asktom.html
sessions to continue to execute the old Oracle Database Advanced Application
version. By enabling existing versions to con- Developer’s Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2)
download.oracle.com/docs/cd/e11882_01/
tinue executing the old code, we will entirely appdev.112/e10471/adfns_editions
eliminate the dreaded “ORA-4068 existing .htm#aDFnS933
state of packages has been discarded” error reAD online-only article content
you would likely have gotten in the past otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/10-may/
o30asktom.html
when replacing existing code. This ability

the data decade
exploring the possibilities—and the needs—
of the future.
T he past 10 years have been game-
changing for technology. Today’s
technology connects people to informa-
tion—and to each other—in completely
new ways. We now take for granted the idea
that information—a vast reservoir of con-
nected information—is available to us 24
hours a day.
So what will the next decade bring? And
how will technology enable us to access this
information and use it to better our world?
The Data Decade has already begun.
What does that mean? To begin, we must
look for new infrastructures that can deliver
information quickly and securely, because
it will be imperative to support the huge
volumes of data that will be generated in
the coming years.
One way to do this is with data appli-
ances such as the Oracle Exadata Storage
Server, which is based on Sun hardware
from Oracle. The Oracle Exadata appliance
has forever changed how Oracle software
and hardware interact, providing amazing
performance for data warehouses. The
speed of this appliance enables many
new options for drilling through masses
of data, and machines such as these can
store and quickly retrieve vast amounts
of information for data users. The Oracle
Exadata Storage Server is just one example
of the kind of enabling technology that will
provide seamless access to both structured
and unstructured data with utmost speed
and accuracy.
Resolving queries is not enough: com-
panies need integrated data solutions, and
enterprises are adopting master data man-
agement and data hubs to provide centers
of knowledge.
A project that I’m involved in illustrates
this shift. The customer, a major retailer
with a network of more than 1,000 inde-
pendently owned stores, needs a portal
that will provide its store owners with a
single source of information from which
they can all glean data—and value—
interactively. One goal of the project is to
enable all the dealers to exchange ideas
In addition to storing,
retrieving, managing,
and sharing data,
people must be
able to decode the
information.
and strategies that will help them grow
their businesses.
The solution leverages most of the
Oracle technology stack, including Oracle
Database 11g, Oracle Universal Content
Management, and Oracle WebCenter Suite
11g. The goal is to create an environment
that is open and flexible and that can
leverage new technology.
Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g was
selected because it meets current needs
and is extensible for future requirements.
Because the suite provides so much out-
of-the-box functionality, the client is con-
fident that future enhancements in Oracle
WebCenter Suite 11g will be compatible.
In addition to storing, retrieving, man-
aging, and sharing data, people must be
able to decode the information they already
have. They need tools and methodologies
that will help them glean greater value
from their data. Business intelligence tools
provide the analytics companies need—
for both structured and unstructured
content—to make better decisions, take
more-effective actions, and build better
business processes.
One final area in which we will see con-
In the FIeld by Ian abramson 91
tinued growth is the “greening” of tech-
nology. The dual challenges of protecting
the environment and reducing the use of
resources mean that shrinking our energy
footprint will be essential. The 2010 IOUG
enterprise platform decisions survey con-
ducted by Unisphere Research and VMware
found that in 2009, half of all enterprises
increased their use of virtualization, pri-
marily to reduce costs. These cost savings
result from consolidation and lower hard-
ware costs, but the side benefit is that
enterprises also reduce their energy and
resource usage.
These areas will see significant changes
in the next decade. The goals that will drive
IT in the future will be gaining control of
and managing our data so that we can dis-
cover the value and wisdom it contains and
improve our enterprises and our lives. 
Ian abramson
(ian_abramson@
ioug.org) is president
of Independent oracle
users Group (IouG)
and an oracle data
warehousing expert. based in Toronto, Canada,
he is the director of the enterprise Data Group
for Thoughtcorp, a technology consulting
company. a frequent presenter at oracle and
industry conferences and seminars, abramson
is also coauthor of Oracle Database 11g
Beginner’s Guide (oracle Press, 2008) and an
oracle aCe focused on business intelligence
and data warehousing.
next StepS
JoIn IoUg
ioug.org
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decisions survey
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technology convergence
for enterprise Workloads
Oracle’s acquisition of Sun will yield new
integrated solutions.
O racle Magazine spoke with Jean S.
Bozman, research vice president of
IDC’s Worldwide Server Group, about what’s
ahead for enterprise customers as Oracle and
Sun combine their engineering teams and
develop new types of integrated solutions.
Oracle Magazine: What is the primary
value of the Sun acquisition in terms of
Oracle’s customers?
Bozman: Oracle now has a complete tech-
nology stack, from disk to application. The
acquisition bolstered Oracle’s extensive
product lineup to include many types of
servers, storage devices, microprocessors,
operating systems, and networking equip-
ment. And of course Oracle now owns Java,
which is fundamental to many Oracle prod-
ucts, including Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Having this technology in-house will allow
Oracle to further develop Java and keep its
products in sync. Ideally, this will be realized
through something like the Java Community
Process to encourage industrywide collabora-
tion with other vendors. Oracle also obtained
important software tools from Sun. There are
some interesting possibilities for how Oracle
will utilize them.
Oracle Magazine: How does having this
complete stack influence the solutions that
Oracle can provide?
Bozman: Oracle is now extremely well
aligned to help customers create complete
business solutions more quickly than in
the past. Oracle and Sun can do a lot of
system integration work for certain target
workloads. This is very attractive to cus-
tomers. Clearly 2009 was a tough year for
many IT departments. Important projects
were delayed or deferred, and spending
on servers was down across the board. But
IDC believes that the server market is at an
inflection point. We foresee modest growth
May/June 2010 Oracle.cOm/Oraclemagazine
in 2010, and we expect that customers will
be thinking about how they can deploy
new technology as efficiently as possible
going forward.
Oracle Magazine: What are the main deter-
rents to completing these projects?
Bozman: Typically IT projects take months
or even years to get to the deployment stage.
However, now that the engineers from Oracle
and Sun can collaborate on system integra-
tion work, Oracle will be able to deliver highly
integrated solutions that can be leveraged
from the beginning of the planning process
for a new customer-site deployment. The
[Oracle] Exadata servers are an example of
preintegrated hardware/software appliances
for horizontal applications such as data
warehousing and OLTP [online transaction
processing] transactional workloads.
Equally interesting are the possibilities
involving industry-specific software stacks
running on servers. Oracle now has every-
thing it needs to pull together integrated
solutions for specific vertical markets as
well, such as transportation, retail, and
telecommunications. For example, Oracle
could create turnkey appliances using small
servers that are optimized to run its trans-
portation applications. It could bundle its
Oracle Database 11g software, Oracle Fusion
Middleware, and the vertical applications,
and then help a customer to distribute these
appliances to multiple locations within the
customer’s organization to manage trans-
portation activities.
For customers, these industry-specific
solutions will not only simplify develop-
ment and deployment tasks, but they
also will reduce complexities associated
with support, maintenance, and vendor
relations—and that will happen because
there will be a single point of contact for an
analyst’s cOrner By DaviD BauM
entire business solution. Oracle also plans
to simplify Sun’s supply chain, distribu-
tion system, licensing policies, and how it
engages with channel partners, and that will
be of great interest to customers, regarding
the impact that may have on server pricing.
Oracle Magazine: How might Oracle’s owner-
ship of Solaris [now Oracle Solaris] and SPARC-
based servers affect its Linux offerings?
Bozman: Many people have asked whether
Oracle will choose SPARC and Oracle Solaris
or the x86 platforms with Linux. In our view,
Oracle has a great opportunity to pick the
pieces that will work best for each solution
and for each market, and then to optimize
them accordingly.
There are so many possibilities for cre-
ating integrated-stack solutions. Some
of them will play more to the strengths of
Linux. Others will play more to the strengths
of Oracle Solaris. I think we will see a variety
of unique solutions within the Oracle
portfolio as it emphasizes the strengths of
various hardware/software combinations. 
David Baum (david@dbaumcomm.com) is
a freelance business writer based in Santa
Barbara, California.
iDC (idc.com) is a global provider of market
intelligence, advisory services, and events for
the information technology, telecommunications,
and consumer technology markets.
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