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Copyright 2013 LoadSpring is a trademark of LoadSpring Solutions, Inc. www.loadspring.com Follow us on Facebook Untitled-1 1 4/9/13 6:17 PM JULY/AUGUST 2013 The Shine of Open Source MySQL puts the M and the power in LAMP / 16 Cloud Builders Unite Bloggers, tweeters, and user groups form cloud builder communities / 22 Build Your Own Build and deploy Oracle ADF declarative components, and gain the benefi ts of reuse / 39 Pivotal Access to Your Data: Analytic Functions, Concluded Part 12 in a series on the basics of the relational database and SQL / 45 On Randomness, Syntax, and Mutation Our technologist gets deterministic, delimited, and the opposite of trigger-happy / 51 BUSINESS AT THE SPEED OF SPARC New systems powered by Oracle’s SPARC T5 and SPARC M5 processors break 17 performance records Grow Up, Branch Out Oracle Database Appliance provides new ways for organizations to simplify, consolidate, and grow JA13_Cover_R1.indd 1 5/29/13 1:56 PM omg0713pCV2_p1.indd 2 5/24/13 12:09 AM omg0713pCV2_p1.indd 3 5/24/13 12:10 AM 2 VOLUME XXVII - ISSUE 4 CONTENTS BLAZING GROW UP, PERFORMANCE BRANCH OUT Oracle unveiled two new SPARC Are national laws requiring you microprocessors, SPARC T5 and to stand up new systems in new SPARC M5; introduced a portfolio countries? What’s next for your aging of systems based on these chips; heterogeneous system components? and reported that the new SPARC Read how organizations are using Oracle Database T5–based systems have set 17 Appliance to meet regulations, consolidate systems, world records. Read how the revolutionary SPARC simplify operations, deliver Oracle engineered system microprocessor design is moving software into silicon performance, and scale up their systems with pay-as- to power the world’s fastest database, Java, and you-grow licensing. —David A. Kelly middleware servers. —Diana Reichardt / 32 / 24 Cover: Nicholas Pavkovic Up Front / 5 Community / 18 Technology / 39 Comment / 56 FROM THE EDITOR / 5 PARTNER NEWS / 18 TIME CAPSULE / 56 Location, Location, Location BOOK BEAT / 18 Flashbacks: Culture. Industry. —Tom Haunert ARCHITECT / 21 Oracle. Oracle Magazine. MASHUP / 6 The CX Factor —Rich Schwerin News, views, trends, Wooing and wowing ORACLE ADF / 39 and tools customers in the digital age Build Your Own —Bob Rhubart Build and deploy Oracle ADF At Oracle / 8 UP CLOSE / 22 declarative components, and Cloud Builders Unite gain the benefits of reuse. EVENTS / 8 Bloggers, tweeters, and user —Frank Nimphius Find out about upcoming groups work to form a cloud SQL 101 / 45 technology and industry builder community. Pivotal Access to Your events. —Jeff Erickson Data: Analytic Functions, RESOURCES / 11 PEER-TO-PEER / 23 Concluded Your guide to Oracle Finding Help Part 12 in a series on the Webcasts, podcasts, white Peers get career boosts from basics of the relational papers, and more the cloud, My Oracle Support, database and SQL BRIEFS / 13 and Oracle University. —Melanie Caffrey The latest product news —Blair Campbell ASK TOM / 51 INTERVIEW / 16 On Randomness, Syntax, The Shine of Open Source and Mutation MySQL puts the M and the Our technologist gets power in LAMP. deterministic, delimited, and —Tom Haunert the opposite of trigger-happy. —Tom Kyte JULY/AUGUST 2013 ORACLE.COM/ORACLEMAGAZINE JA13_TOC_R1.indd 2 6/6/13 12:56 PM 4 EDITORIAL Editor in Chief Tom Haunert [email protected] Managing Editor Jan Rogers [email protected] Senior Editor Caroline Kvitka [email protected] Associate Editor Patty Waddington Contributing Editor and Writer Blair Campbell Technology Advisor Tom Kyte Contributors Marta Bright, Jeff Erickson, Fred Sandsmark, Rich Schwerin, Leslie Steere DESIGN Senior Creative Director Francisco G Delgadillo Senior Design Director Suemi Lam Design Director Richard Merchán Contributing Designers Jaime Ferrand, Nicholas Pavkovic Production Designers Sheila Brennan, Kathy Cygnarowicz PUBLISHING Vice President Jeff Spicer [email protected] Publisher Jennifer Hamilton [email protected] +1.650.506.3794 Audience Development and Operations Director Karin Kinnear [email protected] +1.650.506.1985 ADVERTISING SALES Associate Publisher Kyle Walkenhorst [email protected] +1.323.340.8585 Northwest and Central US Tom Cometa [email protected] +1.510.339.2403 Southwest US and LAD Shaun Mehr [email protected] +1.949.923.1660 Northeast US and EMEA/APAC Mark Makinney [email protected] +1.805.709.4745 Advertising Sales Assistant Cindy Elhaj [email protected] +1.626.396.9400, x201 Mailing-List Rentals Contact your sales representative. 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When dates processing, database, storage, and net- you worked in a client/server or Web-based working in one prebuilt engineered system, application on the latest terminal, work delivering solution-in-a-box power and con- station, desktop, notebook, tablet, or smart- venience. And no team of system, database, phone device through the years, however, storage, and networking specialists is required you likely didn’t know the physical location to install and maintain the solution. of the servers and systems you were con- “Blazing Performance” (page 24) intro- necting to. And in most cases, you probably duces Oracle’s SPARC T5 and SPARC M5 pro- didn’t know about the system’s internals cessors. The processors are located in SPARC and the geography of the processor, memory, servers, of course, and those servers have set storage, and networking. 17 performance records. In addition to record- You still don’t need to know where your setting performance, the SPARC T5 processor back-end systems are located and how their offers additional on-chip resources, including internals are designed and assembled to com- PCI Express I/O support and coherence link plete your daily tasks, but the people who pur- interfaces to allow communication between chase or architect these systems and deploy up to 8 SPARC T5 chips in a system without an them know that system architecture and inte- external hub chip. But it’s not the location of gration—including internal design and chassis the SPARC processor in the server, additional placement—are like real estate. What’s interfaces, or where the SPARC servers are important is location, location, location. located that’s the most important part of the This issue of Oracle Magazine demon- SPARC processor location equation.