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By ACEs, For ACEs October 2010

Oracle ACE Spotlight Markus Eisele, Oracle ACE Director Markus Eisele Markus Eisele is a lead technology consultant working for msg systems ag in Germany which is one of the top 10 IT consulting and systems integration companies there.

Markus is well known in Germany as a technical writer, speaker and trainer. He has written more than 50 articles about Enterprise Java and is still waiting for the opportunity to write his first book. Markus is also a architect, developer and consultant. Markus joined msg in 2002 and has been a member of the Center of Competence IT-Architecture for the past eight years.

His main areas of expertise are Java EE Middleware Servers. Beside this other technologies (Microsoft, SAP) also are part of his portfolio. Markus blogs about all his topics frequently at blog.eisele.net. He works daily with companies as a Java EE architecture consultant for enterprise applications and helps customers design and implement high-performance Java EE solutions and troubleshoot problems. He is supporting customers on a variety of platforms using application servers from different vendors. His all time favorites are WebLogic and GlassFish. After being a Technical Director with BEA Systems, he is a proud member of the Oracle ACE program since 2008.

If there is time to spend, Markus is giving it to his family. His two and a half year old daughter will be a big sister next year and exciting times are expected. All this perfectly aligns with his “all-time” favorite personal interest of Photography. If you see somebody walking around with a cam and taking pictures all the time, it’s probably Markus. Check out his OpenWorld, JavaOne and Develop 2010 photoset on flickr or look at the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 impressions to get an idea of his work.

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Get Ready for UKOUG... Only 5 Weeks Away... Nov 29-Dec 1 Oracle Blogs

Have you registered yet for UKOUG Conference Series Technology & Oracle Technology Network E-Business Suite? Don't miss out on UK's biggest Oracle event. Check out this event video to get a glimpse of what's ahead. OTN Discussion Forums

For all ACEs attending UKOUG, please join us for an Oracle ACE dinner, Oracle Wiki Sunday, November 28. More details forthcoming. RSVP to Vikki Lira. Oracle.com Other Oracle ACE / OTN activities: Follow @oracleace on Twitter - "Sun Up" Sessions - Oracle ACE panel, moderated by Duncan Mills: Tue, Nov. 30, 7:30 - 8:30am, location TBD - Come support your fellow Join the Oracle ACE group on ACEs. Facebook

- OTN sponsored meet and greet reception: Tue, Nov. 30, 6:00pm, Exhibit Hall

- OTN Lounge located in the Exhibit Hall. Hours TBD.

Subscribe to Oracle newsletters Looking for Spanish and/or Portuguese Speakers

The Oracle RAC SIG will host a series of online webinars specifically targeted to the LAD region. They are looking for experts in the Oracle RAC space who are fluent and comfortable presenting in Spanish and/or Portuguese Please contact Oracle ACE Rodrigo Mufalani or Oracle RAC SIG chair Nelson Calero for more details. What Are You Doing? Have you published an article? Are you speaking somewhere? Promote yourself here! Submit newsletter item OFM for Apps Kit and Training

If you are interested in taking the message to Oracle Application customers, here's your opportunity to receive training and your own OFM for Apps kit. Please contact ACE Director Debra Lilley for further details.

40% Off New Hot Title by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema – Comments? Suggestions? Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook Contact [email protected]

Written by internationally recognized expert and Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema, this Oracle Press guide explains how Oracle SOA Suite 11g can be used to successfully implement an enterprise-wide SOA. Get this book now at 40% discount rate exclusively for Oracle ACEs.

Oracle ACE Packt Publishing Discount

Receive 20% Oracle ACE discount at Packt Publishing, including the newly released: “Web 2.0 Solutions with Oracle WebCenter 11g”, co-authured by Oracle ACE Director Plinio Arbizu. Enter code “ACE20WEB” at checkout.

New Books from Apress at 20% Off

Get your copy of Pro Oracle SQL, co-authored by Oracle ACEs Karen Morton and Jared Still (plus others) and receive 20% off. Discount also valid on Darl Kuhn's latest title, Pro 11g Administration (available Dec). Enter promo code "ORACLEACEMT" at checkout. Offer good thru 12/31/10.

Interested in Writing?

If you have the enthusiasm for communicating technical ideas and concepts, have a valuable experience or a technical skill that you're keen to share with readers, you should give serious consideration to authoring a book or becoming a technical reviewer. Please contact [email protected] for more details.

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Oracle ACE Watch

New Article: Managing Audit Trails

New article written by ACE Director Arup Nanda for Oracle Magazine on how to manage audit trails in Oracle Database 11g R2.

New Articles: Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne 2010 Recap and More

In addition to his newly released book, ACE Director Lucas Jellema just can't stop writing and had three recent articles published including:

Report from JavaOne 2010 - for Java Magazine (the Dutch Java Developer's magazine) Report from Oracle Open World 2010 - for Optimize (the main Dutch developer's magazine) The Hollywood Principle - on dependency injection - Fusion Column for ODTUG Technical Journal Q4

Free Guide to Applications DBA 101

Oracle ACE John Stouffer co-authored another Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i and Release 12 Applications DBA 101 User Guide in conjunction with OAUG. Download your free copy.

New Blog : WebCenter Interaction

Oracle ACE Geoff Garcia recently started a blog called "Learning the Ropes" which focuses on Oracle WebCenter Interaction, portals, intranets, extranets, content management and technology.

Blog Entry: New version of ruby-plsql-spec PL/SQL unit testing framework

Oracle ACE Raimonds Simanovskis has released new version of his Ruby based PL/SQL unit testing framework which now also supports PL/SQL code coverage reporting.

Blog Entry Recovering Voting Disks on Oracle RAC 11gR2

Ricardo Portilho Proni, Oracle ACE, demonstrates how easy it is nowadays to recover from a complete loss of Oracle RAC Voting Disks.

Blog Entry: RMAN Video Tutorial Series

Oracle ACE Kamran Agayev posted two videos about RMAN. The first video talks about Using Virtual Private Catalog in RMAN 11g and the second shows the benefits of Upgrading and Moving Recovery Catalog with IMPORT CATALOG command using RMAN in Oracle 11g.

Blog Entry: Offline Patching of WebLogic Server

In this post, ACE Director Simon Haslam describes how to patch WebLogic Server, e.g. for OEM Grid Control 11gR1, in an environment that doesn't have access to the internet.

Blog Entry: Fault Handling in Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Ronald van Luttikhuzien, ACE Director, completed a 4-part blog series on fault handling in Oracle SOA Suite 11g today. Check it out.

Part I - Explains why it is a good idea to address -and handle- business faults separately from technical errors. Part II - Discusses how to get a hold of these technical errors and how can we determine what to do with them. Part III - Continues the conversation about custom Java class that handles faults. Part IV - Concludes with the SCA composite that acts as generic fault handler.

Blog Entry: Performance Troubleshooting

Based on a real-life client issue, Oracle ACE Riyaj Shamsudeen blogs about performance troubleshooting including an interesting bug with Group by Hash Aggregation and a mini-troubleshooting guide for RAC 'gc buffer busy waits'

Blog Entry: Oracle MEAP

Check out Oracle ACE Greg Rekounas's blog post about the combination of several Oracle technologies to form a platform, MEAP.

Blog Entry: 11.2.0.2 EDITION Attribute of a Database Service

After reading 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.2) New Features, it piqued the interest of Oracle ACE Surachart Opun so he created samples of Oracle EDITION Attribute of a Database Service. Blog Entry: Datapump, Keeping the Legacy Alive

Interesting blog post written by Oracle ACE Aman Sharma about the legacy mode of Datapump in 11.2.

Blog Entry: The Physics of Data

Oracle ACE Bert Scalzo explains the four, actually only the two fundamental physics states of Data.

Blog Entry : Android Apps

Read ACE Director Brad Brown's blog for some interesting articles, videos and demos about how you can show your data visually using Yahoo Pipes, Google Fusion Tables, iGoogle and mobile devices!

New Book: Web 2.0 Solutions with Oracle WebCenter 11g, written by ACE Director, Plinio Arbizu. (available now)

New Book: Oracle SQL Tuning: A Close Look at Explain Plans, written by ACE Director, Dan Hotka (available now)

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Oracle ACE Out and About

35+ Oracle ACE Speakers at UKOUG

Cary Millsap - ACE Director, DB Speaking at OSWOUG

Gustavo Gonzales - Oracle ACE, DB Speaking at ITConvergence/OAUG workshops

Harshad Oak - ACE Director, OFM Speaking/Organizing at IndicThreads

Speaking at MAOP John Flack (organizer) - Oracle ACE, DB Scott Spendolini - ACE Director, DB

Speaking at Oracle Day Istanbul H.Tonguç Yilmaz - Oracle ACE, DB Husnu Sensoy - ACE Director, DB

Speaking at NOCOUG Chris Lawson - Oracle ACE, DB Peter Koletzke - ACE Director, OFM

Speaking at Oracle Week Israel Oded Raz - ACE Director, Security Liron Amitzi - Oracle ACE, DB

Lucas Jellema - ACE Director, OFM Speaking at NLJUG, Oracle University Celebrity Seminars

Rich Niemiec - ACE Director, DB Speaking at MOUG, IOUG Web Conference

Debra Lilley - ACE Director, Apps Speaking at Visit2010

Peter Koletzke - ACE Director, OFM Speaking at NYOUG

Speaking at Systematic Oracle SQL Optimization in Real Life Cary Millsap - ACE Director, DB Jonathan Lewis - ACE Director, DB Tanel Poder - ACE Director, DB

Speaking at Planboard Oracle Developer Symposium Rob van Wijk, Oracle ACE, DB Learco Brizzi, Oracle ACE, Roel Hartman, ACE Director, DB Dimitri Gielis, ACE Director, DB Alex Nuijten, ACE Director, DB Edwin Biemond, Oracle ACE, OFM Jacco Landlust, Oracle ACE, DB Ronald van Luttikhuizen, ACE Director, OFM

Speaking at OAUG Connection Point Eric Helmer - ACE Director, BI Tracey McMullen - ACE Director, BI Edward Roske - ACE Director, BI John Stouffer - Oracle ACE, Apps

Speaking at APEXposed, Dallas Scott Spendolini - ACE Director, DB Anton Nielsen - ACE Director, DB Steven Feuerstein - ACE Director, DB

Speaking at OPP2010, Dallas Steven Feuerstein - ACE Director, DB Paul Dorsey - ACE Director, OFM Cary Millsap - ACE Director, DB Scott Spendolini - ACE Director, DB

Speaking at DOAG Björn Bröhl - ACE Director, DB Francisco Munoz Alvarez - ACE Director, OFM Guido Schmutz - ACE Director, OFM Markus Eisele - ACE Director, OFM Paul McCullagh - ACE Director, MySQL Randolf Geist - Oracle ACE, DB Ronald Bradford - ACE Director, MySQL Steven Feuerstein - ACE Director, DB Joze Senegacnik - ACE Director, DB Dan Morgan - ACE Director, DB Torsten Winterberg - ACE Director, OFM

Speaking at W-Jax Hajo Normann, ACE Director, OFM Torsten Winterberg - ACE Director, OFM

Speaking at OUGF Joze Senegacnik - ACE Director, DB Julian Dontcheff - Oracle ACE, DB Piet de Visser - Oracle ACE, DB

Speaking at BGOUG Julian Dontcheff - Oracle ACE, DB Francisco Munoz Alvarez - ACE Director, DB Joze Senegacnik - ACE Director, DB Dan Morgan - ACE Director, DB Ronald Bradford - ACE Director, MySQL Marcin Przepiorowski - Oracle ACE, DB

Speaking at AUSOUG Francisco Munoz Alvarez - ACE Director, DB Guy Harrison - Oracle ACE, DB Basheer Khan - ACE Director, Apps Chris Muir - ACE Director, OFM Martin Power - Oracle ACE, DB Steven Feuerstein - ACE Director, DB Debra Lilley - ACE Director, Apps Mogens Norgaard - ACE Director, DB

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Hitting the Books

As if they weren't busy enough, Oracle ACE Directors Matjaz Juric and Lucas Jellema found time to write books in 2010. Sample chapters from each are now available on OTN.

BPEL with Oracle Service Bus and Service Registry – a sample chapter (PDF, 36 pages) from WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications · with Oracle SOA Suite 11g by Oracle ACE Director Matjaz B. Juric and Marcel Krizevnik. (Packt Publishing) Event-Driven Architecture for Super Decoupling – a sample chapter · (PDF, 30 pages) from the Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema. (Osborne Oracle Press)

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Upcoming Events

OUGF November 4 | Helsinski, Finland ODTUG APEXposed & ODTUG OPP2010 November 10-11 | Dallas, TX DOAG Conference November 16-18 | Nuremberg, Germany IndicThreads - Mobile Application Development November 19-20 | Pune, India BGOUG November 19-21 | Pravets, Bulgaria AUSOUG November 22-23 | Perth, Australia UKOUG November 29 - Dec 1 | Birmingham, UK IndicThreads December 10-11 | Pune, India Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne and Oracle Develop December 7-9, 2010 | Sao Paulo, Brazil Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne and Oracle Develop December 13-16, 2010 | Beijing, China

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