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Oracle Magazine Analyze, Illustrate, Fix and Run It Troubleshoot and Manage Your PL/SQL Maintaining legacy applications, documenting old and unfamiliar code or digging into someone else‘s code? A difficult and time-consuming task. Is there a solution? Yes! Conquest‘s ClearSQL for Oracle is the solution. A very powerful and advanced PL/SQL analyzer. The perfect enterprise code review and quality control tool. WORLD CLASS TOOLS FOR EVERYBODY’S BUDGET Don't miss ... NEW ClearSQL 6.5 Buy One, Get One Analyzes 1000s of PL/SQL scripts with a single click. Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, 2012 Creates Flowcharts, Call Tree diagrams, CRUD matrices from PL/SQL to allow you to instantly understand code. • quickly detects code errors, code review rule violations and other PL/SQL code anomalies • creates detailed Code Metrics reports from PL/SQL (McCab, Halstead, Maintainability Index, and more..) • documents PL/SQL creating clickable reports (HTML) • summarizes PL/SQL on a single page (status overview) • offers Command Line feature for batch analysis ClearSQL • creates PSEUDOCODE from existing PL/SQL ClearDB Documenter • monitors code complexity trends during development SQLDetective cycles to ensure maintainability • imports Oracle forms and PL/SQL libraries v. 6 – 10 • ideal when implementing enterprise coding standards (e.g. code formatting, DB objects naming rules,...) www.conquest-us.com Untitled-4 1 10/25/12 1:22 AM NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2012 Optimized Application Performance Oracle’s Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software enables a true IaaS environment / 23 Architects Matter Making sense of people who make sense of enterprise IT / 29 A Path to Leadership New ODTUG program grooms leaders for user group success / 30 Diagnose the Past Take the next step in diagnosing Oracle Database performance issues / 51 On External Table Queries, Data Consistency, and Nothing Our technologist queries the operating system, locks manually, and uses the right NULL / 63 Engineered to Educate, Explore, Engage 2012’s Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne conferences brought APPS technologists to San Francisco for a week of learning, networking, ON and looking forward ORACLE Built for Speed Oracle unveils new releases of Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud EXADATA CONSOLIDATE, CUT COSTS, AND SUCCEED WITH ORACLE EXADATA ND12_Cover.indd 1 10/17/12 10:41 AM Reach new heights SPARC64 X: Fujitsu’s latest SPARC processor carrying the inheritance from the world’s top-level supercomputer to provide unprecedented performance and scalability. Fujitsu, together with Oracle, ensures that SPARC systems interoperate well with next generations of Oracle Solaris, Oracle Database, and Oracle software products. © Copyright 2012 Fujitsu Limited. Fujitsu, the Fujitsu logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fujitsu Limited in Japan and other countries. Other company, product and service names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Reach new heights SPARC64 X: Fujitsu’s latest SPARC processor carrying the inheritance from the world’s top-level supercomputer to provide unprecedented performance and scalability. Fujitsu, together with Oracle, ensures that SPARC systems interoperate well with next generations of Oracle Solaris, Oracle Database, and Oracle software products. © Copyright 2012 Fujitsu Limited. Fujitsu, the Fujitsu logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fujitsu Limited in Japan and other countries. Other company, product and service names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. 2 FEATURED CoNTENT VOLUME XXVI - ISSUE 6 CoNTENTS APPS ON ORACLE EXADATA /36 When business growth means that your current business applications platform deployment can no longer support your business, consolidation is certainly worth consideration. By consolidating business applications with Oracle Exadata, organizations are simplifying their information technology; lowering costs; and improving system performance, scalability, and reliability. Find out how Praxair and Alliance Data are benefiting by running their applications on Oracle Exadata. —By David A. Kelly Engineered to Educate, Explore, Engage /32 Built for Speed /22 Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, MySQL Connect, and At Oracle OpenWorld, several other events took San Francisco by storm, Oracle unveiled new September 29–October 5. This content-focused releases of Oracle week—opening with MySQL Connect on Saturday Exadata Database and closing with the final day of Oracle Customer Machine and Oracle Experience Summit @ OpenWorld the following Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Learn how these Friday—offered a wealth of learning and networking engineered systems deliver hardware and opportunities, with a little rock, blues, ska, and software engineered to work together and alt-country added in for good measure. Relive the in-memory, speed-of-thought compute conference—or see what you missed—and start power to private and public clouds. planning your trip to San Francisco next September. —By David Baum —By Karen Shamban NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2012 ORACLE.COM/ORACLEMAGAZINE ND12_TOC.indd 2 10/17/12 10:09 AM Use your programmer's point of view... WIN! Win a tablet or choose a 50% discount on PL/SQL Developer! Use your logical skills to find the secret code, go to www.plsqldev.com/code and have a chance to win a new iPad or ASUS TF700! Challenge accepted? Real solutions for Oracle developers. Closing date: January 1, 2013 13208 Adv nov/dec 2012.indd 1 31-08-12 14:53 Untitled-3 1 10/25/12 12:27 AM 4 DEPARTMENTS VOLUME XXVI - ISSUE 6 Up Front / 6 FROM THE EDITOR / 6 MASHUP / 8 Commitment to News, views, trends, the Cloud —Tom Haunert and tools At Oracle / 11 EVENTS / 11 RESOURCES / 15 INTERVIEW / 23 Find out about upcoming Your guide to Oracle Optimized Application technology and industry Webcasts, podcasts, white Performance events. papers, and more Oracle’s Exalogic Elastic BRIEFS / 18 Cloud Software enables a true IaaS environment. The latest product news —Tom Haunert Community / 26 PARTNER NEWS / 26 COMMUNITY ARCHITECT / 29 UP CLOSE / 30 PEER-TO-PEER / 31 BOOK BEAT / 26 BULLETIN / 28 Architects Matter A Path to Leadership Tech Destiny News, people, and Making sense of the New ODTUG program Wagner Bianchi, Emre happenings in Oracle people who make sense of grooms leaders for user Baransel, Jeff Jacobs Technology Network enterprise IT —Bob Rhubart group success. —Blair Campbell —Jeff Erickson Technology / 41 ORACLE ADF / 41 PL/SQL 101 / 47 TUNING / 51 SQL 101 / 57 ASK TOM / 63 Master and Commander The Data Dictionary: Beginning Performance Selecting a Type That Is On External Table Queries, Implementing a reusable Make Views Work for You Tuning: Diagnose the Past Right for You Data Consistency, and command pattern template Part 10 in a series of articles Take the next step in Part 8 in a series on the Nothing strategy —Frank Nimphius on understanding and diagnosing Oracle Database basics of the relational Our technologist queries using PL/SQL performance issues. database and SQL the operating system, locks —Steven Feuerstein —Arup Nanda —Melanie Caffrey manually, and uses the right NULL. —Tom Kyte Comment / 68 TIME CAPSULE / 68 Flashbacks: Culture. 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