TechJournal New York Oracle Users Group Fourth Quarter 2009 25th Anniversary/NYC Metro Area Meeting Tuesday, December 8, 2009 The New Yorker Hotel 481 Eighth Ave. (at 34th Street) Sponsored by: Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Confio Software, Corporate Technologies, Fadel Partners, Oracle GoldenGate, IBM Systems, Texas Memory Systems, Rolta TUSC, and XDuce/LearnDBA Free for Paid 2009 Members Don’t Miss It! In This Issue – Presentation Papers from the December 2008, and March, June, and September 2009 General Meetings How Innovations in Storage Change Your Oracle Playing Field, by Ari Kaplan ADF On-Ramp: What You Need to Know to Use the ADF Fusion Technology Stack, by Peter Koletzke Tuning the Oracle Grid, by Rich Niemiec www.nyoug.org 212.978.8890 Sometimes the problem is obvious. Usually, it’s harder to pinpoint. Amazing what you can accomplish once you have the information you need. 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Download your FREE trial of Confio Ignite™ at www.confio.com/obvious Download our FREE whitepaper by visiting www.oraclewhitepapers.com/listc/confio NYOUG Officers / Chairpersons ELECTED OFFICERS - 2009 Chairperson / Web SIG Coleman Leviter President [email protected] Michael Olin [email protected] Chairperson / Long Island SIG Simay Alpoge Vice President [email protected] Mike La Magna [email protected] Director / Strategic Planning Carl Esposito Executive Director [email protected] Caryl Lee Fisher [email protected] CHAIRPERSON / VENUE COORDINATOR Treasurer Michael Medved Robert Edwards [email protected] [email protected] EDITORS – TECH JOURNAL Secretary Thomas Petite Associate Editor [email protected] Jonathan F. Miller [email protected] CHAIRPERSONS Contributing Editor Chairperson / WebMaster Arup Nanda - DBA Corner Thomas Petite [email protected] Contributing Editor Jeff Bernknopf - Developers Corner Chairperson / Technical Journal Editor Melanie Caffrey ORACLE LIAISON [email protected] Kim Marie Mancusi Chairperson / Member Services [email protected] Robert Edwards [email protected] PRESIDENTS EMERITUS OF NYOUG Chairperson / Speaker Coordinator Founder / President Emeritus Caryl Lee Fisher Moshe Tamir [email protected] President Emeritus Co-Chairpersons / Vendor Relations Tony Ziemba Sean Hull Irina Cotler Chairman / President Emeritus [email protected] Carl Esposito [email protected] Chairperson / DBA SIG Simay Alpoge President Emeritus [email protected] Dr. Paul Dorsey Chairperson / Data Warehousing SIG Vikas Sawhney [email protected] www.nyoug.org 3 212.978.8890 Table of Contents Message from the President’s Desk...................................................................................................................... 12 The New York Oracle Users Group (NYOUG) Celebrates 25 Years of Serving the Greater NYC Area Oracle User Community................................................................................................................................................... 14 Upgrading to 11g – Best Practices........................................................................................................................ 17 ADF On-Ramp: What You Need to Know to Use the ADF Fusion Technology Stack....................................... 30 How Innovations in Storage Change Your Oracle Playing Field......................................................................... 49 How Long is Long Enough? Using Statistics to Determine Optimum Field Length ........................................... 62 Migrating Database Character Sets to Unicode.................................................................................................... 69 Tuna Helper – A Proven Process for Tuning SQL ............................................................................................... 86 Get More for Less: Enhance Data Security and Cut Costs................................................................................... 98 Advanced Report Printing with Oracle APEX ................................................................................................... 113 Tuning the Oracle Grid ....................................................................................................................................... 121 Practical Data Masking: How to Address Development and QA Teams' Seven Most Common Data Masking- related Reactions and Concerns.......................................................................................................................... 133 Legal Notice Copyright© 2009 New York Oracle Users Group, Inc. unless otherwise indicated. 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New York Oracle Users Group, Inc. #0208 67 Wall Street, 22nd floor New York, NY 10005-3198 (212) 978-8890 www.nyoug.org 4 212.978.8890 NYOUG 25th Anniversary/NYC Metro Area Meeting - presented by NYOUG & Oracle Corporation Tuesday December 8, 2009 at the New Yorker Hotel – 481 Eighth Ave. (at 34th Street) in Manhattan 8:00-9:00 REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST 9:00-9:30 Introduction and Welcome: Michael Olin – NYOUG President 9:30-10:15 KEYNOTE: Jeff Henley – Chairman, Oracle Corporation “Oracle’s Business Transformation: The Next Phase” DBA DEVELOPER DBA DEVELOPER/ TRACK 1 TRACK TRACK 2 BI/DW Track LOCATION Crystal Ballroom Herald Square Gramercy Park Sutton Place 10:30 - 11:30 DBA 1-1 DEV 1 DBA 2-1 DEV/BI/DW 1 Session 1 Case Study: 11g Upgrade Oracle Forms To Oracle Oracle on SSD De-Mystifying OBIEE/Oracle BI with RAT, SPM and APEX: A Migration Technology for Applications Snapshot Standby Roadmap Performance Shyam Varan Nath Arup Nanda Daniel McGhan Steve Fluge IBM/Oracle BIWA SIG Starwood Hotels SkillBuilders Bank of America 11:45-12:45 DBA 1-2 DEV 2 DBA 2-2 DEV/BI/DW 2 Session 2 0 Slides: Scripts and Tools to Oracle APEX API Primer Using Preferred Read Fraud and Anomaly Detection Make Your Life Easier Josh Millinger Groups in Oracle ASM Using Oracle Data Mining Tanel Poder Niantic Systems Michael Ault Charles Berger Texas Memory Systems Oracle Corporation 12:45-2:00 LUNCH sponsored by Sun Microsystems – “Maximizing Oracle Performance with Sun Technologies” 2:00-3:00 DBA 1-3 DEV 3 DBA 2-3 DEV/BI/DW 3 Session 3 Oracle 11g Cache Features Effective Utilization of the Custom Monitoring Your Benefits of Agile SOA Put to the Test Database in Web Database with PL/SQL Methodologies Dave Anderson Development Bill Schott Jordan Braunstein SkillBuilders Dr. Paul Dorsey DTE Energy Rolta TUSC Dulcian, Inc. 3:15-4:15 DBA 1-4 DEV 4 DBA 2-4 DEV/BI/DW 4 Session 4 Advanced SQL Performance Tips & Techniques Managing Risk: What is ITIL and Why Should Tuning Integrating Oracle XML DB Understanding the New You Care? Dean Richards Coleman Leviter Options in Data Leslie Tierstein Confio Software Arrow Electronics Protection newScale, Inc. Ulf Mattsson Protegrity 4:15-5:00 VENDOR RAFFLES Sponsored by Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Confio Software, Corporate Technologies, Fadel Partners, Oracle GoldenGate, IBM Systems, Texas Memory Systems, Rolta TUSC, XDuce/LearnDBA www.nyoug.org 5 212.978.8890 New York Metro Area Oracle Users Group Day December 8, 2009 ABSTRACTS KEYNOTE: “Oracle’s Business Transformation: The Next Phase” Oracle’s business transformation strategy has enabled the company to grow revenues and maintain strong operating margins during the downturn, while freeing up funds to expand Oracle’s investment in innovative new products and services. Oracle Chairman Jeff Henley will share how Oracle is preparing internally for the recovery, from integrating the SUN acquisition, to deploying new Oracle applications to help support the company’s ongoing transformation into an integrated technology solutions provider. Jeffrey O. Henley is Chairman of Oracle Corporation. He has held this position since January 2004.Mr. Henley was Oracle’s Chief Financial Officer and an Executive Vice President from March 1991 to July 2004, and he has been a member of Oracle’s Board of Directors since June 1995. He also serves on Oracle’s Executive Management Committee. Prior to joining Oracle in 1991, Mr. Henley served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Pacific Holding Company, a privately held company with diversified interests in manufacturing and real estate, and as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Saga Corporation, a multibillion-dollar food service company. He also served as Director of Finance at Memorex Corporation in its large storage division, and as Controller of International Operations at Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation.