I’m completely impressed just by the descriptions of the new tools that Oracle is getting with its Bharosa acquisition. If this stuff does even half of what it is advertising it can do, I’ll be very impressed. If you’re wondering what this is all about, please check out the post on the Talking Identity blog [...]

Oracle Database 11g was officially launched today. As a beta tester for the product, I can say that this product has some very interesting new features that really make me want to recommend the upgrade to Oracle Database 11g.
Here are my thoughts on a few of the new features in Oracle Database 11g.

Database Replay (Real [...]

I’ve had the privilege (or substitute your own word) of working on quite a bit of Oracle Application Server configuration lately. The configuration I reviewed today brought to light another common configuration that I just don’t understand. The site is essentially an ASP that hosts their custom application for external customers. Each customer has registered [...]

Is it just me, or does Oracle pick useless defaults? The latest case I encountered (just one of several) is the default Oracle Application Server configuration for logging. Both the HTTP Server ErrorLog and CustomLog use rotatelogs, but if they go so far as to configure rotatelogs, why not make some sensible defaults?
Here are the [...]

Today I configured Portal 10.1.2.0.2 on a test system to handle multiple virtual hosts. This was done as a proof-of-concept to support some work for a customer. We had a standard installation on a server named nap01.itconvergence.com with infrastructure on port 7780 and the middle tier using 7779 (HTTP server listen port) and 7778 (webcache [...]