Beginning Oracle Application
Express 4
By Doug Gault, Karen
Cannell, Patrick Cimolini,
Martin Giffy D’Souza, and
Timothy St. Hilaire
Apress
apress.com
This book provides an
introduction to Oracle Application Express,
Oracle’s environment for rapid and easy
development of Web-based applications
that make full use of Oracle Database. Power
users and programmers alike can quickly put
together robust and scalable applications
for use by one person, a department, or an
entire company.
Appropriate for both new and seasoned
Oracle Database users, the book covers the
processes and best practices necessary to
become proficient with Oracle Application
Express. The authors introduce the programming environment, utilities, and tools available, and walk readers through the process
of building a working system.
Oracle Database 11g Release 2
High Availability
By Scott Jesse, Bill Burton,
and Bryan Vongray
Oracle Press
mhprofessional.com
Written by Oracle
insiders, Oracle Database
11g Release 2 High
Availability explains how to use the latest
high availability (HA) products and features
in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 to build
practical and cost-effective solutions. The
book is based on a DBA-centric approach
and provides a conceptual overview of each
topic. It includes “HA Workshops”—step-
by-step instructions to walk readers through
specific implementations that are inspired
by real-world case studies. The authors focus
on explaining Oracle Database 11g technolo-
gies and practices to DBAs and cover general
availability, Oracle Real Application Clusters,
disaster planning, and recovery. Readers
will learn how to implement an effective HA
solution that addresses both planned and
unplanned downtime.
Oracle GoldenGate 11g
Implementer’s Guide
By John P. Jeffries
Packt
packtpub.com
This book shows you
how to design, install,
and configure high-
performance data repli-
cation solutions using Oracle GoldenGate,
Oracle’s real-time data replication product.
In this hands-on book, author John P. Jeffries
guides you through all the steps necessary to
build high-performance Oracle GoldenGate
solutions on Oracle Database 11g. Expert
users can dive into key topic areas such as
performance tuning and troubleshooting,
while novice users can step through the
installation and configuration chapters, later
progressing to the advanced chapters. The
book offers detailed, real-life examples as
well as tips and tricks that provide readers
with the knowledge and confidence to
implement them.
Managing Oracle Fusion Applications
By Richard Bingham
Oracle Press
mhprofessional.com
Managing Oracle Fusion
Applications explains how
to use a comprehensive
range of tools, services,
and best practices to manage Oracle Fusion
Applications—Oracle’s next-generation
enterprise applications. Author Richard
Bingham, a member of the Oracle team
designing the support strategy for Oracle
Fusion Applications, shows readers how to
achieve application uptime, improved per-
formance, and lower total cost of ownership
through effective system management. The
book includes product and technical over-
views for Oracle Fusion Applications, as well
as a number of specific toolboxes on topics
including reliability, availability, and more.
Oracle Application Express 4.0 with
Ext JS
This practical guide shows
you how to build robust
desktop-styled Web
applications using Oracle
Application Express and the Ext JS JavaScript
library. Oracle Application Express includes
multiple built-in interfaces especially
designed for adding JavaScript libraries and
components. Ext JS is a high-performance
set of customizable UI widgets with an
extensible component model. Author
Mark Lancaster starts off with a chapter
on setting up a productive environment
for Oracle Application Express and Ext JS,
moves to preparing you to code, and then
introduces you to the Ext JS API. You then
create a theme based on Ext JS in Oracle
Application Express from scratch, starting
with integrating the Ext JS library into the
page template and then covering all the
template types.
Look for Oracle books at bit.ly/dQ4hIu.
By Mark Lancaster
Packt
packtpub.com
FCS Offers Oracle Demand Signal
Repository Services
Frontline Consulting
Services (FCS), an Oracle
Platinum Partner and an
Oracle business intelligence pillar partner,
is offering a business
process outsourcing (BPO) service based on
Oracle Demand Signal Repository. This new
BPO service expands on FCS’s current offerings, marketed under the RetailSignal brand.
FCS’s subscription-based Oracle
Demand Signal Repository solution enables
consumer product companies to use Oracle
Demand Signal Repository to leverage
multiple external demand signals—
including retail point-of-sale data, syndicated market data, customer distribution
center inventory, store inventory, and
external data such as weather—to measure
and improve trade promotion effectiveness, perform category management,
improve supply chain performance, and
work effectively with retailers.
FCS has built more than 100 retailer-specific adapters—including ones for standard electronic design interchange, syndicated data, and other standard data signal
sources—that integrate multiple data elements into Oracle Demand Signal Repository.
FCS has also developed the SurfBI framework,
which enables consumer product companies to leverage their Oracle Demand Signal
Repository information on the Apple iPad,
Android devices, and large touchscreens.
fcs-inc.com
BIAS Achieves Specialized
Status in 10 Areas
Systems integrator BIAS, an Oracle
Platinum Partner, has achieved 10 Oracle
PartnerNetwork specializations, including
those for Oracle Exadata and Oracle
GoldenGate. Oracle GoldenGate expertise
provides BIAS with more flexibility when
designing client systems based on Oracle
Exadata. With both Oracle GoldenGate and
Oracle Exadata expertise, BIAS provides a
total migration package, including initial
migration, test, and cutover for Oracle
Exadata implementations systems.
biascorp.com
LINDY GROENING
MAY/JUNE 2011 ORACLE. COM/ORACLEMAGAZINE
