Up Front / 6
FROM THE
EDITOR / 6
A Convenient Truth
—Tom Haunert
At Oracle / 11
MASHUP / 8
News, views, trends,
and tools
EVEN TS / 11
Find out about upcoming
technology and industry
events.

RESOURCES / 13
Your guide to Oracle
Webcasts, podcasts, white
papers, and more
BRIEFS / 16
The latest product news

NEWS / 19
The Business of
Analytics
Oracle unveils analytics
strategy and releases EPM,
analytics, and Oracle Endeca
products. —Fred Sandsmark

INTERVIEW / 21
Virtually Everywhere
Oracle Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure 3.4 enables
secure desktop access from
almost anywhere.
—Rich Schwerin

Community / 24

PARTNER NEWS / 24 BOOK BEAT / 24

COMMUNIT Y
BULLE TIN / 27
Bring the Noise
Passion and participation
drive the Oracle Technology
Network Architect
Community.—Bob Rhubart

ARCHI TEC T / 28 Catching Up to Mobile Computing Mobile computing presents challenges and opportunities for architects. —Bob Rhubart

PEER-TO-PEER / 29 Immersion Learning Johannes Ahrends, Wissem Elkhlifi, Stewart Bryson —Blair Campbell

Technology / 41

ORACLE ADF / 41 Service, Please! Integrate Web services with Oracle ADF and Business Components applications. —Frank Nimphius

PL/SQL 101 / 45 Working with Collections Part 8 in a series on understanding and using PL/SQL —Steven Feuerstein

TUNING / 51 Beginning Performance Tuning Resolve session performance issues in Oracle Database. —Arup Nanda

SQL 101 / 57 A Function of Character Part 6 in a series on the basics of the relational database and SQL —Melanie Caffrey

ASK TOM / 62
On Characters, Pivots,
and Endings
Our technologist substitutes
characters, looks at fishy
results, and avoids redo.
—Tom Kyte

Comment / 67

IN THE FIELD / 67 Testing Makes Perfect Successful application upgrade testing combines leadership, preparation, and great people. —Mark C. Clark