Sorry folks we had a few ours outage there, due to a theme issue. I have been working building various templates and themes for some sites in Artisteer. It seems I got something wrong as the one I  created as a Joomla template and is working on the main site didn’t export correctly, most likely operator error, but will update this post if I find it is otherwise.

The good thing is WordPress is very easy to recover from such an error, I just had to do some sleeping for a few hours before coming back on line.

If you ever change a theme and it takes down your site and makes it inaccessible go to the wp_options table and find the template and css field and change the those to the theme you want to use. As then value in that appeared to be the theme directory name I used that and we were back online in a few seconds.

Just an aside the wp_options can apparently grow to be a problem and there is a plugin that can assist with cleaning out the rubbish A post here has a link to one such tool and some help.

So we are back online

See ya round

Peter

Taking a week off while Open World is on might not be such a great idea, but being disconnected from the net for a week was pretty refreshing.

Oracle has decided that Kernel development needs a shove, and has decided to release its own variant of the kernel for Linux. With what I can see there is no real reason to be concerned with what Oracle has done, the API fro the kernel still support the standard glibc for that level of kernel. Oracle says that if an application runs on Oracle Linux without the modified kernel then it will run on a system using it. Seriously from my way of thinking, if I run Oracle Linux, I can always run Centos or Redhat to support my non Oracle software.

I have been working with a site that has been looking at setting up a RAC cluster and the question was asked of me as to what should we do about this event. incorporate the kernel or avoid it. As the project is still in its early phases I have said adopt it and test it. There is always the fall back in the event of real issues being identified that provide a severity one bug case and no timely fix.

I will be doing some testing of the system with some other non oracle products to see if I encounter any difficulties.

I guess from the point of what Oracle does  with this, if they radically alter the kernel and stop other software running then it is always Linus’ choice to look to revoking the Linux License from Oracle on the basis that it is then no longer Linux. I highly doubt that Oracle is really interested in treading that path.

Summing it all up I think this is good for Oracle and good for Linux as sooner or later these enhancements will filter back to Linux

See ya round

Peter

For those interested a copy of my presentation at Insync 2010 has been placed on slideshare, you can find out what it was all about, if you have questions then feel free to comment

Also after my presentation Gareth Llewellyn from Oracle caught up for a little chat which you can view here.

Ok that is a mouthful, Cameron Hawthorne and Adam Higgs  are going to give a great presentation of migration of existing reporting on Discoverer to the OBIEE as well as look at Virtual Private database and Resource Manager integration with OIBIEE in Oracle 11g.

Where: Level 11 Meeting Room, Oracle House, 300 Ann Street When: Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:00pm – 02:00pm RSVP: By Thursday 01st July 5pm, using the links below or emailing vicepresident.qld@ausoug.org.au. Yes, I’m attending! No thanks

The details are as follows, extracted from the QLD e-bulletin

 

Focusing on Business Intelligence

We are very pleased to bring to you a meeting specifically focused on Business Intelligence, with two presentations on unlocking the information in your corporate databases to provide competitive advantage to your organisation, and delivering that information to your customers in a secure and controlled manner.

Agenda: 12:00-12:30pm Registration, Light Refreshments 12:30-1:00pm Moving from Oracle Discoverer to OBIEE Cameron Hawthorne, Advantage BI Consulting Customers who have deployed Oracle Discoverer reporting solutions in their organisations over many years are asking how they can continue to add value to their existing investment. This presentation will deliver some insights into the options available for these customers, focussing on the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Suite range of products. We will consider the business case for migrating the BI environment to OBIEE, and highlight the technical issues and possible solutions when making the move. 1:00-1:30pm OBIEE – 11g Database VPD and Resource Manager Integration – Adam Higgs, Cube Fusion With data warehouses increasingly becoming the driving force behind many organisations business decisions data security is often left out of the picture influenced by sales pitches promoting a single accurate 360 degree view of the organisation”.  With the proliferation of data consolidated from all corners of the business it has never been more important to protect the data especially as data increasing in value when combined within a data warehouse. This presentation will provide a practical demonstration of OBIEE integration with VPD and application context and highlight the benefits that can be achieved through centralizing security management.  Furthermore it will show how database resources can be controlled via Resource Manager and integrated within OBIEE to meet the needs and priorities of the business. 1:30-2:00pm Questions and Networking 2:00pm

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About the speakers:

Cameron Hawthorne (http://au.linkedin.com/in/cameronhawthorne) is the Managing Consultant for Advantage BI Consulting, a Brisbane based Oracle partner providing Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse consulting services to private and public sector organisations. He has been designing, building, and supporting Oracle DW and BI solutions since 1990 for organisations in Australia and Europe. A long time advocate for Oracle data warehousing, OLAP, and BI technology, he has presented papers to user group conferences since 1999, and has been a part-time instructor for Oracle Education in Brisbane since 2004.

Adam Higgs (http://au.linkedin.com/in/adamhiggs) is the Managing Director of Cube Fusion, an Oracle Business Intelligence consultancy based in Brisbane and Stockholm.  A highly trained expert Adam is an Oracle Certified Professional and a dedicated evangelist of Oracle technologies.  Beginning his career as a DBA in the public sector and swiftly moved into the private sector with Cap Gemini Sweden.  Having excelled as a DBA and gaining experience in RAC, Data Guard, RMAN Backup & Recovery and becoming a leading Nordic expert in Streams he sort to compliment his skills by joining the Business Intelligence team at Oracle Sweden.At Oracle he became heavily involved with “best practice” data warehouse architecture reviews and well versed in Oracle BI products including OWB, OBIEE and BAM integrating solutions with Flashback, VPD, Scheduler and full data lifecycle management. With solid knowledge and experience in database architecture, ETL design and BI technology coupled with a track record of quality on time deliveries Adam is confidently able to design and implement an entire BI and Data Warehousing stack with solutions that fully exploit the technologies available.  With in-depth cross functional skills he is able to appreciate the impact that design decisions have on the overall data warehouse architecture.

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The Australian Oracle User Group AUSOUG in association with other bodies is on in Melbourne in August and I will be presenting what will be my first paper at the national conference . I am very happy to see I have had a paper accepted on Identity Manager 11g.  I will be having a look at some aspects of the underlying makeup of the identity management system in 11g.

Still to finalize my outline but will be spending some time on LDAP and its part in identity management  and how it works.

Looking forward to seeing readers at the conference.

 

See ya round

 

Peter