Oracle Magazine September - October 2009 Features Departments Technology, Developer & Comment Sections—    Articles and Columns

FEATURES

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: The Foundation for Innovation By David Baum Standards-based middleware technology enables application integration, and Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is based on the principles and standards of SOA, grid computing, and Enterprise 2.0. Learn how organizations are realizing the benefits of complete, integrated, hot-pluggable, and best-of-breed Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Information Secured. Identity Confirmed. By David A. Kelly Compromised information—whether by a company’s own employees or outside attack—has both legal and financial consequences for organizations. See how Oracle’s database security and identity management solutions protect data and control who has access to it. Oracle OpenWorld Preview Make plans to be in San Francisco October 11 through 15 for Oracle OpenWorld. Integrating Information By David A. Kelly Moving huge amounts of application data has become an everyday necessity—and headache—for many companies. From ensuring its quality to synchronizing its currency across multiple systems, integrating information is crucial. Find out how Oracle Data Integrator can deliver greater agility, leverage existing assets, and connect data across disparate datasources.

DEPARTMENTS

From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. From the Editor By Tom Haunert It’s Called Middleware AT ORACLE Events Find out about current and upcoming industry events. Oracle Resources Your guide to Oracle Webcasts, podcasts, blogs, education offerings, and more Oracle News Briefs News Oracle unveils Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, a modern middleware platform that delivers capabilities for next-generation business challenges. Interview Marie-Anne Neimat, vice president of development at Oracle, talks about Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g and Oracle In-Memory Database Cache 11g. COMMUNITY Partner News Infosys Technologies, Wipro, the Hackett Group, HighJump Software, Fishbowl Solutions, Project Partners, eVerge Group, FulcrumWay, ISC, SYSTIME plus Book Beat. OTN Bulletin Learn what’s happening with Oracle’s most dynamic online community. Architect It takes an architect community to raise a collection of SOA design patterns. Up Close Michelle Malcher, IOUG director of membership, finds answers and adventure in the Oracle technology stack. Peer-to-Peer Karen Brownfield, Eric Helmer, Dimitri Gielis

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY RECOVERY Scripting Oracle RMAN Commands By Arup Nanda Learn how to create and automate scripts to execute common recovery tasks. ASK TOM On DBMS_ROWID, Parsing, and Sizing By Tom Kyte Our technologist identifies rows, analyzes ratios, and fills space.

ORACLE DEVELOPER FRAMEWORKS At the Breaking Point By Steve Muench Debug more effectively with Oracle Application Development Framework. ODP.NET Put Your Arrays in a Bind By Mark Williams Use array binding to reduce network round-trips and increase performance. PL/SQL PRACTICES On Looping, First, and Last By Steven Feuerstein Choose the best approach to prevent a VALUE_ERROR exception. BROWSER-BASED Building Applications in the Cloud By David Peake Combine Oracle Application Express and Amazon EC2. PORTALS Turn Applications into Portlets By Vanessa Wang Use Oracle WebCenter to integrate applications and task flows with other applications.

COMMENT ALL SECURE Keeping Current with Standards By Mary Ann Davidson Oracle expertise in secure development practice is certified. ANALYST’S CORNER Portals Unbound By David Baum Portals enable an evolving web of social interactions to boost productivity.