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The Oracle ACE Program
Newsletter | May 2015
Oracle ACE Director Oracle ACE Spotlight
Joel Perez
Oracle ACE Director
Joel Perez
Oracle ACE Director Joel Perez is an expert DBA, OCM Cloud Administrator, and OCM11g with over 15 years of real world experience in Oracle technology. He specializes in the design and implementation of solutions involving everything from high availability, disaster recovery, upgrades, replication, tuning, and the Cloud. As a Senior DBA consultant, he has traveled to more than 50 countries for conferences or clients. Joel has authored technical Oracle articles for OTN in both Spanish and Portuguese. He has been a regular speaker at Oracle events worldwide including OTN LAD (Latin America), OTN MENA (Middle East & Africa), OTN APAC (Asia Pacific), LAD Oracle Day, and DTCC China.

Joel has been a pioneer in Oracle technology since the early days of his career. He was the first Latin American given the OTN Expert award (2003) by Oracle, one of the first Oracle ACEs (2004) and OCP Database Cloud Administrators worldwide (2013), with his biggest professional achievement being honored as one of the first OCM Database Cloud Administrators in the world.

Currently, Joel is based in Beijing, China. He is working as the Chief Technologist & MAA, HA Architect for the premier Oracle consulting company in China, Yunhe Enmo (Beijing) Technology Co.,Ltd.

Outside of work, Joel enjoys a variety of activities including traveling both within China and internationally, salsa dancing NY style, photography, learning Mandarin by full immersion, and riding his new Chinese bike all over Beijing.
  Oracle ACE Program News
Congratulate New Oracle ACEs!
  NAME FOCUS LOCATION
Oracle Ace Danny Bryant DB United States
Oracle Ace Neil Chandler DB United Kingdom
Oracle Ace Mark Fielding DB Canada
Oracle Ace Lothar Flatz DB Switzerland
Oracle Ace Tim German BI United States
Oracle Ace Nicholas King BI United States
Oracle Ace Associate Philip Brown Security United Kingdom
Oracle Ace Associate Patrick Cimolini DB App Dev Canada
Oracle Ace Associate Jason Jones BI United States
Oracle Ace Associate Ryan Sullivan WebCenter United States
Oracle Ace Associate Jake Turrell BI United States
Oracle Ace Associate Jianrong Yang DB China
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ORACLE COMMUNITY
Arrow Bullet Icon Tips & Tricks for ACEs: As we wrote last month, please make sure to update your Oracle Community profile. Send us a link to it so that we can add it to your ACE Directory profile. Send us a note if you don’t have your ACE badge associated to your Community profile and we’ll fix it!

Arrow Bullet Icon New Expertise Tracks: Are you an expert in Business Intelligence, Oracle Mobile, Cloud Computing, or Oracle Applications? Oracle Community has just launched four new Expertise Tracks just for you! Our Expertise Tracks let you share your knowledge about specific technologies, and earn you badges and points on our community leaderboards -- check out the Rewards FAQ for more information. And congratulations to ACE Director Timo Hahn, who is the first person to earn the "Java Guru" badge in the Java Expertise Track for providing 100 Helpful and 100 Correct answers in Java spaces -- all since February 1!

Arrow Bullet Icon Virtual Technology Summit Space: the Virtual Technology Event Resources space is a great place to find information about our Virtual Technology Summit and its four technology tracks. You can get details about the VTS and even submit your own Ideas for what you'd like to see in the Java, Database, Systems, and Middleware tracks. We've also launched new rewards badges for VTS Speakers and Attendees -- be among the first to earn badges and points on Oracle Community for attending or speaking at an upcoming Virtual Technology Summit!

OTN Virtual Technology Summit Registration –
Register now to view the latest content. Join Oracle ACEs, Java Champions, and Oracle Product Experts as they share their tips and best practices on Database, Systems, Java and Middleware.

You’re Invited: Oracle ACE Dinner at Oracle OpenWorld Brazil
Oracle ACE Director Gustavo Gonzalez has graciously offered to organize an ACE get together at OpenWorld Brazil. If you are planning to present or participate in this event, please RSVP here to meet up with your fellow ACEs in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

  Oracle ACE Watch
NEW ARTICLES
Arrow Bullet Icon OTN: Oracle BPM 12c Advanced Error Handling and Recovery - Part 2, by Oracle ACE Associate Antonis Antoniou
Arrow Bullet Icon OTN: Oracle BI Applications 11g: GoldenGate Integration, by Oracle ACE Michael Rainey
Arrow Bullet Icon OTN: Entendendo Dataguard (Physical Standby Database): Arquitetura do Dataguard (Parte I), by Oracle ACE Associate Carlos Henrique Yakithi Furushima
Este artigo traz uma discussão completa sobre Oracle Data Guard - Physical Standby Database, divido em seis partes, abordado as principais perspectivas teórica e pratica (implementação).
Arrow Bullet Icon OTN: Oracle Database 12c Security: “Auditoria no 12c: Unified Auditing”, by Oracle ACE Director Joel Perez, Oracle ACE Aman Sharma, and Oracle ACE Associate Carlos H. Y. Furushima
Neste artigo, vamos ver uma questão de segurança e de responsabilidade para um DBA: saber quem está entrando/saindo e utilizando seu banco de dados, uma forma eficiente e fácil de fazer isso é por meio da auditoria.
Arrow Bullet Icon ODTUG: Unleashing Hyperion Planning Security Using ODI, by Oracle ACE Associates Ricardo Giampaoli and Rodrigo Radtke
Arrow Bullet Icon UKOUG Scene Magazine: Demistifying Workload System Statistics Gathering, by Oracle ACE Franck Pachot
Arrow Bullet Icon UKOUG Scene Magazine: An Introduction to Oracle RDBMS Architecture, by Oracle ACE Martin Widlake
Arrow Bullet Icon UKOUG Scene Magazine: Distributed Hinting, by Oracle ACE Director Jonathan Lewis
Arrow Bullet Icon UKOUG Scene Magazine: Do It Right; Do It Once, by Oracle ACE Michael Abbey
Arrow Bullet Icon UKOUG Scene Magazine: The Changing World of High Performance Database Enterprise Solutions, by Oracle ACE Martin Power
Arrow Bullet Icon UKOUG Scene Magazine: Cloud Applications: Introducing a New Kind of User, by Oracle ACE Director Debra Lilley
Arrow Bullet Icon UKOUG Scene Magazine: Fusion Middleware Provisioning with Cloud Control, by Oracle ACE Andreas Chatziantoniou
Arrow Bullet Icon UKOUG Scene Magazine: Creating the Platform of the Future with Fusion Middleware 12c, by Oracle ACE Associate Antonis Antoniou and Oracle ACE Director Ronald van Luttikhuizen
Arrow Bullet Icon Toad World: Oracle Advanced Index Compression (in Spanish), by Oracle ACE Deiby Gomez
Arrow Bullet Icon Toad World: IoT: The Dark Side, by Oracle ACE Dmitri Khanine
Arrow Bullet Icon IT Professional: Migracja do Oracle 12c (in Polish), by Oracle ACE Associate Kamil Stawiarski
Arrow Bullet Icon IT World: The Second Wave of Cloud Computing, by Oracle ACE Kyle Hailey
BLOG POSTS
Arrow Bullet Icon Enabling Edition Based Redefinition On A Schema With Object-Relational Tables, by Oracle ACE Director Randolf Geist
Arrow Bullet Icon Tuning Database XQuery Statements - Part 2, by Oracle ACE Director Marco Gralike
Arrow Bullet Icon Live Monitoring of SOA Suite Service Execution with Stream Explorer – Leveraging Custom OWSM Policy and JMS, by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema
Arrow Bullet Icon Is MERGE a Bug?, by Oracle ACE Director Chet Justice
Arrow Bullet Icon Running Jobs in Parallel Using DBMS_SCHEDULER, by Oracle ACE Andrew Kerber
Arrow Bullet Icon Oracle Cloud Summit South Korea (in Korean), by Oracle ACE Director Suk Kim
Arrow Bullet Icon Oracle BICS DITL Part 03: Modeling on the Catwalk, by Oracle ACE Director Kevin McGinley
Arrow Bullet Icon Analyzing ODI Performance with Flame Graphs, by Oracle ACE Robin Moffat
Arrow Bullet Icon Access WebLogic LogFiles with the RESTful Management Interface, by Oracle ACE Director Frank Munz
Arrow Bullet Icon Oracle AutoVue Installation and SSO, by Oracle ACE Director Osama Mustafa
Arrow Bullet Icon Docker Image for Oracle SOA Suite 12c, by Oracle ACE Associate Jorge Quilcate
Arrow Bullet Icon Speed Up Development with Logger: Generate a Template, by Oracle ACE Director Alex Nuijten
Arrow Bullet Icon DataGuard Wait Events Have Changed in 12c, by Oracle ACE Franck Pachot
Arrow Bullet Icon Data Integration Tips: ODI 12.1.3 – Convert to Flow, by Oracle ACE Michael Rainey
Arrow Bullet Icon Purging the OBIEE Cache from Oracle Data Integrator, by Oracle ACE Associate Peter Scott
Arrow Bullet Icon Migrate Standalone Database to RAC, by Oracle ACE Associate Kamil Stawiarski
Arrow Bullet Icon Oracle Data Mining : How to View Transformations Generated by Automatic Data Preparation, by Oracle ACE Director Brendan Tierney
Arrow Bullet Icon The Exadata Success Story, by Oracle ACE Director Christian Trieb
Arrow Bullet Icon Services Gatekeeper 6 Installed in Fifteen Minutes, Is it Possible? - Part 1, by Oracle ACE Associate Anton Yuste
NEW BOOKS
Arrow Bullet Icon Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler for Database Design Mastery, by Oracle ACE Director Heli Helskyaho
VIDEO
Arrow Bullet Icon OTN: Two Minute Tech Tip with Oracle ACE Director Heli Helskyaho
The Importance of Database Design
Arrow Bullet Icon OTN: Two Minute Tech Tip with Oracle ACE Michael Rainey
When to Use GoldenGate 11g With BI Applications 11g
Arrow Bullet Icon OTN: Two Minute Tech Tip with Oracle ACE Director Tim Gorman
Accelerating Development and Testing Using Data Virtualization
Arrow Bullet Icon OTN: Two Minute Tech Tip with Oracle ACE Director Cary Millsap
Trace Your Code – All of It
Arrow Bullet Icon Oracle: Accenture Helps Customers Consolidate to the Cloud, by Oracle ACE Director Julian Dontcheff
Arrow Bullet Icon AIOUG: What’s New with Oracle 12C RAC and ASM, by Oracle ACE Aman Sharma
Arrow Bullet Icon Oracle Stream Explorer - Monitor the health of Devices in Real Time, by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema
  Oracle ACEs Out and About
OTN EMEA Tour | Lisbon, Amman, Johannesburg
(May)
Oracle Ace Director Tariq Farooq – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Heli Helskyaho – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Debra Lilley – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Osama Mustafa – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Björn Rost – Oracle ACE Director
GLOC | Ohio
(May)
Oracle Ace Ahmed Aboulnaga – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Susan Behn – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Mark Bobak – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Karen Brownfield – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Danny Bryant – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Jim Czuprynski – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Tim Gorman – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Janis Griffin – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Francis Mignault – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Daniel Morgan – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Kerry Osborne – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Chris Ostrowski – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Christian Screen – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Scott Spendolini – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Associate Ric Van Dyke – Oracle ACE Associate
NoCOUG Spring Conference | Santa Clara
(May)
Oracle Ace Director Riyaj Shamsudeen – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Janis Griffin – Oracle ACE
SOUG | Switzerland
(May)
Oracle Ace Director Christian Antognini – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Franck Pachot – Oracle ACE
World Wide Data Vault Consortium | Vermont
(May)
Oracle Ace Director Kent Graziano – Oracle ACE Director
HOUG | Omaha, NE
(May)
Oracle Ace Director Eric Helmer – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Dan Hotka – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Tim Vlamis – Oracle ACE
SROUG | Serbia
(May)
Oracle Ace Director Dimitri Gielis – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Piet de Visser – Oracle ACE
SOUG | Switzerland
(May)
Oracle Ace Director Christian Antognini – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Franck Pachot – Oracle ACE
UKOUG Systems Event 2015 | London
(May)
Oracle Ace James Anthony – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Jason Arnell – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Martin Bach – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Tim Hall – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Simon Haslam – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Frits Hoogland – Oracle ACE Director
Extreme Exadata Expo-Accenture Enkitec Group | Texas
(June)
Oracle Ace James Anthony – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Jason Arneil – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Martin Bach – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Julian Dontcheff – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Associate Philippe Fierens – Oracle ACE Associate
Oracle Ace Director Frits Hoogland – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Kerry Osborne – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Tanel Poder – Oracle ACE Director
BGOUG | Bulgaria
(June)
Oracle Ace James Anthony – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Julian Dontcheff – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Carl Dudley – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Heli Helskyaho – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Debra Lilley – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Osama Mustafa – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Kerry Osborne – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Joze Senegacnik – Oracle ACE Director
Harmony 2015 | Estonia (June)
Oracle Ace Associate Jan Karremans – Oracle ACE Associate
Oracle Ace Director Brendan Tierney – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Kai Yu – Oracle ACE Director
OUG Scotland 2015 | Scotland
(June)
Oracle Ace Julian Dyke – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Associate Ron Ekins – Oracle ACE Associate
Oracle Ace Associate Zohar Elkayam – Oracle ACE Associate
Oracle Ace Director Gustavo Gonzalez – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Martin Nash – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Associate Dhanajay Papde – Oracle ACE Associate
Oracle Ace Director Oded Raz – Oracle ACE Director
DOAG Database Conference 2015 | Germany
(June)
Oracle Ace Johannes Ahrends – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Martin Klier – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Associate Dierk Lenz – Oracle ACE Associate
Oracle Ace Franck Pachot – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Christian Trieb – Oracle ACE Director
DOAG APEX Connect | Germany
(June)
Oracle Ace Dietmar Aust – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Dimitri Gielis – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Denes Kubicek – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Christian Rokitta – Oracle ACE
ODTUG Kscope 2015 | Florida
(June)
Oracle Ace Ami Aharonovich – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Dietmar Aust – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Christopher Barbieri – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Associate Christian Berg – Oracle ACE Associate
Oracle Ace John Booth – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Luc Bors – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Stewart Bryson – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Associate Karen Cannell – Oracle ACE Associate
Oracle Ace Gary Crisci – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Martin D'Souza – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Niels de Bruijn – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Lonneke Dikmans – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Associate Eric Erikson – Oracle ACE Associate
Oracle Ace Mark Farnham – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace John Flack – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Holger Friedrich – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Doug Gault – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Associate Ricardo Giampaoli – Oracle ACE Associate
Oracle Ace Associate Robert Gideon – Oracle ACE Associate
Oracle Ace Director Dimitri Gielis – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Alex Gorbachev – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Tim Gorman – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Kent Graziano – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Kyle Hailey – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Roel Hartman – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Eric Helmer – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Heli Helskyaho – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Andrew Jorgensen – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Celvin Kattookaran – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Mike Killeen – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director John King – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Michelle Kolbe – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Peter Koletzke – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Cameron Lackpour – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Debra Lilley – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Dan McGhan – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Kevin McGinley – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Tracy McMullen – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Francis Mignault – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Cary Millsap – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Michael Nader – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Anton Nielsen – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Alex Nuijten – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Gurcan Orhan – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Peter Raganitsch – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Michael Rainey – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Jorge Rimblas – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Mark Rittman – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Edward Roske – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Bjoern Rost – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Anthony Scalese – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Glenn Schwartzberg – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director John Scott – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Christian Screen – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Director Craig Shallahamer – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Scott Spendolini – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Tim Tow – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Mia Urman – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Director Dan Vlamis – Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Ace Tim Vlamis – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Scott Wesley – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Alex Zaballa – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Jayjay Zheng – Oracle ACE
Oracle Ace Associate Sarah Zumbrum – Oracle ACE Associate
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Call for Papers
UKOUG Technology Conference & Exhibition 2015 May 26 deadline
December 7-9, 2015 | Birmingham
UKOUG Applications Conference & Exhibition 2015 May 26 deadline
December 7-9, 2015 | Birmingham
UKOUG JD Edwards Conference & Exhibition 2015 May 26 deadline
December 8-9, 2015 | Birmingham
East Coast Oracle Users Conference June 15 deadline
September 22-23, 2015 | Raleigh, NC
DOAG June 15 deadline
November 17-20 | Nuremberg, Germany
  Upcoming Events
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UKOUG Systems Event 2015 May 20, 2015 London
Debra Lilley’s Dive & Snorkel Excursion at KScope June 20, 2015 Florida
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UKOUG’s Oracle Scene magazine – next deadline 11th September, send your articles to articles@ukoug.org.uk for consideration for publication. This edition will be published in time for the UKOUG conferences in December.

Call for nominations:
UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards 2015 – deadline 18th May

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