Archive for November, 2007
OpenWorld 2007: Review
OpenWorld 2007 facts and figures:
- From 11 November until 15 November 2007
- 43.000 visitors (124 different countries)
- 1.625 sessions
- 600 demo products
- 73.000 hotel rooms
- 178 Shuttle busses
- 60.144 chairs
- 45.000 setup hours
Use this link to view all keynotes: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/keynotes.html
OpenWorld 2007: Day 4
No keynotes on the last day of OpenWorld.
Podcast: Oracle and Sun VMs, Fusion revelations and more…
This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss the big news from Oracle OpenWorld–virtualization platforms from Oracle and Sun and the latest revelations about Oracle’s Fusion applications.
Check this link (http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/openworld) for some interesting podcasts.
Use this link to view all keynotes: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/keynotes.html
Fusion
This is the only screenshot I could find for now. Watch the keynote of Larry Ellison (Wednesday) to see the second glimpse (we had the first glimpse last year) of Oracle Fusion Applications.
OpenWorld 2007: Day 3
General OpenWorld news
Although Larry Ellison isn’t a great performer on stage (my personal opinion!) everybody is looking forward to his keynote on OpenWorld as there always will be an announcement. This year’s announcement was Oracle VM (it has been announced three times this week). Some highlight from the presentation:
New server virtualization software and support
- Free product download (Available for download now via otn.oracle.com)
Runs both Linux and Windows
- 64-bit and 32-bit guests
- Up to 64-way SMP
- Up to 32 virtual processors per guest
- Includes live migration at no additional cost
- Integrated, browser-based management console
- Free downloadable VM templates
Oracle products certified now
- Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, Oracle Applications
One support call for the complete stack
THE FIRST FUSION APPLICATIONS ARE COMING IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2008
OpenWorld 2007: Day 2
General OpenWorld news
There where two important keynote sessions on the second day of OpenWorld. The first one was from Thomas Kurian, which is the Senior VP of Fusion Middleware. We haven’t been able to follow the keynote live so have a look at the keynote website to watch the keynote yourself.
The second keynote was from Ed Abbo. He is the Senior VP of Applications Development. Ed Abbo is the replacement of John Wookey, who left Oracle just before OpenWorld started. During his keynote Ed Abbo talked about the new releases of E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel they have bringing out this year. He focused on the Application Integration Architecture product Oracle is building. With these processes they want to make the integration between the existing applications easier by leveraging Oracle Fusion Middleware techniques.
The last part of his keynote Ed Abbo talked about the development of Fusion Applications. Yes, it is still a complete new product and Yes, it is still based on Fusion Middleware techniques. Based on portlets in WebCenter they showed some parts of the new application with a lot of fancy BAM portlets. Compared with last year I totally missed the widgets, integration with the daily used tools like excel and outlook and most important ….. timelines. He didn’t gave a timeline for the first release of Fusion Applications. Hopefully Larry Ellison will give some more information about the Fusion Application Timelines in his keynote.
Later in a Q&A session Ed Abbo pointed out that the development of Fusion Applications is still on track for 2008.
Use this link to view all keynotes: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/keynotes.html
Extending DDDAUDIT functionality
Running the DDDAUDIT.SQR process is something every PeopleSoft administrator should do on a regular basis, because it detects flaws between objects in the database and the corresponding definitions in the PeopleSoft data dictionary.
In normal maintenance life however this process doesn’t run that often, so the output can be quite large. Also, when running a DDDAudit during upgrades, there can be a lot of records (TABLE-3 check) and views (VIEWS-2 check) that are obsolete in the new version thus have to be removed. These objects have to be removed manually, which can be a lot of work.
By adjusting the DDDAudit script a bit this work can be reduced a lot. The trick is to write a drop statement to a new file after the record or view that has to be deleted is printed to the output report.
I’ll illustrate it by adding the necessary code to the TABLE-3 check for a Microsoft SQL Server database. In the dddtable.sqc file (which is called from the dddaudit.sqr) add the following lines: