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I suggest doing it in arkham asylum. so what you have to do is go to the big pool of water and a character with a flying ability and with a swing weapon ability.so you get the character with the swing ability and you hit the side kick with the flying ability and hit them with the weopon in the water. then you'll find out that the character is UNDER WATER FLYING! I suggest for the flying guy to be invincible.
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Ugandan journalist notes how children enjoy 'gay character' SpongeBob SquarePants
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"Akumu writes of her niece asking her mother 'Is that a man or a woman?' after watching two male characters "caressing" on television. The journalist said: "That was the week before she came home and told me a boy at their school is gay.""
Wow. We're getting really good at this gay agenda thing aren't we?
Doesn't this just add weight to the view that bigotry is something children learn, rather than human nature?
Did anyone else read the title and think this would be a typical rant about evil gays?
Nice to know there's one smart person in Uganda. Make him President before he leaves! QUICK!
It's nice to actually have someone stating that there's nothing to fear isn't it? Mind you, I suspect this will quickly be turned into a bizarre witchhunt against Spongebob once Scott Lively and co. hear about the article.
Given the attitudes in Uganda (from all accounts) Ms Akumu is one hell of a brave woman to stick her head above the parapet like this. Well done!
"I do not know what to tell them because I do not know much about homosexuality."
You're a journalist, perhaps you should have looked it up before writing an article about it.
That wasn't a quote from the journalist, the counsellor said that.
Anti-gay American Christians have just landed in Uganda to push for a new law to kill SpongeBob SquarePants for being gay.
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"I want to thank ProNova for their investment in Blount County that will not only benefit our citizens and economy but cancer patients and physicians worldwide," Gov. Haslam said. "Our Jobs4TN strategy includes leveraging our state's unique assets, such as those in research and development, and the remarkable technology companies like ProNova are creating will help us toward our goal of becoming the No. 1 location in the Southeast for high quality jobs."
"Our state has a rich history of entrepreneurial success stories, and entrepreneurship and innovation can drive economic growth and create job opportunities for our citizens," Commissioner Hagerty said. "Tennessee is a top 10 state when it comes to research and development expenditures, and we are focused on leveraging our state's extraordinary R&D assets, commercializing new technologies and growing innovative companies right here in the Volunteer State."
ProNova, in coordination with Provision Health Alliance, is developing next-generation proton therapy technology to treat cancer. Proton therapy benefits include a significant decrease in tissue damage, decrease in debilitating side effects and a decrease in secondary cancers from unnecessary radiation exposure, which brings the potential for patient cost savings by decreasing these complications.
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Becoming the anchor tenant at the Pellissippi Place technology research and development park, ProNova will construct two facilities on 26 acres in phases over the next few years. The first phase consists of a 30,000 square foot two-story office and research building with a 40,000 square foot assembly and test area initially supporting 35 employees and growing to 110 by 2015.
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HONG KONG, Aug. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited ("Shanghai Petrochemical" or the "Company") (HKEx: 00338; SSE: 600688; NYSE: SHI) today announced the unaudited operating results of the Company and its subsidiaries (the "Group") prepared under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") for the six months ended 30 June, 2014 (the "Period").
According to IFRS, turnover for the Group for the Period reached RMB51,345 million, representing a decrease of 10.06% year-on-year. The Group recorded loss after income tax and non-controlling interests of RMB123.6 million (2013 interim: profit after tax and profit attributable to non-controlling interests of RMB473.2 million). Basic loss per share was RMB0.011 (2013 interim: basic earnings per share amounted to RMB0.044, based on a total number of 10.8 billion shares). The Board of Directors did not recommend the distribution of 2014 interim dividend (2013 interim: issuing 3.36 shares for every 10 shares to all shareholders by the premium of capital fund, and 1.64 shares for every 10 shares by surplus fund, as well as distributing cash dividend of RMB0.50 (VAT inclusive) for every 10 shares to all shareholders).
Mr. Wang Zhiqing, Chairman of Shanghai Petrochemical, said, "In the first half of 2014, the PRC economy gradually stabilised despite of a slowdown, maintaining stable growth within a reasonable range and signaling a further slowdown in economic growth. The PRC petrochemical market was impacted by weakened growth of market demand and a relatively rapid increase in production capacity. The petrochemical product market remained sluggish with further intensifying competition in the industry. Facing the challenging operating environment, the Group tackled the challenges head-on to maintain smooth operations of its plants. It thoroughly implemented system optimisation. The Group also continued its efforts in technological advancement and digitisation of information, further strengthening internal corporate management and cutting its losses by optimising production efficiency."
In the first half of 2014, the Group's net sales reached RMB46,690.8 million, representing a decrease of 10.49% year-on-year. Of this, net sales of synthetic fibres, resins and plastics, intermediate petrochemicals and petroleum products declined by 11.84%, 13.23%, 29.97% and 9.00% respectively. Net sales of trading of petrochemical products rose by 18.21%.
Under challenging economic conditions during the Period, the Group lowered crude oil processing volume in view of the market conditions, upstream and downstream material balance and plant maintenance, which reduced the total volume of goods produced by 12.84% year-on-year. During the Period, the Group processed 7,225,700 tons of crude oil (including 730,900 tons of crude oil processed on a sub-contract basis), representing a decrease of 6.25% year-on-year. Total production of refined oil products reached 4,251,200 tons, representing a decrease of 4.45% year-on-year. Of this, the output of gasoline was 1,514,700 tons, representing an increase of 9.63% year-on-year; output of diesel was 2,033,300 tons, representing a decrease of 19.15% year-on-year; and output of jet fuel was 703,200 tons, representing an increase of 27.16% year-on-year. The Group produced 404,700 tons of ethylene and 364,600 tons of paraxylene, representing a decrease of 15.46% and 20.20% year-on-year respectively. The Group also produced 487,900 tons of synthetic resins and plastic (excluding polyesters and polyvinyl alcohol), representing a decrease of 11.31% year-on-year; 361,700 tons of synthetic fibre monomers, representing a decrease of 19.34% year-on-year; 204,700 tons of synthetic fibre polymers, representing a decrease 22.70% year-on-year; and 116,900 tons of synthetic fibres, representing a decrease of 8.39% year-on-year. The Group's output-to-sales ratio and receivable recovery ratio were 100.54% and 100.00% respectively for the Period.
In the first half of 2014, global crude oil maintained the balance between supply and demand. International crude oil prices were volatile in an upward trend mainly due to the impact of the geopolitical situation. The average unit cost of crude oil (for the Group's own account) was RMB4,866.94 per ton, representing an increase of 0.28% year-on-year. The Group's cost of crude oil accounted for 68.38% of the total cost of sales.
During the Period, the Group continually enhanced its management of process technology for its plants while improving technical and economic indicators. The first phase of production plant maintenance for the year, with a focus on residual oil hydrogenation plants, was completed. The Group continued to tighten its management of specialised equipment, key units and gear transmission equipment, as well as anti-corrosion for equipment and management of heaters. The Group continued to leverage its competitive strengths in the integration of its refinery and petrochemical segments. Tapping fully on the high flexibility of its refinery plants, the Group increased the procurement and refining volume of low-grade crude oil and increased its focus on crude oil procurement, which contributed to lower crude oil cost. Refinery and petrochemical production were also optimised. The Group further strengthened refined oil product structure by lowering production of several lower-margin petrochemical products and boosting production of high-end gasoline. The Group enhanced the contribution margin tracing of the plants, and suspended production at some plants in phases while prioritising the production of more profitable and marketable products in line with market conditions. Through various innovative financing methods, the Group successfully implemented various offshore financing measures such as overseas agency payments and risk participation, lowering its capital costs. During the Period, China Jinshan Associated Trading Corporation, the Group's holding subsidiary, has established the Shanghai Jinshan Trading Corporation. in the Shanghai Free Trade Pilot Zone to further expand the Group's trading segment, increase its trading volume, expand its financing channels, and lower financing costs.
Looking ahead, Mr. Wang Zhiqing said, "In the second half of 2014, the global economy is expected to be slightly improved over the first half. With reforms and policy adjustments, the PRC economy is expected to be relatively stable. Given the stable economy and the rebound in demand in the PRC, the petrochemical industry is expected to undergo steady and moderate growth. International oil prices are expected to continue to fluctuate at a prevailing high level. Facing a challenging market environment, we will focus on improving the quality and efficiency of our development, and will continue to focus on safety and environmental protection as well as stable production. The Group will continue to consolidate its system optimisation, cost reductions and strict management, as it strives to seize the opportunities arising from the favorable market environment and to achieve a turnaround in its efficiency."
Shanghai Petrochemical is one of the largest petrochemical companies in China in terms of sales revenue, and was one of the first Chinese companies to complete a global securities offering. Located in the Jinshan District in southwest Shanghai, the Group is a highly-integrated petrochemicals enterprise which processes crude oil into a broad range of products such as synthetic fibres, resins and plastics, intermediate petrochemicals and petroleum products.
This press release contains statements of a forward-looking nature. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these forward-looking statements by terminology such as "will", "expects", "anticipates", "future", "intends", "plans", "believes", "estimates" and similar statements. The accuracy of these statements may be impacted by a number of business risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated, including risks such as the risk that the PRC economy may not grow at the same rate in future periods as it has in the last several years, or at all, due to the PRC government's implementation of macro-economic control measures to curb over-heating of the PRC economy; uncertainty as to global economic growth in future periods; the risk that prices of the Company's raw materials, particularly crude oil, will continue to increase, the Company may not be able to raise the prices of its products as appropriate, thus adversely affecting the Company's profitability; the risk that new marketing and sales strategies may not be effective; the risk that fluctuations in demand for the Company's products may cause the Company to either over-invest or under-invest in production capacity in one or more of its four major product categories; the risk that investments in new technologies and development cycles may not produce the benefits anticipated by the management; the risk that the trading price of the Company's shares may decrease for a variety of reasons, some of which may be beyond the control of the management; the risk of competition in the Company's existing and potential markets; and other risks outlined in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update this forward-looking information, except as required under applicable laws.
For the financial tables that accompany this release, please refer to the following PDF: http://photos.prnasia.com/prnk/20140828/8521404871
SOURCE Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited
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Using Enterprise Manager to manage cloud services
Oracle Enterprise Manager provides the same universal management interface for on premise and in cloud services. Amazon falls short on this. First, they don't have on premise instances so the tools that they have don't monitor anything in your data center, only in their cloud. Microsoft has tools for monitoring services plugins for looking at Azure services. It is important to note that you need a gateway server in the Azure cloud to aggregate the data and ship the telemetry data back and report it in the monitoring tool. There is a good Blog detailing the cost if IaaS monitoring in Azure. The blog points out that the outbound data transfer for monitoring can cost up to $17/month/server so this is not something that comes for free.
Today we are going to look at using Enterprise Manager as a management tool for on premise systems, the Oracle Public Cloud, Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure. We are going to cheat a little and use a VirtualBox instance of Enterprise Manager 13c. We are not going to go through the installation process. The books and blogs that we referenced yesterday detail how to do this. Unfortunately, the VirtualBox instance is available from edelivery.oracle.com. We are not going to use this instance but are going to use an instance for demo purposes only available internal to Oracle. The key difference between the two systems is that the edelivery instance is 21 GB in size for download and expands to provide an OEM 13c instance for testing while the internal system (retriever.us.oracle.com) has a 12c and 11g database installed and is 39.5 GB (expanded to almost 90 GB when uncompressed). Given the size of the instance I really can't provide external access to this instance. You can recreate this by downloading the edelivery system, installing an 11g database instance, installing a 12c database instance, and configuring OEM to include data from those instances to replicate the screen shots that we are including.
If we look at the details on the virtual box instance we notice that we need at least 2 cores and 10 GB of memory to run this instance. The system is unusable at 8 GB of RAM. We really should bump this up to 12 GB of RAM but given that it is for demo purposes and for training it is ok if it runs a little slow. If we were running this in production it is recommended to grow this to 4 cores and 16 GB of memory and also recommended that you not use a downloaded VirtualBox instance for production but install from scratch.
The key things that we are going to do are walk through what it takes to add a monitoring agent onto the service that we are trying to monitor and manage. If we look at the architecture of Enterprise Manager we notice that there are three key components; the Oracle Management Repository (OMR), the Oracle Management Service (OMS), and the Oracle Management Agent (OMA). The OMR is basically a database that keeps a history of all telemetry actions as well as reports and analytics for the systems being monitored. The OMS is the heart of Enterprise Manager and runs on a WebLogic server. The code is written in Java and presents the primary user interface to the administrators as well as being the gateway between the OMR and the agents or OMAs. The agents are installed on the target systems and collect operating system data, database data, weblogic data, and all other log data to ship back to the OMR for analysis by the users.
It is important to note at this point that most PaaS and SaaS providers do not allow you to install an Enterprise Manager Agent or any other management agent on their instances. They want to manage the services for you and force you to use their tools to manage their instance. SalesForce, for example, only gives you access to your customer relationship data. You can export your contact lists to an csv file to backup your data but you can't correlate the contact list to the documents that you have shared with these users. Amazon RDS does not provide a file system access, system access to the database, or access to the operating system so that you can install the management agent. You must use their tools to monitor services provided on their sites. Unfortunately, this inhibits you from looking at important things like workload repository reports or sql tuning guides to see if something is running slow or waiting on a lock. Your only choice is to deploy the desired PaaS or SaaS as a manual or bundled install on IaaS forcing you to manually manage things like backups and patching on your own.
The first thing that we need to do in Enterprise Manager is to log in and click on the Setup button on the top right. We need to define named credentials since we are going to connect to the cloud service using public and private ssh keys. We need to follow the Security pull down to Named Credentials.
We click on the Create icon in the top left and add credentials with public and private keys. If we don't have an ssh key to access the service we can generate an ssh key using ssh-keygen which generates a public and private key and upload the key using the SSH Access pull down in the hamburger menu. Once we upload the ssh key we can use ssh -i keyname.ppk opc@ip_address for our database server. We will use this keyname.ppk to connect with Enterprise Manager and have all telemetry traffic transferred via the ssh protocol.
Once we have the credentials valid in the cloud account we can create the ssh access through Enterprise Manager. To do this we to to Setup at the top right, Security, Named Credentials. We then click on the Create button in the middle left to start entering data about the credentials. The name in the the screen shot below failed because it begins with a number so we switched it to ssh2017 since 2017ssh failed the naming convention. We are trying to use host access via ssh which is done with pull down menu definitions. The system defaults to a host access but we need to change from host to global which does not tie our credentials to one ip address. We upload our public and private key as well as associate this with the opc user since that user has sudo rights. We can verify the credentials by looking at the bottom of the list. This should allow us to access our cloud host via ssh and deploy an agent to our cloud target.
Note that we created two credentials because we had a step fail later. We created credentials for the opc user and for the oracle user. The opc credentials are called ssh2017 as shown in the screen shots. The oracle credentials are called oracle2017 and are not shown. The same steps are used just the username is changed as well as the name of the credentials.
If we want to install the management agent onto our instance we need to know the ip address of the service that we are going to monitor as well as an account that can sudo to root or run elevated admin services. We go to the Enterprise Manager splash screen, login, select the Setup button in the top right and drill down to Add Target and Add Target Manually. This takes us to the Add Target screen where we can Install Agent on Host. To get rid of the warnings, we added our cloud target ip address to the /etc/hosts file and used a fully qualified and short name associated with the ip address. We probably did not add the right external dns name but it works with Enterprise Manager. When we add the host we use the fully qualified host name. We can find this by logging into the cloud target and looking at the /etc/hosts file on that server. This gives us the local ip address and a fully qualified host name. Once we have this we can enter a directory to upload the agent software to. We had to create an agent directory under the /u01/app/oracle directory. We select the oracle2017 credentials (the screen shots use ssh2017 but this generates an error later) we defined in the previous step and start uploading the agent software and configuring the host as a target.
Note that we could have entered the ip address rather than going through adding the ip address to /etc/hosts. We would have received a warning with the ip address.
When we first tried this we got an error during the initialization phase that opc did not own the /u01/app/oracle directory and had to create an agent directory and change ownership. Fortunately, we could easily resubmit and enter a new directory without having to reenter all of the other information. The deployment takes a while because Enterprise Manager needs to upload the agent binaries, extract, and install them. The process is updated with status so that you can see the progress and restart when errors happen. When we changed the ownership, the installation failed at a later step stating the opc did not have permission to add the agent to the inventory. We corrected this by installing as oracle and setting the /u01/app/oracle/agent directory to be owned by oracle.
When we commit the ip address or host name as well as the ssh credentials, we can track progress as the management server deploys the agent. We get to a point where we note that the oracle user does not have ssh capabilities and we will need to run some stuff manually from the opc account.
At this point we should have an enterprise manager connection to a cloud host. To get this working from my VirtualBox behind my AT&T Uverse wireless router I first had to configure a route on my broadband connection and set the ip address of the Enterprise Manager VirtualBox image to a static ip address. This allows the cloud instance to talk back to the OMS and store data in the OMR.
The next step is to discover the database instances. This is done by going through a guided discovery on the host that we just provisioned. It took a few minutes to sync up with the OMS but we could verify this with the emctl status agent command on the target host. We add the target manually using the guided discovery and select database services to look for on the target.
At this point we should have a database, listener, and host connected to our single pane of management glass. We should see a local database (em12c) and a cloud based database (prs12cHP). We can look at the host characteristics as well as dive into sql monitoring, database performance, and database management like backup and restore options or adding users to the repository. We could add a Java Cloud Service as well as link these two systems together and trace a web page request down to a sql read and look at what the longest latency component is. We can figure out if the network, java memory allocation, or databse disk is causing the slowest response. We can also look at sql tuning recommendations to get suggestions on changing our sql code or execution plans using the arw report and sql tuning utilities in Enterprise Manager.
In summary, we can connect to an on premise server as well as a cloud server. We can't connect to an Amazon RDS instance because we don't get file system level access to push a client to or a root user to change the agent permissions. We do get this with IaaS on Oracle, Compute servers on Azure, and EC2 on Amazon. We also get this with PaaS on Oracle and potentially event Force.com from SalesForce. No one give you this ability with SaaS. It is assumed that you will take the SaaS solution as is and not need to look under the covers. Having a single pane of glass for monitoring and provisioning services is important. The tool should do more than tell you how full a disk is or how much of a cpu is loaded or available. It should dive into the application and let you look at where bottlenecks are and help troubleshoot issues. We could spend weeks diving into Enterprise Manager and the different management packs but we are on a journey to look at PaaS options from Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle.
How to clear MDS Cache
In 12cR2 this looks like:
1. Start System MBean Browser; In Domain, pull down the Weblogic Domain menu and choose 'System MBean Browser':
2. Browse for the Application Defined Beans:
3. Expand it and navigate to oracle.mds.lcm, choose server (AdminServer or SOAServer1)
4. Navigate to the node Application em (AdminServer) or soa-infra (SOAServer) -> MDSAppRuntime -> MDSAppRuntime. Click on the tab Operations, and then on clearCache
5. Click on Invoke:
Then the following confirmation is shown:
By the way, often a redeploy of the SOA Composite that calls the WSDL or other artefact helps. But unfortunately not always.
My "Must See" ADF/MAF Sessions at KScope 16
In any case, the following sessions in the ADF/MAF track are worth checking out at Kscope 16 this year:
How to Use Oracle ALTA UI to Create a Smashing UI for Web and Mobile
Luc Bors, eProseed NL
When: Jun 28, 2016, Session 12, 4:45 pm - 5:45 pm
I've always liked UI, and Oracle ALTA is a new set of templates that we'll be seeing quite a bit of across a number of new technologies.
Three's Company: Going Mobile with Oracle APEX, Oracle MAF, and Oracle MCS
Frederic Desbiens , Oracle Corporation
When: Jun 27, 2016, Session 6, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
I'll admit - anytime there's a comparison of APEX and other similar technologies, it's always interesting to witness the discussion. If nothing else, there will be a good healthy debate as a result of this session!
Introduction to Oracle JET: JavaScript Extension Toolkit
Shay Shmeltzer, Oracle Corporation
When: Jun 28, 2016, Session 7, 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Oracle JET is a lot more than just charts, and there's a lot of momentum behind this technology. I'm very interested to learn more and perhaps even see a thing or two that you can do with it, as well as the various integration points that are possible with other technologies.
Build a Mobile App in 60 Minutes with MAF
John King , King Training Resources
When: Jun 27, 2016, Session 5, 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Native mobile applications are something that APEX doesn't do, so it would be nice to see how this would be possible, should the need ever arise.
Thanks for attending this ODTUG blog hop! Looking for some other juicy cross-track sessions to make your Kscope16 experience more educational? Check out the following session recommendations from fellow experts!
- APEX sessions not to be missed, as recommended by EPM expert Cameron Lackpour: http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2016/05/kscope16-apex-sessions-im-interested-in.html
- BI and Data Warehousing sessions not to be missed, as recommended by EPM expert Dayalan Punniyamoorthy: http://onlyhyperion.blogspot.com/2016/05/Kscope-6-blog-hop-BI-Data-Warehousing-sessions-not-to-miss.html
- Big Data and Advanced Analytics sessions not to be missed, as recommended by Data Warehouse expert Kent Graziano: http://wp.me/p25i8c-Rz
- Database sessions not be missed, as recommended by BI expert Stewart Bryson: https://medium.com/@stewartbryson/what-you-positively-have-to-see-in-the-database-track-at-kscope16-e98615851202#.g74pqn1xp
- EPM sessions not to be missed, as recommended by Database expert Danny Bryant: http://dbaontap.com/2016/05/26/kscope16-blog-hop-epm-sessions-not-miss
Oracle CURRENT_TIMESTAMP Function with Examples
Storing Date Values As Characters (What's Really Happening)
The river floes break in spring...
Alexander Blok The river floes break in spring... March 1902translation by Greg Pavlik
The river floes break in spring,
And for the dead I feel no sorrow -
Toward new summits I am rising,
Forgetting crevasses of past striving,
I see the blue horizon of tomorrow.
What regret, in fire and smoke,
What agony of Aaron's rod,
With each hour, with each stroke -
Or instead - the heavens' gift stoked,
From the Bush of Moses, the Mother of God!
Весна в реке ломает льдины,
И милых мертвых мне не жаль:
Преодолев мои вершины,
Забыл я зимние теснины
И вижу голубую даль.
Что сожалеть в дыму пожара,
Что сокрушаться у креста,
Когда всечасно жду удара
Или божественного дара
Из Моисеева куста! Март 1902
Please, use HTTPS for your APEX apps
When you Google this question you get many different answers, but this answer of Google Developers answers it for me in short (click the link for more details):
- HTTPS protects the integrity of your website/APEX app
- HTTPS protects the privacy and security of your users
- HTTPS is the future of the web; many new technologies only work with https (for example Service Workers; you can read more about Service Workers and APEX in my presentation)
Before websites had an HTTP portion and an HTTPS portion, which became active when you would login to the site, but nowadays everything is under HTTPS. Google will actually rank your site higher when it's using HTTPS. Look at the sites you visit; many of them will now use HTTPS as a default.
HTTPS on localhost
If you're developing locally, you don't really need HTTPS on localhost, but I still like to have that.
Here're the steps I did in Chrome on my Mac (OSX) to get the nice green lock when developing locally (works also with APEX Front-End Boost)
- In the address bar, click the little lock with the X. This will bring up a small information screen. Click the button that says "Certificate Information."
- Click and drag the certificate image to your desktop.
- Double-click it. This will bring up the Keychain Access utility. Enter your password to unlock it.
- Be sure you add the certificate to the System keychain, NOT the login keychain.
- After it has been added, double-click it.
- Expand the "Trust" section. "When using this certificate," set to "Always Trust"
- Close Keychain Access and restart Chrome, and your self-signed certificate should be recognized now by the browser.
For years I've been using SSL certificates ordered from Godaddy, but depending the certificate you get, it might not be that cheap. The APEX R&D website is a multi-site certificate - the same certificate is used for the APEX Office Print website.
But there's some good news... you can get SSL for free too (and it's very easy to do!), thanks to Letsencrypt. I used Letsencrypt to protect the Euro2016challenge.eu APEX app/website for example.
Here's the Getting Started Guide from Let's Encrypt. This is the command I used (after installing the package):
./letsencrypt-auto certonly --webroot -w /var/www/euro2016 -d euro2016challenge.eu -d www.euro2016challenge.eu
If you're not yet on https with your APEX app/site, I would definitely recommend looking into it :)
Are Zero Days or Bugs Fixed by CPU The Worst?
I spoke yesterday about compartmentalising Oracle Security and one element that comes out of this is the need to consider what you are trying to achieve; secure actual data and also secure the platform. In general applying security patches will....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 25/05/16 At 12:51 PM
Compartmentalised Oracle Security
I have been teaching security classes about Oracle Security for many years and they are very popular and I teach many classes per year around the world; mostly in the UK and EEC but I also venture to the Middle....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 24/05/16 At 12:43 PM
New Oracle Security Paper on Non-Production and Delphix
I was asked by Delphix earlier this year to review their product with a particular focus on Oracle security of course. I wrote two papers; the first about Data Masking and Delphix and the second about securing data in non-production....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 23/05/16 At 11:23 AM
Oracle Security And Delphix Paper and Video Available
I did a webinar with Delphix on 30th March 2016 on USA time. This was a very good session with some great questions at the end from the attendees. I did a talk on Oracle Security in general, securing non-production....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 01/04/16 At 03:43 PM
3 Days of Oracle Security Training In York, UK
I have just updated the public Oracle Security training dates on our Oracle Security training page to remove the public trainings that have already taken place this year and to add a new training in York for 2016. After the....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 31/03/16 At 01:53 PM
Oracle Data Masking and Secure Test Databases
My daily work is helping my customers secure their Oracle databases. I do this in many ways from performing detailed security audits of key databases to helping in design of secure lock down policies to creating audit trails to teaching....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 14/03/16 At 08:45 AM
BOF: A Sample Application For Testing Oracle Security
In my Oracle security training classes I use a couple of sample applications for various demonstrations. I teach people how to perform security audits of Oracle databases, secure coding in PL/SQL, designing audit trail solutions and locking down Oracle. We....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 10/03/16 At 11:07 AM
Two New Oracle Security Presentations Available
I attended the UKOUG conference last week Monday to Wednesday in Birmingham. This is the first year for three years that it has been back at the ICC in the center of Birmingham. The last two years have seen the....[Read More]
Posted by Pete On 14/12/15 At 08:54 PM
Log Buffer #475: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
This Log Buffer Edition goes through various blogs, and selects some of the top posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.
MOS Note:136697.1 – New HCHECK.SQL for Oracle Database 12c
ORAchk / EXAchk questions.
Cloud control won't start!
ASMLib is an optional utility that can be used on Linux systems to manage Oracle ASM devices.
ORA-56841: Master Diskmon cannot connect to a CELL.
Oracle BITAND Function with Examples.
SQL Server:
Natively Compiled Stored Procedures: What they are all about
Considerations around validation errors 41305 and 41325 on memory optimized tables with foreign keys
Taking Azure SQL Data Warehouse for a Test-Drive.
Persistent PowerShell: The PowerShell Profile.
SQL Server Always On Endpoint Encryption Algorithm Compatibility Error.
Fixing MySQL scalability problems with ProxySQL or thread pool.
Installing a Web, Email & MySQL Database Cluster on Debian 8.4 Jessie with ISPConfig 3.1
Planets9s – Download the new ClusterControl 1.3 for MySQL, MongoDB & PostgreSQL
AWS Aurora Benchmark – Choose the right tool for the job
Where is the MySQL 5.7 root password?
SharePlex Replication Between Two Instances On The Same Host
Several days ago I was asked a question about SharePlex and should verify behaviour before providing the answer. I had one linux VM with two databases and needed to setup replication between them. One of them (orcl) was a target 12c EE database while the second one was a source 10g SE. Accordingly, I should use two different versions of SharePlex to mimic the questionable behaviour, so I should have two different SharePlex instances talking to each other on the same host machine. It worked pretty well for, as an example, GoldenGate, where you just setup different ports for manager processes. However, in SharePlex all the instances participating in a configuration should use the same port. The SharePlex documentation states:
"Important! The SharePlex port number must be the same one on all machines in the replication configuration so that they can communicate through TCP/IP connections."
Of course you cannot use the same port on the same network interface for two independent SharePlex processes working from different homes. In addition, SharePlex is not asking you about a hostname either during installation, or when you start it.
In my case I had 2 interfaces in different subnets on my VM, and I could use them for my replication. But how should I tell to the SharePlex to use one or the other? The answer was simple. You should use "SP_SYS_HOST_NAME" parameter as the environment variable for your shell. Here is how I've done that.
I added two new hostnames for those interfaces to my /etc/hosts file to be used for my SharePlex instances:
[root@sandbox ~]$ cat /etc/hosts | grep splex 10.177.130.58 splexhost 172.16.128.10 splexstor [root@sandbox ~]$
I unzipped SharePlex 8.6.3 for Oracle 10 and prepared installation. By default the installer will pick up the hostname automatically and use it during installation.
Here is my hostname and it is not what I want to use for my first SharePlex instance:
[oracle@sandbox ~]$ hostname sandbox.localdomain [oracle@sandbox ~]$ ping sandbox.localdomain PING sandbox.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from sandbox.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.058 ms 64 bytes from sandbox.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.061 ms ^C --- sandbox.localdomain ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1468ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.058/0.059/0.061/0.007 ms [oracle@sandbox ~]$
What you need to do is to setup an environment variable SP_SYS_HOST_NAME. I wanted the first SharePlex listening and working on hostname splexhost using default port 2100. I should also define proper Oracle home and Oracle database SID during installation. I used standard Oracle utility oraenv to have Oracle variables setup. Here is how I started installation for the source:
[oracle@sandbox ~]$ export SP_SYS_HOST_NAME=splexhost [oracle@sandbox ~]$ . oraenv ORACLE_SID = [test] ? The /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/sehome_1/bin/orabase binary does not exist You can set ORACLE_BASE manually if it is required. [oracle@sandbox ~]$ cd /u01/distr/SharePlex [oracle@sandbox SharePlex]$ ll total 96736 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 oracle oinstall 99056391 Jan 11 21:56 SharePlex-8.6.3-b171-oracle100-rh-40-amd64-m64.tpm [oracle@sandbox SharePlex]$ ./SharePlex-8.6.3-b171-oracle100-rh-40-amd64-m64.tpm Unpacking .................................................................. ..........................................................................
During the installation I provided directories for program and variable files, port number and information about ORACLE_SID and ORACLE_HOME. Everything went smoothly. I finished the installation by running the "ora_setup" utility creating necessary schema and objects in the source database.
For target I used the same strategy setting up Oracle variables by "oraenv" and exporting explicitly SP_SYS_HOST_NAME=splexstor. The installation worked out without any problems and I got two SharePlex instances installed to different directories.
To start a SharePlex home for a certain IP address and interface you need to explicitly setup SP_SYS_HOST_NAME to an appropriate value. Let's see how it's been done for source.
[oracle@sandbox ~]$ export SP_SYS_HOST_NAME=splexhost [oracle@sandbox ~]$ . oraenv ORACLE_SID = [test] ? The /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/sehome_1/bin/orabase binary does not exist You can set ORACLE_BASE manually if it is required. [oracle@sandbox ~]$ cd /u01/sp10/bin [oracle@sandbox bin]$ telnet splexhost 2100 Trying 10.177.130.58... telnet: connect to address 10.177.130.58: Connection refused [oracle@sandbox bin]$ nohup /u01/sp10/bin/sp_cop -usp10 & [1] 2023 [oracle@sandbox bin]$ nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out' [oracle@sandbox bin]$ telnet splexhost 2100 Trying 10.177.130.58... Connected to splexhost. Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> q Connection closed. [oracle@sandbox bin]$
For target you have to adjust your environment variables accordingly and do the same.
[oracle@sandbox ~]$ export SP_SYS_HOST_NAME=splexstor [oracle@sandbox ~]$ . oraenv ORACLE_SID = [test] ? orcl The Oracle base has been set to /u01/app/oracle [oracle@sandbox ~]$cd /u01/sp12/bin [oracle@sandbox bin]$ nohup /u01/sp12/bin/sp_cop -usp12 & [1] 2066 [oracle@sandbox bin]$ nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out' [oracle@sandbox bin]$
As result we have two SharePlex instances running on the same host and talking to each other. Now we can create a sample replication. In the database schema "splex" created by "ora_setup" utility we have DEMO_SRC and DEMO_DST tables. SharePlex is using those tables for a demo replication. We can use them too and see how it works in our case. We can either modify a default pre-created sample configuration "ORA_config" or we can create a new one. I've created a new config "sample" on my source SharePlex and activated it:
sp_ctrl (splexhost:2100)> list config File Name State Datasource -------------------------------------------------- ---------- --------------- ORA_config Inactive o.SOURCE_SID Last Modified At: 17-May-16 11:17 Size: 151 sp_ctrl (splexhost:2100)> create config sample
The command opens default editor and you can write your configuration.
Here is what I put to my "sample" config.
datasource:o.test #source tables target tables routing map splex.demo_src splex.demo_dest firstname.lastname@example.com
Now we can activate config.
sp_ctrl (splexhost:2100)> activate config sample sp_ctrl (splexhost:2100)> list config File Name State Datasource -------------------------------------------------- ---------- --------------- ORA_config Inactive o.SOURCE_SID Last Modified At: 17-May-16 11:17 Size: 151 sample Active o.test Last Modified At: 17-May-16 11:30 Size: 134 Internal Name: .conf.1 sp_ctrl (splexhost:2100)>
Now we can see all the processes running :
On the source: sp_ctrl (splexhost:2100)> lstatus Detailed Status for splexhost Process State PID Running Since --------------- ------------------------------ -------- -------------------- Cop Running 2023 17-May-16 11:24:39 Capture Running 2250 17-May-16 11:30:53 Data/Host: o.test Read Running 2279 17-May-16 11:30:53 Data/Host: o.test Export Running 2304 17-May-16 11:30:56 Data/Host: splexstor Queue Name: splexhost Cmd & Ctrl Running 2581 17-May-16 11:40:39 Data/Host: splexhost
On the target:
sp_ctrl (splexstor:2100)> lstatus Detailed Status for splexstor Process State PID Running Since --------------- ------------------------------ -------- -------------------- Cop Running 2066 17-May-16 11:26:23 Import Running 2305 17-May-16 11:30:56 Data/Host: splexhost Queue Name: splexhost Post Running 2306 17-May-16 11:30:56 Data/Host: o.test-o.orcl Queue Name: splexhost Cmd & Ctrl Running 2533 17-May-16 11:38:18 Data/Host: splexstor
Let's insert a row on the source :
test> insert into splex.demo_src values ('JIM', '8001 Irvine Center Drive', '949-754-8000'); 1 row created. test> commit; Commit complete. test>
And we can see the row was successfully replicated to target:
orcl> select * from splex.demo_dest; NAME ADDRESS PHONE# ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ JIM 8001 Irvine Center Drive 949-754-8000 orcl>
As you can see, we were able to use one box to replicate data between two different databases, using two different SharePlex installations. The idea was simple and clear from the start, but I couldn't find enough information in the installation guide for the SP_SYS_HOST_NAME parameter except documentation about configuring it for cluster installation. The parameter was documented in the reference section of documentation, though in reality it was not.
It could be even better if we could place the parameter inside, and not think about setting variables, but unfortunately setting the parameter in the "paramdb" didn't work for me. Even having the parameter, you still need to setup your environment variable SP_SYS_HOST_NAME=your_host_name for non default hostname. I hope the article may help somebody save a bit of time.
Maker Faire 2016
Another year, another amazing at the Maker Faire.
I've attended my fair share of Maker Faires these years, so the pyrotechnic sculptures, 3D printing masterpieces, and handmade artisan marketplaces were of no particular surprise. But somehow, every time I come around to the San Mateo fairgrounds, the Faire can't help but be so aggressively fresh, crazy, and novel. This year, a host of new and intriguing trends kept me on my toes as I ventured through the greatest show and tell on Earth.
Young makers came out in full force this year. Elementary school maker clubs showed off their circuit projects, middle schoolers explained how they built the little robots, high school STEM programs presented their battle robots. It's pleasing to see how Maker education has blossomed these past years, and how products and startups like LittleBits and Adafruit have made major concepts in electronics and programming so simple and inexpensive that any kid could pick it up and start exploring. Also wonderful is seeing young teams traveling out to the Bay Area from Texas, Oregon, and all these other states, a testament to the growth of the Maker movement out of the Silicon Valley.
Speaking of young makers' participation, Arduino creator Massimo Banzi talked about Arduino as an education tool for kids to play and tinker, even he never planned to make kid's toys in his early years. The maker movement has invoked the curious minds of all age, to start playing electronics, making robots, and learning a new language in programming.
While the maker movement made things very accessible to individuals, the essence of creation and innovation also impacted on the large enterprise. On the "Maker Pro" stage, our GVP, Jeremy Ashley (@jrwashley), talked about new trends of large enterprise application design, and OAUX group is driving the change to make simpler, but more effective and more engaging enterprise application.
Drones were also a trending topic this year, with a massive Drone Racing tent set up with events going on the whole weekend. Everything was being explored – new shapes for efficient and quick flight; new widgets and drone attachment modules; new methods of interaction with the drone. One team had developed a smart glove that responded to gyroscopic motion and gestures to control the flight of a quadcopter, and had the machine dance around him – an interesting and novel marriage of wearable tech and flight.
Personally, I've got a soft spot for art and whimsy, and the Faire had whimsy by the gallon. The artistry of the creators around the country and globe can't be overestimated.
Maker Faire never disappoints. We brought friends along who had never been to a Faire, and it's always fun to watch them get blown off their feet literally and figuratively the first time a flamethrower blasts open from the monolithic Crucible. Or their grins of delight when they see a cupcake shaped racecar zoom past them… and another… and another. Or the spark of amazement when they witness some demo that's out of any realm of imagination.
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Managing servers and instances in the cloud
In this example we can see that we have two processors, 2 GB of memory, and just under 300 GB of disk on this computer. We have five virtual machines running on this computer and can dive into each operating system and look at what operating system is installed and how the limited resources are allocated and utilized. What we can't see is what applications are installed and how the applications are running. For example, is the Windows Home Server 2011 running an Apache Web Server and how many hits did the web server get in the past four days? Monitoring tools beg the question of what are you monitoring. If you are managing limited resources and making sure that you have not over or under allocated services, tools like VSphere are excellent tools. Unfortunately, you will need other tools to dive into another tool. EMC, for example, has a storage manager that lets you look not only at a logical unit level but a controller and disk level. It understands VMWare and lets you look at how disks are related to virtualization engines and how they are consuming resources.
Again, this is a very good tool to look at how well a disk is performing, how well data is laid out across spindles, and how well your data network is being transmitted between disk and server. We can see hot spots. We can see disks that are over and under utilized. We can manage a scarce resource and make sure that it is properly utilized.
When we talk about monitoring we need to shift our thought process. Yes, it is important to manage compute, memory, and storage resources but it is also important to realize that these resources are commodities. If we run low, we get more. If we use too much we are wasting resources. We should be able to automate allocation of resources and size up or size down resources without manual monitoring. What we are really interested in is how well is our company running. If we are a university we might be interested in the latency of delivering online video classes. We might be interested in how many classes are being added to a student schedule during registration. If we are a ticket retailer we might be interested in how many tickets were requested and paid for on a minute by minute basis. Note that we are not talking about how well a disk drive is allocated or if we have enough processors allocated to a virtual machine, we are talking in term of business terms. We are looking at tying revenue generating services back to computer resources and trying to figure out what is causing a problem. In the online video classroom example, we might have our processors allocated properly, storage tuned to the last IOP, and memory allocated to buffer data and reduce disk reads. If we are on the same network as the athletic department and our basketball team made it to the elite eight during March madness and the athletic department live streams the game on the same network as our classroom servers our classes will be offline due to demand to watch the basketball game. Tools from EMC and VMware will show that everything is working fine and life is good. Meanwhile the help desk is getting calls from students off campus that can't access their assignments during midterms and their Thursday class is not available. What we need is a monitoring system that can look at systems and incorporate more than just processor and disk. What we need is a tool that can look at systems and services and not just resources. We would like to look at the video distribution system and be able to dive into the disk, network, or processor and see what the bottleneck is and fix it quickly.
Oracle released a tool years ago called Enterprise Manager. The tool started out as a database monitoring tool that allowed you to dive into sql calls and figure out why it was taking longer than necessary. With acquisitions of companies like BEA and Sun Microsystems the tool expanded to look at how Java was performing inside a WebLogic server and how disk drives were performing that were serving up requests for the database and WebLogic server. Acquisitions of companies like JD Edwards and PeopleSoft drove the monitoring tools in the opposite direction and screens showing how many purchase orders were being processed on an hourly basis were suddenly available. You could look at what was the bottleneck in closing your books for the end of month reconciliation. Was it a manual process waiting on a report to drop into a directory or was it a sql statement that was taking minutes rather than seconds to complete? You could start looking at a process like purchase orders and dive into a database to see if a table was reaching storage limits as well as figure out that someone recently patched the database which caused an index to not look at a new column that was created and searches are now going against this column so select statements are doing a full table scan rather than using an index to report answers quicker. Adding more storage in this case will be a waste of time. Yes, we are running out of storage on a table but the real issue is we need to re-index the database or execute a new sql execution plan. Below is a screen shot of how well a database is performing with links to look at all the sub-components of the database.
Books have been written on Enterprise Manager. We are not going to cover everything in this blog to make you an expert on the subject.
- Expert Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Deep Dive
- Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Administration Cookbook
- Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Command-Line Interface
- Managing IaaS and DBaaS Clouds with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Managing Data Center Chaos
- Oracle OEM Blog
- Oracle Press Blog
- Gokhan Atil's Blog
- Rob Zoeteweij's Blog
- David Marco's Blog
- IOUG Enterprise Manager Blog
This is a partial list of blogs returned by a Google search. I am sure I missed a few. Note that the list of books and blogs is not a short list. There are classes offered by Oracle University that you can take virtually or in a classroom (both cost money).
- Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Ed 2
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Advanced Configuration Workshop
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Install & Upgrade
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Overview Bundle
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Management Bundle
The way that Oracle Enterprise Manager is paid for is simple. The base system is free and you pay for the options that you want to use. Unfortunately, the Technology Price Guide is not very clear as to what is and is not Enterprise Manager and what is an option on the database. For example, on page 7, most of the management packs are listed. If you want diagnostics for the database you will need to license your database at $7,500 per processor and not Enterprise Manager. You can license at $150 per named user but the licensing metrics for your database need to match the licensing for you management pack. You could have a two processor license for production and a 25 named user license for development and testing so you will need to blend these licenses into Enterprise Manager with the management packs. Diagnostics is specifically confusing because you enable or disable this feature in Enterprise Manager and not in the database. The telemetry data is being collected for the database but the reporting on the results of the analysis is not being done in the database. You could turn on the reporting in Enterprise Manager without involving the DBA thus incurring an additional license fee that you had not paid for. There is no license key or email that is sent to Oracle saying that you enabled the license it is a simple checkbox in Enterprise Manager that says turn on diagnostic reporting. In recent versions a warning screen pops up telling you that this is not a free feature. In OEM 10g the feature was turned on by default and you had to turn it off. This has changed in recent releases. If you try to turn this feature on when connecting to an Enterprise Edition in the Oracle Public Cloud you will get a feature not available message. You need to go with High Performance or Extreme Performance edition of the database to get the diagnostics enabled.
There are also management packs for Oracle Applications and the pricing for these products can be found in the Oracle Applications Price List. You need to search for the word "packs" to find the price of the management packs in this list. You can get a list of all the management packs from the Oracle Tech Network page for Enterprise Manager
It is important to note that the Enterprise Manager that runs in your data center monitoring your servers and Oracle hardware and software products is the same tool that you can use to monitor and manage PaaS and IaaS resources in the Oracle Public Cloud. You can connect to the instance in the cloud using ssh and read the telemetry from the cloud instance as if it were installed on one of your servers. You can use extensions to the latest version of Enterprise Manager, 13c, to clone a pluggable database instance from your on site installation to a cloud instance.
You can also setup reporting and self service requests to have end users ask for a new service to be provisioned either on site or in the cloud. Below is a screen shot of how to do this for a database. We could do something similar for a WebLogic server, an Apache Web server, a PeopleSoft instance for dev/test, or any layer of the Oracle stack.
In summary, selection of a management tool is important. Tools are good to understand and properly use. At some point you need to step back and ask what is the questions that I need answers to. Am I diving too deep on trying to optimize something that is not that worth deep analysis? Could I automate this and not have to monitor it at all? If I run out of processing power does it make sense to automatically scale up the number of processors? Should I scale out by spinning up more web servers? Do I need to re-architect my network topology to isolate disk traffic from client traffic? If I generate a report who will consume the results? Is the report for someone in IT? Purchasing? The process owner? Is it a technology or financial report? Products like Enterprise Manager allow you to generate all of these reports using different management extensions. My suggestion is to look at some of the introductory videos on the Oracle Tech Network to get an introduction to the problem that you are trying to solve then figure out how much it will cost to measure what is important to you.


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