Bradley D. Brown

By ACEs, For Aces

May 2009

With the vast experience Brad possess, it has earned him acting CIO/CTO roles and appointed board member at several companies. He authored 5 best selling Oracle Press books and is a recognized speaker throughout the global Oracle community. Brad is also an IOUC Fusion Council member and an active participant of IOUG. Most recently, Brad’s alma mater, Illinois State University, put him into their first Hall of Fame for the College of Applied Science and Technology.

During his free time, Brad can be found outdoors hiking, swimming, skiing, motocross / trail riding or relaxing and spending time with his wife and two children.

Oracle ACE Program News

Tell Your Oracle OpenWorld Story

If you are an Oracle OpenWorld alum, the OOW editorial team would like to feature you (Oracle ACE) in the OOW 2009 San Francisco print conference guide, blog, and onsite show dailies newspaper.

To participate, tell us in 200 words or less, your thoughts and experience about OOW. For example, what is the most valuable thing attendees are likely to gain from the conference? What are the top five not-to-be-missed things to see or do at Oracle OpenWorld? What is one thing you learned or saw at a past Oracle OpenWorld that changed the way you do your job?

For further details or to submit your entry, please email leslie.steere@oracle.com by Wed, June 10.

Counting Down to ODTUG Kaleidoscope: June 21-25, 2009

ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 is less than one month away! Join ODTUG for over 150 technical sessions, four symposias, more than 30 hands-on labs sessions, and countless opportunities to learn, network, and catch up with old peers. Support your fellow Oracle ACE Directors for the Sundown Sessions. And, don’t forget about ODTUG Community Service Day where volunteers will work together to help preserve the habitat. Register Today!

Update: Are you the Smartest Database Professional in the World?

The DB-Quest Challenge is still out there and going strong. With over 40,000 plays of the game across the world, the database community is actively twittering, blogging & posting news and views on the game. If you haven’t played it yet, give it a spin! Brainiacs who reach the leaderboard earn the privilege of submitting new questions or you can propose new ones in the Oracle Mix group.

Challenge your peers and see who’s smarter. Follow the QuestionMaster on Twitter for the latest game updates.

Call for Papers: UKOUG Conference Series Technology & E-Business Suite 2009

UKOUG is calling all Oracle Technology and Application experts to submit a paper for their annual conference. This year, the conference is aimed specifically at the Technology and E-Business Suite users and will cover 7 product areas within one conference. Call for papers are now open and submission deadline is June 5.

Oracle Press Titles on Oracle E-Business Suite: 30% Off for Oracle Aces

Hot off the press are two new books by Oracle Press on Oracle E-Business Suite: Oracle General Ledge Guide and Oracle Procure-to-Pay Guide. Oracle Aces will receive 30% exclusive discount to these two books plus other select Oracle Press books. Enter promo code: ace902.

Early Bird Registration: UKOUG Conference Series Hyperion & BI 2009

Have you reserved your spot at the UKOUG Conference Series Hyperion & BI 2009? Register by May 29th for the early bird discount.

Articles on Oracle Web Rowset Just Released by Packt Publishing

A two-part article series written by Oracle ACE Deepak Vohra on Oracle Web Rowset is available for download on the Packt Publishing website. The content of the articles were taken from Vohra’s book Processing XML documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g. Oracle ACE’s can purchase this book and other Packt books at a 23% discount. Enter promo code: orpp749.

Interested in Writing?

If you have the enthusiasm for communicating technical ideas and concepts, have a valuable experience or a technical skill that you’re keen to share with readers, you should give serious consideration to authoring a book or becoming a technical reviewer. Please contact sheila.cepero@oracle.com for more details.

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Oracle ACE Watch

System Statistics of the Oracle Cost Based Optimizer- aka: Cost Computing - Part 2 and 3

Randolf Geist , Oracle ACE, continues his series with part 2 and part 3 on the importance of understanding the fundamentals of the Cost based optimizer and the different statistics modes work in his blog.

Taking an Oracle ADF Application from Design to Reality

Oracle ACE Penny Cookson and ACE Director Chris Muir presents in their article techniques for decomposing system requirements into a living, breathing Oracle ADF application.

SOA: What’s in it for Me?

During the InSync conference, ACE Director Debra Lilley, talked about how SOA can help simplify application business processes for Applications specialists. She said “SOA for IT is like USB revolutionized our charges - one charging connector for everything!” Learn what’s in it for you.

Oracle RMAN Backups the Easy Way

Based on real life experiences, ACE Director Porus Homi Havewala provides a technical explanation and examples on how to easily set up and schedule Oracle RMAN backups through Oracle Enterprise Manager.

PL/SQL naming conventions and coding standards

After studying, writing and writing about PL/SQL code for more than fifteen years, ACE Director Steven Feuerstein has “finally gotten around” (his words) to publishing, in a single, concise document, his thoughts on coding standards and naming conventions for PL/SQL development. You can download (and give feedback on) his ideas at http://www.ToadWorld.com/sf/standards.

The First Ever Oracle Hyperion Essbase and Smart View 11 Books Now Available

Oracle ACE Directors Tracy McMullen and Edward Roske recently authored and released two new titles as part of their Hyperion book series: The Look Smarter Than You Are with Essbase 11: An Administrator’s Guide and Look Smarter Than You Are with Smart View and Essbase 11: An End User’s Guide.

This article written by ACE Director Raj Mattamal walks you through a customer example implementation using custom authentication schemes while leveraging the suite of Oracle Application Express applications.

Oracle 10g Application Server Fusion Middleware for Identity Management

Oracle ACE Ben Prusinski posted a 2-part series about Identity Management for Oracle 10g Application Server with Fusion Middleware in his blog. Part 1 talks about configuring the Oracle Certificate Authority (OCA) for use with certificates and part 2 involves how to setup and manage wallets with the Oracle Wallet Manager for certificates with SSL and Oracle 10g Application Server.

No Such Thing as a Table Too Small

Read this 7-part series post in Oracle ACE Director Richard Foote’s blog on how indexes can be quite beneficial even if the associated table is very small.

OWB 11G - Goals, Features and Installation

Nathalie Roman, ACE Director, summarizes in her blog the new features of OWB 11G and how the installation process has been simplified with Oracle Database 11g.

She also blogs about different approaches to debugging and logging BPEL processes.

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Oracle Aces Out and About

• Peter Koletzke - ACE Director, OFM
  Speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• David Kurtz - ACE, dB& Apps
  Speaking at UKOUG RDBMS SIG
• Sten Vesterli - ACE Director, OFM
  Speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Lonneke Dikmans - ACE Director, OFM
  Organizing SOA Symposium and speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Lucas Jellema - ACE Director, OFM
  Speaking at JavaOne, Leading SOA for Database Professionals Oracle University Seminar, Organizing SOA Symposium and speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Hajo Normann - ACE Director, OFM
  SOA panelist at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Chris Bucchere - ACED, OFM
  Speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Dan Morgan - ACE Director, DB
  Speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Christian Pfundtner - ACE, DB
  Speaking at GNC Akademie Austria
• Mark Rittman - ACE Director, BI
  Speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Nathalie Roman - ACE Director, OFM
  Speaking at SOA Community Day for EMEA Partners
• Chris Judson - ACE Director, OFM
  Speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Edward Roske - ACE Director, BI
  Speaking at NEOAUG, ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Ronald van Luttikhuizen - ACE, OFM
  Speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Chris Ostrowski - ACE Director, OFM
  Speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Tim Warner - ACE, Apps
  Speaking at OHUG
• Geoffroy de Lamalle - ACE Director, OFM
  Speaking at Oracle SOA Partner Community Forum VIII, ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Tracy McMullen - ACE Director, BI
  Speaking at NEOAUG, ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Cary Millsap - ACE Director, DB
  Speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Scott Spendolini - ACE Director, DB
  Speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• Richard Foote - ACE Director, DB
  Speaking at AUSOUG
• Bert Scalzo - ACE, DB
  Speaking at Toad Virtual Online Seminar, PHLOUG, Colombus Oracle Usergroup, Orlando Oracle Usergroup
• Karen Morton - ACE, DB
  Speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope
• John Stouffer - ACE, Apps
  Speaking at ODTUG Kaleidoscope

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Architect Corner

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Upcoming Events

• JavaOne
  June 2-5, 2009 - San Francisco, CA
• OHUG
  June 14-17, 2009 - Las Vegas, NV
• ODTUG Kaleidoscope
  June 21-25, 2009 - Monterey, CA
• UKOUG Conference Series Hyperion & BI
  June 24-25, 2009 - London

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