More than ever before, today's Oracle DBA faces a database farm that is growing both in physical size and actual numbers. To keep these databases up and performing at exceptional levels, the database administrator needs more than a cobbled together set of scripts that they use to (hopefully) verify that everything is in order.
Investing in a business application—be it managing one's customers, tracking inventory, coordinating global resources, or just being able to get real-time visibility to cash flow—has never been so important. Gone are the days when companies invested in business applications, such as CRM and ERP, to simply streamline their...
This book is the outcome the 19th International Conference on Information Systems
Development (ISD 2010), hosted by the faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles
University in Prague during 25–27 August 2010.
The ISD conference evolved from the first Polish-Scandinavian Seminar on Current
Trends in Information Systems...
If you’re new to APEX development, prepare yourself for one of the most productive tools available for
Oracle application development. The speed with which you can create fully functional, secure, webbased
applications is truly astounding, especially when compared to using a tool like Java. If you are
used to writing procedural or...
My journey down the social media road began years
ago, and many people have praised me for my foresight
and brilliance. They are very kind, but the
truth is, what really took me down this road was desperation.
A few years ago—perhaps you remember—the economy
took a heck of a dip. On its way down, it punched me in the...
Developing C# Applications for iPhone and iPad using MonoTouch shows you how to use your existing C# skills to write apps for the iPhone and iPad. Fortunately, there's MonoTouch, Novell's .NET library that allows C# developers to write C# code that executes in iOS. Furthermore, MonoTouch allows you to address all the unique...
Real time 3D games have been around for well over ten years now. We’ve played them, created assets in
the style of our favorites, and maybe even “mod”ed a few of them. But until recently, the cost of licensing
one of the premier game engines has ranged from several hundred thousand to several million dollars
per title...
Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control is a release of Oracle Enterprise Manager that's used to model and manage the entire Oracle Grid and beyond. It has capabilities to manage a number of databases and application servers, and can manage multiple instances of Oracle deployment platforms. Business Service Management (BSM) is a...
In this book the consequent use of probability theory is proposed for handling uncertainty in expert systems. It is shown that methods violating this suggestion may have dangerous consequences (e.g., the Dempster-Shafer rule and the method used in MYCIN). The necessity of some requirements for a correct combining of uncertain information in...
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the next version of the protocol that is used for communication among devices of all types on the Internet. IPv6 has been in existence for many years, but recently the deployment of IPv6 has accelerated greatly in the enterprise. IPv6 has been under continuous development and is maturing as real-world...
Game playing is a powerful metaphor that fits many situations where interaction
between autonomous agents plays a central role. Numerous tasks
in computer science, such as design, synthesis, verification, testing, query
evaluation, planning, etc. can be formulated in game-theoretic terms. Viewing
them abstractly as games reveals the...
