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Oracle Database 11g New Features

2007-11-03T14:16:00.000Z

Overview

Your Must-Have Guide to Everything New in Oracle Database 11g

Realize the full potential of Oracle Database 11g with help from the experts. Written by Robert G. Freeman, and with insightful commentary throughout from Arup Nanda, this Oracle Press guide offers full details on the architectural changes, database administration upgrades, availability and recovery revisions, security enhancements, and programming innovations. Every new and updated feature is covered and presented with screenshots, code samples, tables, and charts. Find out how to take full advantage of all the new and improved capabilities of Oracle Database 11g, including:

New Oracle Automatic Storage Management features, such as Fast Disk Resync, Compatibility Attributes, Preferred Mirror Read, and Rolling Upgrade components
Improved Automated Memory Management capabilities
New database design features, such as virtual columns, tablespace encryption, and true table-level data compression
New Database Advisors for data recovery and repair, partitioning, and streams performance
New tuning features, such as Automatic SQL Tuning and SQL Performance Analyzer
Enhancements to Oracle RMAN, including active database duplication and UNDO backup optimization
Improved auditing and security capabilities
Advanced BI, data warehousing, and partitioning features
New SQL and PL/SQL enhancements

Biographical note

Robert G. Freeman is the bestselling author of Oracle Database 10g New Features and Oracle Database 10g RMAN Backup & Recovery. He is a frequent contributor to Oracle user groups.

Oracle Database 11g DBA Handbook

2007-11-03T14:15:00.001Z

Overview

The bestselling, comprehensive guide to Oracle database administration, fully revised for the new release

This essential resource for Oracle DBAs has been completely updated to cover the new features of Oracle Database 11g, the industry standard Web-enabled enterprise database system. Oracle Database 11g DBA Handbook details each topic with an emphasis on the big picture, enabling you to achieve effective and efficient database management.

You will learn to get up-and-running on Oracle Database 11g, develop and implement applications, manage storage space, and create reliable system backups. New and revised sections cover high availability, performance optimization, information management, and security procedures. Real-world examples and case studies illustrate each concept along the way.

Part One: Database Architecture
Chapter 1 Getting Started with the Oracle Architecture
Chapter 2 Upgrading to Oracle Database 10g
Chapter 3 Planning and Managing Tablespaces
Chapter 4 Physical Database Layouts and Storage Management
Part Two: Database Management
Chapter 5 Developing and Implementing Applications
Chapter 6 Monitoring Space Usage
Chapter 7 Managing Transactions with Undo Tablespaces
Chapter 8 Database Tuning
Chapter 9 UsingSTATSPACK
Chapter 10 Database Security and Auditing
Part 3: High Availability
Chapter 11 Real Application Clusters
Chapter 12 Backup and Recovery Options
Chapter 13 Using Recovery Manager (RMAN)
Chapter 14 Oracle Data Guard
Chapter 15 Miscellaneous High Availability Features
Part 4: Networked Oracle
Chapter 16 Oracle Net
Chapter 17 Managing Large Databases
Chapter 18 Managing Distributed Databases
Appendices
Password Verify Function

Biographical note

Bob Bryla has more than 20 years of MIS experience as a database designer, systems analyst, and DBA. He currently handles the DBA activities on Lands' End's Oracle Internet databases. Bob is the coauthor, with Kevin Loney, of the previous edition of this book.Kevin Loney is a veteran Oracle consultant, developer, and DBA. He is a regular presenter at Oracle User Group conferences and is the bestselling author of several Oracle Press titles.

Bits from the Security Team

2007-11-03T13:20:00.001Z

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Bits from the Security Team

It's in the nature of security support that in the ideal case users
shouldn't notice our work at all. Still, there're some noteworthy
changes you should know about.

Debian Security Tracker
=======================

The Debian Security Tracker is a database which collects information
about security problems and provides an easy overview about open
security problems in a given distribution:

http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/

Various sources of information are tracked there:
- - Information from Debian Security Advisories and the versions which
have been fixed
- - All CVE ID assignments from MITRE are validated, whether they affect
Debian
- - References to security bugs reported in the BTS
- - Information about updated security fixes provided for testing

The Security Tracker covers Debian's security history back to 2003. It
is discussed on the mailing list debian-security-tracker@lists.debian.org
You should subscribe if you want to get involved.

A more verbose introduction into the Security Tracker and how to get
involved can be found in:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/secure-testing/doc/narrative_introduction?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

Embedded code copies
====================

Developers are encouraged to communicate amongst their colleague
developers for cases where their packages have code in common with
other packages. For example a package which contains an embedded
library which is also packaged should be encouraged to use the shared
library, as this means a potential security update only requires a
single update.

A prominently horrible example is the xpdf code base which is embedded
in ten different source packages in Debian Sarge. (For Debian Etch
this could already be reduced significantly thanks to the xpdf library
fork named poppler and for Lenny we'll reduce it even more)

You need to tell us about such cases, we can't review all of Debian's
18k packages on our own.

The current state of affairs can be found at:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/secure-testing/data/embedded-code-copies?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

Architecture versatility
========================

We endeavour to release security advisories for a package for all
architectures simultaneously. Sometimes that isn't possible because
the network we use for rebuilding packages contains machines which are
broken, or otherwise unavailable.

A recent example of a problem architecture would be the HPPA port of
Debian, which had no working build host for some time, and caused all
pending security advisories to stall. In some cases we choose to
release without the architectures in question.

Separate queue for unembargoed security problems
================================================

A subset of all security updates is embargoed, i.e. Debian receives
pre-notification about a security problem along with an embargo date,
until which the fix is to be kept private. Traditionally all Debian
security updates have been built in a build queue hidden to the
public. Thanks to infrastructure improvements implemented by Anthony
Towns security updates without an embargo can now be built in a second,
visible queue.

A provisional overview of this queue can be found at
http://klecker.debian.org/~jmm/status.html

There are still some bugs that need to be fixed until this will be
used for all security updates, though.

Security mirrors
================

In addition to the mirror rotation available for security.debian.org,
security mirrors can now be accessed regionally:

security.eu.debian.org resolves to villa.debian.org and lobos.debian.org
security.us.debian.org resolves to steffani.debian.org

The IPv6-enabled security mirrors are reachable as security.ipv6.debian.org

Request Tracker
===============

The Debian Security Team is planning to use the Request Tracker now
available at rt.debian.org. We will post a status update once more
details have been settled and the queues have been created by the
Debian System Admiministrators.

Debtags for the scope of security support
=========================================

Sometimes it is necessary to revoke security support for a given
package. During this year's DebConf conference it was discussed to use
debtags to flag such a state. The following bureport contains more
information: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=436161

If you have further suggestions, please add it to the bug log.

New members
===========

Florian Weimer and Thijs Kinkhorst have joined the Security Team
recently.

Long term maintainability
=========================

One of the many benefits of Debian over other GNU/Linux distributions
is the versatility of our archive. In contrast to most other
distributions Debian provides long term security support for the full
selection of packages available in the archive and not only a subset
expected to be the most commonly used.

Security support is provided for the lifetime of a release plus one
more year, i.e. at least 2.5 years according to current release
schedules. (Debian Woody was supported for nearly four years)

If you have doubts about the maintainability of your package for such
a time frame you should contact team@security.debian.org. If we know
in advance we'll deal with it, if you don't tell us, it's your fault.

How you can help
================

* As a package maintainer: If there's a security bug in your package,
please be proactive about it (do not wait until the security team
releases a DSA all by itself). You can help prepare updated
packages for stable and oldstable following the guidelines on
www.debian.org/security.

* Always mention any applicable CVE id's in your changelog. If an id
is assigned after you uploaded the fixed version, please add it
retroactively in a next upload.

* A good way to help is to research more information, reproducers and
of course patches for bugs tagged "security" in the BTS.

* Helping out on the information in the Security Tracker (see above) is
a good way to help both the testing and stable security teams in one go.

* Users may help us by reporting problems which are not already
contained within the tracker mentioned above, by adding the
'security' tag to existing bug reports and, if necessary,
removing a misplaced "security" tag.

Where to find more information
==============================

If you're curious about the security team and would like further
information about anything contained in this message the following
links would make a good starting point:

* The Debian Security FAQ
<http://www.debian.org/security/faq>

* The Debian Security website
<http://www.debian.org/security>

If you have more specific questions please ask us directly by mail.

If you wish to establish encrypted communication, you should use the
current team PGP key 0xF2E861A3.
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Armin Van Buuren

2007-11-03T13:16:00.000Z

Armin van Buuren (born December 25, 1976) is a trance music DJ and producer from Leiden, the Netherlands. He is currently ranked #2 worldwide according to The DJ List, the world’s largest DJ directory. However in 2006, he placed 2nd in DJ Mag’s annual Top 100

Biography

Armin van Buuren chose to pursue his career as a professional musician despite the promise of a legal career in his native country of the Netherlands, where his legal studies were completed in 2004. Van Buuren started working as a DJ in a local night club called Nexus, finished high school in 1995 and went on to university to study law. Meanwhile, he moved his studio equipment from his bedroom to a ‘real’ studio. The first tracks he produced in his new studio were, among others, tracks like “Touch Me” and “Communication”. Van Buuren has been quoted as saying, “Don’t be a prisoner of your own style.” He has described his musical style as “liberating, euphoric, uplifting, melodic and energetic.”

He hosts the trance show A State of Trance. The show has completed its 300th episode in May 2007, running for over 6 years.

In October 2002, Van Buuren was voted Number 5 in the DJ Magazine 100 top DJs. The following year, he jumped up to the #3 spot, and held it strong for 3 years straight. His work left him on the #2 spot, just below Paul van Dyk in the 2006 polls.

As a producer

Armin Van Buuren has always had his own studio and works alone the majority of the time. He has never employed an engineer, claiming he does not want the music to be altered by an engineer.

Since 1995, Van Buuren has released many tracks on different labels with increasing success. His first big success was “Blue Fear” on Cyber Records. This ‘Euro Trance blueprint’ made it into the UK Chart. “Communication” was released on the same label, and had a huge impact on Ibiza, Spain in the summer of 1999. After being signed to AM PM Records, this track entered the UK Chart at #18 in 2000

In the beginning of 1999, Van Buuren started his label Armind together with United Recordings. The first release, Gig - “One”, was well received. The second release “Touch Me”, under the name Rising Star was signed to Ministry Of Sound in the UK, before the record was released

By the time of his third release, Gimmick - “Free” was signed to R&S Records, Van Buuren had managed to make his label popular very quickly. Under the surname Gaia he released “4 Elements” on Captivating Sounds, a sub-label of Warner Brothers. Teaming up with DJ Tiësto, two new projects were born: Major League - “Wonder Where You Are?” was released on Blackhole and Alibi - “Eternity” was released on Armind. “Eternity” received club and chart success and was signed to Paul van Dyk’s imprint Vandit Records. Another major collaboration followed this. Together with Ferry Corsten, Van Buuren recorded a riff-classic titled “Exhale” for the System F. album. Released as a single, this track reached gold status in less than a month.

In 2000 Van Buuren started his own AVB compilation series. He managed to find a balance between progressive, techno and trance music styles. AVB001 - “A State of Trance” (not to be confused with his weekly ASOT radio shows) sold more than 10,000 copies and contains Van Buuren’s well known remix of Moogwai - “Viola.” AVB002 “Basic Instinct” featured a new track: Perpetuous Dreamer - “The Sound Of Goodbye”. This track entered the Dutch charts in June 2001 at number 26. Later in the year the track hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play

chart. AVB003 - “In Motion” was released August 6th 2001. This album contained the real trance sound and was very popular in the US. AVB004 - “Transparance” followed in 2002.

In March 2001 Van Buuren started his own radio show on ID&T Radio. In this weekly two-hour show, entitled ‘A State of Trance‘, he plays the latest popular trance music tracks. His show and the artists he features are popularized by publishing the artists and track titles on his website. This radio-show/website combination has proven popular internationally. When ID&T Radio changed genres in 2004, Van Buuren left and took A State of Trance with him. The show then moved to Fresh FM, a Dutch radio station. It is now a weekly feature on SLAM!FM, another Dutch radio station, DI.FM, an online radio station, and on XM Satellite Radio channel 82 in the United States and Canada. A complete list of stations that broadcast ASOT can be found at the ASOT section of Armins website. Also in 2004, Van Buuren remixed the 24 Theme into a trance hit. In June 2005, the 200th episode was celebrated in Amsterdam and subsequently aired on radio. The 250th (8 hour) anniversary episode was celebrated in Club Asta in The Hague, The Netherlands, featuring Van Buuren, Jonas Steur, M.I.K.E., John Askew, Rank 1 and Menno De Jong.

On May 17, 2007, Van Buuren began broadcasting the first of a two part series of what would become his 300th espisode of A State of Trance.

He has also worked on remix projects involving tracks by Japanese superstar Ayumi Hamasaki.

Aliases: Amsterdance, Armania, Darkstar, E=mc², Electrix, El Guitaro, Gaia, Gimmick, Hyperdrive Inc., Major League, Misteri A, Perpetuous Dreamer, Problem Boy, Rising Star, The Shoeshine Factory.

As a performer

NYC, October 9, 2006

Van Buuren began his DJ career at club Nexus in Leiden, where he learned to play long DJ sets, which were regularly six to seven hours per set. During school holidays he played more than four times a week. In 1999, he met Dave Lewis who introduced him as a DJ in England and the United States.His DJ career accelerated, entering the DJ magazine Top-100 in November of 2001 at Number 27. He has played in more than 25 different countries and can often be found on the main stage at big summer festivals. Van Buuren has played a record-breaking nine-hour set for Dancetheater in The Hague (Holland). In the United Kingdom one can see him perform regularly at Passion (resident 2002), Godskitchen, Gatecrasher, Slinky, Peach and Golden.

In 2002 he had a residency at Glow in Washington D.C., and he has played in Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, New York City, Los Angeles, and St. Louis. He has also regularly appeared at Amnesia on the island of Ibiza.

According to Van Buuren, “The fans and the public are the most important thing for a DJ.”

On April 12th of 2006, Van Buuren began a Canadian tour with a performance in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This was his first appearance in the centrally located Canadian city. Despite a Wednesday booking, the venue was filled to capacity with fans eager to see Van Buuren perform. Throughout his set Van Buuren could be seen signing autographs for his eager fans.

On November 11, 2006 he had a live performance called Armin Only in Ahoy Rotterdam for the second time (after Nov 12, 2005) with a 9 hour solo set, where he performed to over 11 000 fans.

Discography

Compilations

1999 “Boundaries of Imagination“
2000 “001 A State of Trance”
2001 “002 Basic Instinct”
2001 “003 In Motion”
2002 “004 Transparance”
2003 “Universal Religion Chapter One”
2004 “A State of Trance 2004“
2004 “Big Room Trance”
2004 “Universal Religion 2004, Live From Armada At Ibiza”
2005 “A State of Trance 2005“
2005 “A State of Trance 2005 Year Mix”
2006 “A State of Trance 2006“
2006 “A State of Trance 2006 Year Mix” (Released December 15, 2006 in the Netherlands)
2007 “A State of Trance 2007” (Release May 18, 2007)

Singles

1997 Blue Fear
1999 Communication
1999 Future Fun-land (As Perpetuous Dreamer)
2000 Touch Me (As Rising Star)
2000 Eternity (With Tiësto as Alibi)
2000 Wonder Where you are (With Tiësto as Major League)
2001 4 Elements (As Gaia)
2001 The Sound of Goodbye (As Perpetuous Dreamer)
2001 Exhale (With Ferry Corsten as System F)
2002 Clear Blue Moon/Star Theme (As Rising Star)
2002 Sunspot (As Rising Star vs. Airwave)
2002 Dust.wav (As Perpetuous Dreamer)
2003 Sunburn
2003 Yet Another Day (With Ray Wilson)
2004 Burned With Desire (With Justine Suissa)
2004 Blue Fear 2004
2004 Communication Part 3
2004 Intruder (with M.I.K.E.)
2004 Pound (with M.I.K.E.)
2005 Shivers (With Susana)
2005 Serenity (With Jan Vayne)
2005 Zocalo (With Gabriel & Dresden)
2006 Who Is Watching (With Nadia Ali)
2006 Sail
2006 Control Freak
2006 Love You More (With Raccoon)
2006 Saturday Night (Trance remake of the 1978 Herman Brood classic)
2007 This World is Watching Me (vs Rank 1 feat. Kush)
2007 Miserere
2007 Rush Hour

Albums

2003 “76“
2005 “Shivers“
2006 “10 Years“

Video

2006 Armin Only - The Next Level (DVD)
2007 Armin Only - Ahoy (DVD)

Linux losing to Windows

2007-11-03T13:05:00.000Z

A few years ago market share data clearly demonstrated Linux server growth outpacing Windows server growth. Today, Linux server growth has apparently slowed while Windows is picking up, according to IDC. Why? The rate of migration from Unix to Linux has slowed.

In other words, Linux may have hit the end of Unix's low-hanging fruit (which also might mean that Sun's OpenSolaris has picked up...?).

Linux growth in the U.S. x86 server market has, over the past six quarters, started to falter and reverse its positive course relative to Windows Server and the market as a whole.

The annual rate at which Linux is growing in the x86 server space has fallen from around 53 percent in 2003 (45 percent globally), when Windows Server growth was in the mid-20 percent range, to a negative 4 percent growth (less than 10 percent globally) in calendar year 2006, IDC Quarterly Server Tracker figures show.

Over the same time period, Windows has continued to report positive annual growth, outpacing the total growth rate in the x86 market by more than 4 percent in 2006, indicating that Linux has actually lost market share to Windows Server over this time.

Bill Hilf of Microsoft suggests that this stems, in part, from Linux being considered in two primary scenarios: high-performance computing and Web serving. Windows is apparently adopted on a much broader basis.

Is this a long-term trend or are we at a crossroads? With big ERP/database/CRM/etc. vendors moving or moved to Linux (Oracle, for example), I suspect we'll see Linux taking a broader position in the applications currently served (no pun intended) by Microsoft's Windows.

What this means is that it may be the end of Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu sidestepping Microsoft to focus on the low-hanging fruit. Novell has actually competed directly against Microsoft for several years, which is why it felt the Sharepoint threat earlier. (My last job at Novell was to analyze how to reverse Microsoft's efforts to push Linux out of enterprises using Sharepoint.) Red Hat still has not felt it because it has not competed as directly with Microsoft's application-serving markets.

To grow, Linux is going to have to take on Redmond. Directly. Soon. To win, it may have to present a similar story to Microsoft's: end-to-end value. This may not be something the Linux vendors can fully do today, though arguably Novell has (some of) the right pieces, if not the execution to back them.

The Linux versus Windows fight just got more interesting.

Eurocontrol

2007-11-03T13:01:00.000Z

EUROCONTROL is the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation. This civil and military Organisation which currently numbers 38 Member States, has as its primary objective the development of a seamless, pan-European Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. The achievement of this objective is a key element to the present and future challenges facing the aviation community, which are to cope with the forecast growth in air traffic, while maintaining a high level of safety, reducing costs, and respecting the environment.

EUROCONTROL develops, coordinates and plans for implementation of short-, medium- and long-term pan-European air traffic management strategies and their associated action plans in a collective effort involving national authorities, air navigation service providers, civil and military airspace users, airports, industry, professional organisations and relevant European institutions.

EUROCONTROL's core activities span the entire range of gate-to-gate air navigation service operations - from strategic and tactical flow management to controller training; from regional control of airspace to development of leading-edge, safety-proofed technologies and procedures, and the collection of air navigation charges.

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Oracle Database 11g New Features

Biographical note

Oracle Database 11g DBA Handbook

Table of contents

Biographical note

Bits from the Security Team

Armin Van Buuren

Biography

As a producer

As a performer

Discography

Compilations

Singles

Albums

Video

Linux losing to Windows

Eurocontrol