Kai provides an extensive architectural review of Oracle VM plus RAC as a tandem technology that enables server partition and consolidation for improving resource utilization while achieving greater flexibility and high availability.

Mich covers the read-intensive activities as a use case of solid state disks on magnetic disk drives. Write-intensive activities will be covered in the second article in a future edition.

Alex discusses how the innovation of Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) lies in its architectural simplicity, its cost-effectiveness and its reliability as an all-in-one database platform.

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SELECT’s Associate Editor, Dr. Paul Dorsey, asked Matt Warman, one of the “Java Rock Stars” about the impact of Oracle’s purchase of Sun and the integration of the JavaOne conference with Oracle OpenWorld.

Rubino provides a brief introduction to Fusion Middleware and highlights key difference from OAS10g. In providing readers with these differences, he prepares them for an upgrade from Oracle Application Server 10g to Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

Karam explains how GoldenGate 11g can serve as a heterogeneous replication solution. He walks readers through GoldenGate’s components so they can get a better understanding of the software.

By Chris Lawson Some aspects of the Real Application Clusters technology are not well-documented, and as such, they are not well-understood. Lawson explains the Resource Master, how you can find it and the role it plays in Oracle RAC.

Selvaganesan and Zeng discuss the how they use data from AWR and ASH to find out SQL statements that suffer as a result of CPU spikes on a database server. Through real-life case studies, they illustrate a systematic approach on how to find the root cause of the spikes.

Interview with an Oracle ACE:Craig Shallahamer