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e-DBA, a specialised Oracle Platinum Partner has been recognized by Oracle at the highest level after being awarded the Oracle Technology Partner of the year at the 2012 Oracle Partner Awards held in London. This accolade comes ahead of the forthcoming Oracle Customer awards where two e-DBA customers have been shortlisted for the solutions e-DBA provided them with. The ‘Oracle Technology Partner of the Year’ award is considered to be one of the top prizes of the evening as it recognizes innovation, Oracle revenue growth, successful adoption of new Oracle technology and diversity from competition. Alex Louth, Managing Director “We are delighted to come away with this award and be recognized for all the hard work our team has done to ensure our customer can benefit from the latest Oracle technology. ” he added “We are very excited about the next 12 months, as we adopt even more Oracle technology, and are becoming a true Engineered Systems partner which can only benefit our customers and Oracle” This award tops a very successful 12 months for e-DBA having completed an MBO, moved to larger premises, been awarded several new Oracle Exadata projects, and made significant investment in new Oracle Technology such as the Oracle Database Appliance and BigData. Engineered Systems, the Oracle Exa stack and the future Having won this award in 2010 and now again in 2012, this really shows how fast e-DBA are growing and how well their Oracle practice is maturing in both product and service units. e-DBA have been one of the first partners to truly adopt Oracle’s ‘Engineered Systems’ strategy and have already started implementing end to end solutions from the Oracle Red Stack. Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalogic and the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) have been key to e-DBA’s success in taking the ‘Engineered Systems’ message to customers. James Anthony, Technology Director “Having won this award for a second time, it really shows our commitment to Oracle and how well we have been able to adopt and deliver the latest Oracle Technology. “ he added “2012 is going to be a great year for e-DBA, this award is a great start and really puts us a stride ahead of our competitors but more importantly, we hope to share our success with our customers and Oracle” |
So, before you can use the Apex software you just installed onto your Oracle database, you need to be able to access it from a browser. This means you need a HTTP server or Application server to provide that capability. I shall be using the WebLogic 12.1. As mentioned in another thread, it is based on the Apex install 4.0.1 on Oracle 11.2.0.
Ensure you have a valid WebLogic domain and you can deploy applications onto it.
I configured 2 managed servers, but that is not necessary, as you can use the admin WebLogic server if you wish. So in the apex directory you should now have an apex.war and i.war file.
Both of these files new deploying to WebLogic. Therefore you want to go to the WebLogic console and select "deployments" in the navigation. Specify the location of your file and click next. Select the defaults for deploying and click next. Click Finish on review.
Next you need to click on "SecurityRealm", clicking on "myrealm" or equivalent if you have created your own realm. Create new users called adminlistener / managerlistener: Default Auth and password.
Then create new roles to attach these users under. Again under "SecurityRealm" select the tab "Roles and Policies",
In the table under deployments you will find Roles, click that…
Add the role Admin and use the default drop down value (unless you have added others) and click save.
Click the Admin role in the table and click "Add Conditions". Select a User predicate and add the adminlistener to the group. Click save.
Repeat for the Manager role adding the managerlistener user!
OK, so everything is done now… Apex should be installed…
The next step is to configure the DB access… go to the URL:
http://<host_installed_on>:<port>/apex/listenerConfigure and add the credentials to access the database where apex was installed.
Now try logging in… I had fun with that one…. the documentation is not very clear in this regard…either you are faced with a login screen which asks for a workspace for which you have no idea about, or you are not sure which username and password to use. The best option is to go to:
http://<host_installed_on>:<port>/apex/apex_admin
And enter the credentials you used to create the APEX in the database… remember when you set the password for that user ages ago running some install command… Once logged in, you are forced to change it (as I mentioned elsewhere)… and originally forgot to note down what I had done… oops… hopefully you haven't made the same mistake! The password you created earlier is associated with the Admin user BTW.
When you again log into the system, you can use the "internal" workspace to login as Admin, if you are not sure which workspace to log in to! The next step is to start creating a workspace, users and an application!
e-DBA team to Cycle from London to Paris for Action for Medical Research
On 20th July, a team of cyclists from the e-DBA team will be cycling from London to Paris in a gruelling 327 mile trek starting off at the O2 Arena finishing at the Eiffel Tower.
What’s all this in aid of, I hear you say?
The e-DBA team are cycling in the aid of Action Medical Research (The charity saving and changing children’s lives), a great children's charity dedicated to improving the health of babies and children in the UK.
For almost 60 years the charity has been behind numerous breakthroughs such as the UK polio vaccine, ultrasound scanning in pregnancy, and more recently the fetal heart rate monitor a new state-of-the-art device that could help save thousands of at-risk babies.
Action Medical Research relies entirely on donations to fund a range of research projects that address serious childhood conditions and improve quality of life for children with disabilities.
Where we need your help
As part of our task to cycle from London to Paris, we also want to raise as much money as possible for Action Medical Research and help this charity continue to improve the lives of babies and children in the UK.
We kindly ask you to donate as much or as little as you like and help make a difference for all youngsters in the UK.
To donate, please go to: http://www.action.org.uk/sponsor/teamedba
Thank you in advance for your kind generosity.
The e-DBA Team
Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in IT at the moment, but one main area of interest in Cloud Security. This webinar will detail how the cloud is secure as keeping data onsite on physical servers as well as addressing how secure your data is using Oracle RDS and Amazon Cloud Services.
Key outcomes from the webinar:
- Address concerns regarding Cloud Security and relating to Amazon Web Services
- Securing the cloud methodology
- How Amazon Web Services secure their cloud services
- Where is the data held, who owns the data and what protects the data
- How secure is Oracle RDS - Why you should consider putting Oracle in the Cloud
Oracle Database Firewall is the first line of defence for databases, providing real-time monitoring of database activity on the network. Unique and highly accurate SQL grammar-based technology blocks unauthorised transactions, helping prevent internal and external attacks from reaching the database. Oracle Database Firewall is easy to deploy and unlike other products requires no changes to existing applications or databases.
e-DBA are a UK based Oracle Platinum Partner and were recently voted EMEA Database Partner 2010.
This webinar which will give you an overview of all the all the new features within Oracle 11g R2, all database options available and how they can enhance your Oracle environment and solve common challenges faced by universities.
What you will learn - Key benefits for Higher Education institutions:
- Learn about all the new features of Oracle 11g R2 and how they can solve some of your current challenges of - doing more with less; increasing performance and productivity; providing security across your database estate ; maximising ease and speed of upgrade
- Real Application Testing (RAT) - Test database upgrades/changes using production workload and automate via the SQL performance analyser
- Active Data Guard - Clone production databases on the fly and run reporting off the clones so as not to impact performance
- Advanced compression - compress your data down by as much as x4 across your Enterprise on top of the benefits of 11g
- Application Testing Suite - upgrade your applications with even more ease by automating functional and load testing
Oracle Database Firewall is the first line of defence for databases, providing real-time monitoring of database activity on the network. Unique and highly accurate SQL grammar-based technology blocks unauthorised transactions, helping prevent internal and external attacks from reaching the database. Oracle Database Firewall is easy to deploy and unlike other products requires no changes to existing applications or databases.
e-DBA are a UK based Oracle Platinum Partner and were recently voted EMEA Database Partner 2010.