0. Robyn Miller Dyke Senior Database Analyst
Destination Application Express Getting Started with Database Applications
Robyn Miller Dyke Senior Database Analyst
Oracle Open World, San Francisco, CA
September 26, 2013

1. Database Area Neighborhood (DAN)
Provides infrastructure services for Oracle Real Application Clusters
Supporting:
5 Lines of Business
45 Oracle DBAs
1100 Databases
430 hosts
91 clusters
Operations
Community Banking
Corporate
Wealth
Consumer Lending
DAN Infrastructure Services
Enterprise Data Management (EDM)
Line of Business Oracle DBA Support Groups

2. Agenda Oracle APEX Infrastructure Components Data Consolidation
Application Design
Team Member Enablement
Production Support Communications
Streamlining the 12c Cloud Control Migration
Oracle Patchset Reporting
Host Level Job Reporting
Policing of Resource Usage
Plans for the Future
Best Practices and Tips

3. APEX Infrastructure Components
DAN MetaData Interface via Oracle Application Express
Host 1
Host 2
Host 3
Real Application Cluster (RAC) v
Oracle RAC Database v
Oracle Application Server 10gR2
with PL/SQL Toolkit (mod_plsql)
Oracle APEX v4.1.1

4. Data Consolidation

5. Data Consolidation DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
Infrastructure Data
(Hardware Detail)
Oracle Monitoring Requests
DBA Support Communication
EDM Database System of Record
DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
12c Migration Schedule
12c Cloud Control
Production Level
Oracle RAC Database v
APEX v4.1.1
Host1
Host 2
Host 3
12c Cloud Control
Non-Prod Level
Oracle Patchset Report
10g Grid Control
Production Level
Oracle HTTP Server with mod_plsql
10g Grid Control Non-Prod Level
Host Job Reporting
Change Requests for DAN Components
Policing Resources & Utilization
Autosys Jobs
(Prod, UAT, Dev)
Host Configuration Metrics with Dynamic Collection Modules
Cron Job Reporting

6. Data Consolidation DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
Data is extracted from each OMS Repository
Consolidated data provides a single source for efficient Oracle APEX reporting
Infrastructure Data
(Hardware Detail)
Oracle Monitoring Requests
DBA Support Communication
EDM Database System of Record
DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
12c Migration Schedule
12c Cloud Control
Production Level
Oracle RAC Database v
APEX v4.1.1
Host1
Host 2
Host 3
12c Cloud Control
Non-Prod Level
Oracle Patchset Report
10g Grid Control
Production Level
Oracle HTTP Server with mod_plsql
10g Grid Control Non-Prod Level
Host Job Reporting
Change Requests for DAN Components
Policing Resources & Utilization
Autosys Jobs
(Prod, UAT, Dev)
Host Configuration Metrics with Dynamic Collection Modules
Cron Job Reporting

7. Data Consolidation DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
EDM Database Inventory is fed from OMS Repositories
Database contacts and Status are maintained
Infrastructure Data
(Hardware Detail)
Oracle Monitoring Requests
DBA Support Communication
EDM Database System of Record
DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
12c Migration Schedule
12c Cloud Control
Production Level
Oracle RAC Database v
APEX v4.1.1
Host1
Host 2
Host 3
12c Cloud Control
Non-Prod Level
Oracle Patchset Report
10g Grid Control
Production Level
Oracle HTTP Server with mod_plsql
10g Grid Control Non-Prod Level
Host Job Reporting
Change Requests for DAN Components
Policing Resources & Utilization
Autosys Jobs
(Prod, UAT, Dev)
Host Configuration Metrics with Dynamic Collection Modules
Cron Job Reporting

8. Data Consolidation DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
Capture DAN centric infrastructure components and related metrics
Allows for adhoc data collection through collection modules
Infrastructure Data
(Hardware Detail)
Oracle Monitoring Requests
DBA Support Communication
EDM Database System of Record
DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
12c Migration Schedule
12c Cloud Control
Production Level
Oracle RAC Database v
APEX v4.1.1
Host1
Host 2
Host 3
12c Cloud Control
Non-Prod Level
Oracle Patchset Report
10g Grid Control
Production Level
Oracle HTTP Server with mod_plsql
10g Grid Control Non-Prod Level
Host Job Reporting
Change Requests for DAN Components
Policing Resources & Utilization
Autosys Jobs
(Prod, UAT, Dev)
Host Configuration Metrics with Dynamic Collection Modules
Cron Job Reporting

9. Data Consolidation DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
Centralized reporting of all host jobs
ETL process runs against autosys, mapping jobs to physical hosts
Infrastructure Data
(Hardware Detail)
Oracle Monitoring Requests
DBA Support Communication
EDM Database System of Record
DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
12c Migration Schedule
12c Cloud Control
Production Level
Oracle RAC Database v
APEX v4.1.1
Host1
Host 2
Host 3
12c Cloud Control
Non-Prod Level
Oracle Patchset Report
10g Grid Control
Production Level
Oracle HTTP Server with mod_plsql
10g Grid Control Non-Prod Level
Host Job Reporting
Change Requests for DAN Components
Policing Resources & Utilization
Autosys Jobs
(Prod, UAT, Dev)
Host Configuration Metrics with Dynamic Collection Modules
Cron Job Reporting

10. Data Consolidation DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
Planned changes affecting the DAN
Includes scheduled changes for hosts, network, database, and applications
Infrastructure Data
(Hardware Detail)
Oracle Monitoring Requests
DBA Support Communication
EDM Database System of Record
DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
12c Migration Schedule
12c Cloud Control
Production Level
Oracle RAC Database v
APEX v4.1.1
Host1
Host 2
Host 3
12c Cloud Control
Non-Prod Level
Oracle Patchset Report
10g Grid Control
Production Level
Oracle HTTP Server with mod_plsql
10g Grid Control Non-Prod Level
Host Job Reporting
Change Requests for DAN Components
Policing Resources & Utilization
Autosys Jobs
(Prod, UAT, Dev)
Host Configuration Metrics with Dynamic Collection Modules
Cron Job Reporting

11. Data Consolidation DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
DAN Hardware Build Engineers load data for processing and configuring incoming hosts and clusters
Infrastructure Data
(Hardware Detail)
Oracle Monitoring Requests
DBA Support Communication
EDM Database System of Record
DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
12c Migration Schedule
12c Cloud Control
Production Level
Oracle RAC Database v
APEX v4.1.1
Host1
Host 2
Host 3
12c Cloud Control
Non-Prod Level
Oracle Patchset Report
10g Grid Control
Production Level
Oracle HTTP Server with mod_plsql
10g Grid Control Non-Prod Level
Host Job Reporting
Change Requests for DAN Components
Policing Resources & Utilization
Autosys Jobs
(Prod, UAT, Dev)
Host Configuration Metrics with Dynamic Collection Modules
Cron Job Reporting

12. Data Consolidation DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
DBAs submit OMS Target Requests
Standardizes Target Names, Configuration, and Templates with minimal discovery issues
Infrastructure Data
(Hardware Detail)
Oracle Monitoring Requests
DBA Support Communication
EDM Database System of Record
DAN MetaData via Oracle APEX
12c Migration Schedule
12c Cloud Control
Production Level
Oracle RAC Database v
APEX v4.1.1
Host1
Host 2
Host 3
12c Cloud Control
Non-Prod Level
Oracle Patchset Report
10g Grid Control
Production Level
Oracle HTTP Server with mod_plsql
10g Grid Control Non-Prod Level
Host Job Reporting
Change Requests for DAN Components
Policing Resources & Utilization
Autosys Jobs
(Prod, UAT, Dev)
Host Configuration Metrics with Dynamic Collection Modules
Cron Job Reporting

13. Lots of Data … Now what?

14. Application Express Plan Design Deliver Solutions
Map out how your application will flow
Design
Make use of key APEX components
Deliver Solutions
Understand how you can best meet your customer’s needs

15. DAN MetaData
Theme Bluejay – 22
Conditional Display

16. Two Level Tabs with Sidebar Menu
Parent Tabs
Standard Tabs
Breadcrumb
Sidebar Navigation List

17. Security Considerations
APEX Database Account Authentication
Authorization Scheme
Limits data access through Tabs, Lists, Pages, Regions, Items, and Report Fields
Used for conditional display

18. Cascading Style Sheets
Standardized Appearance
Easy Integration
<STYLE> .DMD-title-xl{font: bold 20px/34px Arial, sans-serif; color: #333;} .DMD-titleblue-xl{font: bold 20px/34px Arial, sans-serif; color: #336699;} .DMD-title{font: bold 13px/30px Arial, sans-serif; color: #333;} .DMD-titleblue{font: bold 13px/30px Arial, sans-serif; color: #003366;} .DMD-text-xl{font: 19px Arial, sans-serif; color: #333;} .DMD-textblue-xl{font: 19px Arial, sans-serif; color: #336699;} .DMD-text-lg{font: 16px Arial, sans-serif; color: #333;} .DMD-textblue-lg{font: 16px Arial, sans-serif; color: #003366;} </STYLE>

19. Form for Hardware Detail

20. Form Error Checking Error checking based on data definition
Default configuration can be updated after form creation

21. Interactive Reports

22. Team Member Enablement

23. DBA Support Communication

24. Communication Search Results

25. Schedule 12c Migration 6358 Production Targets to Migrate
8728 Non-Production Targets to Migrate

26. Form for Database Monitoring Request

27. Requests Management

28. Oracle Patchset Reporting

29. Oracle Patchset Reporting

30. Oracle Patchset Analysis
Identify the patchset of the Oracle Install Home
Patch number and install date are available from OMS Repositories or opatch lsinventory command
the Oracle Install Home patch number maps to the oracle patchset based on Oracle Support Document
Ex: Patch Number maps to Patchset
Database patchset queried from dba_registry_history
Databases without patchset version in registry are mapped to a patchset by taking the Oracle Install Home’s patchset at the time the Database was upgraded or installed into the home.
select comments
from sys.dba_registry_history
where version is not null
and action_time = (select max(action_time) );

31. DAN Job Reporting at Host Level

32. Drilldown to Cron Job Detail

33. Autosys Job Detail

34. DAN Capacity Overview

35. DAN Capacity Drilldown

36. Locate DAN Resources Search for Disk and Memory Available
Host counts within Cluster matching requirements

37. ASM Historical Analysis

38. ASM Diskgroup Analysis

39. Host Resource Analysis

40. Our Success and Future Plans
2013
Application Statistics:
124 application pages
Average 1050 page views per day
Average Time to load 0.65
Usage has doubled in the past 6 months.
Enhanced Policing and Utilization Reporting
Expand Data Consolidation and Reporting from DAN to all of EDM
Upgrade to APEX v4.2 with APEX Listener v2.0 and Cluster Aware OHS
Most Beneficial Features:
DAN Communications
Consolidation of Host Jobs
Hardware Detail
Patchset Reporting
12c Migration Support
Manage Resource Over and Under Utilization
Expand Job Reporting to include DBMS_JOBS
Dashboard with Real time Problem Tickets captured by web query

41. What can APEX do for you?

42. Enables Solutions!
Provides the framework for rapid application development
Turns business problems into application solutions
Database centric, developers can heavily utilize PLSQL and SQL
Strong Development Community

43. Best Practices and Tips
Utilize PLSQL procedures and packages for application logic
Keep complex queries in views
Maintain a consistent look and feel for interface
Theme
Navigation
Formatting with CSS
Make use of built in features such as Interactive Reports
APEX Advisor
Monitor Activity of the Application
Slow Page, check underlying queries
Debug Mode for problem analysis
Code Review

44. Q & A

45. Copyright
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