Author Archives: Mark Nelson

About Mark Nelson

Mark Nelson is a Developer Evangelist at Oracle, focusing on microservices and AI. Mark has served as a Section Leader in Stanford's Code in Place program that has introduced tens of thousands of people to the joy of programming, he is a published author, a reviewer and contributor, a content creator and a lifelong learner. He enjoys traveling, meeting people and learning about foods and cultures of the world. Mark has worked at Oracle since 2006 and before that at IBM since 1994.

Configuring UCM to use Active Directory with Apache

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Mark Nelson

Today, I wanted to configure Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) 10gR3 to allow authentication via Active Directory.  I am running UCM through an Apache web server.  Everything is running on Windows Server 2003 R2. Preparing Active Directory The first step … Continue reading →

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Creating a custom profile in Oracle UCM

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Mark Nelson

Today, I was working with a client who wanted to create a custom “type” of document, with specific metadata, in their content management system, Oracle Universal Content Management 10gR3. This seems like a fairly generic requirement, so I thought it … Continue reading →

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Free space in Oracle tablespaces

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Mark Nelson

I occasionally want to know what tablespaces I have defined, how big they are and how much free space is available. Thanks to Praveen at http://www.expertsharing.com/2008/02/26/calculate-size-of-tablespace-free-space-of-a-tablespace/ for providing the following query, which makes this information available easily. set pages 999; … Continue reading →

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Integrating SOA Suite with Oracle Internet Directory

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Mark Nelson

My colleague Srini wrote an article on integrating SOA Suite with Oracle Internet Directory, which is available at http://redshift-au.blogspot.com/2009/05/soa-oid-integration.html

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Using opmnctl to start enterprise applications

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Mark Nelson

Using Oracle Application Server or OC4J, you sometimes want to start an enterprise application from the command line, when the Enterprise Manager (administration console) is not available – usually it is the ascontrol application (the administration console itself) that I … Continue reading →

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Service enabling WebCenter Interaction

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Mark Nelson

Today, I needed to create a web service to expose some functionality from WebCenter Interaction.  In this case, I needed to be able to have an external process move a document from one folder to another in the knowledge repository. … Continue reading →

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Database won’t start because of missing datafile

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Mark Nelson

I had a situation today where my database would not start because “someone” had deleted a datafile.  While deleting the datafile at the OS level was probably not a particularly good decision, things like this do happen occasionally, so how … Continue reading →

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Matt’s book

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Mark Nelson

My colleagues Matt Wright and Antony Reynolds have released a great book on Oracle SOA Suite, available from Amazon.

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Single Sign On for WebCenter Interaction

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Mark Nelson

I have spent a little time recently setting up single sign on for WebCenter Interaction. My environment is WebCenter Interaction 10.3 running on Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 on Windows 2003 Server, with an Oracle HTTP Server (Apache 1.3) HTTP Proxy, … Continue reading →

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Restoring an Oracle database backup to another version of the database

Posted on December 26, 2008 by Mark Nelson

Picked up a handy little tip.  If you want to move a bunch of data from one Oracle database to another, you can use the exp and imp utilities to dump the data and restore it respectively. But what if … Continue reading →

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