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Experience Oracle OpenWorld

This year Oracle has combined two premier conferences, its business applications conference – Oracle AppsWorld – and its technology conference – OracleWorld – into one information-packed event you can’t afford to miss. Consolidating the conferences gives Oracle a single venue to present a comple

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Fast Cache, Fresh Data

(Tim McCarthy) For most Web applications, caching relatively static database data in memory can boost application performance several fold. Caching not only takes some of the load off your database server, but it can also eliminate a network round-trip. Often, a Web application stores its cache

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Notes and XQueries

(Edd Dumbill) Hero of the XML world this week, and appropriately named for the role, is Mike Champion. His contributions towards debate on XML standards and their creation have long been among the most enlightening and tolerable. Both of my summaries from the XML-DEV mailing list this week are taken