(China Martens) IBM Corp. and Oracle Corp., more often rivals than partners, have joined in creating an industry consortium focused on establishing what it calls “service science” as both a key area for investment by companies and governments and as a full-blown academic discipline.

(David) It is easy to set an entire TABLESPACE read-only in Oracle by using the following command: ALTER TABLESPACE tbs_name READ ONLY;

(Bob Watkins) You may be aware of the old USERENV function, which returned session values such as the user’s session_id, language, and whether the user had DBA privileges. Although USERENV still exists for legacy reasons, it was superseded by a new function in Oracle 8i, SYS_CONTEXT.

(David) Starting with Oracle 9i, DBAs can now create locally managed tablespaces.

(Frank Zhou) This query can determine whether a special character is an upper case letter, lower case letter, or is not alphanumeric (NOT_ALPHANUMERIC).

(Lawrence Dietz) Oracle has announced the expansion of its governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) applications with the introduction of a new applications suite that manages compliance initiatives in heterogeneous environments; provides increased security through automated, pre-defined ERP controls;

(Eddie Awad) I stumbled on the following SQL*Plus tips at a new Oracle blog called Tahiti Views.

(Mark Brunelli) Oracle released a new version of Application Express, a free, browser-based tool for Oracle Database developers who want to build, deploy and manage Web-based applications. (R)

Hello! This is Dennis MacNeil. After 10 years working with Java technology and developers, I’ve changed my focus to databases and security. Today, I am a product marketing director for database security products, including Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle Database Vault and the upcoming Oracle Au

(Sam Alapati) In this final article of a six-part series, you will learn how to deploy, maintain, and monitor J2EE applications. You’ll also review the content of all of the parts; a self-test is included at the end.