(Ron Hardman) Have you ever wondered which of your prospects are most likely to buy, or who will provide the most-lucrative deals? Whom should you target in your marketing campaign, and what will be important to them when they call? Which products and versions of products provide your customers with

(James F. Koopmann) The three different wait events of ‘control file sequential read’, ‘control file single write’, and ‘control file parallel write’ all contribute to the amount of time Oracle takes to keep the control file current.

(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle 10g’s new Secure Backup features offer the capability to insure that all Recovery Manager (RMAN) backups are created and maintained in a secure fashion without the need for a potentially expensive and cumbersome media management layer (MML). This article – the first in this s

(Sam Alapati) In this second part of a multi-part series covering the management of OC4J and configuring J2EE applications with Oracle 10g Application Server, we focus in on OC4J instances.

(Arup Nanda) In Part 1 of the series, you learned some useful commands not so widely known and some of the often used commands but not-so-well-known parameters to do your job more efficiently. Continuing on the series, now you will learn some slightly more advanced Linux commands useful for Oracle u

Occasionally, there is a need to expire all application user passwords in Oracle Applications 11i. Oracle now provides a script to expire all users passwords in 11i.ATG_PF.H RUP4. The script is located in $FND_TOP/patch/115/sql/AFCPEXPIRE.sql. It can be executed using SQL*Plus or as the concurren

(K. Gopalakrishnan) In today’s super-fast world, data and application availability can make or break a business. With access to these businesses granted via the ubiquitous and “always-on” Internet, data availability is an extremely important component in any business function. (R)

(Paul Vallee) Calling widespread bad habits in database administration “deadly” may seem extreme. However, when you consider the critical nature of most data, and just how damaging data loss or corruption can be to a corporation, “deadly” seems pretty dead-on.

(Jeff Hunter) One of the most efficient ways to become familiar with Oracle10g Real Application Cluster (RAC) technology is to have access to an actual Oracle10g RAC cluster. In learning this new technology, you will soon start to realize the benefits Oracle10g RAC has to offer like fault tolerance,

(Alan Joch) For organizations that depend on high-quality information at every level of the company, having people find what they need—and what they are allowed to see—can be a problem. Now, Oracle Secure Enterprise Search provides a way for users to search secure content inside the enterprise, whil