(Brian Peasland) In a data warehouse environment what is the best way to extract data for a specific period and populate to another database? I don’t want the entire schema or full database, only a few tables with one month’s data and respective table views and indexes. (R)

(Christo Kutrovsky) Just recently I got a call from a developer. He had a table with a primary key populated by a sequence, a timestamp column with the current date and some other columns. He had a specific set of data that, when ordered by the primary key had out of order timestamps. He was puzzled

(Sam Alapati) Web servers can serve static and dynamic content, with most of the static content being stored on the server (corresponding to the default htdocs directory) and the dynamic content being generated on the spur of the moment, usually with the help of data from databases, for example. Con

(Alejandro Vargas) This script does a couple of Admin activities, then make a backup ‘as copy’ to File System.

(Mark Brunelli) Oracle developers are still speaking out about their favorite PL/SQL editing and debugging tools, and their opinions truly run the gamut. (R)

(Tarry Singh) There is a lot of hype on Virtualization. It is a $20 Billion market and although heavy transaction intensive applications and Oracle RAC may not find its place in your Virtual Infrastructure today, someday they surely will. Disk Virtualization, Network Virtualization, not only address

(Dustin Marx) Dynamic scripting languages are enjoying a surge in popularity, because they provide powerful features and enable rapid development. Recent interest in the Ruby on Rails framework has brought Ruby into the forefront for the software development community. However, Ruby can be used for

(Mark Brunelli) Michael Birch is relying on Oracle Database 10g to help his small company overtake MySpace.com’s position as the largest social network in the United States. (R)

(Lucas Jellema) One of the interesting new features that come along with WebCenter in JDeveloper 10.1.3.2, but hopefully are not necessarily part of WebCenter (licence) is the set of Customizable Components: PanelCustomizable and ShowDetailFrame. These two components make it very easy to organize th

(Rudy Limeback) I have a single (Oracle 9i) table which captures events with the following columns: Source (VARCHAR) Event (VARCHAR) Time_Of_Event (timestamp) a number of other detail columns, call them Detail1, Detail2, etc. (R)