(Sreeram Surapaneni) Oracle committed to Linux in 1998, with its first database released on Linux. Now Oracle claims its database software is number one on Linux with a market share of more than 75%. Though Oracle provides low-cost deployment of Linux solutions, many skeptics still hesitate to deplo

(Brian Peasland) What are the differences between tables and views? (R)

(Sam Alapati) Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) is OracleAS 10g’s Web Server component and is based on the Apache 1.3 Web server. OHS handles client HTTP requests and can serve static and dynamic content in response. OHS supports Server Side Includes as well as providing load-balancing capabilities. As you p

(Steve Callan) SQL Manager for Oracle is a “high performance tool for Oracle Database Server administration and development.” Developed by EMS, a company primarily based in Chelyabinsk, Russia with other offices located in Europe and the United States, SQL Manager for Oracle is an affordable comprom

(Lucas Jellema) One of the components in the ADF Faces library you may not make use of on a daily base is the . In this article, I will give you an example of how to apply this component – as it is slightly more complex than you may expect at first glance (or at least than I expected at […]

Most Oracle Applications 11i implementations are vulnerable to a significant security weakness in the encryption of passwords within the application where an insider may be able to circumvent all application controls by accessing any application account or obtain the APPS database account password.

(Arup Nanda) If you are using Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) as a backup tool for your Oracle database, you probably already know that you have two options for the backup location: disk and tape. If you choose the former, you may back up to any location available to the server, but you must make sur

(Brian Peasland) I want to migrate an Oracle 7.3 Unix database to Oracle10g on RedHat Linux without losing any data. How to migrate the database? Please tell me the steps. (R)

This Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement provides advance information about the Oracle Critical Patch Update for January 2007 which will be released on Tuesday, 16 January 2007. While this Pre-Release Announcement is as accurate as possible at the time of publication, the information it c

(Gerwin Hendriksen) In a lot of cases it is very interesting to be able to trace Self Service Applications (CRM) in Oracle Applications 11i. Most of the time it is very hard to understand what is going on in such a session and in that case it might be very handy to get the SQL behind it. To do this