(Vincent Chan) Introduced at Oracle OpenWorld 2006 in October, Oracle Unbreakable Linux aims to offer enterprise-class support services for Red Hat Linux, quicker bug fixes, and a significantly lower support prices. And Oracle’s own Enterprise Linux, which is based on Red Hat Advanced Server Release

(Lucas Jellema) In this article on bind parameter usage in ADF Business Components, we will discuss a feature that I recently found out about and that I think offers a lot of potential. Unfortunately I do not think I quite grasp all the possibilities yet. However, since my understanding is enough to

(Jerry Herbek) Every implementation or upgrade of a mission-critical Oracle Application is unique, with its own combination of customized business processes and infrastructure requirements. Testing is the primary means to verify a project’s success in meeting users’ needs and requirements. But more

(David Baum) The increased use of content-rich applications and the internet, particularly for business transactions, has put new demands on enterprise databases. One way to handle these demands is with the increased use of XML. As a markup language capable of describing many different kinds of data

(Lucas Jellema) It can easily be the case that in your ADF BC application many ViewObjects make use of the same bind-parameters, for example a bind parameter referring to the current user. One simple way of providing the correct value for such bind-parameters could be implementing a little piece of

(Babu Rangasamy) This trigger verifies whether a user logging into the database is (pre)authorized to connect to the database using the approved client machine, client software, etc.

(Tarry Singh) In the year 2006, we looked at the RAC database installations on Windows 2003 Server and Linux (Both RHEL and Centos 4.2). Red Hat will soon be releasing version 5 (based on 2.6.18 kernel) and we will test it against our new Oracle RAC. We will also take an opportunity to test Oracle R

The inherent weakness of the Oracle Applications 11i user password algorithm is a topic that every so often gets some attention. It bubbles up and then is largely forgotten by most. However, the issue doesn’t go away and is very much alive today even in 11.5.10.2. See the references at the end of

(Marco Gilbert) This tip is for people who use Oracle Resource Manager in Oracle Database 10g to manage CPU usage by consumer group.

(Alan Joch) Don’t be fooled by appearances—Red Nose Day is no laughing matter. Comic Relief’s biennial fund-raiser invites people throughout the United Kingdom to don red noses as they get sponsored to do all sorts of silly things and donate money to support antipoverty programs locally and in Afric