(John Abel) Oracle E-Business Suite is a mature application suite that has been around for many years, evolving through versions of functional and technical components and technology stacks. I still have memories of Oracle’s First Report Writer (RPT) and Forms 2.0 and using the vi editor to perform

(Mark Brunelli) The latest version of Oracle’s flagship database — Oracle Database 11g — includes a slew of new XML-related features and enhancements, an Oracle executive said. (R)

(René Nyffenegger) Suppose I’m the owner of a shop where you can order daily deliveries of certain items.

(Sue Harper) A week or so ago, I popped over to Ireland to see some of the developers who are based there. I have mentioned before that the team based in Dublin are the Migration Technology Group. They are a busy team; building the Migration Workbench as an extension to SQL Developer, are also worki

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(John Watson) At first sight, Oracle Application Server 10g is a huge and terrifying environment within which to work. As you become familiar with it, it will remain huge but no longer terrifying. A problem that beginners to Application Server often suffer from is being unable to see the wood for

(Jaikumar Vijayan) The long-standing tension between software vendors and independent researchers who try to find security holes in products came into public view late last month, when Oracle Corp. criticized bug hunters after it came under fire for its security practices.

(Sai Kiran Gummaraj) Embedded SQL is a superset of Sybase’s T-SQL or Oracle’s PL/SQL that lets you place SQL statements in application programs written in languages such as C and COBOL. Pro*C allows the C programmer to write database access code fast and with less of a learning curve. For people who

(Brian Peasland) What is the difference between an instance and a session? (R)

(Barbara Darrow) What’s next on the open-source stack agenda? It could be an open-source XQuery engine, if Oracle’s Roger Bamford has his way.