(Tarry Singh) As a continuing part of the hands-on articles, we will take a deeper look at such things as errors in the installation (which are actually not errors), ESX host tuning for time synchronization (without which the whole RHEL RAC installation means nothing) and some SRVCTL commands.

(Mark Brunelli) Oracle’s packaged business applications portfolio comes up short in the areas of content management, architecture and development, and the software giant is not focusing enough resources on the management and security elements of the IT infrastructure either, according to a new analy

(Lucas Jellema) Recenlty I installed both the Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3 as well as JDeveloper 10.1.3.1 – the Design Time environment for the SOA Suite. Everything was set up locally on my laptop. Although the installation itself through the Oracle Universal Installer went very smoothly, I had a little

(Fahd Mirza) In order to efficiently and intelligently manage an Oracle database, you have to have a sound knowledge of its underlying architectural details. This knowledge pays off because it is directly linked with DBA’s job. The real job of DBA starts after the installation of database, when he e

(Bob Watkins) When you use GROUP BY with the summary functions like COUNT and SUM, you normally don’t get multi-level totals. Each unique combination of the columns in the GROUP BY generates a total, but these totals aren’t “rolled up” into higher level totals.

(Mark Brunelli) Business applications giants Oracle Corp. and SAP AG are gearing up to battle for customers in “hot” markets like healthcare, insurance and financial services, IT industry experts say. (R)

(Joel Asselin) For the reader not yet familiar with Form Personalization, here is some summary information>

(René Nyffenegger) On May 7th, I demonstrated how data can be versioned in workspaces and then be merged or refreshed. This worked well as long as I didn’t change the same row in two different workspaces. However, when the same row is changed in two different workspaces, it creates what the Oracle d

(Shakir Sadikali) I’m a simple guy. I like things simple. I once had a consulting gig with a client who wanted to do something that I thought was quite simple.

(Fahd Mirza) The first confusion a beginner DBA encounter is what exactly Oracle is? Is it the name of Company or is it the name of product? Is it the name of database or is it the name of database management system? In order to nullify these confusions, let’s start with some definitions.