(Larry Greenemeier) Oracle announced its next steps in its security strategy, disclosing plans to integrate security into its applications line and broaden Secure Enterprise Search.

(Tarry Singh) Oracle’s shopping spree has resulted in a 30% increase in earnings; (Siebel was the hero by the way). Oracle is setting the stage, aggressively moving into the BI world. Business Object will eventually be the next in line. I even predict that educational software, LMS (Learning Managem

(Mark Brunelli) Oracle unveiled a new version of Berkeley DB, the lightweight, non-relational and embeddable database management system (DBMS) that the firm acquired when it purchased open source stalwart Sleepycat Software Inc. back in February. (R)

(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) If you need to deal with legacy data by moving it to more recent databases, this article might help. It will show you how to move data from an MS Excel file into an Oracle 10G XE table.

(Lonneke Dikmans) Spring, a popular framework for developing lightweight J2EE applications, uses Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and dependency injection at its core. It supports various frameworks, including object-relational mapping (ORM) tools such as Oracle TopLink and JBoss Hibernate. In this

(Lewis Cunningham) Joel, over at the Apps Traction Blog, just posted an entry, Free access to Oracle Vision instances. That entry includes a link to a site that offers publicly accessible instances of 11i. The site also includes free tools, checklists and and documentation.

(Paul Moen) Today I created safety nets — redundant databases in the form of managed standbys.

(David Baum) Jim Murphy, a research director at AMR Research covering content management, portals, collaboration, and search-and-retrieval technology, talked to Oracle Magazine about managing structured and unstructured information cohesively.

(Rudy Limeback) I have a table with a column of datatype number, with values as 1,2,3,4. Now I need all the possible combinations of these values in a query. Can you please help me? (R)

(James F. Koopmann) Ever want to pull variables from within Oracle across systems and into shell scripts?