(China Martens) Oracle continued to release pieces of its PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 applications suite, turning its attentions to performance management. The move is part of Oracle’s most substantial revamp of the suite since acquiring PeopleSoft in January 2005.

(Natalka Roshak) If you’re an Oracle PL/SQL developer, you have two familiar needs: –Include as much debugging code as possible without risking a performance hit when the code is running in production –Create code that takes advantage of the newest features in the latest Oracle Database vers

(Brian Duff) If you’re a long time JDeveloper user, you may recall the old version of the extension preferences page. It gave you the ultimate in low level control over which features were enabled in the product – you could switch off anything, and get a startup and memory footprint boost as a resul

(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle 10g Release 2 (10gR2) has improved the effectiveness and speed of materialized view refreshes, something that is becoming especially important in increasingly complex data warehouses and data mart environments. This article – the first in a series – demonstrates several new f

(Arup Nanda) The partitioning feature of Oracle Database enables you to partition stored data segments such as tables and indexes for easier management and improved performance. Oracle Database provides many types of partitioning options, including range, list, hash, range/list, and range/hash. The

(Werner Puschitz) To find out what a particular driver/module does you can in most case use the modinfo command.

(David Baum) Managing streams of unstructured data—documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and image files—is a problem that won’t disappear soon. Organizations generate and receive a relentless influx of information from online and offline systems, but companies that can’t manage unstructured conte

(Stephen E. Arnold) Oracle has offered an enterprise search solution for almost 15 years. In the 1990s, the company rolled out search products that stirred PL/SQL queries with dollops of linguistics. Previous enterprise search products that emerged from this work include ConText, InterMedia, Ultra S

Oracle is leading the way in opening up the enterprise Java platform to both the 4GL and Java development audience through the productive and declarative environment of Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle ADF (Application Development Framework). Declarative business logic, visual page flow modeling and WYS

(Renee Boucher Ferguson) Oracle quietly announced Aug. 23 that it acquired the intellectual property assets of Sigma Dynamics, a company that develops predictive analytics technology.