(Arup Nanda) In Sheryl Calish’s excellent article “Guide to Linux File Command Mastery,” you learned some routine Linux commands, which are especially valuable for Linux newbies. But now that you have mastered the basics, let’s move on to some more sophisticated commands that you will find extremely

(James F. Koopmann) We do not always want to SELECT everything from a table. The matter of finding the information required is a function of implementing the optional WHERE clause of the SELECT statement.

(Rick Whiting) Looking to keep its acquired PeopleSoft customers within the Oracle fold, Oracle is shipping PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9, a new release of the acquired vendor’s customer relationship management application.

(John Smiley) The guide provides a walkthrough of installing Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 on commodity hardware for the purpose of evaluation. If you are new to Linux and/or Oracle, this guide is for you. It starts with the basics and walks you through an installation of Oracle Applicati

(Lewis R Cunningham) A friend of mine called a few days ago with a question. He wanted to populate a PL/SQL table and use it to compare to some other data via a NOT IN subquery. He was having a problem getting the data into the nested table and wasn’t sure how to access it from SQL after he did.

(Mark Brunelli) Oracle and SAP AG’s distinctly different approaches to service-oriented architecture (SOA) encapsulate a major problem faced by IT organizations the world over: whether to go with a packaged application provider or a middleware provider to meet their SOA requirements. (R)

(Sreeram Surapaneni) All DBAs, at one time or another, worry that their jobs will become obsolete if Oracle delivers on their promise to deliver a self-managing database. Oracle wants to penetrate into smaller-scale Oracle installations where, in practice, no database tuning and maintenance takes pl

(Dratz) Ok, by now you should have a fair understanding of the major architectural components used in Oracle and what they do. We’ve just discussed SQL because it is the major interface to communicate with Oracle.

(Paul Krill) Oracle within two weeks plans to offer a developer’s preview of Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3, which features a single-install procedure for all components.

(Tarry Singh) Oracle RAC runs on various platforms. We have looked Windows, and we are almost done with Linux, but how many different RAC configurations are there? Taking a quick look at the Oracle website, we see the following. This applies to Oracle RAC 10gR2.