(Jeremy Kirk) Mary Ann Davidson, chief security officer for database giant Oracle, remembers the first time she heard her company’s marketing scheme that advertised its database products as “unbreakable.”

(Tony Jedlinski) Developers often use Oracle Application Express (formerly Oracle HTML DB) to rapidly develop simple, non-business-critical applications—to replace spreadsheet-based applications, for example, or to automate paper-based or other manual systems. Given Oracle Application Express’ s

(Bob Watkins) One of the trickiest problems to troubleshoot is the interaction between multiple applications that access the same data. Although each application in itself may be well-behaved, each app may make assumptions about the data that another doesn’t. As a result, rows can appear, get change

(David A. Utter) Portal CEO Dave Labuda announced the sale of his company to Oracle in April. The $220 million deal appeared to be a fait accompli given the company’s shaky history according to a Mercury News report.

(Mark Brunelli) Oracle has announced the general availability of the open source Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition Release 3.0. (R)

(Jim Czuprynski) In the previous article, I demonstrated how Oracle 10gR1’s new transportable tablespace features make it simple to “plug in” a single tablespace into another database, even when that tablespace is on a different platform and operating system. I also showed that with a few simple com

(Aron Tunzi) This script reports temporary tablespace usage. (This script was created for Oracle9i Database.)

(Raj Mattamal) When developers talk about customizing Oracle Application Express applications, they usually mean server-side rather than client-side customizations—for example, directing users to a specific page based on a value submitted from a form. Oracle Application Express (formerly Oracle HTML

(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) There are plenty of companies that produce large, expensive database programs with lots of features. But if you’re a small company, you don’t need to spend a lot of money to get a database that suits your needs; in fact, you may not need to spend any money at all. This article

(Scott Spendolini) By now, you’ve probably heard of Ajax, which is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. If you’ve used Google Maps, Yahoo Mail, or Flickr, then you’ve seen the possibilities for creating a rich, interactive UI.