(Deepak Vohra) As a J2EE developer you might sometimes be interested in comparing a modified XML document with the pre-modified version of that document. Or you might want to compare two XML documents that are both based on the same DTD or XML schema. This article is designed to give you the inform

(Andy Oppel) This section covers some tuning considerations that are specific to Oracle databases.

(Heather Havenstein) Oracle Corp. unveiled a suite of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications that folds in analytic technology from Siebel Systems as part of an effort to go up against Microsoft Corp. — from the low end of the market up through the enterprise level.

(Steve Callan) You may think you know everything there is to know about the Scott schema, but part of its overall usefulness lies in how versatile it is with respect to its ability to illustrate many of Oracle’s and SQL’s features. The illustrative point examined in this article concerns trees and h

(Mark A. Williams) There are different ways to access data from Oracle databases in .NET applications, but in terms of features and performance, Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) is your best choice.

The Oracle Content Services 10g Web Services provide a means for third-party applications to leverage advanced document and record management capabilities in their own application. The Web Services can be used to simply integrate applications, or to build complete custom applications using the Oracl

(James F. Koopmann) Identification of the database you are currently working on can sometimes be somewhat confusing. Take a look at the internal parameters that Oracle keeps and see if you can uniquely identify the database you are currently working on.

(Kristien Hens and Michael Loebmann) Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) rightly presents itself as the leading high availability (HA) technology provider with regard to commercial databases. A wellconsidered data center architecture plays a decisive role in this context. Configuring the underlyin

(Philip Howard) After all these years you would assume, wouldn’t you, that database optimisers were pretty good? Companies like IBM and Oracle have been costing query plans and re-writing SQL not just for years but for decades, so you would expect that they would know what they were doing.

(Jagadish Chatarji) This is the second article in a series focusing on associative arrays. In this article, we shall examine recommended methodologies for working with associative arrays efficiently.