(Robert Westervelt and Mark Brunelli) The ongoing fight for business applications supremacy between Oracle Corp. and SAP has technology professionals taking sides. (R)

In the past year, Forrester has interviewed 35 Oracle customers using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) to find out about their implementation. Most customers stated that RAC met or exceeded their high-availability requirements to support mission-critical database applications. (R)

(Tarry Singh) In part 7 of this series, we started a detailed explanation of setting up a RHEL 4.2 or Centos 4.2 OS. This article works towards our goal by configuring the Network and Linux servers for Oracle readiness. In addition, we will take a brief look at Vmware Virtual Center.

(Charles Babcock) Oracle followed Google into the enterprise search arena, offering a search engine that it says can ferret out information buried in E-mail, corporate documents, and even mainframe applications.

(Marta Bright) It wasn’t so long ago that the introduction of hot-pluggable hardware made it possible to add and remove devices from a running desktop computer—adjusting capabilities on the fly. Soon hot-pluggable server and network hardware brought power and flexibility to the enterprise, and datab

(René Nyffenegger) A way to view NULLs: NULL is defined as being not-equal to everything else, including another NULL.

(Murali Vallath) 94% availability of a football player indicates that the player has missed one game of a season. However, 99.97% availability of a system indicates a downtime of 2.5 hours in a year. Today’s business requirements are to meet 99.99% or 99.999% availability, which indicates .5 hours

(Roger Ford) This paper looks at the process of maintaining an Oracle Text index, and explores the options available to DBAs to maintain these indexes.

(Michael Klaene) In a push toward simplified J2EE, vendors have been unveiling rapid application development (RAD) tools at a furious pace. Today, for example, most integrated development environments (IDEs) provide wizards to generate the mundane and repetitive framework code necessary when buildin

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