(Tarry Singh) In this second article of the series, we will discuss some of the issues that we laid down last time. I received an email from another beta tester who complained about some features that did not exist in SoRAC. He said it is just live data. I asked him “And what do you think a DBA does

(David Braue) Consolidation of Oracle’s business applications into a single code base has passed the halfway mark, but the company’s customers won’t be forced into an upgrade before they’re ready, Oracle executives promised an attentive crowd of more than 400 primarily JD Edwards users at this week’

(James F. Koopmann) In Oracle9i, we are now able to call a table function within the FROM clause of a SQL statement and have it return a result set that mimics what we would normally expect from a traditional SQL SELECT statement.

(Stephen Lawson) Oracle has agreed to buy HotSip, a vendor of communications software based in Stockholm. The company sees the company as a means of strengthening its hand in telecommunications infrastructure software

(Thomas Erl) More than any prior distributed-computing architecture, service-oriented architecture (SOA) demands a consistent commitment to standardization. The broad scope of SOA transition efforts provides an opportunity to incorporate far-reaching standardization in support of attaining a state o

(Ivo Jansch) Companies of all sizes are seeking a rapid but structured approach to “Webifying” their existing traditional Oracle-based applications. Increasingly, the combination of Oracle Database and PHP is an attractive option.

(Kevin Loney and Bob Bryla) You can use the Database Resource Manager to allocate percentages of system resources to classes of users and jobs. For example, you could allocate 75 percent of the available CPU resources to your online users, leaving 25 percent to your batch users. To use the Database

(Manoj G) For applications built using Microsoft DNA, ADO provided one of the easiest ways of data access. ADO gave developers, COM based API for data access and using ADO components, a multitude of data sources could be accessed. The main reason for this was that ADO used the OLEDB provider interna

(Larry Pedigo) In the spring of 2005, Dell introduced the PowerEdge 6850 server, an Enterprise-class server scalable to four processors. The Dell PowerEdge 6850 server is an update of the popular 6650 server, featuring significant new technological advances. One of the most significant new features

Oracle SQL Developer (known as “Project Raptor” through EA Release 3) is a new, free graphical tool that enhances productivity and simplifies database development tasks. With SQL Developer, you can browse database objects, run SQL statements and SQL scripts, and edit and debug PL/SQL statements. You