(Renee Boucher Ferguson) It’s official: Oracle is approved to acquire Siebel Systems for $5.85 billion by day’s end.

(Vincent Chan) This article provides the procedures for converting Oracle 9i (9.2.0.4) RAC to Oracle 10g (10.2.0.1) RAC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (RHEL3).

(Steve Muench) One of the key simplifying benefits of ADF Business Components for the business tier is the support the application module component provides for an “active data model” of data collections. For developers coming from a Forms/4GL background, it works just like they are used to in their

(Jeremy Kirk) Oracle and a security researcher have fallen out over a vulnerability in the company’s software that has gone unpatched since it was discovered in October.

(Lewis R Cunningham) TOra is an open source, Linux and windows database IDE that functions a lot like TOAD. Several of my co-workers really like it, mainly because it runs under Linux, which TOAD does not.

(Alison Holloway) In November 2005 I attended the PHP Conference in Frankfurt. At that conference I did a demonstration which showed how to integrate PHP Web Services using Oracle BPEL, and the Oracle JDeveloper PHP Extension. I have written up that demo for others to get an overview of what I talke

(Lenka Vanek and Tom Chu) Upgrading hardware is usually painless, but upgrading databases…well, everyone has a horror story to tell. The primary concerns of a seasoned Oracle DBA are the success of the upgrade and the downtime that could result. Success being not only that the upgrade itself wor

(Aradhana Puri) The Oracle Database 10g DBA New Features for Oracle8i Oracle Certified Professionals (OCPs) exam (exam number: 1Z0-045) enables those certified on Oracle8i Database to upgrade their certification to Oracle Database 10g by passing only this exam.

(James F. Koopmann) Oracle has given us a new parameter STATISTICS_LEVEL for collecting database statistics. Lets take a deeper look at what you can expect from your database system when this parameter is set and statistics are being gathered.

(Jim Czuprynski) The previous article in this series presented complete demonstrations of how to set up an ASM instance in both Linux and Windows NT, as well as how to use Oracle 10g’s Enterprise Manager (EM) to monitor and manage an ASM instance. This article will focus on ASM instance administrati