(Robert Lemos) A security researcher released details of a critical flaw in Oracle’s application and Web software, criticising the company for not cooperating with the security community and taking too long to fix software issues that threaten its customers.

(Kevin Loney and Bob Bryla) If you have previously installed an earlier version of the Oracle database server, you can upgrade your database to Oracle Database 10g. Multiple upgrade paths are supported; the right choice for you will depend on factors such as your current Oracle software version and

John Wookey, senior vice president of application development at Oracle, is walking a fine line. He’s charged with building out Oracle’s next iterations of its E-Business, PeopleSoft Enterprise and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne suites, due next year. At the same time, he’s leading the development of Orac

(Steve Callan) Between Oracle’s critical patch updates and security alerts, perhaps a better phrasing of “Unbreakable” would be “Unbreakable (when patched).” Other articles exist which qualify and clarify what “unbreakable” actually means, and defining “unbreakable” is not the point of this particul

(Steven Feuerstein) Although PL/SQL does not natively support the declaration and manipulation of multidimensional arrays, you can emulate these structures using nested collection definitions, which were first supported in Oracle9i Database Release 1.

(Renee Boucher Ferguson) While Oracle has remained, out of necessity, relatively quiet about its plans with Siebel Systems, some details are starting to emerge.

(Tarry Singh) You have heard the hype around a particular technology. It’s cool and everyone wants a piece of it. Then it’s the post-hype era for a technology where it is getting serious attention from the Big Players and eventually its commoditization. Breakthrough technologies, like Oracle RAC or

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(Natalka Roshak) Consider the following scenario. You have a production system that needs a lot of data from other systems on hand during the day. The data sources that you get this data from return results slowly, and you’ve got network latency that results in slow extracts. Additionally, a fai

(Casimir Saternos) Oracle Database 10g includes a variety of new features that provide new and better ways of solving old problems. Regular expressions have been in common use among UNIX users for a long time but may not be familiar to programmers and users from other backgrounds.