(Rich Niemiec) I’ve worked with TUSC, a major Oracle Integrator for almost two decades. Over the past 5 years, I’ve seen three major trends that seem to be molding the future of database administration. The first is the adoption of real applications clusters (RAC) and an accelerating trend toward gr

(Joshua Greenbaum) I got a call on the way to a recent Oracle Fusion briefing from Oracle analyst relations. SAP had apparently put out a bulletin in advance of the Oracle event that, in addition to offering pre-emptive rebuttals of what Oracle was going to say, offered me up as an independent analy

Now a visible leader in the middleware market and Java developer community, Oracle demonstrated major momentum during 2005 with its Oracle Fusion Middleware product family. One of the primary forces behind that momentum is Thomas Kurian, Oracle’s Senior Vice President for Oracle Fusion Middleware. R

(Robert Wigetman and Jurgen Moortgat) Software technology has evolved to the point where big systems have become so complex that they are no longer simply specified in human language and programmed in computer language. Indeed, using UML (Unified Modeling Language) to model new software has become a

(James F. Koopmann) Concerned about looking at statistics within Oracle? You should take a quick look at Oracles’ new method of turning collections on or off.

(Alorie Gilbert) Oracle executives took the stage in San Francisco to rally support for the company’s development plans after a run of recent acquisitions that has left Wall Street lukewarm on the firm.

(James Koopmann) Grouping and in particular gathering aggregates across groups often brings confusion to many practitioners. This does not need to be the case if approached from a systematic fashion. This article will approach gathering aggregates from a simple GROUP BY operation and then extend

(Ron Hardman and Michael McLaughlin) Building a procedure will follow very similar rules to building functions. PL/SQL procedures have an IN or IN and OUT mode. However, you cannot use an IN and OUT mode in PL/SQL when wrapping a Java method.

(Nicole Alexander, Xavier Lopez, Siva Ravada, Susie Stephens and Jack Wang) The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. To describe information in RDF, statements are essentially broken into triples: {subject/resource, p

(Arup Nanda) One of the cornerstones of the security infrastructure in Oracle Database is accountability—the ability to record who did what. Oracle Database 10g provides auditing to record the activities of users in the database. When the activities occur (for example, a user updates a certain table