(Robert Westervelt) The war over dominance in the retail sector between Oracle Corp. and SAP AG continues in 2006, with Oracle making the first move by acquiring technology in recent weeks to bolster its industry specific suite. (R)

(Bill Brenner) Oracle Corp. handed database administrators a heavy patch load for 82 critical flaws affecting a range of products. Attackers could exploit the security holes to access sensitive information, overwrite files or launch SQL injection attacks. (R)

Below is an alphabetical listing of the Oracle system tables that are commonly used.

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(Marc Fielding) I couldn’t find this install documented anywhere on Metalink or the Internet, so here are some instructions on how to do it. It’s written for Oracle 9 and RHEL3, but should apply to Oracle 10 and RHEL4 as well.

(Tony Kontzer and Charles Babcock) Oracle has come a long way from the take-no-prisoners approach it took during its pursuit of PeopleSoft before acquiring the company last year. Since then Oracle executives have worked hard to keep PeopleSoft customers in the fold, but the company has never been al

(Lewis R Cunningham) Have you ever needed to get to a database but didn’t have the TNS entry for it? Would you like to connect to an Oracle database and have no idea what TNS, or more importantly the TNSNAMES.ORA file, is? Today’s entry is for you.

(Lisa Vaas) Brace yourself: Another quarterly CPU (Critical Patch Update) is due out from Oracle Corp. on Jan. 17.

(James F. Koopmann) Oracle has done it again. Venture with me down what seems like a small option but in fact has major implications on what we, as DBAs no longer have to manage.

(Steve Callan) How does extensible markup language relate to the J2EE standalone version of Application Server? If “extensible markup language” sounds unfamiliar to you, perhaps you know it better by its acronym of XML. XML matters not to just to the J2EE version of Application Server, but to all ve