(Deepak Vohra) The Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 specification has facilitated the development of EJBs, by providing an annotations-based API in which the remote/local and home/local home interfaces are not required. The deployment descriptors that form the basis of an EJB 2.0 entity bean are also

(Ryan Naraine) Exploit code for a malicious worm capable of wreaking havoc through Oracle databases has been tweaked and published, prompting a new round of warnings that an actual attack is inevitable.

(Lewis R Cunningham) This entry is the second of a two part review of the book Oracle Streams, High Speed Replication and Data Sharing by Madhu Tumma. In the first part, I included the topics covered and the chapter by chapter overview of the preface and chapters 1-3. In this part, I will conclude w

(Tarry Singh) The year 2005 has been a great year for the IT industry, mainly the Web but for databases too. Oracle had a very busy year with acquisitions and its continued support and contribution to Open Source Community (like membership on Eclipse Board, JDeveloper was released free).

(James F. Koopmann) Identification of the database you are currently working on can sometimes be somewhat confusing. Take a look at the internal parameters that Oracle keeps and see if you can uniquely identify the database you are currently working on.

(Mark Brunelli) There’s no motivation like customer retention. St. Louis-based legal auditing firm Stuart, Maue, Mitchell & James, Ltd. got a stark reminder of this lesson when, faced with the prospect of losing two of its largest clients, the company was forced to put a long-delayed Business In

(Eliot Beer) Oracle has released a new package — Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite — to prevent unauthorised users accessing sensitive data on enterprise systems.

(David Baum) It’s Saturday night, and you’re ready to hit the town. Your first stop is Sandia Casino, where your regular patronage has earned enough Peak Rewards points for a free steak dinner. Sandia knows you well, thanks to an Oracle-based casino management system from Konami Gaming, an Oracle pa

(Eric S. Emrick) Each year corporations are faced with the challenge of trying to meet increasingly stringent service level agreements with their internal and external customers. Availability, performance and capacity planning are the cornerstones upon which successful companies position their IT i

(Jagadish Chaterjee) In this article, I shall introduce you to developing a .NET based CLR stored procedure which can read a simple Excel file and transfer that information into an Oracle database using Visual Studio.NET. Once we have completed the stored procedure with the Excel file, we will furth