(Scott Urman, Ron Hardman and Michael McLaughlin) Syntax and rules govern what you can and cannot do in PL/SQL. While following syntax and programming standards alone do not make a program good, failure to understand the rules of the language can certainly make a program bad. In this chapter, we dis

(Kristen Kenedy) Solution providers, along with their vendor partners, are pressuring Oracle executives to reduce software licensing costs for multicore processors.

(Jacques Roy) How do we select a database that will give us a business advantage over our competitors, a database that provides the best possible return on investment? This paper focuses on the technical characteristics that make a good OLTP database system and why IBM-Informix Dynamic Server ve

(Bob Beauchemin) Many Oracle customers use Microsoft operating systems and data APIs, and a substantial number of Microsoft customers use Oracle databases. If your organization belongs to either group, you’ve undoubtedly encountered a plethora of potentially confusing software choices among APIs, da

This topic lists a number of issues that might arise when configuring and using an Oracle Publisher.

(Jeffrey Hunter) One of the most efficient ways to become familiar with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 10g technology is to have access to an actual Oracle RAC 10g cluster. There’s no better way to understand its benefits—including fault tolerance, security, load balancing, and scalability—t

(Ian Abramson) When you are working with large databases with Oracle Database 10g, there are certain topics with which you need to be familiar. These topics are covered in this article, which is the second of two parts.

(Renee Boucher Ferguson) While Oracle Corp. is still evaluating its underlying platform decision for Project Fusion, its next-generation application suite under development now, some users are quite certain which technologies they need included to consider an upgrade.

(Tarry Singh) The previous article was a marathon and a real daunting project that involved getting your ASM and the database running under the VMware virtual nodes. It is important to realize that whenever you decide to get the RAC into production, you will not just do it with a couple of PC’s. The

(Lewis R Cunningham) The question I probably receive most is how to create XML so that it can be accessed via ftp, http or even from the desktop and tools like MS Word. XML DB can do this and it’s pretty easy to use. I’m going to use XE as my database of choice but this would work in any […]