(Aradhana Puri) On Linux platforms, using Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS) and asynchronous input/output (I/O) and implementing a large System Global Area (SGA) make it easier to manage Oracle9i on Linux.

(Dustin Marx) JDBC is a standard data-access protocol that is typically used to access relational databases. A significant advantage of JDBC is its standardized API, which allows for portability of Java-based data-accessing applications. JDBC is considered an integral part of both standard Java (J2S

(Lewis R Cunningham) I was laying around thinking about XML and how my current project is passing the data back and forth. The application I’m designing is a service that will be called from at least two others applications and possibly more. The service is implemented via stored procedure that will

Having thrown its hat into identity management with the acquisition of Oblix earlier this year, Oracle Corp has now made two acquisitions in provisioning and virtualization, to narrow the gap with IBM Corp and Computer Associates International Inc.

Oracle’s two major index types are Bitmap indexes and B-Tree indexes. B-Tree indexes are the regular type that OLTP systems make much use of, and bitmap indexes are a highly compressed index type that tends to be used primarily for data warehouses.

(CastorTiu) Some time ago I had to work with Oracle Advance Queue and I got amazed what they can do. This is the link that was missing between the DB and the applications. Of course it had Oracle pipes, but they are a prehistoric version of what advance queue can do.

(Dan Vlamis) The Oracle OLAP (online analytical processing) option of Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition provides advanced analytic features to help you to summarize, analyze, and calculate data faster than or in ways not possible with standard SQL. Oracle OLAP can access data stored in rela

(Bob Watkins) Oracle 8i, 9i, and 10g have altered the facts behind several common practices followed by database administrators. Consultant and veteran DBA Bob Watkins suggests that ‘products move on,’ and the old way of doing things sometimes needs to be abandoned in favor of the methods that new f

(Ashwin Pingali) In the previous blogs we have seen the issues and features related to Oracle 11i Incentive Compensation. In this series of blogs I intend to introduce the Oracle 11i Sales modules starting with the sales process itself.

(David Watson) Over the past couple Oracle has been in the news for its applications acquisitions — the takeover of PeopleSoft and, more recently, the intended buyout of Siebel generated plenty of headlines.