(fstrahberger) Do you ever had a problem like this: I need all documents on my hard drive, containing the words Oracle and SQL Server but do not contain MS Access. Do you have Oracle 10g and about 2 hours time? Yes! – Then I will show you an easy way to index your documents using Oracle Text. As I a

(Jack Loftus) An analyst firm is giving high marks to Oracle’s new Content Services 10g and Records Management 10g line. (R)

(Lewis R Cunningham) Oracle RAC & Grid Tuning with Solid State Disk, sub-titled: Expert Secrets for High Performance Clustered Grid Computing is a pretty specific book covering RAC and how it can make the most of Solid State Disk (SSD). The goal of this book is to show how SSD can improve the pe

(Steve Callan) For some products, keeping up with patches is almost a full time job in and of itself. Microsoft has certainly garnered a lot of attention when it comes to patches and security updates. Chances are that the computer you are using to read this article has an automatic update service ru

(Steve Lemme) Oracle has released its latest version of its database – Oracle 10g with even greater database functionality then before. Since Oracle v6, significant technological improvements have been made in processing power, storage, network, and application architectures. With each new database

(Iyer Sankara S H) This article explains how to create an Editable Datagrid in ASP.NET scripted in VB.NET which simulates a Shopping Cart that we normally come across in Amazon.com or shopping sites of MSN,Yahoo or Rediff !

(fstrahberger) Did you ever use oracle with more than one Oracle home? Maybe in different language settings like AMERICAN and GERMAN. Then you probably had the following problem in native oracle (e.g. sqlplus) when selecting a date field: “ORA-01843: not a valid month”. This problem is even worse wh

(Martin Veitch) Oracle users are catching on to the latest versions of the firm’s software although many remain on pre-9i editions, according to the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) annual survey, published in October.

(Kuassi Mensah) As I described in a previous article published in Web Services Journal, Web services provide easy access to remote content and application functionality using industry-standard mechanisms, without any dependency on the provider’s platform, the location, the service implementation, or

(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article is an extension to my previous article (Accessing P/SQL Stored Procedures). It mainly concentrates on the parameter directions of a PL/SQL stored procedure. It also deals with stored functions and packages.