(Michael Booth and Philip Greenspun) Most of the world’s useful data are either residing on a server beyond your control or inside a database management system other than Oracle. Either way, we refer to these data as foreign from the perspective of one’s local Oracle database. Your objective is alw

(Alan R. Earls) As the great English lexicographer Samuel Johnson once noted, “A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” Oracle, now well past its acquisition of Siebel and PeopleSoft/J.D. Edwards, is pinning its hopes for a successful marriage on a strategy it calls Project Fusion.

(James F. Koopmann) The Oracle Technical Interview can be quite daunting. You never quite know what to study for and how to prepare. I am fully aware of this, as I have received many emails since my original article on interview questions was released. While these questions are only guidelines as to

(Terrence O’Donnell) In response to a call for broader management of enterprise grid environments from its communities of partners, customers, and developers in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Partner Program, Oracle recently launched Release 2 of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (Oracle Gri

(Tarry Singh) Part 1 of this series gave you a gentle nudge on what Virtualization is and how you could use this technology to test and run all kinds of scenarios on your PC, before you started doing it in production. Contrary to what people say, you CAN deploy an Oracle RAC on VMWare using the ESX

(Eric Grancher and Maciej Marczukajtis) The LHC experiments at CERN will generate huge volumes of data – several PB per year – at data rates between 100MB/s and 1.5GB/s. The storage and analysis of these data present a major challenge. In collaboration with other members of the former RD45 project,

(Mark Brunelli) Oracle completed its round of 10g Release 2 software updates with the newest version of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM). The new version of the software management suite adds high-level dashboards that help to correlate and analyze the relationship between database processes and

(Mark Vilrokx) Now that you have set up a functioning cache, are you sure it’s giving you the performance enhancements you need? Keep reading to learn three ways to check the performance of your cache.

(Mark A. Williams) In this installment of Mastering .NET Application Development with Oracle, you will learn a step-by-step approach for taking advantage of .NET stored procedures in your applications. You will learn how .NET stored procedures are supported, how to install and configure the Oracle D

(Vijay Kumar) In some cases, you may wish to change the existing database character set. For instance, you may find that the number of languages that need to be supported in your database have increased. In most cases, you will need to do a full export/import to properly convert all data to the