(Lisa Vaas) Oracle plans to release an update to Enterprise Manager that slaps at two pain points in grid computing: getting IT services available to meet agreed-upon service levels, and being able to measure whether IT is helping the business out or dragging it down.

(Tarry Singh) I will be starting a little Oracle RAC series with VMWare and will be fondly calling it “RACing ahead with Oracle on VMWare.” This first part is intended to give you a brief introduction to setting up VMWare and the importance of other tools such as VNC, freeNX or NoMachine, PuTTY, etc

(Brian Peasland) I was trying to use dblink to access a different server. I created a dblink and then I tried to run the insert into a table command (trying to add rows to the remote server). I got the following error: “ORA-28030: Server encountered problems accessing LDAP directory service.” (R)

(Clint Boulton) Grids that commission several computers to work together on one task are great, but if you don’t have the software to manage the snarl of data traffic, they can be an absolute nightmare.

(Vijay Kumar) The Oracle RDBMS makes use of different types of locking mechanisms. They are mainly latches, enqueues, distributed locks and global locks (used in parallel instance implementations).

If you’re currently working with Oracle products, odds are there is an Oracle certification out there for you. Although at one time, Oracle certifications were considered for database pros only, the certification programs offered by the “world’s largest enterprise software company” are evolving to k

(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle’s highest-level logical container for data, the tablespace, is a lot like an orphaned, lonely child. Tablespaces live in that lonely place between the physical raw data contained in their datafiles and the myriad logical objects whose structure they organize, manage, and cont

(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article (part six of this series) mainly concentrates on working with Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures together with ODP.NET using ASP.NET.

(Vijay Kumar) Whenever you create a user in Oracle, A default profile is assigned to it. Profile is nothing but a set of restrictions and Settings which can be applied to one or more than one user. In Oracle, you can create User Defined Profiles also.

(Joris Evers) A quarterly patch update sent out by the company last week contained fixes for a laundry list of flaws affecting much of its lineup. But it left out some vulnerabilities that prominent security researcher David Litchfield expected to be tackled–leading him to call for a security overh