(Lewis R Cunningham) Yesterday I wrote about finding VMWare Player, VMWare Player – How sweet it is, a free virtual machine for running pre-built environments. I installed it and played with the browser appliance while I downloaded the pre-built Oracle 10gR2 RAC on Redhat environment. I now have

(Ann C. Logue) Millions of dollars are electronically transmitted around the world every day. As the manager of MasterCard’s development relationship with Oracle, Stephen Orfei leads a team whose mission is to develop products and services that help businesses get their money faster. He joined Maste

(Tony Kontzer) Having prevailed in a clash with the U.S. Department of Justice over its purchase of PeopleSoft, Oracle is again under the DOJ’s antitrust scrutiny. Oracle received a second request for information from the DOJ as part of an investigation into Oracle’s proposed $5.9 billion acquisitio

(fstrahberger) Have you ever tried to access an Oracle instance in VBScript? This is not to complicated, but normally you need an additional file called tnsnames.ora in the Oracle installation directory. This article describes an easy way to access an Oracle instance without this file. All you have

(Steve Callan) Sometimes it is worthwhile to go back and review some fundamentals, and this article does just that using views. Views are extremely useful for DBAs, developers, and users alike, but are you getting all you can out of what views have to offer? Why are some views updateable and others

(Mark Vilrokx) In the third installment of this series we will add some more functionality to the cache that will alleviate some of the drawbacks that we discussed in earlier articles.

(Matjaz B. Juric) In real-world scenarios, a BPEL business process will often have to connect to an existing application or system. Of particular interest here is connectivity to J2EE artifacts, such as Java classes, Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), Java Message Service (JMS), ERP systems accessible th

(Brian Carr) If you’re looking for a way to query the vast amount of data stored in documents, spreadsheets, and other file formats, than Oracle Text is the answer. If you’re looking for a way to query a database, then Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer is a great solution.

(James F. Koopmann) The interview process can be quite stressful. Here is the first part of a two part series on helping you answer those tough questions that you might experience in your quest for an Oracle DBA position. I actually wrote this article a long time ago but it is amazing how many quest

(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article (part five of this series) is an extension to my previous article “All Possible ways to Manipulate Data,” which covered manipulating data in an Oracle database with ODP.NET using ASP.NET in several possible ways.