Suppliers can be set up from many different applications, but the data is stored in only in one place. Applications sharing supplier information include Purchasing, Payables, Assets, and Property manager.

Oracle Corp. said it would rather beat Salesforce.com Inc. than buy the much smaller provider of customer management software.

(Casimir Saternos) One of the well accepted best practices in system administration is to automate routine tasks whenever possible. Oracle Database 10g includes a number of enhancements and new features that automate common deployment and configuration activities.

(John Paul Cook) With the ever increasing interest in security, companies are taking a more mature look at security beyond the simple basics of denying unwanted access. International, national, state, and provincial laws and regulations are driving a more detailed and granular approach to security.

Oracle Database 2 Day DBA is a database administration quick start guide that teaches you how to perform common day-to-day database administrative tasks. The goal of this tutorial is to give you adequate information to help you understand the concepts behind the Oracle Database. It teaches you how t

(Steve Muench) In my last column, “Browsing and Editing Data” (Oracle Magazine, July/August 2005), you saw how easy it was to use Oracle JDeveloper 10g and Oracle ADF to create Web pages to browse and edit database data. In this column, we’ll explore how to add basic search functionality to an Oracl

(Mark Brunelli) It will be at least a year before Bruce Copping’s company is ready to plan an upgrade to Oracle Database 10g Release 2. (R)

(James F. Koopmann) Started going through a few lose ends in my email farm and noticed one that I got from an Oracle product manager on the globalization side. We had a discussion a few months back about case insensitivity and I pointed out that Oracle didn’t really have true case insensitivity beca

(Scott Stephens) In a globalized environment, many simple tasks become more difficult because of the variety of grammar rules in different languages. You can generalize these tasks by breaking down a particular language into a set of grammar rules and exceptions to those rules (as well as a base voc

(Steve Callan) As mentioned in Part 1, there are several relatively easy steps you can take to improve performance. From the user’s perspective, one of the most frequently used interfaces with a database involves SQL statements, so getting a handle on them is a good place to start in terms of being