(Barbara Darrow) Oracle execs dropped some tantalizing hints at Oracle OpenWorld’s partner confab.

(Russell Arno) What is the notorious “yellow bar” in Oracle apps? How does it affect the applications? What steps should one take to remove it? How do you find out the application patch level? (R)

(Tony Baer) Under the covers, the plugability implies some tweaks to make some modular components more modular, while upping the volume on messaging. In essence, they are making it easier to upload the necessary Java classes to activate different Oracle middleware components at run time.

(Barbara Darrow) While most of the chatter at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld confab will doubtless center on Oracle’s planned buy of Siebel Systems, there will be some plain ol’ product news as well.

(John Pallatto) Siebel Systems Inc. officials denied market predictions that its hosted customer relationship management application service would have a short life span in the hands of its prospective new owners Oracle Corp.

(QIANGHUA MA) When a large transaction takes a long time to rollback, it is good to know how much of the rollback is done and estimate how long it is going to take. Given the session’s sid, it can be done with the simple statement below, tested on Oracle9i. When a transaction is rolling back, the t.

(Arup Nanda) It’s your organization’s worst nightmare: Someone has stolen backup tapes of your database. Sure, you built a secure system, encrypted the most sensitive assets, and built a firewall around the database servers. But the thief took the easy approach: He took the backup tapes, ostensibly

(Manish Upadhyay) Sometimes there are some batch jobs or long-running queries in the database, which may take a while to complete. This query will show the status of the query (how much of it is completed). In other words, this may be viewed as a “progress bar” for the query. It has been tested on 9

(Clint Boulton) Refusing to rest after announcing a $5.8 billion merger deal with rival Siebel Systems, Oracle debuted its Security Developer Tools, software that can be used to grant or deny users access to information on computers.

From aerospace to retail, from hospitals to government agencies, organizations are implementing sensor-based computing and communications initiatives. Their goals reach well beyond industry mandates, to include transforming internal and external business processes based on new sources of informati