(James Koopmann) A pseudocolumn is a column that looks like a column but really is not a column. What! Stick around and find out what a pseudocolumn really is.

(Mark Brunelli) Oracle’s Project Fusion initiative got a whole lot more complicated this week when the company announced it would purchase CRM giant Siebel Systems Inc. for $5.85 billion, but experts say it remains a workable — if somewhat confusing — plan. (R)

(Steve Callan) Performance tuning is a broad and somewhat complex topic area when it comes to Oracle databases. Two of the biggest questions faced by your average DBA concern where to start and what to do. All you may know is that someone (a user) reports a problem about a slow or poor performing ap

When you create a database table in Oracle 9i, you have the option to specify a DEFAULT value. Using default values on database columns helps to insulate database design issues from application code. With the DEFAULT value set, you can change it at some later date with a single ALTER TABLE comma

(Kimberly Floss) It used to be a challenge to size the various memory pools that comprise the Oracle system global area (SGA) for optimal performance. But that was before Oracle Database 10g.

(Chris Schalk) Those who are new to JSF may often hear about the “JSF Request Processing Lifecycle” but may not have a firm grasp of exactly what this lifecycle does..

(Douglas Reilly) Database geeks are all around us. I met Gary Mallow on the email list of a cycling group run by a local church. After some conversation, I discovered that he is a director of a group of developers who build applications, sometimes using .NET and often using Oracle as a database. Lik

(John Pallatto) With its $5.85 billion buyout of Siebel Systems on Monday, Oracle will face persistent questions about how it can effectively market or integrate what amounts to seven different CRM product lines, software industry executives and analysts said.

(Michael Hoskins) Oracle Integration projects need to accommodate a high level of variety and change involving a large number of systems, applications, data formats, standards, and connectivity types — all existing in a perpetual whirl of change for both legacy systems, unstructured data sources (e

(Vattekkat Satheesh Babu) Thanks to ActiveRecord, it is a breeze to program Oracle using Ruby. Here’s a quick note about how to do this on MS Windows.