(Greg Karpain) Middleware is an evolving term and product category. When the word was introduced more than 20 years ago, middleware generally referred to any programming that served to “glue together” or mediate two separate existing systems. Since then, middleware has evolved to encompass numerous

OracleAS InterConnect is a comprehensive application integration framework that enables seamless integration of enterprise software. It is built on top of Oracle’s robust integration platform and leverages it’s underlying services. It is designed to integrate heterogeneous systems, be it Oracle

(James Koopmann) How many do I have? Do I have at least one? What is the greatest? What is the least? Give me the top 5 rows. These are just some of the types of questions that are often asked when trying to evaluate table data.

(Brian Albright) Virgin Atlantic Airways is piloting RFID to track parts used for aircraft maintenance and repairs at its Heathrow Airport warehouse. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS) and Oracle installed the system, which will use RFID and sensor-based solutions to manage the consignment, storag

(Naveen Nahata) With the IT job market so tight, every available position is typically met with an avalanche of applicants. The author offers this list of technical interview questions for Oracle E-Business Suite DBA applicants that helps him quickly weed out the poseurs. (R)

(Scott Stephens) When data is stored in a normal table, the rows are physically stored in allocated blocks in the order in which you insert them into the database. For example, if you have a table of information about employees, the employees’ names would typically be stored in the table in the orde

(David Baum) Customer relationship management (CRM) has made significant inroads at commercial firms, where companies use the software to help acquire, nurture, and retain loyal customers. Just as for-profit business ventures and other organizations intent on gaining market share value customer rete

Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g, a comprehensive suite of collaboration products that offers robust functionality for businesses to better manage and deliver content and communications throughout the enterprise. Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g adds comp

(Patrice Borne) This article demonstrates how to implement a paging DataGrid with an Oracle database. It also demonstrates how to limit the volume of data to exchange between the Web Server and the browser by retrieving only the rows necessary and updating changes in bulk.

(Jagadish Chatarji) This is part 15 of a series of articles focusing on database interactions with Oracle PL/SQL. In my previous article, we looked at several examples that covered the use of sub-programs. In this article we will work with PL/SQL TABLE types in between sub-programs. We will also dis