(Rob O’Neill) For James Furness, the chief information officer of Western Australia’s Coventry Group, buying new enterprise software was a “stay-in-business” decision.

(Jagadish Chatarji) This is part 13 of a series of articles focusing on database interactions with Oracle PL/SQL. In my previous article, we concentrated on procedures and discussed some issues of variable scoping with respect to sub-programs. In this article we proceed with some tips on using proce

If you try to run Structured Query Language (SQL) against an Oracle database through Data Access Objects (DAO), you can encounter the following error: Run-Time Error 3024 Couldn’t find file C:Program FilesDevStudioVB.mdb.

(Yuli Vasiliev) JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology is a new server-side user interface (UI) component framework that is quickly becoming the standard Web-application framework for J2EE applications. The big advantage of JSF technology is that it enables Web developers to apply the Model-View-Controll

(Robert Westervelt) SAP is progressing with its plan to services-enable its entire business suite by 2007 and has made partnerships around its strategy, outpacing rival Oracle Corp. in an increasingly competitive applications software market, according to a report by Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester

(Boris Makushkin) The designers of a newer information system often faces the difficult task of heterogeneous data access unification. Heterogeneous means that data may be stored on different database platforms. Oracle Corporation provides the developer with tools to address heterogeneous data acces

The Microsoft Visual Database Tools have been designed to work with Oracle databases transparently you can design database diagrams, queries, and views in the same way you would for any database. In addition, the tools are Oracle-aware, allowing you to incorporate Oracle data objects such as synonym

(Wei Li and Ari Mozes) Frequent itemset counting is the first step for most association rule algorithms and some classification algorithms. It is the process of counting the number of occurrences of a set of items that happen across many transactions. The goal is to find those items which occur toge

(Tash Shifrin) Oracle has added a Portfolio Analysis module to a new release of its Projects suite of applications.

(Judith Hurwitz) I like irony. I guess you can’t be in the computer industry as long as I have and not get a kick out of watching the absurdities of the shenanigans of industry players who are fighting hard to be king of the hill. I am struck by the contrast between the evolving strategies of Oracle