(Mike Ebbers, Kathryn Arrell, Dennis Dutcavich, Bruce Frank, Chris Little and Barton Robinson) This IBM Redbook describes experiences gained while installing and testing Oracle10g for Linux on zSeries, such as: – Setting up the development systems at Oracle for the Linux on zSeries environment – I

(Mark Brunelli) Data centers are increasingly making or planning to make the move to environments characterized by Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOAs), data grids and the use of virtualization technology. But just how will open source technologies fit into this “architecture of th

Oracle has recently announced the industry’s first integrated, standards-based business process platform that simplifies the security of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and Web services.

(Jack Loftus) Before the keynote from Oracle president Charles Philips Jr. even began, the signs leading into the auditorium asked audience members, “So, Linux is in the enterprise, what’s next?” (R)

(Steve Callan) Many DBAs find themselves working with someone else’s database design. Unless you are involved with building or designing a new application or database from scratch, when else would you have the opportunity to use a CASE tool? One of the points to take away from having read this a

(Scott Stephens) Oracle 10g adds new pseudo columns to the SQL Hierarchical Queries that use START WITH . . . CONNECT BY . . . clauses. For more than a decade, Oracle SQL has had the ability to cause a query to follow a hierarchical relationship. For instance, you could specify a starting condition

(Jagadish Chatarji) This is part 12 of a series of articles focusing on database interactions with Oracle PL/SQL. In my previous article, I looked at several examples of explicit cursors. I also introduced the concept of cursors with parameters. In this article we will look into sub-programs. Mainly

(Lewis R Cunningham) Well, has it really been a month of testing already? How long have I been doing this? Let’s see, about 3 weeks before ODTUG and 3 weeks after preparing for the prototype and then 4 weeks navigating around various bugs trying to test the prototype. No wonder I have a headache.

(Lisa Vaas) Are they in denial about scary-sounding security flaws, late patches and patches that need patching? No, users say, they’re just locked down tight and don’t find the bugs as troublesome in reality as they are in headlines.

(Laurie Sullivan) Recruiting employees with the right skills remains a burning issue for many small businesses trying to expand and grow. In the software services business, service companies sometimes hire away talent from the company whose applications they support.