(Spencer Swartz) Oracle Corp. said it is buying private retail software maker ProfitLogic for undisclosed terms in the latest in a string of deals by the world’s No. 2 software company to raise the performance of its applications business through acquisitions.

(David Gornshtein and Boris Tamarkin) The purpose of the following white paper is to provide a feature comparison between MSSQL 20051 and Oracle 10g. We will compare VLDB/OLTP related features and discuss issues with performance, utilities and replication. We will discuss several new features, which

(Rick Whiting and Charles Babcock) As horror stories about lost or stolen data abound, Oracle is gearing up to debut Oracle 10g Release 2.0, the latest version of its flagship database with improved data-management and backup capabilities. Some of the new features are also designed to help companies

(Jagadish Chatarji) This is part 7 of a series of articles focusing on database interactions with Oracle PL/SQL. In my previous article, I gave an introduction to exception handling and went through some predefined exceptions. In this article, we will focus on user defined exceptions in PL/SQL and s

(David Baum) As more and more companies weave business intelligence into the operational fabric of their businesses, they are looking at low-cost options for deploying their ever-growing data warehouses. Traditionally, large data warehouses were deployed on high-end symmetric multiprocessing (SM

(Kailash Awati and Arati Apte) SQL is a compact yet versatile language – a surprisingly large variety of questions can be answered using standard SQL. However, certain classes of questions are extremely hard to answer using standard SQL.

(Chris Schalk) In a simple manner, Web templates can be defined as: –Web page content—This is HTML or JSP content that could become complete Web pages or just portions of Web pages that contain often repeated Web content such as an HTML table containing an overall page layout, or portions of con

(Roger Schrag) In this paper we’ll discuss an overview of the EXPLAIN PLAN and TKPROF functions built into the Oracle 8i server and learn how developers and DBAs use these tools to get the best performance out of their applications. We’ll look at how to invoke these tools both from the command l

(John Lim) The open-source language PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) powers some of the most popular Web sites in the world, such as Yahoo!, Lufthansa, and Disney Online. This fact is even more remarkable when you consider that PHP does so much with so little.

Oracle announced that it will join Sun Microsystems as the co-specification lead for the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 specification, the cornerstone for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5. Oracle will also provide the persistence technology in the reference implementation of Java EE pl