(Ian Miller) FMON is a background process started by the database whenever the FILE_MAPPING initialization parameter is set to TRUE.

(David A. Kelly) For years, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) were considered local operations, more concerned with cash flow than competing with larger enterprises. But not anymore. In terms of IT, today’s SMBs often have just as many challenges as, if not more than, large enterprises.

(Nitin Bharti) Oracle Corp. made significant strides in the Java and open source communities at JavaOne this week, taking a leadership role for a key Java specification and announcing that it will spearhead several projects to further the Eclipse open source development effort. (R)

(Philip Howard) You may have seen that Oracle is buying TimesTen. The question is why?

(Renee Ferguson) Oracle can thank much of its fourth-quarter 2005 success to increased sales across its entire product line, with database sales actually proving out a smaller increase than applications or middleware sales.

(Scott Stephens) If you want to take a copy of one table and make a copy of it in another schema (under another username), you can use the SQL*Plus COPY command, or a simple “create table foo as select * from other.foo;”, as long as you have select privileges on the other user’s table.

In this paper, we present the advantages of Oracle Data Mining (ODM) over traditional methods in enabling secure, embedded, predictive capabilities for enterprise applications. We first present the business motivation for using ODM for advanced analytics, followed by a short technical presentat

(René Nyffenegger) A logoff trigger fires when a session disconnects.

(Jagadish Chatarji) This is part 6 of a series focusing on database interactions with Oracle PL/SQL. The previous articles discussed several types of collections in PL/SQL. Now Jagadish will look into exception handling using the predefined exceptions available in Oracle PL/SQL.

Oracle Developer Day is a free workshop that will give you an insight into the latest technologies in Java and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). With two tracks, one on leading-edge J2EE development, the other on integration and composite-application development, this workshop will allow you to