(Lee Kroon) Over the last several weeks, Oracle Corporation has taken significant steps to show users of its J.D. Edwards applications that it has their best interests at heart. The vendor’s actions should help it to retain customers and cut through the atmosphere of uncertainty that has pervaded th

(Ilya Petrenko) The following query shows a count of and the size of the redo log files by day (for a single instance).

(Matthew Broersma) Oracle will support advanced XML features in the imminent release of its 10g database, including the emerging W3C standard XQuery for accessing unstructured XML data, the company has announced.

(David Berlind) For several years now, Oracle, with its own Java-based J2EE application server and integrated development environment (JDeveloper), has been trying to play in the same league as Java application server heavyweights IBM and BEA. But despite having traditionally positioned itself as

(Jim Czuprynski) The previous article in this series looked at some of the new PL/SQL packages that Oracle 10g now provides for encrypting and decrypting data, monitoring sessions, and triggering alerts when thresholds have been breached. Rounding out these new and improved features are several pack

(Jack Loftus) The increasing complexity of database security patches and updates will lead to higher levels of automation from the likes of Oracle and third-party vendors, according to one industry watcher. (R)

(Scott Stephens) .NET Framework applications are rapidly gaining popularity, especially due to .NET’s support of languages such as Visual C++, Visual Basic, and C#, as well as environments such as ASP.NET.

(Jagadish Chatarji) This series has been focusing on database interactions with Oracle PL/SQL. Having just covered OBJECT TYPE in Oracle and both SQL and PL/SQL ways of working with OBJECTs in the last article, we will now learn about using NESTED TABLE with OBJECT TYPES from both SQL and PL/SQL poi

Oracle Database 10g is revolutionary. It is Oracle’s largest introduction of new functionality ever, beginning with Release 1 of Oracle Database 10g in January 2004 and now Release 2 in 2005. It is Oracle’s most innovative release, leading the database industry into entirely new ground in clustering

(Kevin Cade) My company runs its Oracle databases on HPUX11i and Hewlett Packard hardware. Oracle and HP are certified for use with Linux, so I wanted to see how the performance of some of our databases would compare if moved to Linux. My ideal goal was for Linux to do everything HPUX does, inte