(Mark Brunelli) Set to debut at the end of this month, Oracle Database 10g Release 2 promises expanded XML capabilities and new security features, including support for “transparent” column level encryption and decryption. To learn more about these features, SearchOracle.com sat down with Mark Towns

(Jochen Noy) This document explains how we integrated XEP into an existing Oracle system. The reason was that we needed a possibility to create PDF documents from data stored in the database and send them over the intranet directly without having to store them as files. This required the possibility

(Kathleen Ohlson) Quest Software recently introduced its latest version of Toad for Oracle, used to manage database objects, create and debug PL/SQL, and create, execute and optimize SQL queries. The database tool is aimed at Oracle Real Application Clusters, Citrix and terminal server environments.

(Pablo Rovedo) This code converts seconds to hours, minutes, and seconds.

(Arup Nanda) Using nothing but regular Net8 (or Oracle Net, as it is called in Oracle 9i and up), you can easily set up a rudimentary firewall-like system to accept connections from a set of trusted clients and servers, and reject connections from known potentially unsafe machines. A typical setup m

(Roger Schrag) This paper will walk you through the steps of installing Oracle Database 10g release 1 (Oracle version 10.1.0) in a Sun Solaris SPARC environment. About 90% of the material presented here applies to other platforms as well. Everything you read in this paper is hands on, roll-up-your-s

A development deal between Oracle and PHP company Zend Technologies has garnered the open-source scripting language its second major database supporter.

(Joseph F. Kovar) Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is finally getting his storage company.

(Mark Rittman) Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer (OracleBI Discoverer) is a suite of business intelligence tools that enables users to query and analyze data stored in Oracle and other databases. Included as part of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, OracleBI Discoverer complements the OLAP Opt

When you try to use a pass-through query to import data from Microsoft Office Access into Microsoft Office Excel, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Reserved error (|); there is no message for this error.