(Lewis R Cunningham) This is my comparison of installing and getting started with Oracle 10g, PostgreSQL 8 and MySQL 5. This is what I consider the comparison of state of the art for three categories of DB: Commercial vs. Academe vs. Internet Model. This is a comparison from the view of a new user w

(Vance McCarthy) Oracle is looking beyond Java options for enterprise developers, taking steps to let Oracle 10g architects and developers employ light-weight PHP scripting for database projects.

(Bill Snyder) Oracle has completed the integration of PeopleSoft and is ready to consider another major acquisition, says Chairman and former CFO Jeff Henley.

(Steve Muench) My last column explored the basic organization of a J2EE application and considered some simple examples of validation rules you might write for your Oracle ADF entity objects. This column explores how to query and manipulate data by using Oracle ADF view objects and how to expose tha

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

(Brian Keating) This paper describes the procedures to perform “graceful” failovers and failbacks of hot standby databases in Oracle environments that are not using Data Guard. A “graceful” failover is one that does not require databases to be opened with the RESETLOGS option—and as a result, gracef

(Lewis R Cunningham) There has been a lot online recently about open source databases and the possibility of Oracle open sourcing their database. Oracle has “embraced” the open source community by certifying certain products with Oracle and by providing PHP and Linux platform support. With the o

(Paul Krill) Oracle and PHP tools maker Zend Technologies will announce plans to enhance open source PHP development on Oracle databases via a free package called Zend Core for Oracle.

(Gabriel Wieskamp) This is an “old school,” yet fast, way to find data in one table that is not matched in another table.

(Demir Barlas) Oracle is second largest enterprise applications provider in the world — but it, too, recognizes the growing importance of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).