(Zlatko Sirotic) This is an alternate version of a previous Tip of the Week, “Determine How Deep FK Constraints”, from February 16, 2003. This new version uses a packaged associative array.

(Mike Meyers) Oracle Corp. senior executives came to town to promise employees and customers that Retek Inc., the Minneapolis software company they recently agreed to acquire, isn’t headed for wrenching changes.

(David Hull) Can Oracle kick SQL Server’s behind? Oracle expert David Hull throws down the gauntlet to Microsoft devotees.

(Scott Stephens) At the core of data warehouse applications and OLAP (online analytical processing) is a specialized schema that relaxes the rules of Third Normal Form RDBMS schemas in favor of faster analysis and processing of large amounts of data. It’s important to understand the difference betwe

The objective of this document is to provide assistance to those involved with the installation of Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) (AS10g) “Cold Failover Cluster” (CFC) solution on IBM AIX 5L (5200) operating system. Two high availability cluster solutions are currently offered by Oracle for A

(Bryan Huddleston) This paper informs application owners about business considerations that result from data growth, and explains that these owners can prepare their applications by employing a methodical approach to optimizing code within their organization. (R)

(Ashok Singh) Oracle Database 10g contains many enhancements, but one of the most interesting is the introduction of Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS), Oracle’s full-stack clusterware.

OracleDirect’s online seminars scheduled for April cover such topics as Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, Oracle, MySQL & Open Source…and more.

(Nilesh Junnarkar, Nirav Chanchani, and Julie Basu) Most large organizations have multiple applications in-house, each designed to support a specific set of business functions, and these applications are generally optimized for a particular business function. Unlike its applications, however, the va

(Lonneke Dikmans) Part 1 of this article showed you how to deploy J2EE applications built using frameworks (Oracle ADF) using JDeveloper10g deployment profiles. Now it’s time to turn to deploying the sample application using Apache Ant. As with Part 1, you’ll see how to deploy to not only Oracle Con