(Steve Hamm) When Oracle Corp. announced it had acquired retail- industry software maker Retek Inc. for $650 million on Mar. 22, it brought to an end a tumultuous, three-week bidding battle with corporate software rival SAP. The operatic contest included a series of frenzied bids and counterbids and

(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle 10g’s new DataPump utility is designed as the eventual replacement for the original Oracle Import and Export utilities. This article – the first in a series – provides an overview of the DataPump’s suite of tools for extracting, transforming, and loading data within an Oracle

(Werner Puschitz) The following procedure is a step-by-step guide (Cookbook) with tips and information for installing Oracle Database 10g on SUSE Linux.

(Torsten Schlabach) In a lot of applications there is a need to store large text or binary objects into the database. The definition of large usually means that the object’s size is beyond the maximum length of a character field. In Oracle this means the objects to be stored can grow to > 4 KB each.

(Steve Callan) In Part 1, I covered some of the operational requirements for using Data Guard and the options (physical and logical) you have in deciding which type of standby database you want to employ. Part 2 starts off with step-by-step coverage of preparing your environment for Data Guard.

(Scott Stephens) Biometric technology is now cost-effective and functional enough for developers to use it in many application environments. The Oracle database supports some of the protocols that are commonly used for biometric authentication. This e-newsletter will teach you how to configure biome

(Steve Muench) In my last column, I described how Oracle JDeveloper 10g and the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) give developers familiar with Oracle Forms a familiar rapid application development (RAD) environment and a powerful set of business components for quickly building J2EE app

(Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak and Donald Bales) If you understand the architecture of Oracle Application Server, you will have an excellent framework for understanding how the product works. Learning how the various components of Oracle Application Server interact can help you avoid many p

(Lonneke Dikmans) Deploying J2EE applications can be a complex process, involving many moving parts. At deployment time, system administrators as well as developers must deal with the complexity of the underlying architecture, and all parties must ensure that all applications, including existing app

(Shyam Prabhudesai) This query provides a list of queries (1,000 characters only) involved in full table scans. The total number of rows and blocks for each table is also displayed so that you can determine whether the full scan is degrading performance.