(Jack Loftus) Few customers of the former PeopleSoft Corp. would associate themselves with an 80’s song performed by The Clash, but in the aftermath of the Oracle merger, many are asking, “Should I stay or should I go?” (R)

(Scott Stephens) In an Oracle database, DBAs often look for tablespaces that are about to run out of space and either add a new datafile or remove old data so applications don’t fail with space allocation errors. I thought it would be interesting to apply treemaps to this problem. (R)

(Jeff Spicer) Years ago as a college student, I had a part-time job in the records room of a law office. “Records” was managed by a woman named Rita who enforced record and file policies in a consistent, somewhat intimidating manner. When attorneys and clerks requested files, only Rita and we part-t

(Jony Safi) This query tracks the completion percentage of transactions in the database and identifies the running processes with their respective information (including user, program, module, and sql_text). It is very useful when tracking processes of long duration to estimate the execution time. I

OracleDirect’s online seminars scheduled for March cover such topics as Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, Oracle on Windows, Database Migration Headaches…and more.

Despite extensive automation, businesses continue to rely on paper. With paper comes costly, time-consuming and error-prone manual processes. Document Process Automation integrates paper and documents across business processes and ERP to reduce total cost of ownership. (R,pdf)

(Craig M. Douglas) “Human resources” is often associated with the department where people take precedence over profitability. But that reputation is being challenged by an onslaught of technologies revolutionizing the way businesses support, track and retain employees. These products identify un

(Lisa Vaas) Project Fusion: It’s supposed to glue together PeopleSoft Inc., J.D. Edwards & Co., and Oracle Corp. business applications. It’s supposed to soothe the frazzled nerves of PeopleSoft and JDE users who’ve been scared silly that they’ll be forced to emigrate onto Oracle systems. It’s suppos

(Boris Makushkin) Today’s article topic is customization possibility demonstration for user web interface of Microsoft CRM. As an example we’ll use MS CRM integration with ASP.NET application, accessing customer data access, when customers are stored in Oracle 10g database.

(Mark Rittman) If you’ve been following the release of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g or keeping an eye on industry trends, you’re probably aware that everyone is talking about business intelligence (BI) dashboards. BI dashboards bring together reports and graphs from several data sources and pres