(Michael Klaene) Today, an increasing number of enterprise applications are accessible through a Web browser. Once reserved for eCommerce and ASP (Application Service Provider) software solutions, Web-based applications have gone mainstream and have become widely accepted by businesses and their use

(Ankush Sohoni and Sunil Kumar) Open and standards based architecture seems to be the new buzzword among IT managers today. Oracle, announced its support for this architecture in 2004, with the release of the Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (OASR2). Oracle India announced the imminent availa

(Roger Schrag) This paper is intended to share our company’s experience upgrading from Oracle 8i to Oracle 10g. On one hand, many of our DBA colleagues would like to upgrade their databases to the latest Oracle release so that they can put the newest features to work. But on the other hand, most of

(Matjaz Juric) In this article, you will learn how to create an example business process that combines a set of fictional travel-related web services and then deploy it to the Oracle BPEL Process Manager runtime environment.

(Alon_Catz) The issue of paging large resultsets is well familiar to most application developers and yet still no uniform generic solution exists. The excellent article “Paging of Large Resultsets in ASP.NET” by Jasmin Muharemovic presents different techniques for pagination. The purpose of this

(David A. Kelly) Lansing Community College, in Lansing, Michigan, had a serious content problem. "We had disparate systems that were all in different hodgepodge formats. People had a very hard time getting information, and the information they did get was questioned, because of the different sources

(Charles Babcock) Oracle’s development teams have begun mapping out the architecture of the “Fusion” generation of applications that will merge Oracle’s acquired PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards software with its own, John Wookey, Oracle’s senior VP for applications development, said Thursday.

(James Koopmann) With today’s exploding world economy, multi-national communication is essential. Databases must not only store different character sets but also present information in a comfortable format and order for individuals from every locale. This series explores how to globalize your databa

According to many studies, 40% of application outages are caused by operator or user errors. Part of being human is making mistakes. But these errors are extremely difficult to avoid and can be particularly difficult to recover from without advance planning and the right technology. Such errors

The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Service (MSDTC) may crash when Data Transformation Services (DTS) is used to transfer data between Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database.