(Justin Lokitz) In business, information is king. With the advent of enterprise portals, getting pertinent information has become as easy as logging onto a single Web site and using a single password. The enterprise portal has moved beyond the custom-built executive dashboard to become an indisp

(Robert Kugel) Oracle’s management held a “Better Together” launch event to discuss the future of the applications business now that the PeopleSoft acquisition has been completed. The company emphasized (again) its commitment to supporting the PeopleSoft and JD Edwards installed bases through 20

Get more from Oracle, Siebel or SAP systems with a BI solution that is flexible enough to take full advantage of packaged applications and information systems in your infrastructure while keeping data sources secure and transparent. (R)

(Clint Boulton) Oracle has issued a toolkit to help Microsoft programmers use Visual Studio .NET 2003 software to write Oracle Database 10g applications on the Windows operating system.

(Scott Stephens) A user’s process will occasionally hang or spin and lock out other sessions. If the DBA still has access to the database, they can usually just issue the following query. (R)

(Satadip Dutta) As software architects and developers, we do our best to deliver 100% bug-free applications. Nonetheless, more often than not, bugs slip through and end up in released applications. That’s why although debugging—the sometimes onerous task of finding and removing bugs—doesn’t stop whe

Customer knowledge is critical to gaining and retaining customers. This paper discusses why information quality is the prerequisite to customer knowledge and how Oracle Customer Data Hub delivers the best solution for integrating your customer-oriented functions and systems. (R)

(Howard Solomon) PeopleSoft resellers and industry analysts have generally given Oracle Corp. good grades following last month’s long-awaited detailing of its product roadmap and strategy

(Steve Callan) Oracle Data Guard is a very useful tool to help maintain high availability and to protect your data. It is not uncommon to see “must have experience with RAC and Data Guard” in job postings on Monster and Dice. If you are not using Data Guard at work or do not work in an environment w

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