(Edward J. Correia) It’s doubtful that devices running Palm OS or Pocket PC would contribute much to a distributed computing grid. But Oracle has applied some of its grid technologies to Oracle Database Lite 10g, released in January, and claims to improve reliability of mobile applications. The envi

(Sunil Kumar) The Panchayati Raj department of the government of Orissa has embarked on a networking initiative to connect 314 blocks and 30 district rural development agencies in the entire state by deploying Oracle solutions.

Data warehouses have become a cornerstone of successful enterprises, and many companies are recognizing that they can further leverage their data warehouse investment by using the information in the warehouse to more effectively drive day-to-day business operations. The traditional role of a dat

(Joanne S. Davis) A number of trends in the IT industry have contributed to the increasing size of ERP application databases and show no signs of abating. These include dramatic reductions over recent years in the cost of disk, such that it has often been easier to buy more disk than to embark on a

Service-oriented architectures are rapidly becoming the cornerstone for enterprise infrastructures, bringing cost reductions and increasing IT and business responsiveness. This DH Brown white paper describes how Oracle is delivering a comprehensive middleware suite to help IT departments become more

(Fermin Castro) With an increasing number of applications deployed on intranet and Internet environments, high availability has shifted from a mission-critical application requirement to a requirement for all deployments. End-user productivity has lately become more and more critical for every compa

(Brian Barbash) A number of solutions exist for creating Java-based Web services from a variety of different providers. Options range from individual processing engines that plug into existing application servers to large enterprise-class platforms in which Web services is one of many components. Ea

(John Boudreau) Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison’s vision of a few business-software superpowers offering complete product lines was the driving force behind his company’s recent acquisition of rival PeopleSoft.

When you perform a query on an Oracle database by using the ODBC CONVERT function, the Microsoft ODBC Driver for Oracle requests that the data be converted to DECIMAL for all ODBC integer types. DECIMAL is the default Oracle convert type. The following code is an example of this query: SELECT {fn

(Jonas Jacobi) MyFaces is an open source project that can be found under the umbrella of the Apache foundation. MyFaces is an alternative JavaServer Faces (JSF) implementation to the JSF Reference Implementation (RI) provided by Sun. In most cases developers will be satisfied using what ever JSF