(Clint Boulton) Oracle has released new 10g database software to extend grid computing to corporate workers on the go.

(Chris Schalk) If you’ve had a chance to play with JDeveloper 10.1.3’s JSF development feature you may have noticed how page or UI component will come with auto-generated backing bean code.

(Aradhana Puri) The Oracle Database 10g: New Features for Administrators exam enables Oracle Certified Professionals (OCPs) certified on Oracle9i Database to upgrade their certifications to Oracle Database 10g. This exam is the only one that OCPs certified on Oracle9i Database need to take to upgrad

(Charles Babcock) Oracle is taking the final steps to complete its acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc. after its tender offer for PeopleSoft shares expired Thursday night.

(Dan Tow) In a recent dialogue on the oracle-l@freelists.org mail group, I ran into a good prototype for a recurring class of SQL tuning problems. The coder had two versions of SQL getting dramatically different performance levels for a very frequent single-row query, and wanted to know the reason f

(James Koopmann) Part IV in our series will focus on determining which internal Oracle views hold the information to our enabled statistical gathering.

Analytics software firm SPSS Inc has released a new version of its Clementine data mining workbench geared specially for Oracle Corp’s 10g relational database system.

(Robert Westervelt) Oracle Corp. is reshuffling the executives of its applications software division, replacing Ron Wohl who has led the applications division for more than a decade. (R)

(Doug Henschen) Oracle at long last has control over PeopleSoft after a protracted 18-month fight. But what can PeopleSoft users expect to gain from Oracle? The merger is compelling from a process perspective, with Oracle offering infrastructure and middleware that PeopleSoft always lacked, while Pe

(Scott W. Ambler) If there is one thing I’ve noticed over the years, it’s that the best programmers think through the design of their code before they actually write it. Some will talk through their design with another programmer, often drawing sketches on a whiteboard while they’re doing so. Others