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Oracle Corp. wasted little time cleaning house in its takeover of PeopleSoft Inc., removing four top executives from the latter’s ranks and replacing them with Oracle executives, according to a regulatory filing by Oracle.

(Sean McCown) The year in databases saw its share of technology advances. The rise of commodity 64-bit hardware, native XML storage in relational databases, configuration wizards, auto-tuning … all these developments are making databases more powerful, flexible, and easy to manage. Perhaps the b

(Roger Eisentrager) This script will both alert and capture relavent data on Oracle SQL blocking locks events.

(Tom Reid) A common feature of database systems is that certain tables are required to have a unique numerical key that can be used to identify records. A lot of effort is sometimes expended using all sorts of convoluted coding schemes to ensure that this happens. What a lot of people don’t know

(David A. Kelly) A few years ago, Oracle announced that it was eventually making Oracle Forms Web-only and that it was investing heavily in Java, J2EE, and Oracle JDeveloper. Larry Phillips, chief technology officer at Computer Methods International Corporation (CMiC), in Toronto, was worried. For m

(Dawn Kawamoto) Oracle announced that 75 percent of PeopleSoft investors have tendered their shares, giving it a controlling stake in the company but falling short of the level needed for a speedy close to the deal.

(Steve Johnson) Tech giants Hewlett-Packard and Oracle are among 44 large businesses and other entities that received $2 billion in federal contracts intended for small businesses, according to a report made public recently.

#Deleted entries are seen when Oracle linked tables containing number datatypes are opened using either Access 97 SR2 or Access 2000. This behavior is seen with both Oracle 7.3.4 server as well as Oracle 8.0.5 server irrespective of the version of the MSORCL32.DLL file used to create the DSN.

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