(Alan Joch) For years, Louisiana’s Office of Group Benefits (OGB) has successfully run a self-insured, self-administered health plan for more than a quarter million state and public sector employees and their families. The OGB is large: With revenues of more than US$1 billion, it’s the second-la

(Sushil Srivastava) Sometimes you need to encrypt certain data stored in your database—data like passwords and other condfidential information.

(Charles Babcock) When PeopleSoft agreed to be acquired by Oracle, Charles Phillips put in a call to Quest, the J.D. Edwards applications user group, to assure the organization that Oracle wanted to work with the group. But by singling out Quest to contact, Oracle’s president stepped into the middle

(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle 10g offers significant enhancements that help insure the high availability of any Oracle database, as well as improvements in the database disaster recovery arena. This article – part two of a series – explores one of the most intriguing new features of Oracle 10g: Flashb

(Kathryn Arrell, Dennis Dutcavich, Bruce Frank, Ollie Jones, Tom Russell and Barton Robinson) This IBM Redbook describes experiences gained while installing and testing Oracle10g for Linux on zSeries, such as: – Setting up the development systems at Oracle for the Linux on zSeries environment

The latest release of JDeveloper 10g offers a host of new features. This tutorial introduces some of those that are of particular interest to the Java developer: productivity improvements in the Code Editor, using CVS for team development, unit testing with JUnit, and using Apache Ant buildfiles in

(Steve Callan) At the end of Part Four, we were ready to create the Oracle model of the Northwind database “imported” from a SQL Server 2000 instance. In this part of the series, we will continue the SQL Server migration and look at some issues related to the SQL Server to Oracle migration process.

(Ravikanth V. Kothuri, Albert Godfrind and Euro Beinat) Oracle Spatial technology is spread across two tiers: the Database Server and the Application Server. Figure 2-1 depicts the various components that comprise Oracle’s spatial technology stack and indicates the distribution of the components ac

(Kevin Shockey) Of all of the companies that are playing the open source card, the one I least understand is Oracle. HP, IBM, and even to some degree Sun Microsystems are easy to understand. Promoting open source helps them sell more hardware, like I said easy. Fundamentally, Oracle’s interest i

Discuss new innovations for reliable, simply managed and cost-effective HA clusters of single-system Oracle 9i on Linux and 10g databases on Linux. While research shows Oracle users’ primary interest in database clusters is for high availability, current HA technologies increase complexity and risks