(Mike Lehmann) In this column, I’ll take an introductory look at the new Web services management capabilities in Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3. Unlike my original programmatic foray into this space, where I wrote several JAX-RPC handlers for simple management functionals, this time I

(Barney Beal) Oracle Corp.’s $9.2 billion takeover of rival PeopleSoft Inc. neared the finish line early Saturday morning when a majority of stockholders agreed to tender their PeopleSoft shares. (R)

(Brian Fonseca) Oracle Corp. plans to announce yet another change to its security patch release process. Three months after adopting a monthly schedule to roll out security fixes, the database management firm says patches will now be issued on a quarterly schedule, beginning January 18, 2005.

(James Koopmann) This is the first in a series introducing some of the new tracing concepts and options within Oracle. This installment focuses on the new CLIENT_IDENTIFIER environment variable that can be assigned to sessions.

(Rick Saia) Oracle Corp. is poised to make what a company executive calls a “big push” in the business intelligence market in an effort to get customers to take advantage of as much functionality as BI tools have to offer.

In this section we will outline the new and improved features regarding database and instance tuning. Oracle has introduced some good features that enhance self-tuning and automated tuning. They are summarized as follows: –User initiated Buffer Cache Flushing –Automated Checkpoint Tuning –C

(David Welch) Part 1 of this tip debated some common beliefs about apps tuning and offered an approach to efficient project management. This part touches on the specifics of v$sqlarea view, Statspack, index counts, CPU and user involvement. (R)

As previously published by Progressive Strategies, the Edison Group has performed a Comparative Management Cost Study (CMCS) comparing Oracle Database 10g and Microsoft SQL Server 2000. This effort came about as a result of our review of the pre-release announcements from Oracle Corporation rega

(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 is the only exam that OCPs certified on Oracle9i Database need to take to upgrade th

The following procedure is a step-by-step guide (Cookbook) with tips and information for installing Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Cluster (RAC) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3. This article covers Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS), Oracle’s Automatic Storage Management (ASM