(Raj Mattamal) In HTML DB, the layout of data displayed in report regions is ultimately controlled by report templates. In addition to facilitating basic formatting, however, report templates in HTML DB give application developers the opportunity to reference the data in a current row while determin

(Steve Callan) Like the sandworms in Beetlejuice (you know they’re out there, and you hate ’em too), many DBAs avoid Oracle’s response files. The fact of the matter is this: they can be harnessed and used to your advantage. Buried in an installation directory, and not given that much press in in

(Amar Kumar Padhi) The first part of this series introduced the System Parameter file and its attributes. Below are some practical examples of working with the SPFILE.

(Alain Trottier) When vendors start charging more than $10,000 for a single tool, you know that the product category is about to heat up. Since Java IDEs have multiplied, I recently took Oracle JDeveloper 10g for a test drive – perhaps you didn’t realize this vendor had a serious Java IDE.

(Caroline Kvitka) Interoperability is crucial for the adoption of Web services—and a key reason that the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) was created in February 2002. The WS-I’s goal is to deliver clear and consistent recommendations to ensure interoperability between Web services

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is an implementation of Oracle Database where more than one instance, located on different cluster nodes, access the same database. To enable simultaneous access, the database files must be located on shared storage. RAC also requires cluster management s

(Scott Stephens) In a globalized environment, many simple tasks become more difficult because of the variety of grammar rules in different languages. You can generalize these tasks by breaking down a particular language into a set of grammar rules and exceptions to those rules (as well as a base voc

(Hervé Deschamps) The Portlet Specification is at: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168. JSR 168. When registering a new provider with OracleAS Portal, only the user who registered the provider has privileges to see the provider portlets. If necessary, you can go to the Portlet Repository (Navigat

(Robert Westervelt) Oracle Corp. unveiled its E-Business Suite, targeting the business applications to specific industries such as healthcare and manufacturing, while boosting supply chain and enterprise grid management features. (R)

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how to save and retrieve Binary Large Object (BLOB) data to a LONG RAW datatype column in an Oracle 7.3 database using the ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) methods GetChunk and AppendChunk.