(Heather Clancy) Satisfied with its enterprise application server push, Oracle plans to spread its integration mantra throughout the much-wooed midmarket. But the company will need to convince smaller VARs and ISVs that its plans to hire additional application server suite sales specialists and

(James Koopmann) Have you have ever had a 3rd party application or internal application that you just never could get your hands on to tune? Now through the use of Oracle’s new SQLAccess Advisor you can capture the SQL from within the SQL cache and have this advisor help you decide the best plan of

(Steve Callan) For most DBAs, not only is there Oracle database administration to deal with, but there are Oracle administration issues as well. What do I mean by “Oracle administration?” Depending on your role within your company, “administration” can encompass several areas related to the use and

(Cameron O’Rourke) For the last two years or so, interest has been building in the idea of a “rich client”: a user interface that is more robust, responsive, and visually interesting than what can be achieved with HTML. Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies allow us to deploy rich clients

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(Eli Leiba) This tip was written for use with Oracle9i. String tokenizing is an important string parsing function in both C and Java programming languages. Here I show my PL/SQL implementation for the tokenizer process.

(Shirish Joshi) Although electronic records have been around since the first databases, regulations about how to manage them are coming onto the scene only now. Legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability) set standards for access, security o

Oracle Developer Days are free workshops that allow you to interact directly with the Oracle experts building the next generation of tools and technologies. These workshops will give you an insight into Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the latest Java and Web services technologies such as J2

(Kimberly Floss) It’s not unusual to spend hours tuning SQL statements in hopes of getting better SQL performance, often relying on methods that are time-consuming at best or, worse, border on guesswork or wizardry. However, with the new SQL tuning tools available in Oracle Database 10g—specifically

(Sudhakar Ramakrishnan) Over the past few months, our series on Middleware Architecture has shared with you the insights of eight highly experienced software architects — and given you the opportunity to learn lessons both small and large. Taken individually, each article in the series gives you use