(Jason Davis) Oracle Collaboration Suite provides an integrated set of communication and content-management applications that allow customers to work more effectively together. It is unique in the market in that it is built on the secure and reliable foundations of the Oracle 10g Database and 10g A
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Oracle Application Server 10g – New Features Overview
The speed and unpredictability of business cycles have pushed many enterprises to the limit of manageability. Organizations need to become more responsive but often their information systems and business applications are slow to respond. To compensate, IT departments build costly infrastructure, m
Oracle Technical Interview Questions Answered – Part1
(James Koopmann) The interview process can be quite stressful. Here is the first part of a two part series on helping you answer those tough questions that you might experience in your quest for an Oracle DBA position.
Oracle AppsWorld Conference
Oracle AppsWorld is a conference and exhibition completely dedicated to Oracle E-Business Suite strategies, business processes, and technical directions. It’s a forum that enables Oracle customers and industry leaders to meet with Oracle executives, developers, and other key customers and partners.
Linked Severs on MS SQL Part 3
(Don Schlichting) In Parts 1 and 2, we introduced the Linked Server. Starting with what a Linked Server is, the benefits to using them, as well as when to avoid them. The Distributed Transaction Coordinator, DTC, was touched on. In addition, our first examples were to create links to an Excel spread
Time is Right for Database Encryption
(Don MacVittie) Are data-privacy regulations and dreams about stolen employee data keeping you up at night? It may be time to protect your data where it lives–in your database. Database-encryption technology isn’t new. Ingrian Networks’ DataSecure Platform, which lets you encrypt certain fields
Open Integration and Security – XML firewalls provide ease of integration and security
(John Lilly) The superb new development tools from companies like Microsoft, BEA, IBM, and others, combined with the simplicity and openness of the standards, are providing real dividends to enterprises today. The examples are numerous: financial services companies outsourcing employee compensation,
Oracle Warns of ‘High Risk’ Product Flaws
(Ryan Naraine) Data management heavyweight Oracle has issued an alert for “high risk” security flaws in several server products, warning that the vulnerabilities could lead to system access. The Redwood City, Calif.-based firm said a range of the server products was affected by vulnerabilities in
Writing Better SQL Using Regular Expressions Part Two
(Alice Rischert) A useful feature of regular expressions is the ability to store subexpressions for reuse later; this is also called backreferencing (summarized in Table 10). It allows sophisticated replace capabilities such as swapping patterns in new positions or indicating repeated word or letter
Find out when the database was started
(Vijay Kaushik) This query is useful for knowing how long your database has been up and when it was started. It has been tested on versions 8 and up. (R)
