By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols – In a presentation that underscored Oracle Corp.’s support for Linux in the enterprise, Jim Enright, director of Oracle’s Linux Program Office took the keynote stage at the Enterprise Linux Forum here on Wednesday to describe how the open-source OS helps Oracle customer

By Mark Street – Oracle has again extended maintenance support for customers of its 8i database on many major platforms, this time until 2005, giving firms another year to migrate to 9i or 10g.

By Jim Czuprynski – Oracle Label Security (OLS) offers a powerful implementation of row-based security that is perfect for restricting user access to specific data, especially in a data mart or data warehousing environment. Previous articles presented a brief overview of how these features work, and

By Rob Westervelt – Oracle Corp. is planning a broad upgrade to its supply chain management tools within its CRM suite and is hyping the introduction of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.

By Ellen O’Brien – Oracle Corp. is touting its identity management capabilities in an attempt to show customers that whatever IBM can do, Oracle can do better.

by Puneet Bhandari – This script checks the locking activity in an Oracle database. This is very useful for finding out about locking problems, and it gives very detailed information to determine if SQL scripts needs to be optimized for locking issues.

By Jay Lyman – Oracle has released its enterprise database for small businesses, promising the same features of its larger database at an entry-level price and position. Oracle said Standard Edition One, a single-processor version of Standard Edition Database, will be offered at US$5,995 for

Automatically create small referentially correct and complete subsets of your production environment. The DataBee software automates the process of creating referentially correct “subset” versions of Oracle databases. Fast, easy to use and accurate – DataBee can help you offer better test an

By Ellen O’Brien – Oracle announced what the company calls the first identity management offering for grid computing, placing its technology directly opposite IBM’s Tivoli offering.

By Cameron O’Rourke – One of the best things about Oracle9i Database is that from a systems viewpoint it can do so much more than function as a passive information repository. With the PL/SQL and Java languages built in and the ability to call external procedures, Oracle9i Database can initiate and