By Robert Westervelt – Database architect and college instructor Jorge Batista says hands-on training is always more valuable than the stuff of textbooks.

PeopleSoft Inc. upped its revenue and earnings forecasts for the second time in about a month, raising questions as to whether Oracle Corp. would succeed in its hostile bid to acquire the business-application vendor.

The following IOUG members have responded to a call to share their Oracle9iAS experiences.

By James Koopmann – Have you been thinking about switching jobs and are uncertain about that technical interview process? Try taking my technical interview and see if you are up it.

by Robert Ware – Just seeing the number of chained rows does not tell how they are affecting performance in a system. The statspack report contains the number of fetches of continued rows for the report period both aggregated and per second. The following script allows one to see at what times of da

By Alan Zeichick – Grids, grids, grids, grids. Oracle Corp. could talk about little else at its annual OracleWorld conference, held here in mid-September. The event, which focused heavily on application development and database administration, served as the official announcement venue for the forthc

Uncertain about the technical interview process? James Koopmann offers 65 technical questions to get you up to speed for that technical interview.

By Renee Boucher Ferguson – A report published Thursday suggests that the U.S. Department of Justice is readying its antitrust suit against Oracle Corp. stemming from the company’s bid to take over ERP rival PeopleSoft Inc.

By Robert Westervelt – When Eric Maas, chief technology officer and co-founder of Infopia Inc., helped organize the company in 1999, he had to lease a used Oracle database and application server.

Interested in what is on the minds of Oracle developers and DBAs? The following presentations were the best-attended technical sessions at OracleWorld 2003. Click on the included links to download their accompanying presentations and/or whitepapers.