By Joe McKee – Calendaring standards are syncing up for collaboration.

By Tim DiChiara – Properly using the CLOB datatype and partition tables is critical to effectively adminstering large quantities of genetic data, according to a senior DBA at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).<Br><br>Xiaobin Guan, Ph.D. spoke to a packed room at last week’s OracleWorld confere

By Phil Croucher – The idea of certification is not new, relatively speaking, to the computer world, in which it seems to have been largely pioneered by Novell. It initiated the CNE program many years ago, after realizing that the various private companies providing training at the time produced res

By Lisa Vaas – Core to security in Oracle Corp.’s upcoming 10g grid technology will be a component called Oracle Internet Directory, an LDAP directory with an Oracle database back-end that leverages the database’s scalability, high availability and security features, according to Oracle Chief Securi

by Jason Bennett – This tip details the steps required to setup an Oracle JDBC Connection Cache using an OC4J DataSource and provides sample Java classes.

Thankfully, you don’t need magical accoutrements or special wizard training to get the most out of your Oracle database–that includes fixing some horrible inefficiencies that have been cowering within the system for years. The methodology for recovering swift, finely honed Oracle response time is c

By Barbara Assadi – How many engineers, developers, and customers does it take to change a database? A behind-the-scenes look at how the world’s most sophisticated database was built.

By Lisa Vaas – Oracle Corp. on Tuesday tackled licensing, an issue that has long bedeviled users and that experts say could trip up customer acceptance of the company’s recently unveiled 10g grid technology.On Tuesday, the Redwood Shores, Calif., company held the first of a series of pricing

Oracle is billing its upcoming Database 10g as the “self-managing” database. Its new built-in features will enable the product to assume many administrative tasks that DBAs currently have to perform themselves. DevX looks under the hood to show you how 10g works.

By Robert Westervelt – Arvind Gidwani, IT manager at San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc., is beaming over the results of beta tests that he conducted on Oracle’s new database and application server, 10g.