Book By Cary Millsap – Oracle DBAs and developers are all too familiar with the outlay of time and resources, blown budgets, missed deadlines, and marginally effective performance fiddling that is commonplace with traditional methods of Oracle performance tuning. In Optimizing Oracle Performance, Ca

By David Baum – Many enhancements in Oracle Database 10g were developed with specific industries in mind. Here’s how requests from government, retail, life sciences, financial services, and other domains became new database capabilities.

Just when you thought you knew where you were, Oracle has implemented time zones to totally zone us out. Join James Koopmann while he figures out where on this great planet we are.

By Peter Galli – Red Hat Inc. and Oracle Corp. will tighten their relationship as the companies work together on the next version of Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux server.

(Gareth Morgan) OracleWorld in San Francisco was disrupted when a bomb threat closed the conference centre, resulting in the evacuation of 11,000 delegates.

by Murthy Mamidanna – Subsequent to my previous tip, here is a much shorter and cleaner solution to identifying missing sequence numbers for Oracle databases Oracle8i and later.

By Dan Farber – Once again, Oracle has brewed a new technology potion for transforming the database world. Following on its unbreakable Linux and real application clustering (RAC) rollouts from previous years, Oracle formally announced that we have entered the new era of grid computing.

By Barbara Darrow – Oracle will get down to the nitty gritty next week when it announces new pricing for its software lineup, including the nascent Oracle 10g line.

By James Koopmann – Identification of the database you are currently working on can sometimes be somewhat confusing. Take a look at the internal parameters that Oracle keeps and see if you can uniquely identify the database you are currently working on.

By Matt Hicks – FaceTime Communications Inc. on Monday delivered its instant-messaging presence technology for Oracle Corp.’s Application Server Portal.The IM Presence Manager toolkit, which FaceTime shipped at OracleWorld here, lets companies integrate IM features within enterprise portals