By Brian Keating – This document consists of two main sections. The first section provides a basic overview of the concepts of multimaster replication. The second section describes some very specific challenges that have been observed with multimaster replication, as well as solutions for those chal

By Joe McKee – Whether it’s Oracle9i JDeveloper, JBuilder, NetBeans, Eclipse, or any of the number of integrated development environments (IDEs) out there, Java developers the world over know there isn’t one all-encompassing IDE that meets all Java needs. IDEs often get riddled with extensions and p

Kick-off your OracleWorld experience with an informative day of programming offered for Oracle users by Oracle users. Participate in the “IOUG Day: The User Perspective” presented by the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) on Sunday, September 7.

By Keith Ferrell – Oracle announced Friday that it’s unwrapping and giving away a preliminary version of a Web services interoperability (WS-I) based product for enterprise supply chains.

By James F. Koopmann – Performance in Oracle is directly related to the SQL workload that is submitted. Often it is not the change in the SQL that degrades performance but instead is the access path to that data. This article will help you understand when new access paths have been introduced in you

by Ramcharan Karthic – This Select query will help you select the Nth Max or Min value from any table. For example, consider a table TAB1 in which you want to find the Nth Max or Min from the column, COL1.

by Damir Bersinic – A client recently came to me to see if there was a better way to keep their regional offices updated with pricing on over a million part numbers that they have. The current method was not working, and the problem was compounded by the fact that bill of materials explosions requir

By Renee Boucher Ferguson – Upping the ante in its fight against a hostile takeover bid, PeopleSoft Inc. announced late Tuesday it expanded its lawsuit against Oracle Corp. by filing an amendment to its compliant filed in June in a California Superior Court.

by Joel Murach – Learn how to use a Java servlet, a JavaServer Page, and a static Java class to create a SQL gateway application that enables users to interactively execute SQL statements against a database running on a server. This application allows you to work with a database as you’re developing

By Nirav Chanchani – Learn about the benefits of distributed applications. Learn unit-testing basics using one of the most popular open-source testing frameworks.