by Kuassi Mensah – Security is a prime concern for DBAs, CTOs, every architect and developer in between, and every end user of a system that is running software modules close to that most valuable corporate asset—your business data. In contrast to traditional JDK-based Java virtual machines, the Ora

By Boris Milrud – Oracle indexes are not self-balancing. They become fragmented after a large number of INSERTs and DELETEs, which may lead to significant performance degradation. In this 10-Minute Solution I show you how to detect these "out-of-shape" indexes and cure them.

(Lisa Vaas) Oracle Corp. will announce the next iteration of its bread-and-butter Oracle9i database at OracleWorld in September, company contacts confirmed. The upgrade is being called Oracle10i by everybody in the database community except Oracle itself, which insists that neither the product’s

by Rajasekhar Aluru – This trigger secures objects, preventing a user from dropping them by mistake. To begin, create a table for the example below called secured_objects with a column objectname, with datatype varchar2(20). Insert a record into this table with a value, the name of the object, which

By Renee Boucher Ferguson – At its annual financial analysts meeting at its headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif., Wednesday, Oracle Corp. said it’s in a position of strength and plans to use that to acquire other companies in its quest to give software giants SAP AG and Microsoft Corp. a run for t

German company, KeepTool, has made public a pre-release of Version 6 of its Oracle database tools – Hora, ER Diagrammer, and PL/SQL Debugger.

By Alorie Gilbert – Oracle’s recent foray into the e-mail server market, where it faces steep competition from Microsoft and IBM, is starting to pay off, the company says.

by Noel Davis – Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at buffer overflows in Snort and SheerDNS, and problems in Xinetd, vixie-cron, Oracle E-Business Suite FNDFS, xfsdump, Ximian Evolution, GtkHTML, kdegraphics, and psban

By Dennis Callaghan – The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, a non-profit foundation known for advancing pro-business and free markets causes, proved that laissez faire capitalism has its limits, coming out on the side of PeopleSoft Inc. in its hostile takeover battle with Oracle Corp.

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