Follow along with James Koopmann as he travels the road from Oracle8i to Oracle 9i certification.

Some PeopleSoft Inc. customers have rallied to stop Oracle Corp.’s $6.3 billion hostile bid to buy the business-software maker, and they’re not just defending PeopleSoft. The clients, who use PeopleSoft programs for payroll and accounting, want to protect their ability to choose database soft

by Danny Chan – The Microsoft Data Provider for Oracle sometimes generates an OCI-22060 error. If your code does properly catch and handle all errors you will see this as a query that inexplicably does not return any rows.

When it comes to JDBC performance issues, there are two major factors to consider: performance of the database structure and the SQL statements used against it and relative efficiency of the different ways you can use the JDBC interfaces to manipulate a database. This excerpt from Java Programming w

By John Taschek – It’s a soap opera, and as such, it’s a tragedy. I’m talking, of course, about Oracle’s hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, which came on the heels of PeopleSoft’s bid for J.D. Edwards. Where else this side of afternoon TV can you get CEOs screaming at each other through pre

By Mary Anne Ostrom – Oracle on Tuesday agreed to postpone a court hearing in its $6.3 billion hostile bid for PeopleSoft, removing a major potential barrier to PeopleSoft’s planned friendly acquisition of J.D. Edwards, a smaller Denver-based software rival.

By David A. Kelly – Once relegated to running development systems, Linux has become strong enough for use in global enterprises with rigorous availability, scalability, and performance requirements. Find out how this penguin got so big so fast, what role Oracle played in strenthening Linux, and how

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By Renee Boucher Ferguson – The U.S. Department of Justice Monday issued a second request to Oracle Corp. requiring more information regarding that company’s bid to acquire rival PeopleSoft Inc., according to a release put out by Oracle this afternoon.

By Ellen O’Brien – In recent weeks, Oracle Corp. has repeatedly tried to calm PeopleSoft Inc. customers, who might be wary of Oracle’s attempts to acquire PeopleSoft, by assuring them that their software support licenses will be honored. However, a growing number of PeopleSoft customers say they can