By Mary Anne Ostrom – Oracle’s Chuck Phillips is in such demand he needs his own toll-free number. And that was before his assignment became persuading big shareholders to accept his firm’s hostile bid for PeopleSoft.
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Extracting Table Data Using SELECT Statement into an XML File
by Nikhil Goyal – This tip comes from Nikhil Goyal, a Team Lead in Dehli.
Oracle pushes PeopleSoft deal, releases marketing upgrade
By Matt Hines – On the day Oracle Corp. upped its offer for rival software maker PeopleSoft Inc., the company’s executives reiterated their belief that shareholders would approve the deal and plodded on with new products, unveiling a new marketing automation package.
Using Oracle Locks to Manage Data Concurrency and Consistency
Ever wonder what prevents the same data from being modified by two or more users at the same time? Learn how Oracle manages data concurrency and consistency by using Locks.
PL/SQL: What, when, and where
This is Chapter 1 from the O’Reilly book “Learning Oracle PL/SQL” by Bill Pribyl & Steven Feuerstein.
SAP might be the kink in Oracle’s plan
By Mike Tarsala – Oracle’s hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft is being lauded as brilliant: Oracle wins the game if it can boost sales by buying PeopleSoft outright, and also wins if it doesn’t buy it, by hurting PeopleSoft’s business during takeover wrangling.
Oracle Raises Its Bid For PeopleSoft
Oracle Corp. on Wednesday raised its hostile takeover offer for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. by nearly 24 percent, to $6.3 billion. Oracle said it would offer $19.50 a share in cash for all outstanding shares of PeopleSoft.
Recovering Accidentally Lost Data Using Oracle’s Flashback Query
by Sreeram Surapaneni – Oracle database uses a version based read consistency mechanism by saving an image of the data prior to making any modifications. These changes are stored in the undo tablespace. If the users decide not to commit the transaction, Oracle uses the data saved in the undo tablesp
Oracle Debuts Free Hosted Verification Service
Oracle on Friday introduced a free hosted verification service for developers and independent software vendors, who can use the Oracle Portal Verification Service to test the interoperability of their Web-based content and applications.
Oracle CSO sees ‘unbreakable’ security as a must
By Michael S. Mimoso – In this interview, Oracle chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson talks about Oracle’s “Unbreakable” campaign, Trustworthy Computing and making security part of the corporate culture.