Embarcadero Technologies, Inc., a provider of application and database lifecycle management solutions, announced Embarcadero® DBArtisan. Workbench for managing complex databases across the enterprise. DBArtisan Workbench combines Embarcadero’s flagship database management solution, DBArtisan, with E

by Rajesh Puneyani – This script extracts the definition of a tablespace (if a specific tablespace name is provided by user @ run time) or all the tablespaces of a database (if wildcard – % – is entered @ runtime). The extracted script can be used as it is to create those tablespaces in another data

By Barbara Darrow – Another day, another lawsuit.<br><br>In what is fast becoming a forest-killer of an acquisition battle, PeopleSoft late Friday said it sued Oracle in an attempt to stop what it is terming "a sham tender offer aimed at destroying PeopleSoft’s business."

By Barbara Darrow and Steven Burke – Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison used his company’s fourth-quarter earnings call to reiterate his intention to buy PeopleSoft from its shareholders. Ellison posited his company’s hostile bid for PeopleSoft as something of a rescue mission for PeopleSoft share

By Antone Gonsalves – PeopleSoft Inc. said Thursday its board of directors has rejected Oracle Corp.’s takeover bid. The board voted unanimously to recommend that stockholders turndown Oracle’s unsolicited cash offer of $16 per share, or $5.1 billion.

By Darryl K. Taft – Tying into a major theme of the JavaOne conference here this week, Oracle Corp. Tuesday previewed its new Application Development Framework, a feature of the company’s next version of its Oracle9i JDeveloper tool that will enable developers to more easily develop enterprise Java

By Beth Bacheldor – Kicking off his company’s annual user conference Monday, J.D. Edwards & Co. chairman, president, and CEO Bob Dutkowsky said Oracle’s $5.1 billion bid late last week to buy PeopleSoft Inc. could ultimately violate antitrust laws because it will reduce customer choice.

by Marina Gurskaya – Suppose we have a hierarchical sructure defined by a manager-employee relationship described in table HIERAR:

(James Giordano) Sizing rollback segments can be a difficult task, especially with new applications. A good rule of thumb when sizing a rollback segments is to start by creating each rollback segment with a total rollback segment size at 10% of the largest table in the database. I like to start by s

by Jack Hakim and Tom Spitzer – Already a dominant player in data management, Oracle is on a quest to deliver the business intelligence “stack” as a tightly integrated whole. Is the sum greater than the parts for your business analysis needs?