By Peter Galli – One year to the day after announcing its Unbreakable Linux initiative, Dave Dargo, the vice president of Oracle Corp.’s Linux Program Office, took to the stage at the Enterprise Linux Forum at the Santa Clara, Calif., convention center on Friday to talk about how Oracle has achieved

By Scot Petersen – Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison shocked the technology world with news that he plans to make a $5.1 billion offer to buy ERP rival Peoplesoft Inc., according to the company.

By Michael Miley – Physics laboratory plans first-of-its-kind global computer network to manage data produced by the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. The backbone? Oracle Database, naturally.

By James Giordano – Regardless if you are the DBA or the sysadmin, you need to be concerned with the task of cleaning up the filesystems that Oracle uses. There are three areas to be concerned with, archive logs, trace files, and logs files.

Code Futures has announced the initial release of FireStorm, an innovative code generation product for Java and J2EE developers.

Everyone needs a little help now and then. James Koopmann finds new ways to provide information to users of SQL*Plus through the Help Facility.

Software, Inc. has announced the availability of SharePlex(R) 4.5. The new version of SharePlex is the first available database replication product to support both Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Oracle Parallel Server (OPS), as well as providing enhanced support for the Oracle E-Busine

By James Koopmann – Oracle’s traditional method of storing parameters in the INIT.ORA file has given way to a more robust method– the server parameter file (SPFILE). Learn what truly works in converting and maintaining your parameters without ever having to use an editor again.

by Naresh Awasthi – This database procedure can be used to shrink tablespaces by passing two values: 1. Tablespace_name 2. Freespace_keep_pct It’s specially useful if you are refreshing a dev instance from prod and you don’t want to occupy the same size RBS, TEMP, an

By James Giordano – In order to keep your Oracle databases running 24×7, you’re going to need some basic monitoring scripts. Here are a few that I wrote for the HP platform.