By James Niccolai – Oracle will release a new application in the coming weeks designed to help companies comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, a set of corporate disclosure and financial reporting rules for companies that are traded publicly in the U.S., the company said Wednesday. Meanwhile,

by Zeeshan Ahmad – Whenever data is imported from Oracle 8i on Unix into Oracle 8i on Windows 2000 Server, the data seems to be imported into the same tablespace on which the user is created. Actually, it imports the data into the SYSTEM tablespace, which increases in size. Moreover, by importing th

Sun Microsystems and Oracle have launched a joint offensive on Microsoft in the mid-market, while the software giant also faces an attack from rival operating system Linux. The two vendors have combined technologies for the Oracle Collaboration Suite on Sun. They admitted that ousting Microso

By Roger Smith – Is the real world of application development closer to every developer’s dream? Industry gurus and developers talk about how Oracle9i JDeveloper is keeping pace with new standards and techniques.

The complexity of how information is stored and where it is retrieved from is hidden from the casual user who queries a database. But if you plan on administering Oracle, you need to become familiar with how Oracle handles both resources. In this article, Joe Lax discusses two basic, but important,

by Jim Czuprynski – The new ANSI format for joins in Oracle 9i may appear alien at first, but they have the potential to become part of a DBA’s arsenal for clarifying SQL and PL/SQL code. This article discusses the new join formats including NATIVE, CROSS, and OUTER and includes examples for review

By Hervé Deschamps – Toad, Forms, Apps Forms, General DOS, Network DOS, Windows DLL stuff.

by David Jenkins – Many applications still use LONG fields, and they are still a pain. This function can get a SUBSTR of the LONG field. This function is limited to LONGs with fewer than 32,767 characters.

By Lisa Vaas – Syware Inc., maker of mobile database tools, is rolling out software to enable creation of Smartphone database applications. FoneDB applications can be downloaded or e-mailed to one or more Smartphones. Data can be transferred between Smartphone devices or between Smartphones a

By Jan Stafford – While extending its partnerships with Oracle Corp. and Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. staked its claim as the leader in low-cost computing by unveiling two new x86-based servers. The $2,450 Sun Fire V60x and $2,650 V65x servers are priced lower than comparable servers from IBM