By Lisa Vaas – Database administrators committed to Oracle Corp.’s namesake database gathered last week at the International Oracle User Group conference in Orlando, Fla., and discussed the impending beta release of the company’s next big database upgrade.

By Martin LaMonica – Sun Microsystems and Oracle plan to attend the first meeting to discuss a proposed Web services standard, despite their support of a rival specification.

By Marc L. Songini – Despite the relative newness of corporate applications running on Linux, attendees at an Oracle database user conference said a growing number of companies are evaluating or moving into production with database servers running the open-source operating system.

By Lisa Vaas – Oracle Corp.’s plan to offer a single-browser-based view in its Oracle Enterprise Manager is being greeted with glee by users, particularly in light of a major Oracle database vulnerability discovered last week.

David C. Kreines summarizes the week, focusing on what makes IOUG Live! such a unique event. Read about what he calls “an incredible opportunity to learn, share experiences, and interact with your fellow Oracle professionals.”

Oracle Corp. and Unisys Corp. have been chosen by a newly formed Homeland Security agency to construct a single online portal for consumers and airline personnel to report security incidents relating to airlines and other transportation systems.

by Eli Leiba – Version 8i introduced simple objects in Oracle and so made the Oracle database a true object-oriented environment. This article presents short scripts that demonstrate how to build, use and maintain Oracle simple objects.

by David Myron – Oracle executives recently met with the research director to share their plans for the CRM mid-market. Dubbed Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition, the Oracle mid-market solution comes with preconfigured and integrated Oracle applications including financials, order management, p

by Marco Gilbert – Changing the increment by clause of a sequence that cycles and uses cache can produce the following error: “ORA-04013: number to CACHE must be less than one cycle” The following command helps you prevent this error. This SQL command will return the maximum incremen

By Lisa Vaas – IOUG Live! conference attendees last Monday were greeted with two pieces of good news: that Hewlett-Packard Co. is chopping an incremental 20 percent off of hardware when customers purchase Oracle Corp. software with HP hardware, and that Oracle’s Oracle9i database is easier to use th