Database staff using the Oracle Enterprise Manager product will be able to aggregate multiple databases and other Oracle-based systems in a single browser-based view, said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice-president, database and application server technologies, at Oracle.

By Sara Cushman – After working for almost 20 years in the telecommunications industry, in jobs ranging from long-distance operator to secretary to plant manager, Debi Lorraine decided she needed a change.So, at age 36, she quit her job and went back to school. Now 46 years old and a five-ye

By Dennis Fisher – Security researchers have identified a dangerous new vulnerability in several recent releases of Oracle Corp.’s flagship database software. The vulnerability puts not only the information in the database at risk, but in some cases, also can lead to a compromise of the operating sy

By Paul Roberts – Oracle Corp. has released a patch for a recently-discovered critical security vulnerability affecting its database servers. The buffer overflow vulnerability affects all supported versions of Oracle database servers and could enable a remote attacker to compromise the data stored

The next generation of Enterprise Manager aims to enable database administrators to manage larger numbers of databases, web servers and other applications. Other improvements include drill-down capabilities for gauging application performance.

By David Baum – Companies are using Oracle Collaboration Suite to consolidate servers and provide their employees with reliable, secure, highly available collaboration tools.

Steven Feuerstein and Bryn Llewellyn show how, with Oracle 9i Release 2, you can now use the PL/SQL RECORD datatype inside SQL statements.

by sunitha s – This small Oracle script can be executed as a script file from the SQL*Plus prompt and reports the total size, used space, free space and percentage of used and free space in all the tablespaces in a database. (R)

by Kirill Richine – I need a logoff trigger to make sure a session is closed properly. To do this, I use SQL TRACE in logon and logoff triggers.

by Jim Czuprynski – If a disaster happened to your database server, could you recover from it? This article discusses the questions a DBA can ask to probe the realm of what we all hate to think about – the possibility of the untimely demise of a production database server. Learn how to become a fear