By Gareth Morgan – Oracle’s decision to release individual patches for “big and nasty” flaws in its database products has stirred controversy over how to minimise disruption while maintaining security.Last week Oracle released six separate patches for vulnerabilities, four of them for ‘criti

Oracle is urging its customers to apply six security fixes immediately – four of which repair critical flaws.

by Daniel Stanley – Create a procedure to monitor and log users logging onto the database with the SYS and SYSTEM accounts. Create two new SYS objects:

By Lisa Vaas – Databases and DBAs got a double body-blow over the past week, with the news that hackers grabbed up to 8 million credit card account numbers and, separately, that Oracle Corp. released five advisories to cover six Oracle 9i Release 2 vulnerabilities.

By Lisa Vaas and Renee Boucher Ferguson – Oracle Corp. and IBM are jostling for a federal stamp of approval on Linux, with both companies announcing that they will submit their respective software to certification processes.

By Stacy Cowley – Enterprise portals are becoming ubiquitous, according to a new study by Jupiter Research: More than 80 percent of polled companies said they now have or will deploy within a year a portal site for their employees.

If you’ve ever had a problem with a run-away job that didn’t want to end, or found that you needed to shut down the database only to find it was waiting for a job to complete, Koopmann can help. Learn how to manage those jobs that don’t want to end.

By Venkat Arikatla – This function will return the last generated sequence value for a given table. It will work both for Oracle 8i and 9i

Steven Feuerstein and Bryn Llewellyn continue their series of articles on new Oracle 9i features with both simple and complex examples showing you how to work with multi-level collections.

Hitachi and Oracle have announced they will strengthen an existing alliance, creating a partnership focused on improving integration of database management and information storage. Their first product will be a software library that enables administrators to more easily find and extract Oracle data