by Martin Schneider – Oracle Corp. has not been gaining the kind of momentum other competitors its size have–in CRM magazine’s leaders issue in September 2002, we rated Oracle fourth among major enterprise CRM players. However, the company may be on the verge of a market turnaround, according to Ro

(Gareth Morgan) Oracle has revealed plans to woo customers who are yet to upgrade to its 11i applications by offering predictable management and support costs.

By John Taschek – Ellison, commenting on Oracle’s renewed interest in outsourcing, said the time is right for hosted applications, especially those based on Oracle’s E-Business Suite 11i. Instead of concentrating on the applications, Ellison chose to focus on costs.

In part three of this series on new features in Oracle 9i, Steven Feuerstein shows you how to make some of Oracle’s new datatypes, including XMLTypes, work for you.

by Marco Gilbert – If you want to write a message to the alert log, you can use the undocumented KSDWRT procedure of the DBMS_SYSTEM package.

By Manjushree Despande – Recently I faced a very typical problem. We have an Oracle 8i on Linux installation. Last month we received one more Linux server with a similar configuration and had to load Oracle on it as well. The only problem was that our Oracle CD was not working properly and hence ins

By Martin LaMonica – Oracle on Monday will release software designed to make it easier for business users to access data through a Web browser. The database giant is one of several companies that sells corporate portal software, which unifies data from multiple sources and presents it through

By Phil Howard – Even if you didn’t think that the business intelligence market was a mature market, I am sure that most of you think that the database market is completely done and dusted. Well, not in my experience. There are more different types of commercial database available today, than there

DBAs spend a lot of time monitoring tablespace usage. Ask three DBAs to provide the best script for tablespace analysis, and you will get three different scripts. Below are nine that have been submitted over the past two years.

By Ellen O’Brien – Oracle says its Cluster File System (OCFS) can make database administration simpler by eliminating the need to manage and set up raw devices, a task Oracle developers say they know is dreaded by DBAs. A cluster file system, which allows a number of nodes in a cluster to concurrent