by Tom Kaneshige – Oracle plans to announce later this week upgrades to its Oracle Financials software suite. Highlights include a new risk management module, business intelligence tools and two accounting portals. All of these enhancements are centered on providing real-time disclosure of financial

By Gareth Morgan – Many customers not ready to upgrade to 11i, says UK user group. The UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) has urged Oracle to extend the support deadline for its 10.7 business applications, arguing that customers are not ready to upgrade.

by Shai Mungekar – Here’s a script to generate a script that will remove duplicate rows from all tables belonging to a user. Use with caution.

(Jaime Alberto Marin Jimenez) This tip will allow you to create synonyms and grant privileges for a user or a user’s group, on one object or all objects from a specific user. You can run this procedure from your system account without connecting to each user. It has been tested on Oracle v8.1.7. (R

In his first article for DBAsupport.com, Amar Kumar Padhi details how to take advantage of an e-mail server option in Oracle 8i that allows you to send mail from within your code.

By Jane Black and Olga Kharif – Integrating data within heterogeneous systems is a task that that large software vendors are tackling, as clients demand simpler solutions for more complex environments. This case study looks at how Oracle made life easier for one CTO, and examines the way major ERP p

By Lisa Vaas – Oracle Corp. Vice President of Marketing Rene Bonvanie opened the Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo 2002 by demonstrating a simulation of an "unbreakable" eight-node cluster running the company’s Oracle9i RAC (Real Application Cluster) technology on top of Linux.

Oracle Corp. announced pre-registration for Oracle® AppsWorld 2003 San Diego. The event, held January 19-22, 2003, at the San Diego Convention Center, is the premier networking and education conference for business executives, line of business managers, project managers, information technology (IT)

This article presents a basic introduction to transaction processing in PL/SQL and primarily focuses on the Autonomous transaction processing feature of PL/SQL and the changes that have occurred from Oracle 8i to 9i.

Installation of Oracle 9i server on Redhat 7.2 is the same as on Redhat 7.1, except for some really strange behaviour I experienced when the Database configuration assistant (dbca) was invoked, both as part of installation and later when I tried to invoke it manually. This combination is not certifi