By Shishir Dani – Almost all Oracle DBAs need to continually check the status of various tablespaces in the database. Here is a SQL script that will generate a bar graph showing the status of tablespaces in the database.

By John Taschek – Larry Ellison, part-time Oracle Corp. captain and full-time sailor, closed out the OracleWorld show here on Thursday by pointing out all the problems with the high-tech industry. Ever the salesman, as well as sailor, the Oracle chairman and CEO also said that Oracle has all the ans

By Margie Semilof – From a technology standpoint, Oracle Corp.’s messaging and collaboration platform may be better than those offered by competitors. It may be less pricey too.

In his first article for DatabaseJournal, 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.

Book by Stephen Edelstein – Sample Chapter 8: LibrariesPrevious versions of Oracle’s Forms Designer tools, SQL*Forms and Oracle Forms, had two ways of sharing procedural code with multiple applications:User Exits let designers write procedures in a programming language (C, COBOL, For

by Pulkit Mathur – Here is a tip to get sample records from a table. Suppose there are 100 records in a table and you want to see the 5th, 10th …95th, and the 100th record. Or the 1st, 3rd, 5th… record.

By Clint Boulton – To assuage the pain of software developers, Oracle Corp. Tuesday it said it has submitted a new Application Programming Interface (API) specification designed to facilitate the creation of extensions that are fully interoperable with any Java Integrated Development Environment (ID

By Paul Krill and James Niccolai – LOOKING TO LEVERAGE growing interest in grid computing, Oracle will detail its grid strategy in a bid to position its technology as a foundation for distributed applications.

(Richard Stucke) Here is a pseudo random number generator function that is simple to use and has the added capability of limiting the range of random numbers produced. There are times when you don’t want just any random number from 1 thru 9999; for example, you may want all the random number to be f

With little fanfare, companies are continuing to develop practical wireless applications for the enterprise. Here’s how they’re using Oracle’s flexible XML-based development environment to do it.