By Songini, Marc L – ORACLE CORP. last week showed a beefed-up presence at the fall conference of its independent applications user group, signalling that a well-publicized rift between the vendor and the group is continuing to mend.

By Barbara Assadi and Leslie Steere – Oracle’s products are used by literally hundreds of thousands of people around the world, so the challenge of selecting fewer than a dozen Oracle users, managers, and executives to receive our first ever Editors’ Choice Awards was both a gargantuan task and an i

By Ofer Harel – Sometimes you need to know all the privileges your users have in a database. This collection of scripts summarize and detail all users, roles and grants in the database.

Lucent has announced the availability of VitalNet 9.0, the newest edition of its network-management software, in a version for the Solaris operating system.

By Alorie Gilbert – Oracle plans to discuss revamped versions of its collaboration, database and application server software at its annual user conference in San Francisco next week.

By Mike Ricciuti – Oracle has revamped its development tools with support for the latest Java and Web services standards.The database software company has released Oracle9i JDeveloper version 9.0.3, a revised toolset that now includes support for the latest Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1

By Alorie Gilbert – Software executives from Siebel Systems and Oracle said Tuesday that they don’t expect businesses to be much more eager to buy software in 2003 than they are today.

In this article, Steven Feuerstein, coauthor of Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition, offers a quick review of object types and then shows how you can build “object type hierarchies” by taking advantage of inheritance.

by Andrew Allen – Sometimes we need (or want) to know who is using rollback and how much they are using. This script will show you who is using which rbs, how much rollback they are using, their sid/serial, and, optionally, when their session began and when they were last active in the database.

By Barbara Darrow – Oracle is honing its channel programs in hopes of reinvigorating software sales.For one thing, the database kingpin, which is trying to expand its franchise into business applications and Web application servers, will now segment its partner designations along product lin