By Ryan Naraine – Security consultants @stake has detected a potential vulnerability in the Oracle9i Application Server that could lead to Denial of Service (DoS) scenarios.

By Peter Galli – Microsoft Corp. has told beta testers of Office 11, its next-version Office desktop productivity suite, that the product will only work with the Windows 2000 operating system with Service Pack 3 installed, Windows XP and later desktop releases.

By Michael Singer – Oracle Wednesday advanced its position in the database universe with a rollout of a new product and participation in a growing standards group.

By Tom Smith – Enterprise software giant Oracle this week rolled out a slew of new supply-chain software applications geared toward meeting big enterprises’ execution, collaboration, and business-intelligence requirements.

By Ranjit Kumar – Developers often ask DBAs about an object that is locked. This script takes the object name as the input and gives the session ID and serial number for the session that has a lock in the object. The DBA can then inquire and kill the session.

A report submitted to the TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council) puts Oracle in the lead in database performance on 32 processor clustered server systems. But you’ll have to wait until next spring for the test system that was used to generate the results to become available.

by Darl Kuhn – Prior to Oracle9i Database Release 2, you were required to rebuild the controlfile to rename your database.Now with Oracle9i Database Release 2, you can use the “nid” utility automates this task. For example, if you want to change your database name to BRDSTN here are the step

by Roger Schrag – This document will walk you through the steps of installing Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition release 3 (Oracle version 8.1.7) or release 2 (8.1.6) in a Linux environment. Everything you read in this document is hands on, roll-up-your- sleeves-and-get-busy material for Oracle users who

Oracle Corp. will offer Oracle8i DBA, Oracle9i DBA, and Oracle Internet Application Developer (Forms 6i) track exams on-site in the Oracle Testing Center at OracleWorld 2002 in San Francisco November 10 – 15 for the discounted price of US$50 per exam (a 60% savings).

By John Cox – In Oracle’s most recent quarterly results, network executives can see a vendor struggling to do pretty much what they are: squeeze out costs and juggle several projects to boost revenue in the face of a steep slowdown in enterprise software spending.