Oracle Corp., the world’s largest enterprise software company, announced the world record TPC-C 32-processor clustered benchmark on Linux(1) using Oracle9i Database Release 2 with Real Application Clusters. The new clustered world record result achieved 138,362.03 tpmC and a price performance of $17

By Pankaj Gautama – Although storage capacity is growing day-by-day, there are still occasions when there still just isn’t enough. I have found this to be true especially when I need to send or archive a complete directory structure and haven’t enough disk space to perform a tar and then a compress.

Oracle hopes to avert a battle over rival efforts to create web services standards by asking the leading oversight group to pick a winner.

By Timothy Dyck – Oracle Corp. takes an all-in-one approach with its Oracle9i Application Server Release 2, which provides lots of extra trimmings for more complex Web application development.

By Paul Krill – ORACLE IS LOOKING to get industry consensus on a Web services specification for choreographing interactions in business-to-business transactions, an alternative to the current plethora of proposed specifications devised to meet this aim.

NetLedger is expected to reveal its first low-end CRM system. NetLedger is the recently established, Larry Ellison backed, company – the firm that touts Oracle’s Small Business Suite. The product is interesting too. It’s kind of standard fare, with a twist. It’s another ASP that looks good.

By Philip J. Gill – In theory, corporate portals have always been a good idea. Consolidate all of the content and functionality that an employee needs to do his or her job effectively into a single online window, and worker productivity will go up, says conventional wisdom. But until recently, corpo

Learn how to leverage JDBC, a key Java technology used to access relational data from Java programs, in an Oracle environment. Author Donald Bales begins by teaching you the mysteries of establishing database connections, and how to issue SQL queries and get results back.

by Jeff Hunter – The following article is a summary of the steps required to successfully install the Oracle 8i (8.1.7) database on Redhat Linux 7.1 and 7.2.

Andy Duncan explains that Perl’s symbiosis with the Oracle database helped in constructing the Perl DBA Toolkit, and he ponders what Ayn Rand might have thought of these two strange bedfellows. Andy is a coauthor of Perl for Oracle DBAs.