Vonage, a provider of IP-based telephone service, said Monday it has deployed new database clusters from Oracle Corp. to better support its growing customer base.Vonage implemented Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters in six weeks, beefing up the ability of its database applications to suppor

Oracle Corp as of next week will publish its global pricing and licensing policies on the internet in a move the corporate software maker claims is the first of its kind within the industry.

By Mark Teter – Database recovery is something that should not be tried for the first time in a disaster situation. In fact, the best recovery plan is maintaining your environment so that you never have to perform recovery. The key to this strategy is using a comprehensive availability approach. By

By Bryan Morgan – Despite building a corporate reputation based on its back-office database, a look at the company’s current product offerings makes it clear Oracle has made a wholesale commitment to move far beyond the IT server facility. A work in progress since 1999, Oracle now offers a suite of

(Fred Mayer) I needed a PL/SQL routine to summarize and transpose, and I came up short. So I decided to see if I could get it accomplished myself. The resulting procedure, TRANSPOSE, accomplishes this task for me.Here’s how it works: Pass the Source User, Source Table Name, Destination Table

By James Niccolai – A recent analyst report on the relational database market puts Oracle Corp. in pole position, though Microsoft Corp. will quickly gain ground as customers become more confident about its software and seek new ways to reduce their IT budgets, according to the report’s author.

By Syed Ali – You can create a database link without having a SQL*NET string in your tnsnames.ora file. This is beneficial when you use a remote database for one time only or you have a different client (eg, 8.0 vs. 7.3). This tip has been tested on Oracle 8.0.5. It may also work with 8i or other ve

By Andy Duncan, Jared Still – Perl is a very powerful tool for Oracle database administrators, but too few DBAs realize how helpful Perl can be in managing, monitoring, and tuning Oracle9i, Oracle8i, and earlier databases. You don’t need to be a Perl expert to reap the rewards of reading Perl for Or

ORACLE Corp is working towards running its entire business on Linux as part of a commitment to drive the adoption of the open source operating system. The company started the initiative last month with its application demo services group by migrating 349 demo server machines, with over 3,400

by Johnny Ayanda Tshepo Moleleki – This script pertains to Oracle’s Multi-Master (MM)Replication environment. All the DML errors encountered by a site in MM replication are stored locally on a table DEF$_ERROR (and other tables) until the cause of the error has been resolved. The script gives the DB