By RAJASEKHARA RAO ALURU – This procedure gives information about the objects being dropped from a database, such as the name and type of the object, the user who is dropping the object, terminal, etc. Here’s what to do:

by Roger Schrag – In this paper we will look at what XML is, why it is so promising, and tools and capabilities Oracle provides in order to leverage XML in your database applications. We will stay at a pretty high level. This paper is meant to be a quick read in order to get you started on understan

This tutorial provides steps to using a currency conversion Web service in an enterprise report built with Oracle9i Reports.

By Anne Chen – Although Release 2 of Oracle9i offers advantages over earlier Oracle versions, experts expect that depressed IT budgets and normal enterprise caution will mean most users won’t migrate to the new database until the end of next year or early 2004.

By Rick Whiting – The demand for database software will remain low for the near term, according to a recent survey of more than 600 business-technology professionals conducted by InformationWeek and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Nearly three out of four respondents have no immediate plans to buy datab

By Matt Hicks – A few years ago, Green Mountain Power Corp. found itself in an all-too-common predicament as it examined the state of its database systems. It had multiple systems running on multiple operating systems, spread across the company supporting specific enterprise applications. It

Exempt yourself from the new requirement by taking one 9i OCP exam before Sept. 1, 2002. Read more for the description and other options.

By Srinivas Chittimalla – It is quite difficult to get metadata out of Oracle 8i and earlier versions.<br><br>However, in Oracle 9i, a new package was introduced: DBMS_METADATA. It allows users to get metadata information about any object (tables, indexes, procedures, etc) from a data dictionary wit

By Kevin Reichard – BMC Software has announced the release of Patrol Recovery for Oracle, a network-storage application that centralizes management of Oracle-database backup and recovery functions across the network. It’s designed for Oracle database administrators (DBAs) who want to manage multiple

By Timothy Dyck – Oracle Corp. is the first among the big relational database vendors to make major changes to its database in response to XML, shaking up the generally overpriced and underperforming native XML database market something fierce but having a lesser effect on current Oracle database si