By Wylie Wong – Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison on Wednesday said the database giant will meet Wall Street estimates for its fourth-quarter earnings, ending speculation that the company might have to announce a profit warning this week.

By Mike Ricciuti – Oracle on Wednesday boosted its support for the Linux operating system with a new version of its database software. The software maker said that it has developed a version of its 9i database software that can run across multiple Linux servers in a configuration called clust

By Larry Dignan – Oracle’s fiscal year ended with a thud, raising the specter of “significant employee reductions,” according to Wall Street analysts.Oracle had to resort to heavy discounting in the final weeks of the quarter, and analysts are betting that the company will take a revenue hit

Learn how to use the new ANSI-compliant join syntax, which simplifies the task of performing a full outer join, from Sanjay Mishra, coauthor of Mastering Oracle SQL.

By Hervé Deschamps – Forms 6i, Apps HR, SQL, Apps Zoom in Custom.pll.

By Dawn Kawamoto – The war of words escalated Monday between database giant Oracle and a California legislator leading an investigation into a controversial $95 million state contract, with back-to-back news conferences and a flurry of exchanged letters.

By Gatot Rubianto – You need to tune the database cache hit ratio if: the gethitratio on the library cache is > 90% the pinhitratio on the library cache is < 1% the get hit ratio on the dictionary cache is < 15% Use this simple script to measure the cache hit ratio:

Put SQLJ to use. This language allows you to write stored procedures with database-independent code that can be easily ported among Java-enabled database platforms. Oracle Pro Boris Milrud demonstrates how to write, load, and run a SQLJ stored procedure on an Oracle database, and shows how its resul

(Bhagwan Singh) Description: I developed this small package to execute the cleanup of my audit tables fortnightly, after reports were done.

By Roger Schrag – This paper offers a brief overview of the new features in the Oracle9i database of most interest to database administrators. It is written for DBAs experienced with Oracle8i who are looking for a quick-read roadmap to what has changed and what is new in Oracle9i. For each item we’l