By Alorie Gilbert – A California legislator accused Oracle and its business partner Logicon of being “part and parcel of defrauding the state of California” after he reviewed an e-mail exchange between the two companies that discussed how to handle Oracle’s pending $95 million software contract with

By Wylie Wong – The software maker said it plans to ship a new release of its 9i database later this week or early next week. Topping the list of new features in the release is more fluency in XML (Extensible Markup Language), a Web standard for exchanging information that is a cornerstone of Web se

By Ankit Patel – Oracle Support Services (OSS) performs detailed root-cause analysis on the install issues reported by customers and documents the results in a knowledgebase to ensure that the information is shared. This article provides installation best practices to help you quickly and easily ins

By Ofer Harel – One of the most vexing errors in Oracle is this one:ORA-1555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 9 with name “R07” too small.What causes this error? Oracle fails to return a consistent set of results (often called a snapshot) for a long-running query. This occu

By Michael Kleiser – It is a good idea to have a check digit in ID columns, especially if values are entered manually. Here is a check function to use:

By Barbara Darrow – Aside from stagnant IT purchasing, Oracle faces strong price pressure from IBM’s DB2 and Microsoft’s SQL Server databases. An eight-CPU version for Oracle9i costs 53 percent more, or $183,000 more, than IBM’s DB2 and a whopping 75 percent more, or $480,008 more, than SQL S

by Robert Ware – Description: Recently I was asked to determine which tables of a very large data warehouse instance were still being used. This instance has been around for quite a few years, and the concern was that several tables were not needed anymore. I created the following method to aid in t

By Margaret Kane – Oracle is challenging a research report that says the software maker has lost ground to IBM in the database market.The report, released by Gartner Dataquest, said Oracle had slipped to second place, with about 32 percent market share in the overall database market.

LECCO Technology, Inc., a global provider of performance optimization solutions for databases and software applications, February introduced Version 3.2 of its popular LECCO SQL Expert™ for Oracle. The new package provides enhanced development capabilities that allow Oracle database and application

By John Cox – After 2 1/2 years of boasting and bumbling, Oracle finally might be hitting its stride with its enterprise outsourcing business.The database giant has made some wrenching internal changes in the past 18 months to make outsourcing a major source of future revenue. Customers who