By Amy Newman – Oracle released BEA WebLogic “SafeSwitch” Migration Kit, an offering designed to help enterprises migrate business applications efficiently from BEA WebLogic to Oracle9i Application Server.

By Barbara Darrow – For the second time in as many weeks, Oracle finds itself the subject of an analyst report blasting its software-licensing and sales tactics.On Monday, Gartner Group told its corporate clients to double-check Oracle software-licensing fees to ensure that the company has n

By Ofer Harel – In this tip, I will demonstrate how to use a feature introduced in Oracle 8i: a trigger on a database event. The trigger will be used to capture the LOGON and LOGOFF from the database.

by Andrew Allen – Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nobody likes ’em but we all got ’em (redundant indexes, that is). So here is an easy way to find redundant indexes. This script will list all redundant indexes in a database by owner, table (up to a max of 16 columns).

By Shankar Govindan – Here is a script that spools the Mail ID’s of the Application users and mails them whatever you want to notified them. This only requires that when a user is created, the Mail ID information is fed in and exists in the AOL tables of the database. The script was tested on 10.7 N

Pramati Technologies Limited announced support for Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS) with its new release of Pramati Studio 3.0. The integration between Pramati Studio and Oracle9i Application Server allows developers to build Java applications faster by automatically pre-packaging and

The next release of the Oracle9i database (Release 2) should be released this spring sometime (probably May/June). The new release support clustered file systems for Windows, as well as enhanced Data Guard functionality for safer, more reliable disaster recovery and backup, Oracle representatives sa

By John Carnell, et al. – Performance optimization is a big topic; big enough to fill an entire book of information on how to make Oracle and Java perform better. In this and subsequent tips, we will look at just a few ways to improve the performance of your Java programs.

By John Carnell, et al – Performance optimization is a big topic; big enough to fill an entire book of information on how to make Oracle and Java perform better. In this and subsequent tips, we will look at just a few ways to improve the performance of your Java programs.

This tip comes from Zlatko Sirotic – In the last few years, software development has focused on three-tier applications, mainly by separating the business rules layer from the presentation and data layers.There are two locations for the physical implementation of the business rules layer, an