Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:34:11 GMT
Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent in patent-infringement fray - NetworkWorld.com

Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent in patent-infringement fray NetworkWorld.com, MA - 11 hours ago By Chris Kanaracus , IDG News Service , 07/03/2008 Oracle is suing Alcatel-Lucent, claiming the massive telecom is in violation of a number of Oracle's ...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:49:28 GMT
BMW-Oracle face the fast cats - Financial Times

BMW-Oracle face the fast cats Financial Times, UK - 6 hours ago By Simon Greaves America’s Cup rivals BMW-Oracle Racing and Alinghi will compete on the water for the first time since last year’s challenge when they meet ...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:50:50 GMT
Oracle 9i SYS_CONTEXT??????? - ???

Oracle 9i SYS_CONTEXT??????? ???, China - 7 hours ago This is the only attribute of USERENV for which Oracle implements such a change. Job ID of the current session if it was established by an Oracle background ...

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:19:19 GMT
Oracle seeks to ease BEA clients' worries - San Jose Mercury News

Wall Street Journal Blogs

Oracle seeks to ease BEA clients' worries San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Jul 2, 2008 By Brandon Bailey Seeking to reassure customers of recently acquired BEA Systems, top Oracle executives said Tuesday that they will continue to support ... Oracle Outlines Roadmap For BEA Acquisition's Products InformationWeek Oracle details its BEA strategy Ovum Oracle outlines BEA plans IT Week eWeek - CRN all 59 news articles

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:15:06 GMT
Comstar completes Oracle E-business ERP system implementation - Telecom Paper (subscription)

Comstar completes Oracle E-business ERP system implementation Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - 17 hours ago Russian and CIS telecommunications service provider Comstar-UTS has implemented the Oracle E-business suite, the full-scale Enterprise Resource Planning ...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:29:34 GMT
SAP CEO sees no impact on market share of Oracle acquisitions - Forbes

SAP CEO sees no impact on market share of Oracle acquisitions Forbes, NY - 21 hours ago Business software maker Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) recently agreed to acquire insurance policy software supplier AdminServer Inc. as well as ...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:57:26 GMT
WWB Colombia Selects Oracle’s FLEXCUBE - Business Wire (press release)

Business Wire (press release)

WWB Colombia Selects Oracle’s FLEXCUBE Business Wire (press release), CA - 3 hours ago ... of delivering projects and its parentage of the world’s leading software provider like Oracle were critical factors that helped us make our decision. ...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:54:35 GMT
Oracle Claims $1b In Damages from Arch-Rival SAP - SYS-CON Media

SYS-CON Media

Oracle Claims $1b In Damages from Arch-Rival SAP SYS-CON Media, NJ - 13 hours ago To no one’s particular surprise, Oracle has claimed that it suffered hundreds of millions, if not “at least” a billion dollars worth of damages because of ... Cloud Computing and Virtualization with Novell, Google, HP and ... SYS-CON Media Android Won't Be Home for Xmas SYS-CON Media all 6 news articles

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:03:45 GMT
Leading analyst firm positions Oracle in leaders quadrant in - NDTV.com

Leading analyst firm positions Oracle in leaders quadrant in NDTV.com, India - Jul 2, 2008 Oracle and i-flex solutions — which recently unveiled plans to change its name to Oracle Financial Services has announced that they were evaluated and ... Leading Analyst Firm Positions BWise in the Visionaries Quadrant ... Business Wire (press release) all 18 news articles

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:13:32 GMT
The Oracle CRM Radars - Oracle E-Business Suite CRM, Oracle Siebel ... - PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)

The Oracle CRM Radars - Oracle E-Business Suite CRM, Oracle Siebel ... PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 14 hours ago This brief analyses the strengths and weaknesses of Oracle´s Customer Relationship Management offering. Oracle is rated according to its market impact ... 2008-07-03 16:13:16 - www.companiesandmarkets.com adds new report ... PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) all 11 news articles

Oracle Database 11g: Database Replay, Part 3
The final article in this series illustrates how to use Oracle Database 11gR1's new Database Replay (DBR) features to capture and prepare a workload from a current Oracle 10gR2 single-instance database environment and then replay that identical workload in an Oracle 11gR1 Real Application Clusters (RAC) testing environment.

Product Review Toad Data Modeler 3
Quest Software has hit the ball out of the park with its Toad Data Modeler 3 (TDM) application. Ease of use, a huge amount of functionality, and an outstanding support base all combine to make TDM a superb product. Read on to learn more...

Oracle Automatic Storage Management
ASM provides many benefits, but also requires learning new concepts, commands, utilities, and administration tasks. Sean Hull examines what ASM solves, and what it takes to manage and weigh the pros and cons.

Oracle Applications Reference Books
Aside from Oracle's own documentation covering Oracle Apps and a few books covering specific modules, the published books landscape regarding EBS is fairly barren. There are two notable generalist coverage books available that can help you get a good jump on learning Oracle Applications.

Oracle Database 11g Common Background Processes
To understand Oracle background processes is to understand how Oracle works--offering opportunity to tune effectively. Learn about the processes that are typically running after a fresh, common, and basic installation.

Oracle Database 11g: Database Replay, Part 2
Part 2 of this series - demonstrates how Oracle 11g Database Replay can be used to capture and prepare a workload from a current Oracle 11g production database environment (P+0) and then replay that identical workload in an Oracle 11g testing environment that represents the next iteration (P+1) of the database system.

Oracle DBA in an Oracle Applications World Part 2
Steve Callan presents a simple but effective means of replicating your production environment for the first time on a new machine.

Oracle 10g Cloning Guide: A Small County Government Approach
This document offers one approach to database refreshes for Oracle 10g databases on Windows 32 and 64 bit servers.

Oracle Warehouse Builder Automated ETL Processing
Steve Callan offers a high level overview of what it takes to automate a load, covering each and every project item you need to address for this to work.

Multi Table Loop
This article examines how to loop through multiple tables to process the data.

Programming, Perl + Oracle
Perl is a powerful scripting language that can meet your day-to-day scripting needs as a database administrator, and if used prudently, and responsibly, as a language to build large web-based applications. Here's a quick introduction to using Perl with Oracle.

Create your own reports with Oracles Snapshot Information
If you are tired of running the same old Oracle AWR reports, not getting to the data quickly, or just need to write your own, then this article will get you started.

Oracle Database 11g: Database Replay, Part 1
This article provides a primer for using Oracle 11g Database Replay to effectively predict the performance of rapidly changing applications within increasingly fluid database environments.

Oracle DBA in an Oracle Applications World
Steve Callan takes a look at what is behind the smoke, mirrors, and curtains of Oracle Applications.

Oracle Indexing - What, Where, When?
If you are new to databases, or perhaps new to Oracle, you may find the discussion on indexes and indexing strategy complicated. Don't fret. To get started it's fairly straightforward, and as long as you pay attention to the options relevant to day-to-day DBA needs, it should remain fairly simple.