Tuesday, August 5th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
This poster on OTN asks whether future versions of OWB will support Oracle Streams. Previously known as Change Data Capture, Streams captures DML information in the database redo logs and applies the changes to target databases such as an Oracle data warehouse. It allows near real-time propagation of database changes and makes it possible to […]
Monday, August 4th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
One of the new features that’s expected to be included in Oracle 10G is HTML DB, a new rapid application development environment for Oracle web-based applications.
Previously known as Project Marvel, details of what is now called HTML DB are available at the Project beta website, together with an overview of the technology and development process used […]
Monday, August 4th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
Ronan Miles, UK Oracle User Group Chairman, on Oracle 10G:
“I think grid computing will do for the computer what disk farms have done for disks”
“Once, we were in awe of one disk and now it’s a resource in a Raid array. Grid can take processing and memory down the same road. You [will] have a […]
Monday, August 4th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
Mark Van De Wiel at Oracle has pointed out a new viewlet demo of the OLAP functionality in OWB9.2.
It uses an early version of the upcoming 9.2.0.4 database patch (a.k.a. the 9.2.0.3x patch) that enables the 9i OLAP cube and dimension load process from OWB, and shows how a 9i OLAP cube can be […]
Sunday, August 3rd, 2003 by Mark Rittman
With Oracle 10G dropping the rules-based optimizer, there’s a timely technical article on OTN about the Cost-Based Optimizer.
Up until now, the query optimizer in the Oracle server could either work out the optimum execution plan for a particular SQL statement by either using the original Rule-Based Optimizer, or by using the Cost-Based Optimizer which was […]
