ITToolbox On Differences Between Reports & Discoverer

Sunday, September 28th, 2003 by Mark Rittman

“We are trying to decide which reporting tool to use. What are some of the differences between Oracle Reports and Discoverer?”

OWB 10g Future Product Directions?

Sunday, September 28th, 2003 by Mark Rittman

Oracle don’t release specifics about forthcoming product releases until just before the product gets launched, but if you take a look through the OTN OWB Forum there’s a few clues emerging about what’s coming up in the next major release of OWB, codenamed ‘Paris’ and due in Q2 2004. From what I understand, this is [...]

SQL Injection Oracle Security Paper By Pete Finnigan

Sunday, September 28th, 2003 by Mark Rittman

I’ve just come across Pete Finnigan’s website, where’s he’s put together an excellent set of links through to Oracle security papers written by himself and other third parties. One particularly interesting paper is on Detecting SQL Injection In Oracle, a bit of a ‘hot topic’ these days summed as; “SQL Injection is a way to [...]

Red Hat 9.0 – The Last Red Hat Consumer Distro?

Saturday, September 27th, 2003 by Mark Rittman

Red Hat 9.0 looks like being the last release of this Linux distro, with Red Hat the company concentrating on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the consumer distro being merged with the Fedora Project. According to the Fedora Project website; “The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a [...]

Cognos Release Cognos ReportNet

Saturday, September 27th, 2003 by Mark Rittman

Cognos have launched a replacement for Impromptu, their venerable web-based reporting tool, and it’s causing quite a stir in the BI market. Credited by some with being the real reason behind the recent series of mergers in the BI & reporting market, Cognos ReportNet is a fully web-based reporting suite that includes tools for developing, [...]

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