Monday, December 22nd, 2003 by Mark Rittman
“It really does appear that Oracle has done enough to make the grid built out of commodity servers a practical and economic reality. As a by-product it has made the management of smaller systems easier as well.” writes Peter Abrahams for The Register.
Monday, December 22nd, 2003 by Mark Rittman
One of my New Year Resolutions is to move my work laptop over to Linux, to be more in sync with Oracle’s development effort and to benefit from the extra performance that you get from running Oracle on a Unix platform. One of the things that’s put me off in the past is the thought [...]
Monday, December 22nd, 2003 by Mark Rittman
I’ve just come back from an initial couple of days at a client site, where we’re looking at tuning up their data warehouse. I’d previously mentioned one of the areas we’d looked at (function-based indexes), and having done a bit more research, I thought it worth mentioning one of the sites I’d come across that looked [...]
Wednesday, December 17th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
“When using Discoverer 9iAS (the one that comes with 9iASr2) and public connections, the row-level security i’d set up on the Oracle database doesn’t work any more. How can we integrate the SSO logins and discoverer logins such that our database row-level security now works?“
I had a similar situation happen with a recent client, and this [...]
Wednesday, December 17th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
If you’re looking to use the web-based Design Browser that comes with OWB 9.0.4 and 9.2, and want to deploy it using the new built-in OC4J instance, there’s a new Metalink note No. 237367.1 that goes through all the steps required to set it up.
In the past, to use the Design Browser you had to [...]
