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All of the Oracle 10g infrastructure components are now available for
download on OTN, for Linux, HP-UX and Sun Solaris.

Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.2)
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (10.1.0.2)
Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4)
Oracle Developer Suite 10g (9.0.4)

I’ve just finished putting in the Oracle Database 10g on my Red Hat 9.0 PC
(after following Werner Puschitz’s excellent installation
cookbook) […]

Just popped into an internet cafe in the KOMTAR, Penang, so it’s a good opportunity to update the blog with a couple of news items…
Chuck Phillips, who along with Safra Catz is one of the new Co-presidents at Oracle, is speaking at the next Peoplesoft User Group regional conference in San Diego, according to this […]

Ever since an old colleague of mine mentioned that his Oracle development team were using Scrum, an agile development methodology, to run and plan their projects, I’ve been looking out for an opportunity to use agile methods in my line of work. Interestingly, there’s a new article on OTN by Scott Ambler entitled “Agile Development […]

One of the books I’ve been reading whilst on holiday is “Softwar : An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle” by Matthew Symonds. I’m not usually one for biographies of Larry Ellison, but Amazon were offering it for 1 penny (I’m not joking, it was probably a pricing error) and I thought it’d be […]

Well, I have to say, the weather and food in Penang is wonderful. I’m staying at the Bay View Beach Resort in Batu Ferengghi and apart from the occaisional check of my email, it’s been a pretty relaxing few days so far. Off to the pool now…

There’s a new technical white paper available on OTN about the support
for SQL 2003 in Oracle Database 10g. "As
the latest version of SQL standards, SQL 2003 is making major improvements in a
number of key areas. First, there are additional objectrelational features,
which were first introduced in SQL 1999. Second, SQL 2003 standard
revolutionizes SQL with comprehensive OLAP […]

A recent posting on
Oracle Warehouse Builder prompted some questions from readers on the process of
integrating Oracle Workflow with Oracle Warehouse Builder; this integration has
also been a ‘hot topic’ on the OTN
OWB Forum. The OWB documentation stops short of explaining how workflow
jobs, created using OWB9.2 and deployed using the Deployment Manager, are
actually submitted and run using […]