Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

If you’ve been developing applications on Oracle for a while, you’ve no doubt come across the concept of ‘Bind Variables’. Bind variables are one of those Oracle concepts that experts such as Tom Kyte and Jonathan Lewis frequently cite as being key to application performance, but it’s often not all that easy to pin down [...]

"Oracle Corp. plans to deliver a major update to its Collaboration Suite before the end of this year, adding instant messaging capabilities, improving integration with enterprise applications and enhancing other features, company executives said Tuesday." reports Joris Evers in an Infoworld.com article. And this looks interesting: "Aside from instant messaging, Oracle will deliver enhanced features [...]

"I’m an Oracle developer who wants to get into some of the "newer" technologies that Oracle offers. I want to get Oracle 9iAS, Portal, Forms services etc up and running on my PC. I’m going to get a PC that can handle this. Do you have any articles on how to install IAS on a [...]

Will SQL replace proprietary tool languages as the ETL language of choice? Yves de Montcheuil asks this question over at DMReview.com.

Oracle Discoverer is an ad-hoc query tool used for reporting and analyzing data held in Oracle and other third-party databases. It presents data using ‘business terms’, allowing users to build reports by choosing data items from a business repository (known as the ‘End User Layer), then dragging and dropping them onto a report using a [...]