Thoughts On Running Oracle 10g On Apple OSX Server

Monday, May 31st, 2004 by Mark Rittman

With Oracle Database 10g nearing release date for Apple OSX Server, Oracle
and Apple are
running a series of joint seminars in Reston, Cupertino, London, Paris and
Tokyo to introduce this first supported release of the Oracle RDBMS on the Apple
platform.
All I need now is some kind company to loan me a Mac G5 to put it […]

DatabaseJournal Article on DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT

Monday, May 31st, 2004 by Mark Rittman

"To secure sensitive data, Oracle provides developers with the
DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT, an industrial strength version of the DBMS_RANDOM
package. You may feel the need of a decoder just to keep track of all the
acronyms and to decrypt the errors in Oracle’s sample code, but once you see how
easy it is to use, you’ll be able to take Oracle’s […]

Delivering Oracle Portal Content Through Java Server Pages

Saturday, May 29th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Oracle Portal comes with a useful web interface for building pages out of
regions, items and portlets. If you’re familiar with Oracle Portal and the site
design is not too complicated, you can usually put something together that looks
good and fits within the Portal page structure. But what if you’ve been given a
design built in Dreamweaver or […]

Howard Rogers’ Oracle FAQ

Friday, May 28th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Dizwell Informatics has put together an
Oracle FAQ written by
Howard Rogers that addresses some common questions around the Oracle database.
It’s divided into four sections (basic and expert administration, together with
backup/recovery and performance tuning, with questions and answers being added as time goes by. Having had a brief
look through, some Q&A’s that look useful include:

What use is […]

Integrating Mapping And Spatial Data Into Your Oracle Data Warehouse

Friday, May 28th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

There’s an interesting article currently running over on OTN entitled "Use
Location Information in Enterprise Reporting". According to the
introduction, the article helps you "Learn how to
create dynamic maps that make the relationships between attribute and
location-based information a lot more visible for business intelligence
analysis."
The article’s about two Oracle products that help you add GIS functionality
to your data […]

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