Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 […]

"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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Eric Mortensen has started an Oracle
Weblog that looks at issues around the Oracle RDBMS, SQL and PL/SQL. In the
first few postings, Eric has looked at safe
type conversion with PL/SQL, a full-table
scan like search design pattern, and fast
table refresh in high-availability environments. There’s also an RSS
feed to use in your favourite aggregator.

The forthcoming ODTUG
Conference 2004 has a number
of presentations that’ll be of interest to Oracle BI&W developers. As
it’s in Arizona I can’t quite see my resources stretching to attending but if
you’re an ODTUG member, it’s sounds it’ll be worth going along.

Getting from Zero to OLAP Quickly - Jean
Pierre Dijcks, Principal Product Manager
"This […]

"Oracle

recently announced on its Web site that it is launching a new Linux
certification: Managing Oracle9i on Linux. Oracle describes the title as the
"first" specialty for those holding its Oracle Certified Professional Database
Administrators (OCP DBA) certification, hinting that more may be on the way." 

writes Becky Nagel for Certcities.com.

"Oracle will finish switching its 9,000-person in-house programming staff
to Linux by the end of 2004, the database powerhouse said Wednesday."
writes Stephen Shankland
for CNET News.com. "In October, the company finished the Linux transition for
the 5,000 programmers of its Oracle Applications software. Now the
transformation has begun for those who work on the database product, said Wim
Coekaerts, director […]

The forthcoming ODTUG
Conference 2004 has a number
of presentations that’ll be of interest to Oracle BI&W developers. As
it’s in Arizona I can’t quite see my resources stretching to attending but if
you’re an ODTUG member, it’s sounds it’ll be worth going along.

Getting from Zero to OLAP Quickly - Jean
Pierre Dijcks, Principal Product Manager
"This […]