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 [...]

"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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]