Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

"A couple weeks back, we brought word that Oracle planned to make a JavaOne splash by acquiring Collaxa and that is exactly what the company has done today. Oracle has secured Collaxa’s business process management software for an undisclosed sum. The deal has seen Collaxa’s BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) Server product turn into Oracle [...]

Wondering what the ‘Instant Client’ option was on the Oracle Database 10g install CD? James Koopman explains all in "Instant Client in Oracle 10g" for DatabaseJournal. "Wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to install the full Oracle client software just to get connectivity to an Oracle instance? Well, it is now reality with [...]

There’s a couple good articles in the new issue of Oracle Magazine. "Perform Without Waiting" by Arup Nanda looks at diagnosing performance problems using the wait interface in Oracle 10g (see also this article by Robin Schumacher for more on the 10g wait interface), whilst "Getting Good Advice About Access" by Kimberly Floss looks at [...]

Interesting discussion going on at Slashdot on SQL, XML, and the Relational Database Model. "In an article on DBAzine, Fabian Pascal writes that SQL is not a good representation of the relational model, and is afraid the situation will get worse with XML and XQUERY. An overview of some of the reactions on the positions [...]

One or two people have mentioned to me that it’s sometimes difficult to find content on this site after it’s been published, so with this in mind I’ve reworked some of the site navigation to make things easier to find. It’s work in progress at the moment (so you might find a few broken links) [...]