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"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 BPEL Process Manager overnight. The […]

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 Oracle’s new Instant Client
software […]

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 the the
SQL Access Advisor in Oracle 10g.

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
Pascal and also C.J. Date take […]

John Topley is putting together a series
of articles that teach the basics of Jakarta Struts development, using
Oracle JDeveloper as the IDE. Entitled "Jakarta Struts De-Mystified",
John introduces the series as:

"There are now many good books on the framework and the online documentation is quite mature for an open-source project; but in spite of this, I have […]

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) but I’ve
introduced a […]

John Topley is putting together a series
of articles that teach the basics of Jakarta Struts development, using
Oracle JDeveloper as the IDE. Entitled "Jakarta Struts De-Mystified",
John introduces the series as:

"There are now many good books on the framework and the online documentation is quite mature for an open-source project; but in spite of this, I have […]

Well there you go. Only
the other day I was talking about there not being an application front-end
for Oracle Data Mining, and now Oracle go and release one. Oracle Data Miner is
a new end-user application for Oracle Data Mining 10g that has just been
made available on
OTN in a pre-release version.

"Oracle Data Miner is a graphical user […]

Controversial bit of news from Oracle on the forthcoming

10g OCP DBA certification path.

Certcities reports that Oracle are reducing the exam requirement for the 10g
OCP DBA to just two exams, from the current four required for the 9i DBA OCP.

"6/21/2004 — This weekend Oracle unveiled its 10g track of database
certifications, featuring a significant reduction […]

If you’ve got an interest in Oracle performance tuning, you’ll probably have
seen references to something called event 10046. Event 10046 is an undocumented,
but well known feature within the Oracle database that generates detailed
information on how a statement is parsed, what the values of bind variables are,
and what wait events occurred during a particular session. Activating […]