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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

"Did you know that Oracle’s "Scott" schema is slated for the bone yard? How many thousands of people have learned SQL, SQL*Plus, and PL/SQL on the back of poor old Scott? I would venture to say that the current generation of Oracle DBAs and developers are all familiar with the Scott schema and the schema [...]