Saturday, June 19th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
"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 is
probably one of […]
Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
There’s an interesting technical note available on OTN on invoking
OWB processes or mappings as web services.
Traditionally, OWB mappings and processes are run using the OWB deployment
manager, SQL*Plus (using the Execution Template) or through Oracle Enterprise
Manager. However, from OWB 9.0.4 onwards, mappings and process flows can be called
by any application that can communicate via a web […]
Sunday, June 13th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
Oracle’s Sergio Leunissen has started a blog on
HTML DB tips, tricks and examples.
Sergio is one of the product team behind HTMDB and I met him, and Joel Kallman,
at one of the HTMLDB developer days earlier this year in Reading. Sergio kindly
answered a few questions that came up after my
introduction to HTMLDB
article, and is a regular […]
Thursday, June 10th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
"Many articles have been written about the use of PL/SQL vs. Java."
writes Dave Moore in
"Java vs. PL/SQL: Where Do I Put
the SQL?". "These articles tend to focus on the intricacies of each
language and their strengths and weaknesses as the server-side logic. This
article won’t focus on this issue but will instead concentrate on an issue that
faces […]
Monday, June 7th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
"As organizations grow to depend on globally distributed service networks,
their business intelligence (BI) capability must adapt. Here’s how autonomous
agents will "embed" BI in business processes to overcome new challenges."
writes Naeem Hashmi
for IntelligentEnterprise.com.
I
wrote a few weeks ago
about Oracle’s current business intelligence vision being based around real-time
data warehousing built using materialized views and Oracle 10g’s new
asynchronous […]
Saturday, June 5th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
Omar Irbough wrote to me today about
a
blogging application he’s written using HTMLDB. It’s currently hosted using
Oracle’s HTMLDB hosted environment and
Omar will be putting it forward for the
HTMLDB Studio
site.
The application is […]
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004 by Mark Rittman
"DBAs have for too long thought of themselves as mere gatekeepers to
databases. This mentality has pushed us down the corporate food chain;
increasingly, we are not thought of as problem solvers. But we can change
negative perceptions and begin positively impacting our companies and helping
our customers." writes James Koopman in
"Solving Problems as a DBA".
Tuesday, June 1st, 2004 by Mark Rittman
"The market for database server software, seen as a barometer of overall
software market health, grew slightly last year, fueled in part by sales of
Linux." reports CNET News.com in an article titled
"Database Sales Bouncing Back". "The top three database makers maintained
their relative positions in the market. IBM kept its overall lead, at just less
than 36 percent, […]
