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Richard Foote :
"Yet
Another Presentation On Extended SQL Trace". See also - David Kurtz :

"tkprof: Who? What? How? When? Where? Why? -or- SQL Trace: All of the Questions
and None of the Answers"
I went along to
Cary
Millsap’s talk at the UKOUG UNIX SIG the other day, and have spent quite a
bit of time since then tracing code and […]

Creating a map portlet for Oracle
Portal : "I was asked the other day to provide and example of how one
might integrate Oracle Location technologies and mapping with Oracle Portal.
Although there are many ways to do this, my immediate thought was, well, what
kind of information does this portal already provide? […]

Microsoft
Unleashes a Deluge of BI Goodies : "ORLANDO, Fla. Microsoft
Corp. is flooding the BI market yet again.
This time around, the company is announcing new SQL Server Report Packs
for Exchange and Business Solutions CRM; Report Builder, a tool that opens up
simple report creation to the masses; and a rechristened version of DTS (Data
Transformation […]

In interesting new aspect of Oracle s recent data warehousing product
announcements has been an emphasis on real-time, and near-real-time, data
warehousing. So what is real-time and near-real-time data warehousing all about,
why might your business users start asking for it, and how would you implement
them using the Oracle 10g database and Oracle Warehouse Builder? Find […]

A couple of years ago I helped put together a
discussion forum
application using the PL/SQL Web Toolkit. We released two versions of it and
put it up on sourceforge,
and for a while it was used as the internal discussion board within our company.

If you’re familiar with PL/SQL, using the Web Toolkit is
actually quite fun, and it’s pretty […]

"Oracle Database Performance Management", Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha :
"Oracle Performance management can be classified into 2 types - proactive and
reactive. Proactive performance management involves designing and developing the
performance architecture for a system, during the early stages of an
implementation. This involves hardware selection, performance & capacity
planning, mass storage system selection, I-O sub-system configuration & tuning
(i.e. RAID), […]

One of the more interesting features coming with Microsoft ‘Longhorn’ is
Microsoft Shell, a.k.a. ‘MSH’ or by its codename ‘Monad’. Monad is a Unix-like
command shell for Longhorn that aims to be as interactive as KSH or BASH, as
programmable as Ruby or Perl, but with an object orientated base in Microsoft
.NET. This

blog posting by Wesner Moise sums […]

Looking
to find out what new features are included in the 10g (9.0.4) release of
Oracle
Application Server?

This Oracle white paper details the new features in AS10g (9.0.4), and has a
section at the end on additional features in the 9.0.4.1 patchset (patch #3784229
on metalink, currently available for
Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux x86, Windows version presumably to follow).

The New York Times: "May I buy your beloved pet dog, just so I can take
him around back and shoot him? That’s how the chief executive of PeopleSoft,
Craig Conway, described Oracle’s hostile bid for his company, which Oracle
intends to use to move PeopleSoft customers to its own software.
Oracle’s takeover tale has entered its 16th […]

This
isn’t one I’ve come across before.

"Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning"
by Kirtikumar Deshpande and K. Gopalakrishnan is

described by Amazon as "Troubleshoot, tune, and optimize your Oracle
database efficiently and successfully every time. This book explains how to take
full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface to quickly
pinpoint–and solve–core problems and bottlenecks, […]