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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 [...]

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? Because Oracle [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]