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Installation Guide: Oracle Database 10g on Linux x86: "This is the first in a series of guides that provide all the steps for installing the major components of Oracle 10g software on Linux. All three of the certified English-language distributions of Linux are covered in detail (Asianux is not covered), and the articles assume that [...]

Pete Finnigan, famous for his excellent Oracle security white papers and alerts, has started a new Oracle security weblog. So far there’s been some useful and interesting postings on truncating the audit trail, the SANS S.C.O.R.E. Oracle security checklist being updated and Arup Nanda’s article on the new "Oracle security patch nightmare". Pete’s also made [...]

Back in July I wrote an article about Oracle Information Architecture, Oracle’s new BI-centric vision of an integrated organisation that brings together new products and technologies such as Applications 11i, Customer Data Hub, Grid Computing and Service-Orientated Architecture. If this is of interest to you, Oracle now have a set of Information Architecture pages on [...]

A good discussion on comp.databases.oracle.server on the real-world value of the new features in Oracle 9i and 10g, including interesting comments on comparing 10g and SQL Server 2000, how useful the new 10g features actually are, and the potential achilles heel for Oracle that is tuning via the wait interface.

I came across another interesting blog the other day. The ETL Guy has only a few postings so far but looks promising, with amongst others some interesting articles on Modelling Objects in a Relational DBMS, Hardware Sizing, Normalize for accuracy, denormalize for performance and Stupid ETL Mistake #2: Saving Disk Space.