James Koopman On Oracle 10g’s Undo Advisor

Sunday, October 10th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Oracle’s 10g Undo Advisor : "As a DBA, you are always faced with the critical question of whether the undo that you have created is in fact sufficient for the transaction mix on your database system. Oracle has now given us an Undo Advisor in Oracle 10g to help simplify the answer."

A Couple Of Interesting Jonathan Lewis Articles

Sunday, October 10th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

A couple of good articles by Jonathan Lewis. "How much does an update cost ?" looks at what the true cost of an update is when it just sets a column to the same value. This often happens when a generic bit of application code updates all of the columns in a set of tables, [...]

AS10g Backup & Recovery Tool

Thursday, October 7th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

John Garmany : Application Server Backup & Recovery Tool : "When Oracle released Application Server 10g, it provided a backup tool that has gotten little press. In the Oracle Press book, Oracle Application Server 10g Administration Handbook I only mentioned the tool but did not discuss how to use it. That was because I was [...]

More Details Emerge On Conway Ousting

Monday, October 4th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Associated Press via Forbes.com: "Update 4: Oracle Opens Legal Attack on PeopleSoft " : "PeopleSoft Inc.’s board fired Craig Conway as its chief executive after hearing him explain why he made a misleading statement about the business software maker’s ability to close sales while fighting rival Oracle Corp.’s $7.7 billion takeover bid. Kicking off a [...]

OTN : A Database-centric Approach to J2EE Application Development

Monday, October 4th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

A Database-centric Approach to J2EE Application Development : "This Technical Article was the SELECT Journal Editor’s Choice Awardee at the 2004 ODTUG Conference. Its author proposes how Oracle client/server shops can enter the J2EE world using database-centric mapping."

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