Introduction To Java Stored Procedures

Friday, December 17th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

"Oracle and Java Stored Procedures", Michael Klaene : "Beginning with version 8i, the Oracle database includes a fully functional Java Virtual Machine, Oracle JVM. Out of this close relationship between Oracle and Java emerges an important technology for Oracle developers: Java stored procedures. With Java stored procedures, developers have the ability to harness the power [...]

Doug Burns On Tuning Parallel Execution

Friday, December 17th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

The other week I wrote an article on a database tuning engagement I’d been on, and one of the things that I looked at during the visit was a SELECT statements that was being executed in parallel. After running the statement with an event 10046 trace, the TKPROF output looked like this: SELECT [list of [...]

BI Dashboards Using Discoverer “Drake” And BI Beans

Wednesday, December 15th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

If you came along to the Open Word Discoverer "Drake" presentations, or had a look at the presentations and papers available for download, you’ll probably have noticed that a major theme for Drake is the provision of BI "Dashboards". Built using Oracle Portal and the Discoverer "Drake" Portlet Provider, these dashboards integrate OLAP and relational [...]

Looking Forward To Oracle 10g Release 2

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

One of the major announcements at Open World was for Oracle Database 10g Release 2. This next release of the Oracle RDBMS isn’t likely to be available for download until the middle of 2005, but some initial details have now been made available and it’s possible to get an idea of what’s in store for [...]

New Oracle OLAP Product Directions Announced At Open World

Sunday, December 12th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Now that I’m back from Open World, there’s a chance now to start taking a look through all of the papers and presentations available to download from the conference website. One of the features of actually being at Open World is that, apart from the presentations that you go to, there’s little time to actually [...]

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