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Eddie Awad asks: How come no one has mentioned "testing"?! A very important part of developing an application (any application) is to test it again and again until the tests produce the desired results. Of course Eddie is right, but sadly, like good design, adequate testing often takes a backseat role to getting the job [...]

An anonymous poster to Tom Kyte’s Blog shared a tale of woe about data warehouse performance. Well, I felt for that poster – how can a developer put their hand on their heart (or wallet, if they are an external consultant) and say in effect “design does not matter, the database will be able to [...]

Oracle to Support IBM WebSphere with Project Fusion Apps: "A week ago, as IBMers in the iSeries Division were preparing, like myself, to head down to Orlando, Fla., for the COMMON iSeries user group meeting, other IBMers from Software Group were heading out to Silicon Valley to do a legal dance in advance of the [...]

Earlier this year I was asked to take a look at how we might use 10046 trace files to help carry out OWB performance tuning, the idea being that by automatically generating trace files, we could identify why certain mappings and process flows were taking too long to run. A reader was interested in the [...]

If you followed the debate around Mogens N rgaard’s "Is Oracle a Legacy Technology" article earlier this year, you might be interested in a presentation that Oracle’s Juan Loaiza gave at Open World last week entitled "The Future of Databases & IT" (username and password here). Loaiza’s argument is that whilst developers may say that [...]