Ben Kitchens asks: "I am just starting out as a DBA. I have a question about Oracle 8i. I'm not sure how exactly to have two or more Databases on the instance and then move between them? If you could help that would be wonderful." Sure.

An interesting day today for Oracle. According to Reuters [http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3103152], " Software maker Oracle Corp. on Wednesday said Chief Marketing Officer Mark Jarvis and George Roberts, the company's former head of North American sales, had resigned. Marketing will now

According to The Register on Larry Ellison [http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/31719.html], "there are four types of technology company right now: companies with products based on a single area of functionality; single product companies; best-of-breed vendors; and integrated suites. But only one type is going

Oracle Collaboration Suite [http://otn.oracle.com/products/cs/content.html] Release 2 is now available for download [http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/cs/content.html], initially for Unix and Linux and with Windows to follow. According to CNET News.com [http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-1026759.html], "

Useful tip for OWB9.2: When moving a project from OWB9.0.4. to 9.2., you don't need to go through the metadata upgrade process as you have in the past. All you need to do is export OWB9.0.4 metadata to an .MDL file as

Steve Muench picked up on my comment regarding the long awaited patch for Oracle 9i, that provides the Analytic Workspace Manager, and enables the OLAP functionality within OWB 9.2 and OWB9.0.4. Steve helpfully pointed to a patch [http://radio.weblogs.com/0118231/2003/07/16.html] on

Oracle Financials (and, in all probability, all other accounting packages) has the concept of adjustment periods, where corrections to transactions already posted on the general ledger can be held in a 'holding area' until they are properly attributed. This has the effect of creating a financial calender where

The Oracle 9i Grid Cookbook [http://otn.oracle.com/products/oracle9i/grid_computing/Oracle9iGridCookbook.html] is available for download on OTN. I've got to put some time aside to look at this; part of me thinks this is going to be the biggest thing since the internet -

Steve Fenwick down at Yeovil College recently contacted me, and mentioned that their college portal [http://debi.yeovil.ac.uk:7778/portal/page?_pageid=35,1&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL] is now running on 9ias release 2. I worked with Steve a while ago and he's

According to Igor Machin [http://www.oracle.com/forums/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=189647&tstart=0&trange=15] , the post 9.2.0.3 patch for Oracle 9i is now due in August / September. Groan :-) The new Analytic Workspace functionality in OWB9.2 and OWB9.

The username or password you supplied are not valid. Some parts of this website are private and require a username and password to access. This is usually because it's just for Mark's use, or it could be because it's things that are only really

The page or file you requested could not be found. Click here for Mark Rittman's Weblog [http://www.rittman.net/], or you can take a look at: * Professional Details, including presentations, papers and case studies [http://www.rittman.net/stories/2003/07/11/professionalDetails.html] * Links To Oracle

My Posting on OTN [http://www.oracle.com/forums/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=188527&tstart=0&trange=15] about OWB9.2 new features brought an excellent response from Jean-Pierre Dijcks giving some background on the new release. There's been a couple of follow-ups focussing

I've had a chance to look at OWB9.2 now, and some details and b [http://www.oracle.com/forums/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=188527&tstart=0&trange=15] ackground [http://www.oracle.com/forums/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=188527&tstart=

Oracle Discoverer and Oracle Reports are Oracle's two main business intelligence tools for reporting against relational data. Discoverer can report against Oracle and ODBC relational data, plus 9i OLAP data when using the new SQL Views, whilst Reports can report against a whole range of data using it&

(please note: this was written some time ago and since then I've been using SuSE 8.0 rather than Mandrake, as SuSE is the one I use at work due to it's Oracle support. Even so, i've kept this page up as it'

Oracle have released a number of screensavers and desktop wallpaper at ClubOracle [http://www.oracle.com/cluboracle/]. You can download them here [http://www.oracle.com/cluboracle/index.html?screensavers.html].

"Oracle is ramping up its channel focus, following analyst predictions that getting channel strategy right could decide the winners and losers in the mid-market business software space." according to this article [http://oracle.ittoolbox.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=96141] at oracle.ittoolbox.com

According to this survey [http://www.ncbuy.com/news/wireless_news.html?qdate=2003-07-01&nav=VIEW&id=487QF88D8Y5030701] , 8% of Americans are so afraid of getting germs from public toilets they flush the handle with their feet.

Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer royal [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer_Royal] and a Royal Society research professor at Cambridge University's King's College, argues that the future of manned space travel should be left to wealthy adventurers [http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/story.php?

"Can somebody please explain to me how Oracle Express Analyser / Objects / Server fits into the 9i picture ? Has 9i Release 2 totally replaced it?" asks Jonathon Hill on OTN's OLAP Forum [http://www.oracle.com/forums/thread.jsp?forum=16&thread=188114&tstart=0&

9iAS has got a steep learning curve and it takes a good while before any of it makes sense. To get anything done, you've got to have a good understanding of how J2EE application servers work, and it's a pretty unforgiving environment if you screw something

The following are links to Oracle online documentation and papers, that are interest to Oracle 9i, Oracle 9iAS and Oracle 9iDS BI & DW developers, together with links to third-party suppliers. Product Documentation * Oracle 9i Release 2 Documentation [http://otn.oracle.com/pls/db92/db92.docindex?remark=homepage] * Oracle 9iAS

* Loading XML Documents Using OWB 10g [http://www.rittman.net/archives/000959.html] * Scriping And Refactoring Using OWB OMB*Plus [http://www.rittman.net/archives/000957.html] * Improvements to Summary Management with Oracle 10g (DBAZine) [http://www.dbazine.com/rittman2.shtml] * Streamlining Oracle 9i ETL With Pipelined Table Functions [http:

When I put this site together I had a look around blogger.com [http://www.rittman.net/www.blogger.com] and technorati.com [http://www.technorati.com/] to see if anyone else was blogging on working at Oracle, or developing using Oracle tools. So far i've found virtually