The Register : "Sharp to ship world's first HDD-based PDA" [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/15/linux_4gb_hdd_pda/] Ooh, this looks really nice ... "Sharp will next month ship its latest Zaurus PDA into the Japanese market, the consumer electronics company announced this

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) - The Future of Business Intelligence [http://www.dmreview.com/editorial/newsletter_article.cfm?nl=dmdirect&articleId=1011668&issue=20083] :"The demand for solutions that provide more complete and timely visibility into business operations has increased year after year but has yet to

A couple of good articles by Jonathan Lewis [http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk]. "How much does an update cost ?" [http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/10_update_cost.doc] looks at what the true cost of an update is when it just sets a column to the

Oracle's 10g Undo Advisor [http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3416901] : "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

John Garmany : Application Server Backup & Recovery Tool [http://www.dba-oracle.com/oracle9iAS_tips_10g_backup.htm] : "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

A Database-centric Approach to J2EE Application Development [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/odtug_award.pdf] : "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

Associated Press via Forbes.com: "Update 4: Oracle Opens Legal Attack on PeopleSoft " [http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2004/10/04/ap1574684.html] : "PeopleSoft Inc.'s board fired Craig Conway as its chief executive after hearing him explain why he made a misleading statement

Virtual Indexes in Oracle [http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3413961] : "Oracle's Virtual Indexes have a specific purpose and do not behave like normal indexes. Learn how to create and use these pseudo-indexes."

Microsoft Unleashes a Deluge of BI Goodies [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1661768,00.asp] : "ORLANDO, Fla. Microsoft Corp. is flooding the BI market yet again. This time around, the company is announcing new SQL Server Report Packs for Exchange and Business Solutions CRM; Report Builder, a

Creating a map portlet for Oracle Portal [http://www.orablogs.com/oragis/] : "I was asked the other day to provide and example of how one might integrate Oracle Location technologies and mapping with Oracle Portal. Although there are many ways to do this, my immediate thought was, well, what

Richard Foote :"Yet Another Presentation On Extended SQL Trace" [http://www.actoug.org.au/Downloads/Extended%20SQL%20Trace.pdf]. See also - David Kurtz :"tkprof: Who? What? How? When? Where? Why? -or- SQL Trace: All of the Questions and None of the Answers" [http://homepage.ntlworld.

A couple of years ago I helped put together adiscussion forum application [http://discussionweb.sourceforge.net/screenshots.htm] using the PL/SQL Web Toolkit. We released two versions of it andput it up on sourceforge [http://discussionweb.sourceforge.net/], and for a while it was used as the internal discussion

In interesting new aspect of Oracle s recent data warehousing product announcements has been an emphasis on real-time, and near-real-time, data warehousing. So what is real-time and near-real-time data warehousing all about, why might your business users start asking for it, and how would you implement them using the Oracle

One of the more interesting features coming with Microsoft 'Longhorn' is Microsoft Shell, a.k.a. 'MSH' or by its codename 'Monad'. Monad is a Unix-like command shell for Longhorn that aims to be as interactive as KSH or BASH, as programmable as Ruby

"Oracle Database Performance Management" [http://www.quest-pipelines.com/pipelines/dba/archives/oracle_perf.pdf], Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha : "Oracle Performance management can be classified into 2 types - proactive and reactive. Proactive performance management involves designing and developing the performance architecture for a system, during the early stages

The New York Times: [http://news.com.com/The+new+Silicon+Valley+A+dog-eat-dog+world/2100-1012_3-5382899.html] "May I buy your beloved pet dog, just so I can take him around back and shoot him? That's how the chief executive of PeopleSoft, Craig Conway, described Oracle&

Looking to find out what new features are included in the 10g (9.0.4) release ofOracle Application Server [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/portal/index.html]?This Oracle white paper [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/portal/pdf/overview_9041_new_features.pdf] details the new

Installation Guide: Oracle Database 10g on Linux x86 [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/smiley_10gdb_install.html]: "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

[http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/007222729X/markrittmansh-21/026-3961103-0724440] This isn't one I've come across before."Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning" [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/007222729X/markrittmansh-21/026-3961103-0724440] by Kirtikumar Deshpande and

Pete Finnigan, famous for hisexcellent Oracle security white papers [http://www.petefinnigan.com/orasec.htm] and alerts [http://www.petefinnigan.com/alerts.htm], has started a new Oracle security weblog [http://www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/entries/index.html]. So far there's been some useful and interesting postings ontruncating

Back in July I wrote an article aboutOracle Information Architecture [http://www.rittman.net/archives/000973.html], 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

A good discussion on comp.databases.oracle.server on thereal-world value of the new features in Oracle 9i and 10g [http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2coff=1&[email protected]&prev=/groups?q=comp.

I came across another interesting blog the other day.The ETL Guy [http://etlguy.com/] has only a few postings so far but looks promising, with amongst others some interesting articles onModelling Objects in a Relational DBMS [http://etlguy.com/page/43],Hardware Sizing [http://etlguy.com/page/42],Normalize

Dispelling Oracle myths seems to be a regular theme at the moment, andSteven Feuerstein [http://www.stevenfeuerstein.com/] dispels a few PL/SQL coding myths himself in a new article for Oracle Magazine called"Controlling Mythological Code" [http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/04-sep/o54plsql.html]. According

I came across this interesting presentation by Rachel Carmichael given at a recent New York Oracle User Group, entitled"How Not To Be A DBA - The Top Twenty Mistakes" [http://www.nyoug.org/200212carmichael.pdf]. It's a light-hearted look at what *not* to do when