If you read my posting the other week aboutstreamlining Oracle 9i ETL with pipelined table functions [http://www.rittman.net/archives/000923.html], you might be interesting in a related article for DatabaseJournal entitled"Using Cursor Variables As Function Arguments on Oracle 9i" [http://www.databasejournal.com/features/

Wondering what the 'Instant Client' option was on the Oracle Database 10g install CD? James Koopman explains all in "Instant Client in Oracle 10g" [http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3371561] for DatabaseJournal. "Wouldn't it be nice if you didn'

"A couple weeks back, we brought word that Oracle planned to make a JavaOne splash by acquiring Collaxa and that is exactly what the company has done today. Oracle has secured Collaxa's business process management software for an undisclosed sum. The deal has seen Collaxa's

Interesting discussion going on at Slashdot onSQL, XML, and the Relational Database Model [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/28/1728204&mode=nested&tid=126] . "In an article onDBAzine [http://www.dbazine.com/index.shtml], Fabian Pascal writes that SQL is not a good

[http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/04-jul/index.html]There's a couple good articles in thenew issue of Oracle Magazine [http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/04-jul/index.html]. "Perform Without Waiting" [http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/04-jul/o44tech_perf.html] by Arup Nanda looks

John Topley [http://www.johntopley.com/index.html] is putting together a series of articles that teach the basics of Jakarta Struts development [http://www.johntopley.com/archive/2004/06/23/index.html], using Oracle JDeveloper as the IDE. Entitled "Jakarta Struts De-Mystified", John introduces the series as:

One or two people have mentioned to me that it's sometimes difficult to find content on this site after it's been published, so with this in mind I've reworked some of the site navigation to make things easier to find. It's work

Well there you go. Only the other day [http://www.rittman.net/archives/000945.html] I was talking about there not being an application front-end for Oracle Data Mining, and now Oracle go and release one. Oracle Data Miner is a new end-user application for Oracle Data Mining 10g that

Controversial bit of news from Oracle on the forthcoming10g OCP DBA [http://www.oracle.com/education/certification/index.html?dba10g_ocp.html] certification path.Certcities reports that [http://www.certcities.com/editorial/news/story.asp?EditorialsID=641] Oracle are reducing the exam requirement for the 10g OCP DBA to just

If you've got an interest in Oracle performance tuning, you'll probably have seen references to something called event 10046. Event 10046 is an undocumented, but well known feature within the Oracle database that generates detailed information on how a statement is parsed, what the values of

"Did you know that Oracle's "Scott" schema is slated for the bone yard? How many thousands of people have learned SQL, SQL*Plus, and PL/SQL on the back of poor old Scott? I would venture to say that the current generation of Oracle DBAs

There's an interesting technical note available on OTN on invoking OWB processes or mappings as web services [http://otn.oracle.com/products/warehouse/sdk/web_services/owb_code_as_web_service.html] . Traditionally, OWB mappings and processes are run using the OWB deployment manager, SQL*Plus (using the

Oracle's Sergio Leunissen has started a blog onHTML DB tips, tricks and examples [http://www.orablogs.com/sergio/]. Sergio is one of the product team behind HTMDB and I met him, and Joel Kallman, at one of the HTMLDB developer days earlier this year in Reading. Sergio kindly

"Many articles have been written about the use of PL/SQL vs. Java."writes Dave Moore [http://www.oracleutilities.com/] in"Java vs. PL/SQL: Where Do I Put the SQL?" [http://www.dbazine.com/moore2.shtml]. "These articles tend to focus on the intricacies

"As organizations grow to depend on globally distributed service networks, their business intelligence (BI) capability must adapt. Here's how autonomous agents will "embed" BI in business processes to overcome new challenges."writes Naeem Hashmi [http://www.intelligententerprise.com/print_article.jhtml?articleID=20600076]for

Omar Irbough [[email protected]] wrote to me today about a blogging application he's written using HTMLDB [http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=2330:1:1390305449765048892]. It's currently hosted using Oracle's HTMLDB hosted environment [http://htmldb.oracle.com] and Omar will be

"DBAs have for too long thought of themselves as mere gatekeepers to databases. This mentality has pushed us down the corporate food chain; increasingly, we are not thought of as problem solvers. But we can change negative perceptions and begin positively impacting our companies and helping our customers."

"The market for database server software, seen as a barometer of overall software market health, grew slightly last year, fueled in part by sales of Linux." reports CNET News.com in an article titled"Database Sales Bouncing Back" [http://news.com.com/Database+sales+bouncing+back/

"To secure sensitive data, Oracle provides developers with the DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT, an industrial strength version of the DBMS_RANDOM package. You may feel the need of a decoder just to keep track of all the acronyms and to decrypt the errors in Oracle's sample code, but

With Oracle Database 10g nearing release date for Apple OSX Server, Oracle and Apple are running a series of joint seminars [http://seminars.apple.com/tours/oracle/indextrk.html?s=1] in Reston, Cupertino, London, Paris and Tokyo to introduce this first supported release of the Oracle RDBMS on the

Oracle Portal comes with a useful web interface for building pages out of regions, items and portlets. If you're familiar with Oracle Portal and the site design is not too complicated, you can usually put something together that looks good and fits within the Portal page structure. But

Eric Mortensen has started an Oracle Weblog [http://www.ericmortensen.net/] that looks at issues around the Oracle RDBMS, SQL and PL/SQL. In the first few postings, Eric has looked at safe type conversion with PL/SQL [http://www.ericmortensen.net/mt/archives/000006.html], a full-table scan like

There's an interesting article currently running over on OTN entitled "Use Location Information in Enterprise Reporting [http://otn.oracle.com/pub/articles/lokitz_location.html]". According to the introduction, the article helps you "Learn how to create dynamic maps that make the relationships between attribute

Dizwell Informatics [http://www.dizwell.com] has put together anOracle FAQ [http://www.dizwell.com/html/oracle_faq.html] written by Howard Rogers that addresses some common questions around the Oracle database. It's divided into four sections (basic and expert administration, together with backup/recovery and performance tuning,

The forthcoming ODTUG Conference 2004 [http://www.odtug.com/2004_conference.htm] has a number of presentations [http://otn.oracle.com/collaboration/user_group/events/odtug2004/index.html] that'll be of interest to Oracle BI&W developers. As it's in Arizona I can't