(Barbara Darrow) Siebel Systems stockholders can vote on the pending sale of the company to Oracle at a meeting scheduled for Jan. 31, 2006, Siebel said.

This tutorial covers the basics of Database Management Systems, Various types of Databases, The Relational Model, Benefits of RDBMS and Oracle Database along with Frequently Asked Questions.

Recovery Manager, Oracle’s backup and recovery utility, was first released with Oracle 8.0 providing DBAs an integrated backup and recovery solution for the Oracle Database. With over seven years in the field, RMAN has been implemented by Oracle customers in production environments ranging from simp

(Lewis R Cunningham) This entry is the first of a two part review of the book Oracle Streams, High Speed Replication and Data Sharing by Madhu Tumma. In this review, I will list what topics are covered by this book, a chapter by chapter overview and end with my comments and opinion about this book.

(Scott Stephens) The Oracle 10g database release has a new set of Advanced Multiset support operators for SQL Server 2003, which you can use with nested tables in an Oracle database. This new SQL syntax provides powerful functionality that has been missing from nested tables since they were introduc

(David A. Kelly) Growth is good for business, but it can be difficult on the IT group. When the crunch comes, many IT administrators turn to two familiar faces: Oracle and Microsoft.

(Jagadish Chaterjee) In this article, I shall introduce you to developing a .NET based CLR stored procedure, which can read a simple text file and transfer that information into an Oracle database using Visual Studio.NET.

(James F. Koopmann) A few articles back I wrote on a comparison between the DATE datatype and the TIMESTAMP datatype. This article goes one step further and explores Oracle’s TIME ZONE feature of the TIMESTAMP datatype. In particular, Oracle has added the “WITH TIME ZONE” and the “WITH LOCAL TIME ZO

Project Raptor is a new, free graphical tool that enhances productivity and simplifies database development tasks. With Project Raptor, you can browse database objects, run SQL statements and SQL scripts, and edit and debug PL/SQL statements. You can also run any number of provided reports, as well

(Sachin Shetty) This document describes some of the ways to leverage the high availability features of Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) databases by moving the load balancing functionality from the Oracle server/Oracle driver to your application. In this article, I discuss the ways to achie