By Dawn Kawamoto – The U.S. Department of Justice faces a Monday deadline, in which it either lets the deal progress or makes a second request for information as part of a formal investigation into the proposed buyout. For Oracle, antitrust opposition, as well as PeopleSoft’s “poison pill” anti-take
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Automating ETL Using Oracle Warehouse Builder – Part 1
Prototyping is one of the best-suggested approaches in mitigating the adverse effects of unforeseen problems in the data warehouse development cycle. In this series, Nandeep Nagarkar focuses on prototyping the ETL stage of the data warehouse life cycle using Oracle WareHouse Builder.
Generating ALPHANUMERIC Sequence Using Decode
by Biswabijay Bhattacharya – Referring to Tip of the Week from 05/11/2003 by Romer L. Vinuya, here is another way to write the same trigger with less coding and also handle exceptions.
MAXdbt Launches Application Performance Management Suite
MAXdbt, a provider of Application and Database Monitoring, Database Administration, and Development software tools, has announced its new Application Performance Management Suite. The Suite includes End-End Software’s, an end to end application monitor and MGA EagleEye, a SQL Performance Monitor and
It All Depends on the CONTEXT: Using Oracle’s SYS_CONTEXT Function
by Jim Czuprynski – The SYS_CONTEXT function is the recommended replacement method for obtaining information about users and environment variables instead of the deprecated USERENV function. This versatile function has been expanded in Oracle 9i to provide a plethora of information about the Oracle
Oracle: The Database Comes First
by Demir Barlas – In a keynote entitled, “Spend Less, Know More,” delivered at Oracle AppsWorld in London, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison regaled listeners with his vision of IT’s past and future. Ellison believes that most companies have spent years overspending on IT, and wasn’t shy to include hi
Oracle Offers New PLM Tools
By Renee Boucher Ferguson – Product lifecycle management users and project management managers are getting a boost this week with new functionalities from Oracle Corp.At its AppsWorld London conference Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., announced Tuesday the availability of its Oracle Advanc
AppsWorld – Oracle unveils collaboration applications
Oracle has introduced three collaboration applications and an enhanced product lifecycle management tool for its E-Business Suite.
Ellison Says PeopleSoft Will Change Its Mind
By Michael Liedtke – Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison on Tuesday predicted rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. eventually will embrace his hostile takeover bid, although he didn’t rule out the possibility of sweetening the $6.3 billion offer for a second time.
Oracle and PeopleSoft will clear antitrust hurdles
US antitrust enforcers would likely approve Oracle’s hostile takeover of rival PeopleSoft, but they might require Oracle to divest at least one of the companies’ software products first, antitrust experts say.