By Jason Hunter – Chances are, you’ve probably used one of a number of Java libraries to manipulate XML data structures in the past. So what’s the point of JDOM (Java Document Object Model), and why do developers need it?

Though a number of factors can contribute to performance degradation in your databases, many performance issues can be prevented by properly designing and/or diagnosing the databases. As Gaurav Sharan Gupta discusses in his first article for DBAsupport, proper diagnosis of Row Migration (RM) and Row

by Joe Lax – Logging in and querying an Oracle database can be a daunting task for anyone used to SQL Server.<Br><Br>Instead of the familiar Query Analyzer tool, which provides a color-coded syntax, an object browser, multiple windows, and an output grid, you most typically have to contend with Orac

by Paul LaBarbera – Check the percent free in each tablespace. If it is below the desired limit, page the DBA.

By Darl Kuhn, Scott Schulze – Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference is ideal for DBAs who require a concise reference to common RMAN tasks. The first portion of the book presents commands for such tasks as taking a full database backup, recovering from loss of data file, and cloning a database. The second po

By Murali Krishna B – The following procedure explains the procedure to be followed to check if databases and listeners are up and running. This process is applicable to all Unix Oracle installations, but can easily be modified for other platforms as well.

By Bob Woods – Telephia Inc., which provides market and network performance intelligence for the wireless industry, said it is collaborating with Oracle to provide wireless enterprise customers with a solution for testing and analyzing wireless application performance, built using the wireless capab

By Paul Krill – ORACLE IN EARLY 2003 plans to release a new version of the Oracle application sever that will feature enhancements such as a certificate authority to boost the use of the product for e-business transactions. Oracle also may have something up its sleeve similar to Hewlett-Packard’s bu

by Zlatko Sirotic – Oracle9i Database has support for inheritance, method overriding, and “dynamic method dispatch.” When you have inheritance and overriding, the process of selecting a method implementation is called dynamic method dispatch because it is done at run time, not at compile time. A met

Oracle says they have evidence that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that their 9i R2 Enterprise Edition with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server can beat Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000′ when it comes to price and performance. It’s not clear, though, whether Microsoft had a fair trial, says this author. As i