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Zero-Downtime Migration to Oracle Exadata Using Oracle GoldenGate: A Customer Case Study - Webcast by Oracle Corporation
Join this webcast to learn how Oracle GoldenGate's solution eliminates downtime when migrating to Oracle Exadata. You’ll hear directly from Oracle's customer, IQNavigator, and learn how they have...
CW+: Special Report on Oracle by ComputerWeekly.com
This has been a landmark year for Oracle, the technology company headed by the charismatic and staggeringly wealthy Larry Ellison. Ellison, who is 65, has been chief executive officer since he founded Oracle...
Comprehensive Data Warehousing & BI Solution with Oracle Database 11g by Oracle Corporation
This white-paper provides an overview of Oracle Database 11g's capabilities for data warehousing, and discuses its key features and technologies. Discover how to integrate information, perform fast queries, scale...
Applied Database Auditing and Oracle Audit Vault by Oracle Corporation
Applied Oracle Security (Oracle Press, 2010) is the definitive guide to safeguarding Oracle Database 11g written by the security experts in Oracle’s National Security Group. This...
IBM Smart Analytics Systems vs Oracle Exadata X2-2 (Bloor Research) by IBM
Philip Howard, IT analyst with Bloor Research in the U.K., provides a comprehensive comparison of IBM and Oracle systems for data warehousing. In his review, he examines many aspects of IBM Smart Analytics System and Oracle Exadata 2-2 to determine which approach (Oracle's one-size...
DBA Tips
cost-cutting. Faced with this unpleasant reality, many managers are forced to trim their Oracle workforce: Outsourcing all "expert-level" support (DBA and SA). Identifying and terminating low-productivity employees. We'll explore the staffing issues further in the next installment. Now, let's explore... More...
Nov 11, 2008
the budget without losing quality. There are three approaches to downsizing an Oracle shop: Using remote support – You can replace your full-time DBA and system administrator staff with on-demand experts and terminate your full-time DBAs and system administrators. Change employees to... More...
Nov 11, 2008
is to ensure that the database does not lose data. The mechanisms of redo and undo ensure that it is impossible to corrupt the database no matter what the DBA does, or does not, do (always assuming that there is no physical damage). After working through the section of this chapter headed Instance Recovery, you... More...
Jun 12, 2008
Oracle DBA Advice
How can I perform a database recovery with a corrupt control file in Oracle? You'll have to manually create the control file. First, take a backup of your database's files so that you can always start over should you something go wrong. Then STARTUP NOMOUNT the database and then issue the CREATE CONTROLFILE command. Read more... More...
Dec 8, 2009
I want to transfer an Oracle-Database from a Solaris Big Endian 8.1.7i version to a Windows machine running the same database version but with Little Endian. I searched for hours, but I only find instructions using the Data Pump or XTTS. I don't think these technologies are available in... More...
Dec 8, 2009
I need to export Oracle data from more than one table using the SELECT statement from a database with many schemas. Can you help? First, you'll have to craft your SQL statement. Then in SQL*Plus, you can use the SPOOL command to write the results of the query to a file. Try the following... More...
Dec 8, 2009
PeopleSoft News
PeopleSoft founder targets Oracle, SAP with new company
PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield has created a new company that will take on Oracle and SAP in the enterprise resource planning market. Workday Inc. plans to offer Web-based... More...
Nov 7, 2006
Oracle unveils PeopleSoft Enterprise 9
Oracle Monday unveiled PeopleSoft Enterprise 9. The software is being released in three phases beginning with the Learning Management 9.0 module. The Enterprise Performance Management and Financial... More...
Jun 27, 2006
PeopleSoft apps certified for Fusion middleware
PeopleSoft applications can now run on Oracle's Fusion Middleware 10g Release 2, Oracle officials have announced. Fusion is Oracle's integrated software suite for building a... More...
Dec 13, 2005
Oracle Research
Optimizing Storage for Oracle E-Business Suite Applications by Oracle Corporation
This white paper offers a cost-effective information management solution that optimizes storage infrastructures while also maintaining the performance and scalability that businesses require.

Enterprises are experiencing an explosion in the volume of data required to...
Oracle Database Vault: Segregation of Duties and Privileged User Controls by Oracle Corporation
Oracle Database Vault is the industry’s leading database security solution for addressing regulatory compliance and concerns over the insider threat. Oracle Database Vault provides the flexible transparent and highly adaptable security controls required in today’s global...
Realize the Full Potential of Virtualized Java Applications: Oracle WebLogic Suite Virtualization Option and Oracle Assembly Builder by Oracle Corporation
This white paper describes a new application management solution that makes running Java applications in a virtualized environment much easier and more practical, accelerating application grid and private cloud deployments without sacrificing performance.

Virtualized server...
JD Edwards Articles
What will Oracle's price hikes mean for Oracle customers? By Barney Beal, News Director
approach, they will now have a harder time getting the deal they could have had one month ago, Blake said. This may be especially true for customers caught up in past Oracle acquisitions, especially users of PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Agile.

"When Oracle first acquired those companies, those customers could maintain those existing contracts," Blake said. "Agile, for example... More...

Jun 19, 2008
SAP database endorsement at Sapphire bolsters feud with Oracle By Robert Westervelt, News Editor
change that in the current market environment."

SAP and Oracle have been battling for the top spot in the market for enterprise resource planning applications. Billions of dollars in acquisitions—including PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel Systems, and others—have boosted Oracle's standings. But SAP has been capitalizing in recent months on uncertainty of Oracle's... More...

May 18, 2006