By Robert Salladay – The furious political debate over California’s botched contract with Oracle Corp. has overlooked a critical question: Why let one company’s software dominate the state’s vast information databank?

By Robert Dow – Here is a simple script that I use on AIX to manage archive redo log files. This will create a empty tar file, and loop through the available arch log files appending to the tar. Once complete, the tar is compressed.

By Tim McDonald – While Oracle’s relatively high cost appears to be no barrier to its popularity, Sybase seems to have found an unassailable, if small, market niche as well.The Oracle-Sybase rivalry may not be the hottest contest in the technology universe at the moment, but it certainly is

By Wylie Wong – Oracle is shipping its Oracle 9i Developer Suite, a set of tools that Java and SQL developers can use to build their Web-based software. It includes the 9i JDeveloper Java development application and tools for building data warehousing and analysis systems, through which companies ca

By Ofer Harel – When there are databases with different nls_lang, you need to change your registry parameters when switching between DBs. Here is a simple way to open a SQL*Plus window to a database with a particular nls_lang without the need to change the registry.

By Alorie Gilbert – A California state official who stepped down because of his role in a controversial $95 million contract with Oracle is scheduled to testify on Tuesday before a legislative committee convened to investigate the contract that critics charge dramatically overcharges the state.

(Urmila Verma) Here is a very simple tip for Oracle users. Many times in my various projects I have come across cases where I needed to CREATE a table with exactly the same structure as an existing table but without any records. Here’s how to do it. (R)

by Darrin Deeter – Description: Here’s a simple script that determines when your database is seeing the largest amount of change activity. This is very useful for answering questions like, why was the system so slow yesterday about 2:30? Or trying to balance out a large amount of batch work. Credit

By Wylie Wong – Oracle, looking to regain market share lost to its rivals, is set to launch a new version of its flagship database software. The software maker said it plans to ship a new release of its 9i database later this week or early next week. Topping the list of new features in the re

By John Zipperer – When Mark Jarvis, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Oracle Corp., came to speak at the Streaming Media West event (which was collocated with Internet World Spring 2002) on April 26, he came not to speak about his company’s databases or enterprise applications.