By MARC L. SONGINI – Looking to assuage user concerns, Oracle Corp. finally offered details on its new flat-fee business applications pricing scheme, including a $250,000 minimum purchase requirement.Companies will also have to buy software licenses for at least 20% of their workers to quali

By Robert Lemos – A security researcher will detail a bevy of software flaws in Oracle’s flagship database at the Black Hat Windows Security Briefings in New Orleans on Friday, busting up the company’s promise that the program is “unbreakable.”

Book By Sanjay Mishra, Alan Beaulieu – If you write programs to run against an Oracle database, you spend a lot of time and mental energy writing queries to return the data your programs need. Knowledge of SQL, and particularly of Oracle’s implementation of SQL, is the key to writing good queries in

By MARC L. SONGINI – Oracle Corp. has started to elaborate on the recently revised pricing scheme for its business suite, which it insists will deliver savings to users when compared with the current methodology.

Directed by OraclePower to this site that has various HOWTO’s concerning database administration tasks including managing rollback segments, high water marks, pinning objects into memory and changing the next extent size.

By Julie Gibbs – At the helm of Oracle Corporation for 25 years, Chairman and CEO Lawrence J. Ellison continues to divine the future for technology and business. From realizing the potential of relational databases to predicting the internet would “change everything” to declaring that integrated sof

Oracle is about to replace three Unix servers that run the bulk of its business applications with a cluster of Intel servers running Linux, according to an announcement from Oracle chairman and chief executive Larry Ellison.

This article details how Werner Puschitz installed the Oracle9i (9.0.1) database on Red Hat 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2-2) and on Red Hat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.7-10).

By Eli Leiba – This code is useful when encrypting sensitive data (like passwords) into a varbinary. The PWDENCRYPT and PWDCOMPARE functions are used to encrypt and compare DATA passwords are not visible in anywhere in the database.

(Michael Ritacco) A common way to rename all the database and all data files is to rebuild the control file. This can be very labor intensive, however, and possibly dangerous if you have a large number of data files. You could make a mistake and lose a data file or two in the process because the dat