Oracle has again extended maintenance support for customers of its 8i database on many major platforms, this time until 2005, giving firms another year to migrate to 9i or 10g. Experts said that the ...

IBM certainly thinks so when it fired a salvo at Oracle in a marketing campaign called e-Prisoner targeted at large customers in South Asia. "Certainly, no one should feel imprisoned by their past ...

Here's how one company's consultants used COM+ and MTS to scale its Oracle database to be available via the Web. Working at a high tech telecommunications organization, our team of consultants was ...

I need to form the equivalent of a Union Join in Oracle 8i, even though a Union Join doesn't appear to be supported in 8i. I might be able to manipulate a Full Outer Join to get the results I need, ...

Database security vendor Sentrigo has released an open-source fuzz testing tool to help pinpoint security-related coding deficiencies in Oracle databases. The tool, called FuzzOr, runs on Oracle 8i ...

You may be aware of the old USERENV function, which returned session values such as the user’s session_id, language, and whether the user had DBA privileges. Although USERENV still exists for legacy ...