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Oracle Mag Editors' Choice Awards

Oracle Magazine's 2005 Editors' Choice Awards are now online. Here are some of the more relevant ones for OTN:DBA of the Year: Sue Diehl, Boeing"Diehl supports...

Oracle Magazine's 2005 Editors' Choice Awards are now online. Here are some of the more relevant ones for OTN:DBA of the Year: Sue Diehl, Boeing"Diehl supports Boeing's Data Collection System (DCS), a manufacturing system that collects data from devices in the factory and distributes the information to the appropriate systems, such as parts inventory or scheduling and tracking. "PL/SQL Developer of the Year: Hakan Arpfors"Arpfors is senior designer for IFS in Sweden, one of...

Oracle Database 10g Express Edition: Free, as in Beer

This is a huge day for developers: Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE, for short), a no-frills edition of the Oracle 10g database, is here,...

This is a huge day for developers: Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE, for short), a no-frills edition of the Oracle 10g database, is here, and it's free. Yeah, I said "free" -- to download, develop, deploy, and distribute. (Database size, CPU, and memory restrictions apply.)Just as important, XE is easy to download (about 150MB) and install.So if you're a .NET, Java, or PHP developer who wants to plug into Oracle's respective development stacks without...

Marc Andreessen Loves PHP

Yesterday at the Zend/PHP Conf I had the fairly rare opportunity to see Marc Andreessen, who recently became a member of Zend's board, wax poetic in person.His...

Yesterday at the Zend/PHP Conf I had the fairly rare opportunity to see Marc Andreessen, who recently became a member of Zend's board, wax poetic in person.His main point: Software development is at a "crossover point," the likes of which we haven't seen since Java's emergence in 1995. Developer tools and languages are now being designed/continuously engineered to meet the needs of programmers, not the needs of machines. His prime examples are Java itself and PHP, the former...

The Joy of Oracle+PHP

On this, the opening day of the 2005 Zend/PHP Conference, OTN unveils its most significant PHP project yet: The Oracle+PHP Cookbook.This cookbook, which will...

On this, the opening day of the 2005 Zend/PHP Conference, OTN unveils its most significant PHP project yet: The Oracle+PHP Cookbook.This cookbook, which will roll out over the course of several months, offers a huge range of basic-to-advanced "recipes" for combining the robustness of the Oracle infrastructure with the speed and flexibility of PHP in Web applications. It's a perfect complement to the free Zend Core for Oracle environment (GA as of last week) in fact. Many...

Why does my prius hybrid only get 18.7MPG ??

We just got back after driving the wife's prius to Canada and was very surprised to find that we were only averaging around 18.7 miles per gallon of fuel on the...

We just got back after driving the wife's prius to Canada and was very surprised to find that we were only averaging around 18.7 miles per gallon of fuel on the trip !!It reminded me of the Oracle DBA who was shocked that the new application that was running on the very latest and greatest version of the database was taking hours to run. It turned out that the new application had introduced some poorly written sql that was not using some of the performance features in the...

Oracle Acquires Innobase

Hot off the wire: Oracle has acquired the Finnish company Innobase, developer of the open-source MySQL component InnoDB. According to the MySQL doc, InnoDB...

Hot off the wire: Oracle has acquired the Finnish company Innobase, developer of the open-source MySQL component InnoDB. According to the MySQL doc, InnoDB enables much of MySQL's OLTP functionality as well as its crash recovery capability.Here's the official announcement from Oracle:"Oracle Corporation today announced the acquisition of Finland-based Innobase OY. Innobase is the developer of discrete transactional database technology, InnoDB, that is distributed under an...

Database, Security & Linux : Meet the Experts

One of the great things about working the OTN lounge during OpenWorld is it gives you a chance to sit in on some of the 'Meet the Expert' sessions. Here are...

One of the great things about working the OTN lounge during OpenWorld is it gives you a chance to sit in on some of the 'Meet the Expert' sessions. Here are some of the things I learned ...During Tom Kyte's (Ask Tom) talk he challenged his listners to list the version of the database that saw the introduction of the 'Connect By' clause the winner walking away with a copy of Tom's new book. After several answers of different versions of 6,7,8 and 9 -- Tom coached them lower --...

Things We Learned

OK, this OOW is in the books. So what did the technology crowd (DBAs, developers, architects) learn, IMHO?1. Standards are no longer a risky bet. Once upon a...

OK, this OOW is in the books. So what did the technology crowd (DBAs, developers, architects) learn, IMHO?1. Standards are no longer a risky bet. Once upon a time, betting on so-called "standards" (CORBA, anyone?) was one of the riskiest things you could do. Today, the WS* stack has gained sufficient traction such that SOA, grounded on an enterprise service bus, is truly plausible. SOA really could be "the last architecture." Oracle is counting on it, in fact.2. "Easier" is...

Rozwat/Kurian/Mendelsohn: Three-Headed Keynote

In this blog I will offer a consolidated review of some key points delivered in several presentations today, spanning Chuck Rozwat's/Thomas Kurian's "joint"...

In this blog I will offer a consolidated review of some key points delivered in several presentations today, spanning Chuck Rozwat's/Thomas Kurian's "joint" keynote (essentially) as well as a brief talk from Andy Mendelsohn at Wednesday's "Publisher's Seminar," an annual OpenWorld event for authors of Oracle technical books (and typically an excellent source of information). You've almost certainly read trade press coverage of Larry's keynote, so I'll ignore that one for our...