Oracle buys Innobase — Mysql dies?

Orace Metalink hacked for 42 bugs – revealing client info

MySQL bulk insert delayed

Oracle officially announced it's aquisition of Oblix – a creator of identity management solutions like Oblix SHAREid for cross-company user access (for Improved B2B Integration) or the more general Oblix COREid (formerly Oblix NetPoint) with a self contained solution for…

Oracle University announced the availability of a new bridge exam for Oracle8i OCPs that allows you to upgrade to Oracle Database 10g OCP in a single step. This exam is available for a limited time at a special price of…

Oracle DBA Pipeline has a nice tip on how to generate execution plans directly from the Library Cache, a feature introduced in Oracle9i that brought with it the capability to view execution plan information for all parsed cursors stored in…

Oracle 9i 9.2 – linux – documentation about the PL/SQL RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR: message is a character string up to 2048 bytes long Unfortunately SQLERRM only returns the first 510 characters of it… but we are lucky DBMS_UTILITY.FORMAT_ERROR_STACK at least returns the…

All of the Oracle 10g infrastructure components are now available for download on OTN, for Linux, HP-UX and Sun Solaris. Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.2) Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (10.1.0.2) Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) Oracle Developer Suite 10g…

Eclipse 3.0 M7 – released

Lockergnome about a flaw in the software that Oracle touted as being unbreakable. Critical: Moderately critical Impact: Privilege escalation, System access Where: From local network Software: Oracle9i Database Enterprise Edition, Oracle9i Database Standard Edition Update to version 9.2.0.4 and apply…

Be sure to checkout R2D2's Commodore Tattoo and tell me when you found a Finish/Suomi to English translator online… thanks…

fabFORCE DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment. It combines professional features and a clear and simple user interface to offer the most efficient way…

Oracle and HP Set World Record TPC-C Benchmark Result – First to Top One Million Transactions Per Minute With Clustered Linux Servers… Today they set a new world-record Transaction Processing Council TPC-C benchmark of over one million transactions per minute…

As I said in Oracle OTN links to my weblog – Oracle linked to my weblog. But I guess my criticism on Toplink, the visions I had about Longhorn's default RDMBS on every desktop and some other statements didn't amuse…

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