Oracle Magazine
July - August 2003


  Features & Articles

Cover Story: Linux Takes on the Enterprise
By David A. Kelly
Once relegated to running development systems, Linux has become strong enough for use in global enterprises with rigorous availability, scalability, and performance requirements. Find out how this penguin got so big so fast, what role Oracle played in strenthening Linux, and how businesses are starting to rely on Linux.

Feature Story: Meeting the Healthcare Challenge
By David Baum
Information technology is critical to healthcare, yet these organizations typically have small budgets for administrative systems, often investing in extremely advanced technology for patient services. Find out how some providers are overcoming this challenge with the help of Oracle technology.


  Departments
 
From Our Readers
Readers tell us what they think.

The Life of E. F. Codd
By Jeff Spicer
Remembering the father of the relational database

AT ORACLE

Events
Find out about current and upcoming industry events.

Oracle News
Calculating the cost of ETL, and outsourced data recovery.

Oracle Briefs

Select Star from Oracle
Oracle University educator Greg Gagnon teaches the future while reliving the past.

CHANNELS

Vendor News
Etagon, Quest, CipherSoft, and Expand Beyond

Partner News
Ingrian Networks, First DataBank, and EMC

Cutting Edge
Technology comes to life.

Peer-to-Peer
Dan Stanley, Sandra Harris, and Ranko Mosic

TECHNOLOGY

 INDUSTRY STANDARD
Getting Hooked in Java IDEs
By Joe McKee
Oracle-led JSR-198 seeks to bridge gap between Java IDEs.

 XML
XML: CLOB or Object?
By Sean Dillon
With XML DB, choose when to store CLOBs or objects.

  PL/SQL
Handling Exceptional Behavior, Part II
By Steven Feuerstein
Handle PL/SQL exceptions with best practices.

 SECURITY
Now Securing Every Row
By Darl Kuhn and Steve Roughton
Oracle Label Security controls access row by row.

 ASK TOM
On Procedures, Flushes, and Writes
By Tom Kyte
Our expert compares triggers, procedures, flushing, and not flushing.

 INSIDE OCP
Certifying: DBA Fundamentals II
By Jim DiIanni
More concepts and sample questions for OCP certification

 OTN
Showtime
By Robert Dell'Immagine and Justin Kestelyn
The OTN community craves actionable information, and we're delivering.

ORACLE DEVELOPER

 TRENDS
Rock-Solid Replication
By Cameron O'Rourke
Use off-the-shelf Oracle technology to create distributed systems.

 OTN
Promoting the Penguin
By Robert Hall
Oracle expands offerings for Linux developers.

 JVM
Securing Java Execution
By Kuassi Mensah
A DBA's perspective on OracleJVM security mechanisms.

 EJB
Understanding Clustering
By Nirav Chanchani
Learn about the benefits of distributed applications.Learn unit-testing basics using one of the most popular open-source testing frameworks.

 SPATIAL
Multimedia and Geospatial Data
By Joseph Mauro
Here's your guide to working with rich data in J2EE applications using Oracle9i Database and Oracle interMedia

FINAL WORD

 DR. DBA
High Availability in Oracle9iAS
By Ken Jacobs
A DBA's perspective on application-server high availability

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