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Database Revolution By Kelli Wiseth The world's first self-managing, grid-ready database is here. Oracle Database 10g, Oracle's new database release, takes manageability and performance to a new level while ushering in the era of commercial grid computing. Can you scale up your processing power as needed without scaling up your costs? With Oracle Database 10g, you'll be able to do that and more, using software that monitors and manages itself. The Grid: Computing As Utility By Michael Miley Grid-based "computing as utility" is poised to take off. Here's how Oracle—and Oracle Database 10g—is making it possible. Industrial-Strength Feedback By David Baum Many enhancements in Oracle Database 10g were developed with specific industries in mind. Here's how requests from government, retail, life sciences, financial services, and other domains became new database capabilities. The Making of Oracle Database 10g By Barbara Assadi How many engineers, developers, and customers does it take to change a database? A behind-the-scenes look at how the world's most sophisticated database was built.

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TECHNOLOGY  INDUSTRY STANDARD Setting a Date for Interoperability By Joe McKee Calendaring standards are syncing up for collaboration.

RMAN Ready to Recover By Joe Johnson Oracle Recovery Manager is ready, reliable, and easy to implement.  BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Improve Results with Query Rewrite By Susan Hillson, Lilian Hobbs, and Shilpa Lawande Boost performance without changing SQL queries.  SQL First Expressions By Jonathan Gennick Oracle Database 10g brings regular expressions to SQL.  PL/SQL Taking Up Collections By Steven Feuerstein Part 1 in a series that looks at enrichments to PL/SQL in Oracle Database 10g.

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