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Always Available By David A. Kelly No business can afford system downtime, be it planned or unplanned. But until recently, building a highly available, fault-tolerant, and redundant set of systems was complex and very expensive. Now, technologies from Oracle designed to work on commodity hardware take the cost and complexity out of high availability. The Many Faces of XML By Kelli Wiseth Developed in the mid '90s as a language for application integration, XML has rapidly grown in importance, today forming the foundation for countless protocols.

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From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. HA: How Affordable? By Jeff Spicer Creating a highly available system is critical, and now it's becoming affordable. AT ORACLE Events Find out about current and upcoming industry events. OTN Community Bulletin Learn what's happening with Oracle's most dynamic online community. Oracle News Users upgrading to Oracle Forms 10g Oracle News Briefs CHANNELS Vendor News Princeton Softech, JNI Corporation, Topspin Communications, and ASSET Technology Group plus Book Beat Partner News EMC, Network Appliance, HP, and BearingPoint Peer-to-Peer Martin Ganserer, Alexey Danchenkov, and Sanjay Kumar Ray

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TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY STANDARD Bring the Right JAX to Play By Kelli Wiseth API binds XML data to Java objects.

DATA PUMP Supercharging the Pump By Jonathan Gennick Utilities in Oracle Database 10g take performance and versatility to new levels. PL/SQL Cleaning Up PL/SQL Practices By Steven Feuerstein Prioritize and apply PL/SQL best practices to polish applications both new and old DATA WAREHOUSING Compressing Data for Space and Speed By Sanjay Mishra Use table compression to save space and improve query performance. SECURITY Keeping Information Private with VPD By Arup Nanda Oracle's row-level security gives users their own virtual private databases. TALKING TUNING Advice and Consent By Kimberly Floss Learn how to use Oracle 10g's new advisors, and take the guesswork out of tuning. ASK TOM On Format, Negation, and Sliding By Tom Kyte Our technologist modifies formats, makes zeros zeros, and avoids slides. INSIDE OCP Oracle Certified Master By Jim DiIanni Become an Oracle9i Certified Master.

ORACLE DEVELOPER WEB SERVICES Creating Web Services, Part 2 By Mike Lehmann Managing your SOAP messages with JAX-RPC handlers TRENDS Do You Queue? By Cameron O'Rourke Improve application response time by tapping into queuing technology. JSF Facing Forward with JSF By Budi Kurniawan JavaServer Faces expedites development of Java applications.