Oracle Magazine November - December 2004 Features Departments Technology and Developer Sections—    Articles and Columns

FEATURES

Oracle Magazine Editors' Choice Awards 2004 By David A. Kelly The editors of Oracle Magazine are proud to announce the recipients of our third annual Editors' Choice Awards. Learn more about these remarkable people and how they're using technology to solve today's most critical business issues. Oracle OpenWorld 2004 Oracle has combined its applications and technology conferences into one megaevent designed for technologists, businesspeople, executives, and managers alike. Read more about Oracle OpenWorld.

DEPARTMENTS

From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. Oracle and Microsoft Have History By Jeff Spicer The two powerhouses of technology have a long history of cooperation. 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 Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One lets businesses start small at a lower price. Oracle News Briefs CHANNELS Vendor News Quest Software, Yosemite Technologies, TapeWare, Exabyte, and Broadbeam plus Book Beat Partner News Dell Inc., Oracle PartnerNetwork, NEOs Peer-to-Peer Mukesh Agrawal, Jørn Hansen, and Arun Sinha

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY STANDARD Integration Imperative By Rich Schwerin Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) speaks services.

SQL Better to Best NDS By Steven Feuerstein Best-practice tips for using Native Dynamic SQL in Oracle Database 10g RMAN Faster Backup, Faster Recovery By Arup Nanda Speed your backup and recovery with new features in Oracle Database 10g. ORACLE STREAMS Making Data Flow By Sanjay Mishra Use Oracle Streams to make data move itself. TALKING TUNING Database Resource Manager By Kimberly Floss Using Oracle Database Resource Manager facilitates meeting SLAs. ASK TOM On Partitioning and Pipelining By Tom Kyte Our technologist speaks on UNION ALL, pipelines, and Saturdays. OCP New Features for OCPs By Aradhana Puri Concepts and sample questions for OCP upgrade certification.

ORACLE DEVELOPER WEB SERVICES Web Services Management Arrives By Mike Lehmann Using the new infrastructure within Oracle Application Server JSF From ADF UIX to JSF By Jonas Jacobi Oracle ADF Faces Components brings a library of reuse to JavaServer Faces.