Oracle Magazine September - October 2004 Features Departments Technology and Developer Sections—    Articles and Columns

FEATURES

Know Who Know How By Michael Miley Managing the identities of systems and applications users in today's complex enterprise environments is a daunting task. But companies are simplifying identity management with a platform from Oracle, and becoming more secure in the process. Southwest's Strategy for Success: Consolidate! By Kelli Wiseth Consolidation and standardization are the foundation of Southwest Airlines' success on the tarmac and in the air. Now, the company is applying those principles in the data center. Oracle OpenWorld 2005 It's your chance to hear from industry leaders, receive hands- on training, and learn about the latest advances in Oracle technology and applications, at the world's largest Oracle conferences.

DEPARTMENTS

From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. Knowing Matters By Jeff Spicer Simplifying user management isn't just good for security, it's good for the health of your business. 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 10g integrates new Web services orchestration functionality. Oracle News Briefs CHANNELS Vendor News Lumigent Technologies, Princeton Softech, TECSys Development, and DataDirect Technologies plus Book Beat Partner News Microsoft VSIP, Opitz Consulting, HP, and Wave Consulting Peer-to-Peer Lee Murray, George Jucan, and Anthony D. Noriega

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY STANDARD Giving Legs to Web Services By Caroline Kvitka WS-I supports Web services working together.

PL/SQL Controlling Mythological Code By Steven Feuerstein Explode and decode the myths in your code. DATA WAREHOUSING Moving Data Faster By Arup Nanda Find the fastest way to move data from warehouse to mart. ORACLE TEXT Optimize Your Text Retrieval By Ron Hardman Fine-tune Oracle Text applications with CTX_REPORT. XML Building with Oracle XML Database By Magnús Kristjánsson Exploiting XML DB capabilities, Theriak Software built a production-grade survey application. TALKING TUNING Tracing SQL in Oracle Database 10g By Kimberly Floss New tools help you better understand the performance of your applications. ASK TOM On Fetching, Storing, and Indexing By Tom Kyte Our technologist fetches sequentially, stores inline, and indexes globally.

ORACLE DEVELOPER WEB SERVICES Your First BPEL Project By Mike Lehmann Learn how to wire a Web service to BPEL. ORACLE JDEVELOPER Rapid Struts Development By Harshad Oak Use Oracle JDeveloper 10g to build Struts applications. AOP Taking Abstraction One Step Further By James Holmes Reduce coding time and duplication with aspect-oriented programming.