Oracle Magazine July-August 2005 Features Departments Technology, Developer & Comment Sections—    Articles and Columns

FEATURES

Great Expectations By David A. Kelly For years, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) were considered local operations, more concerned with cash flow than competing with larger enterprises. Not anymore. Today's SMBs often have just as many, if not more, IT challenges as large enterprises. And they're turning to Oracle for help in facing those challenges. Linux Clusters By David Baum As more companies weave business intelligence into the operational fabric of their businesses, Linux clusters are emerging as a popular choice for high-performance, low-cost data warehousing solutions. Oracle OpenWorld Information empowers at the world's premiere conference for Oracle customers and partners.

DEPARTMENTS

From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. Come Together By Jeff Spicer Oracle pulls together middleware products. 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 With its recent acquisition of Oblix, Oracle has significantly bolstered its integrated security and identity management capabilities. Oracle News Briefs CHANNELS Peer-to-Peer Tareq Shaheen, Scott Revelle, Giovanni Cuccu Partner News Intel, Red Hat, Novell, Dell, Gemco, Khameleon Software, Computer Methods International, Lumigent, Microlink Systems, Occam Systems, Cerebrus Solutions, Aepona, GT Software, IDS Scheer, ILOG, Itemfield, NEON Systems, Pervasive Software, Popkin Software, ProActivity, Proforma, SOA Software, WRQ

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY STANDARD Simplifying Development By Rich Schwerin Use EJB 3.0 to streamline your application development and standardize persistence for Java. TALKING TUNING Tuning Undo Tablespace By Kimberly Floss Let Oracle do the math and right-size the undo tablespace for you. SQL Nulls: Nothing to Worry About By Lex de Haan and Jonathan Gennick Avoid problems with three-valued logic. DBA Mining for Clues By Arup Nanda Use Oracle LogMiner to re-create transactions and undo damage. ASK TOM On Searching and Synonyms By Tom Kyte Our technologist searches, moves, and finds synonyms. INSIDE OCP Efficient Space Management By Aradhana Puri Concepts of and sample questions on space usage

ORACLE DEVELOPER FRAMEWORKS Browsing and Editing Data By Steve Muench Drag and drop your way to the Web. TESTING Testing 1, 2, 3 . . . By Phil Zoio Best practices for testing J2EE database applications PHP Using PHP 5 with Oracle XML DB By Yuli Vasiliev Combine the power of object-oriented PHP and Oracle XML DB.

COMMENT INFORMATION MATTERS Who Are You? By George Demarest Pondering secrecy and the certainty of identity