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

FEATURES

Tame Your Content By David A. Kelly Unstructured content—spreadsheets, documents, e-mails, presentations, and so forth—is critical to your business, yet most enterprises struggle to manage and maintain that content. In addition, much of a company's content must be audited and tracked according to government regulations, further underscoring the need for a flexible, secure content management system. Learn how some organizations have built content management systems that leverage the security and auditing features of the Oracle database. Coordinating Business Processes By Alan Joch Until recently, orchestrating Web services was a tricky business based on proprietary protocols. Now a new standard, BPEL, provides the backbone for simplified integration. Running on the Grid By David Baum Oracle's Austin Data Center is a cutting-edge data center serving scores of Oracle On Demand customers. It also happens to be home to an enterprise computing grid comprising thousands of servers.

DEPARTMENTS

From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. Manage Your Content By Jeff Spicer Is your most valuable resource remaining untapped? 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 Talk America leverages new Oracle Database 10g features for storage management. Oracle News Briefs CHANNELS Peer-to-Peer George Syntetas, Bill Galloway, and Raghuram Bharatwaj C

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY DBA Find Answers Faster By Jonathan Gennick and Anthony Molinaro Analytic functions provide powerful ways to view your data. PL/SQL Tracing Lines By Steven Feuerstein Find and report your errors—by line number—in Oracle Database 10g. DATA WAREHOUSING Room with a Better View By Arup Nanda Get a good, fast look at your data with materialized views. XML EXCHANGE Which Storage XML By Sean Dillon When to use CLOBs or objects to store your XML TALKING TUNING Speed and Simplify Data Movement By Kimberly Floss Use Oracle Database 10g Data Pump for fast, flexible export and import ASK TOM On Rollups, Merges, and Moves By Tom Kyte Our technologist materializes, merges, and moves. INSIDE OCP Flashback for OCPs By Aradhana Puri More concepts and sample questions for OCP certification

ORACLE DEVELOPER WEB SERVICES Guarantee SOAP Message Integrity By Mike Lehmann Use digital signatures to check sender identity and ensure that messages remain unaltered. FRAMEWORKS Starting with Oracle ADF By Steve Muench Understanding the basics of application organization XML Aggregate Data with XQuery By Nilesh Junnarkar, Nirav Chanchani, and Julie Basu Oracle XML Data Synthesis brings data together. FORMS Oracle Forms in the SOA World By Robin Zimmermann Oracle Forms can be part of your service-oriented architecture.

COMMENT INFORMATION MATTERS Zen and the Art of Information By George Demarest What is data quality?