Oracle Magazine January - February 2006 Features Departments Technology, Developer & Comment Sections—    Articles and Columns

FEATURES

Powering Windows By David A. Kelly For almost two decades, Oracle and Microsoft have teamed up to integrate their products for customers. Now Microsoft Windows users can have .NET on the front end and Oracle's power and scalability on the back end, and Oracle customers can deploy their applications on Windows servers. Oracle Inside By David Baum From information management to ease of use, more companies are embedding Oracle to power their solutions. By integrating Oracle software into a wide variety of hardware and software products, these companies are gaining a competitive edge.

DEPARTMENTS

From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. A Whole Lotta Fusion Going On By Jeff Spicer The relationship between Oracle's products and their underlying strategy 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 Database 10g Express Edition is free to download, distribute, develop, and deploy. Oracle News Briefs CHANNELS Peer-to-Peer Jony Safi, Laurent Leturgez, Brian Carr Partner News Dell, EMC, Intel, Cisco, HP, Avnet, Ingram, Micro, Tech Data, Citrix, Highjump Software, Outerbay, Applimation, Infosys, Taxware, EDS, and IBM Cutting Edge Podcasting from your car, iris scanning, and secure cell phones

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY SQL SQL Tools Make Fast Work BY Jonathan Gennick Different SQL tools run code, return results, and offer helpful differences. SECURITY Auditing in XML By Arup Nanda Create database audit trails in XML. XML Know Your UML with XML By Robert Wigetman and Jurgen Moortgat Learn how Oracle XML DB can increase ROI on UML models of software systems. PL/SQL PRACTICES Answering PL/SQL BY Steven Feuerstein Apply best practices to defining arrays and stripping strings. ASK TOM On Sharing, Splitting, and Deleting By Tom Kyte Our technologist shares cursors, splits large tables, and deletes securely. INSIDE OCP New Features for Oracle8i OCPs By Aradhana Puri Upgrade from Oracle8i OCP to Oracle Database 10g OCP in one exam.

ORACLE DEVELOPER FRAMEWORKS Appreciating the Entity Object By Steve Muench Declare and configure Oracle ADF entity objects instead of hand-coding Java. ODP.NET Cursor In, Cursor Out By Mark A. Williams The easy way to send a ref cursor to PL/SQL with ODP.NET and Oracle Database 10g Release 2 JSF Generating a JSF Data Table By Deepak Vohra Use Oracle JDeveloper and JSF to build a data table.

COMMENT IN THE FIELD The Business Case for SOA By Ari Kaplan New technology can bring direct, measureable benefits to your company. ANALYST'S CORNER Make Data Actionable for Decisions By David Baum Keith Gile of Forrester Research talks about the functionality of business intelligence.