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

FEATURES

Get Control By David Baum Complex enterprise grid environments require tools that can manage both the system and the bottom line. Read how customers have adopted enterprise grid technology, improved service quality, and contained management costs with Oracle Enterprise Manager. Oracle OpenWorld 2006 Get the scoop on Oracle OpenWorld 2006, including keynotes, programs for DBAs and developers, technology presentations, and more. Brewing Good Business By Michael Miley Green Mountain Coffee Roasters used a complementary blend of Oracle's PeopleSoft products to manage their operations. Then they watched their revenues take off. Oracle Helps Retail Businesses Grow By Alan Joch Detail-driven retailers are carving out competitive advantages by focusing on customer data—and Oracle makes it happen. Access Granted By David Kelly, with David Baum Identity management has become critical for organizations as IT systems become more complex. Find out how Oracle can help companies increase productivity, manage access, lower administrative costs, and achieve regulatory compliance.

DEPARTMENTS

From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. Collaboration Travels By Tom Haunert 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 Briefs Oracle News Oracle Business Intelligence Suite combines Oracle's business intelligence middleware with Oracle's Siebel Business Analytics. CHANNELS Partner News Sun Microsystems, Novell, Kashya, Fiserv Customer Centered Solutions, i-flex solutions, Neusoft, Siemens VDO, BearingPoint, IBM Peer-to-Peer Mikhail Seliverstov, Lewis Cunningham, Laurent Schneider Cutting Edge Better bifocals, bigger flash drives, and open source PBX

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY SQL Build Custom Aggregate Functions By Jonathan Gennick Summarize data in new ways by writing your own aggregate functions. XML Archiving Data Using XML By Arup Nanda Build a powerful, flexible data archive. ASKTOM On Speeding, Dating, and Spelling By Tom Kyte Our technologist finds the OS, makes things appear faster, dates clients, and spells out numbers. INSIDE OCP Managing Certificates By Aradhana Puri Questions and answers on managing and using certificates and wallets

ORACLE DEVELOPER FRAMEWORKS A New Face on the Block By Steve Muench Oracle ADF offers new JSF support and enhanced, visual, declarative development. ODP.NET Improve ODP.NET Performance By Mark A. Williams Take advantage of connection pooling, fetch size controls, and statement caching. BROWSER-BASED Single-Step Deployment By Raj Mattamal Oracle Application Express deploys an application with a single file. PL/SQL PRACTICES On Conditional Compilation By Steven Feuerstein Apply best practices to PL/SQL conditional compilation.

COMMENT IN THE FIELD XML in Databases By Ari Kaplan XML's usefulness multiplies with proper handling. ANALYST'S CORNER Evolving Grid Management By David Baum Increased complexity has led to more-intelligent and more-automated system tools.