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

FEATURES

Editors' Choice Awards 2006: Honoring Leaders and Innovators By David A. Kelly The editors of Oracle Magazine are proud to announce the recipients of our fifth annual Editors' Choice Awards. It takes vision and commitment to build and manage enterprise technologies, and these winners most certainly demonstrate these qualities. From language development and applications adoption to systems architecture and enterprise planning, see how these remarkable people use technology to build their businesses today and prepare for tomorrow.

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From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. Recognizing Winners By Tom Haunert AT ORACLE Events Find out about upcoming conferences and training. Oracle Resources Here's your guide to Oracle's broadband, education, and online offerings, plus what's new at Oracle. OTN Community Bulletin Learn what's happening with Oracle's most dynamic online community. Oracle News Briefs CHANNELS Partner News Capgemini, EDS, Inter Access, HP, IBM, Nextance, TEMENOS, EnergySys/Digital Steps, Accenture, LogicaCMG, NewFrontiers Consultancy, Tata Consultancy Services, TUSC Peer-to-Peer Avi Abrami, Syed Jaffar Hussain, Chris Foot

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY RECOVERY Restore to the Point By Arup Nanda Use named points in time to roll your database back by using flashback query. EMBEDDED When Microseconds Count By Jonathan Gennick The Oracle TimesTen in-memory database is always ready. DATA WAREHOUSING Managing Data Quality By Ron Hardman Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g handles the truth. ASK TOM On Rescue Analytics and Popularity By Tom Kyte Our technologist explains the saving power of analytics and shares popularity. INSIDE OCP Testing Database Security By Aradhana Puri Questions and answers on securing your Oracle database by using FGA and VPD

ORACLE DEVELOPER FRAMEWORKS Jump-Start J2EE Development By Steve Muench Finish development faster with Oracle JHeadstart. BROWSER-BASED Taking Up Collections By Mike Hichwa Use collections to manage session state in Oracle Application Express. PL/SQL PRACTICES On Object Types in Collections By Steven Feuerstein Best practices for retrieving objects and object attributes from objects

COMMENT IN THE FIELD Asking the Right Questions By Ari Kaplan Data provides dry information on its own, but business analytics can pry the meaning loose. ANALYST'S CORNER Finding Information on Demand By David Baum Ease of use and risk management drive companies to enterprise search.