Oracle Magazine May - June 2008 Features Departments Technology, Developer & Comment Sections—    Articles and Columns

FEATURES

Developer Nation By David A. Kelly Today's enterprise application developers must acknowledge both legacy and cutting-edge technologies while using a variety of architectures, standards, and tools to meet the demands of the enterprise. Find out how Oracle unites enterprise application developers with a broad range of standards-based choices, enabling their businesses to succeed. Wrap It Up By David Baum Not just for visionaries anymore, service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications are widely deployed in production environments. See how companies use Oracle SOA Suite with business process management frameworks and business intelligence components to create reusable software components and integrate their organizations. Energizing the Efficient Enterprise By Alan Joch Many fast-growing companies choose the familiar Microsoft Windows operating system and development platform. Read how businesses running Oracle technology on Windows achieve outstanding performance, scale their technology, and reduce maintenance costs.

DEPARTMENTS

From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. Try the Tools By Tom Haunert AT ORACLE Events Find out about current and upcoming industry events. Oracle Resources Your guide to Oracle's broadband, education, online offerings, and more OTN Bulletin Learn what's happening with Oracle's most dynamic online community. Oracle News Briefs Interview By Jeff Erickson Jeff Pollock, senior director of product management, Oracle data integration, talks about the new Oracle Data Integration Suite. COMMUNITY Partner News Liquid Computing, Accenture, Secure Path, Satyam Computer Services, Kepware Technologies, Knowledge Services plus Book Beat. Commitment The United Negro College Fund makes college education a reality for many aspiring students. Peer-to-Peer Debra Lilley, Dennis Remmer, Steve Romeo

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY DATA WAREHOUSE Accelerating Data Warehousing By Dan Vlamis Oracle OLAP 11g brings high-performance data warehouse features to Oracle Database 11g. SQL DEVELOPER Making Database Connections By Sue Harper Connect to Oracle and third-party databases from Oracle SQL Developer. INSIDE OCP Back Up and Recover By Sushma Jagannath New backup and recovery features in Oracle Database 11g save time and data. ASK TOM On Seeing Double in V$SQL By Tom Kyte Our technologist looks at SQL repetition in V$SQL and differences in cardinality.

ORACLE DEVELOPER FRAMEWORKS Enlightened Development By Steve Muench Simplifying common navigation and coding tasks. BROWSER-BASED The Power of Two By David Peake Use Oracle SQL Developer to aid Oracle Application Express development. PL/SQL PRACTICES On the PGA and Indexing Collections By Steven Feuerstein Best practices for knowing your PGA impact and indexing collections. .NET It Takes All Types By Christian Shay Build applications with Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio and Oracle user-defined types.

COMMENT IN THE FIELD New IOUG Award Is Double Honor By Ari Kaplan From the Oracle Contribution Award to Ken Jacobs to Tom Kyte. ALL SECURE SOA What? By Mary Ann Davidson Even with service-oriented architecture, consider the source. ANALYST'S CORNER SOA Means Business By David Baum Service-oriented architecture delivers the technology that businesses want.