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

FEATURES

Editors' Choice Awards 2008 By David A. Kelly From all corners of the globe, from all industries, and all areas of technology—the winners of the seventh annual Editors’ Choice Awards reflect outstanding leadership, innovation, and commitment. The editors of Oracle Magazine are pleased to honor the achievements of these talented professionals. Oracle and HP Partner on Hardware Offering By Jeff Erickson With partner HP, Oracle has released its first-ever hardware product, the HP Oracle Database Machine. This high-performance system promises to take Oracle data warehouse performance to extreme levels.

DEPARTMENTS

From the Editor By Tom Haunert Better Partnering, More Partnering Oracle OpenWorld Oracle OpenWorld 2008 was bigger and greener than ever before. Here are some highlights from the conference. AT ORACLE Events Find out about current and upcoming industry events. Oracle Resources Your guide to Oracle Webcasts, podcasts, blogs, education offerings, and more Oracle News Briefs Interview Sushil Kumar, senior director of database availability, manageability, and performance at Oracle, talks about Oracle’s support for cloud computing. Interview Terry Olkin, vice president and chief architect at Oracle, discusses Oracle Beehive, Oracle’s next-generation collaboration platform. COMMUNITY Partner News Zmanda, U&SLUNO, Helpstream, Data Domain, Voltaire, nCipher, Accenture, ArcSight, Capgemini plus Book Beat. Education Oracle helps students prepare for global challenges. Up Close A user group leader helps members manage an expanding range of Oracle technologies. Peer-to-Peer Ahmed Alomari, Gregory Rekounas, Penny Cookson

TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPER SECTION—ARTICLES & COLUMNS

TECHNOLOGY HIGH AVAILABILITY Keeping Active By Arup Nanda Use Oracle Active Data Guard to set up a physical standby database for reporting and recovery. SQL DEVELOPER Programming Productively By Sue Harper Use Oracle SQL Developer to work efficiently with PL/SQL constructs. INSIDE OCP New Ways to Flash Back By Sushma Jagannath Reverse transactions and track historical changes in Oracle Database 11g. ASK TOM On Separation and Counting By Tom Kyte Our technologist promotes more than one schema, counts partitions, and uses TKPROF.

ORACLE DEVELOPER FRAMEWORKS Developing a Regional Accent By Steve Muench Use task flows as regions to improve UI reuse. PL/SQL PRACTICES On Cursor FOR Loops By Steven Feuerstein It’s important to know when not to use cursor FOR loops. ODP.NET Instant ODP.NET Deployment By Mark A. Williams Deploy ODP.NET applications instantly with Oracle Data Access Components.

COMMENT IN THE FIELD Integration: It’s Coming Together By Ian Abramson Mergers, acquisitions, and growth present opportunities for user groups. ALL SECURE Need to Know By Mary Ann Davidson Getting better information is important, but some secrets are not for sharing. ANALYST’S CORNER Application Server Convergence By David Baum Customers gain new capabilities from the combination of Oracle and BEA technologies.