There are different schools of thought about the role of databases in IT. The biggest question is whether to put some (if any) business logic into database-stored code. Answers vary from “thick database approach” (put everything) to “database independence” (put nothing). In reality, the majority of existing solutions are somewhere in between.   This…

  There are different schools of thought about the role of databases in IT. The biggest question is whether to put some (if any) business logic into database-stored code. Answers vary from “thick database approach” (put everything) to “database independence” (put nothing). In reality, the majority of existing solutions are somewhere in between.   This…

  There are different schools of thought about the role of databases in IT. The biggest question is whether to put some (if any) business logic into database-stored code. Answers vary from “thick database approach” (put everything) to “database independence” (put nothing). In reality, the majority of existing solutions are somewhere in between.   This…

Most Oracle professionals are aware of the importance of keeping database statistics up to date. However, contrary to common knowledge, these statistics are not limited to tables, columns and indexes! PL/SQL functions also have a number of associated statistics, namely costs (CPU, I/O, network), selectivity, and cardinality (for functions that return collections). These statistics have…

Developers and DBAs frequently, yet inappropriately, have adversarial relationships.  This presentation seeks to help communication between the two groups and, more imporantly, show how the focus and skills of each can help the other produce and support a better product.

Developers and DBAs frequently, yet inappropriately, have adversarial relationships.  This presentation seeks to help communication between the two groups and, more imporantly, show how the focus and skills of each can help the other produce and support a better product.

Learn about the major new features planned for Oracle Application Express 5.1. These include a new Interactive Grid, ability to declaratively define master/detail/detail pages, a new charting engine, numerous improvements to Page Designer, and improved wizards for creating pages and regions.

Learn about the major new features planned for Oracle Application Express 5.1. These include a new Interactive Grid, ability to declaratively define master/detail/detail pages, a new charting engine, numerous improvements to Page Designer, and improved wizards for creating pages and regions.

Learn about the major new features planned for Oracle Application Express 5.1. These include a new Interactive Grid, ability to declaratively define master/detail/detail pages, a new charting engine, numerous improvements to Page Designer, and improved wizards for creating pages and regions.

DevOps is the collaboration between application development and IT operations. Where formerly each was walled off from the other into silos that only communicated through change requests, today's demands on IT require that everyone operate in close cooperation, and that all tasks from provisioning to coding to testing to transition into production be automated, and…