A while ago Robert and Pete blogged about Oracle’s UTL_HTTP package. Robert gave an example of how to use this package to request a web page from the Internet into Oracle and Pete mentioned that you could do the opposite, i.e. post data from Oracle to the Internet. Recently I had a requirement to do […]

While reading Mark Gurry’s OOW05 presentation (PDF), I noticed a simple yet an effective way to tune a query. Here is an example that demonstrates the trick.

If you are interested in the Oracle Identity Management roadmap and would like to know how Oracle plans to integrate the products of its recent acquisitions, Oblix, Thor Technologies and OctetString, into the Oracle Identity Management product family, you should plan to attend a live webcast to hear Hasan Rizvi, Vice President of Oracle Identity […]

Thanksgiving holiday is over and another work week is ahead. Last Friday we drove up to Mount Hood (East of Portland, Oregon). We barely made it back down, a snow storm hit the mountain while we were there. My wife took the following picture from inside the car while I was driving on a […]

If you’ve been looking around for a free blogging platform to publish your great ideas (or move your current blog), and you like to try out something new and different, wordpress.com may be what you’re looking for.

Previously, in order to get a blog on wordpress.com you had to have an invitation. But now it’s open […]

I have noticed a surge in the number of visitors to my blog since yesterday. It is more than double the traffic on any normal day.

After looking at my web statistics, I noticed that the extra traffic is coming from OTN. My Oracle Firefox extensions and plugins have been featured on OTN’s home page under […]

I often find myself searching the Oracle documentation library for a particular term mentioned in the Oracle related blog or technical article that I am reading. Firefox is my favorite browser, so, for my search, I have a couple of options.

One option is to open up a new tab (Ctrl+t), type in tahiti.oracle.com in the […]

So, what are the top ten most popular technical sessions of the 2005 Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco in terms of attendance? the answer has just been posted on OTN:

Oracle announced two “security” acquisitions today: Thor Technologies and OctetString. Here is part of the e-mail which I received a few minutes ago from Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President, Oracle Server Technologies and Hasan Rizvi, Vice President, Oracle Security & Identity Management:

I have taken the Macromedia News Firefox extension and modified it, the result: The Oracle News Firefox extension.

If you use OraBlogs or OraNA to keep up with the latest from the Oracle blogging community, the Oracle News Firefox extension is for you. If you do not use the Firefox browser, now is a great time […]