The latest quarterly Critical Patch Update for Oracle 10gR2 does not plug a hole that allows published attack code to run.

The recent Oracle exploit posted to Bugtraq (http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431353) is actually an 0day and has no patch. The patch for 10g Release 2 for April 2006 Critical Patch Update does _not_ contain a fix for the […]

Absolutely, in fact:

Wikipedia is absolutely open to absolutely anyone contributing to absolutely anything! As long as you haven’t been banned, or the article you’re contributing to hasn’t been locked, or there isn’t a group of people waiting to delete anything you write, or you don’t make the same change more than three times in one […]

The join condition determines whether a join is an equijoin or a non-equijoin. An equijoin is a join with a join condition containing an equality operator. An equijoin combines rows that have equivalent values for the specified columns. When a join condition relates two tables by an operator other than equality, it is a non-equijoin. […]

Spam is a disease. It spreads like a disease. There is email spam, blog comments spam, and now Frappr spam. The Oracle Bloggers Frappr Group, and for the first time since its creation, has been hit with spam. Luckily I caught it early and deleted the spammers and their messages. So, to protect the group […]

In his latest article, Jonathan Lewis uses tkprof to analyse the performance of a query. He concluded that “When you examine the output from tkprof, it often takes a simultaneous cross-check of the block level statistics, the Row Source Operation counts, and some sensible guesswork about the purpose of the query, to be able to […]

Google recently announced the addition of OneBox functionality to their search appliance, which means that you can find just about anything through the familiar Google search box, including information stored in your corporate ERP system.

Google launched an initial set of OneBox modules with Oracle, Cognos, SAS and Salesforce.com.

According to Oracle, If you are an Oracle […]

A couple of people recently used the contact form on my blog and sent me the following two e-mails:

Hi, Please help me where i can get the software for downloading oracle Software in www.Oracle.com…

Also please suggest me which software is best suited .i mean the correct URL so that i can easily Download it.I m going […]

In this post I will share with you how I transformed OraNA from an aggregator powered by Wordpress to a powerful, robust and easy to manage feed aggregator powered by Google Reader and FeedBurner.

I will take you through the three easy steps that I followed to set up OraNA. You can follow the same steps […]

I have just noticed that OTN has now an Oracle 10g Book Center. The page lists Oracle books from Oracle Press, Apress, Elsevier Digital Press, O’Reilly & Associates, Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Rampant, TechPress and Sams Publishing.

Each book has a direct link to Amazon.com and most of them have sample chapters for you to […]

I was reading Remko Mantel blog about Web 2.0 and thought about sharing with you a couple of links. The first is a very cool and useful “Web 2.0″ website that offers a free, web-based collaboration tool that provides a feature-rich meeting room with real-time, whiteboard functionality. Features include:

Create instant meetings - No client to […]