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Oracle Cuts Credit Line For PeopleSoft

Oracle on Tuesday disclosed that it had slashed its credit line with banks to $1.5 billion from $5 billion but said that it still...

MySQL CEO Mickos Addresses Critics, Looks to Open-Source Growth

Few can expect any open source-related news to escape its share of both withering scorn and good insight from venues such as Slashdot. This...

MySQL: The Dissing and the Defense

Heres a select sampling of what Slashdot users had to say about the recent, independent study of MySQL code on the part of Reasoning...

California Seeks to Put Up Largest DNA Database in Nation

California law enforcement is backing a ballot proposal that would give them the go-ahead to operate the largest DNA database in the country. Civil...

By-the-Book Oracle9i Installation

Whether youre talking about installing Oracle RDBMS program files or other Oracle products—Forms & Reports, Developer Suite, Application Server, etc.—having a set methodology will...

The Years Top Tech Movers and Shakers

MySQL AB CEO Marten Mickos gets my vote as one of the top database movers and shakers of 2003. Over the past year, this...

Looking Into the Crystal Ball for Oracles New Year

Oracle poured buckets of cash into hyping grid technology during the past few months. While 10g features are getting rave reviews, Oracle users who...

Database Bests and Worsts of 2003

A few of the winners of 2003: SAP AGs robust sales and stock price; Microsofts extensive list of updates, debuts (Microsoft CRM) and betas;...

How to Cope With Oracle Trigger Lag

Many developers run into triggers that dont see mutating ORA-04091 table owner.table_name errors in Oracle. Often, its caused by trigger code that looks at...

How to Use Global Variables in SQL Server 2000 DTS

There are various ways of using global variables in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer tasks. This article, one in a series, looks into...