Review of Oracle Magazine-July/August 1999

The headline articles for the July/August 1999 edition of Oracle Magazine were focused on Business Intelligence and included topics on architectures, business plans, data integration, portals, dashboards, Oracle Express, data marts and data warehouses.

Other articles included:

• 15 Rules for Enterprise Portals
• Gear it to casual users
• Use intuitive classifications and searching
• Allow access to a publish/subscribe engine
• Enable universal connectivity to information resources
• Provide dynamic access to information resources
• Set up intelligent routing
• Integrate a business intelligence toolset
• Use a server based architecture
• Build in distributed, multithreaded services
• Enable flexible permission granting
• Append external interfaces
• Provide programmatic interfaces
• Establish internet security
• Make it cost effective to deploy
• Ensure that it can be customized and personalized
• Oracle Application Server release 4.0.8 was available for beta testing and includes support for Enterprise JavaBeans. Java Servlets, Java Server Pages and allows developers to build robust self service applications quickly
• Oracle and MapInfo joined forces to release an internet-based spatial-data analysis solution to help organizations to understand and visualize data and to identify patterns and customer trends
• Oracle makes available Oracle iTV platform, that is a solution that makes it possible for broadcast, cable and telecommunications providers to deliver interactive services .
• Nine tips for using Oracle Discover included:
• Us the decode statement
• Implement summary redirection
• create optional conditions (filters)
• use query statistics
• perform regular maintenance on the query statistics tables
• familiarize yourself with the EUL tables
• make regular backups
• modify registry settings
• delete objects with care
• Standardizing your interfaces. The first of a three part article on creating interfaces to the database. This article focused on showing how to setup and use UTL_FILE for loading data into and getting data out of the database.
• Creating a Virtual Private Database in Oracle 8i describes how to approach such a project to implement fine grained access control and gives the following steps for setting up a VPD
• create the application context
• create a package that sets the context
• create the policy function
• associate the policy function with a table or view

To view the cover page and the table of contents click on the image at the top of this post or click here.

My Oracle Magazine Collection can be found here. You will find links to my blog posts on previous editions and a PDF for the very first Oracle Magazine from June 1987.