Oracle Magazine review–May/June 2000

The headline articles of Oracle Magazine for May/June 2000 were on the evolution of organisations into adopting a e-business model. It included 8 steps on evolving to e-business, how to use the Oracle Internet Platform, Web Portal and Java technology.

Other articles included:

• Tom Kyte has an article on Oracle Availability Options and explains when to implement Oracle Parallel Server or replication or a standby database.
• There is a new release of Oracle Discover 3i and Oracle Reports 6i that support XML and are part of the Oracle Intelligent WebHouse initiative.
• Oracle licenced the mobile moddleware developed by Nettech System, to support Oracle’s steps into this field.
• There is an overview of the IOUG-A Live! 2000 conference which is being held between 7-11 May in the Anaheim Convention Centre. Over 4,000 attendees are expected.
• Kelli Wiseth gives and overview of Java 2, explaining the differences between J2SE and J2EE. The article also discusses how Java is part of the Oracle Internet Platform.
• Steven Feuerstein gives the second part of his article on using Java Classes and Objects in the Oracle 8i database.
• Richard Niemiec has an articles on Fundamental Tuning Goals and details the followings:
• Allocate the right amount of memory for the Oracle instance.
• Keep the right data in memory.
• Find problem queries.
• Kevin Loney had an article on how to protect your database from security threats. These included:
• Guard your backups and development environments
• Know your default user and applications accounts
• Control the distribution of database names and locations
• Use auditing effectively
• Make password changes mandatory yet simple
• Isolate your production database
• Venkat Devraj talks discuss six storage tips for 24x7 availability
• Know and understand RAID options
• Choose your disk-array size with caution
• Do not use read ahead caches for online transaction processing applications
• Do not reply on write caches to eliminate I/O hot spots
• Consider using multilevel RAIDS
• Ensure that your stripe sizes are consistent with your OS and database block sizes

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.