Oracle Magazine-November/December 2000

The headline articles of Oracle Magazine for November/December 2000 were on how application service providers are changing the way that business operate, everything from project management collaboration, professional services, online marking and how to go about becoming one.

Other articles included:

• Tom Kyte has an article on how working with Java is simpliernow that it is a native part of the Oracle database. He gives some examples of how to get some of the typical DB information and processing the results.
• Oracle backs the development of a Common Warehouse Meta-model. This is and XML based metadata standard that was developed by the OMG. This will allow the exchange of e-business information and hopes to accelerate a company's ability to move from data to decisions..
• There was a number of articles on the Oracle Internet Platform, how it all works and its various parts. These articles helped to support the article on the application service providers.
• Doug Obeid gives a good introduction article on the Secure Sockets Layer(SSL). He looks at securing transmissions, cryptography, authentication, various protocols and messaging.
• The part 2 of the article on Indexing Oracle 8i interMedia for managing and deploying rich data on the internet.
• Locally Managed Tablespaces looks to explain how the DBA can setup and manage tablespaces, so that the amount of space required can be minimized.
• Steven Feuerstein has an article on using Native Dynamic SQL using DBMS_SQL.
• Following up on previous articles (in previous editions) we have another article on how to go about analysing the Statspack Report. Statspack came with release 8.1.6 of the Oracle Database. The Statspack report is extremely useful for analysing and monitoring your database.

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.