| Oracle Transportable Tablespaces | Discusses how transportable tablespaces were used to migrate data between development, test, and production systems. |
| Oracle Basic Performance Techniques | If you're new to performance analysis in Oracle this is a good place to begin gathering your tool set. |
| Oracle Standby Database/DataGuard Reference | Standby, recently renamed DataGuard is one of Oracle's most popular replication solutions. This reference discusses the basics of this replication technology. |
| Oracle Database Monitoring Infrastructure | Here's an Oracle monitoring infrastructure implemented with Perl and the DBI/DBD modules. It contains all the basic monitoring elements necessary for an Oracle database. |
| Oracle Merge Discussion | Oracle Merge was introduced in 9i and excites anyone that has had to deal with data loads that contain both new data and updates to existing data. Before you start this article contains some points that you need to consider. |
| TOPLink Object-Relational Persistence | TOPLink is a persistence layer for java. It allows developers to use the database in a more object oriented fashion. TOPLink has recently been aquired by Oracle and this technology is likely to be used more widely in the near future. This article discusses how TOPLink was used in a J2EE deployment with BEA Weblogic. |
| Oracle iDevelop 2000 Conference Report | Discusses Oracle iDevelop in Chicago in November 2000. |
| SQL Server 2000 Introduction | Discusses some of the new features in SQL Server 2000. It also lists the different versions of SQL Server that Microsoft is supplying. |