http://dbasupport.com/ The Knowledge Center for Oracle Professionals en-us Copyright 2004 Jupitermedia Corporation 2010-02-08T15:06 lcole@jupitermedia.com http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/Oracle-as-a-Data-Source-03.shtml Discover what happens within SQL Server during and after configuring Oracle as a data source. Quite a few objects are created, including a system-level database, numerous jobs running under the SQL Server agent, and flat files created on the file system. Read on to learn more. 2010-02-08T15:06 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/Tuning-Not-an-Option.shtml Before you start monitoring your Oracle database, make sure you understand some of the behind-the-scenes issues of using Oracle monitoring. 2010-02-04T15:13 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/11gDataGuard_08.shtml Oracle Data Guard still offers support for the venerable logical standby database in Oracle Database 11g. This article, investigates how data warehouse and data mart environments can effectively leverage logical standby database features, but simultaneously provide a final destination when failover from a primary database is mandated during disaster recovery. 2010-01-27T14:36 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/Building-Oracle-Server-Environment.shtml In previous articles discussing Oracle and VMware, the hardware and software components consisted of a Windows-based PC and the Oracle RDBMS. Steve Callan expands upon the "Oracle in a virtualized environment" concept by looking at other alternatives for the hardware and software. 2010-01-26T14:38 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/11gSecurityGuide13.shtml Oracle focuses on the default settings for just about all of the security setup in "The Oracle 2-Day Security Guide". As we draw near the close of the book, we'll examine a few guidelines for auditing. 2010-01-20T15:14 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/Oracle-as-a-Data-Source-02.shtml The requirements for setting up Oracle as a data source for SQL Server include some obstacles and one major showstopper. Read on to learn a work-a-round that allows you to continue the setup. 2010-01-14T14:42 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/11gSecurityGuide12.shtml Turning on auditing is easy; knowing what to do with it is entirely different. Learn how to create a standard audit trail using Oracles Enterprise Manager. 2010-01-12T17:16 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/11gSecurityGuide11.shtml If you dont know where to start when setting Oracle auditing parameters, just start with what Oracle recommends. In this article, we set the default auditing as recommended by Oracle. 2010-01-07T14:40 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/11gR2-new-features-02.shtml The second part of this two-part article completes a high-level evaluation of Oracle 11gR2's new features to assist Oracle DBAs to decide whether to upgrade their Oracle 9i, 10g, and 11gR1 databases to Oracle 11g Release 2 in the near term. 2009-12-28T15:10 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/Oracle-as-a-Data-Source.shtml This article takes a quick look at Oracle database's materialized view and extends the concept of that feature to a case where Oracle is the data source for another relational database management system. 2009-12-23T20:19 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/11gSecurityGuide10.shtml Database auditing is big business. Are you ready for the challenge to pass an audit? This article begins with an introduction to Oracles standard auditing that we can build on to answer that question. 2009-12-17T17:54 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/To-Partition-or-Not.shtml As a database administrator, there are two kinds of databases you are likely to own: those you design and those you inherit. This article looks at what takes place during the design phase, and then applies the lessons learned to a real world implementation, courtesy of Oracle E-Business Suite. 2009-12-09T15:01 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/11gSecurityGuide09.shtml In an Oracle environment, much of the communication between client and server is unsecured and clear-text. Learn how Oracle Advanced Security and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) can be used to tighten security for both network traffic and for communication between user and database. 2009-12-03T18:10 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/Printing-Barcodes.shtml No, really, you may have to do this one day: enable the use of barcodes in Oracle Reports. Is this a database administration or administrator responsibility? 2009-11-30T15:06 http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora11g/11gDataGuard_07.shtml Learn how to set up and control automatic failover using the Fast-Start Failover Observer, so that DBA intervention is no longer required during a disaster recovery scenario. 2009-11-20T16:40