One of the major advances in the Oracle 10g Release is the simplification of many of the administrative activities required to run the database. Arup Nanda is writing about "The Top 20 Features for DBA's". Each week he will be adding an article so remember to take a regular look.
Mark Rittman's weblog also look's like a good place to go looking for News and Ideas in the Oracle field of interest. He is a developer in who lives in south England and is working on Oracle Data Warehouse Technologies. His weblog is also powered by Movabletype so go and check it out...
Have you ever been faced or are you faced with the problem of QA'ing a Data Warehouse?
We are currently looking into the feasibility of applying the Open Source Framework utPLSQL to automatically generate unit tests from the Data Warehouses Meta Data. I would be interested to hear from anyone who might be trying to do the same sort of thing or is perhaps interested in our results.
Oracle offers a number of different JDBC drivers to interface with the database, but deciding which driver to use and when is not so straight forward! What the facts are and how to make the correct decision are explained very clearly in this OTN document. The extended entry below, also has the selected details.
