IBM certainly thinks so when it fired a salvo at Oracle in a marketing campaign called e-Prisoner targeted at large customers in South Asia. "Certainly, no one should feel imprisoned by their past ...

Database security vendor Sentrigo has released an open-source fuzz testing tool to help pinpoint security-related coding deficiencies in Oracle databases. The tool, called FuzzOr, runs on Oracle 8i ...

I need to form the equivalent of a Union Join in Oracle 8i, even though a Union Join doesn't appear to be supported in 8i. I might be able to manipulate a Full Outer Join to get the results I need, ...

You may be aware of the old USERENV function, which returned session values such as the user’s session_id, language, and whether the user had DBA privileges. Although USERENV still exists for legacy ...