Seriously, is it just running a couple of scripts or is it more involved? We've got Oracle installed on RHEL 4. I'm sick and tired of our DBAs insisting on installing the patches during unsupported ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

Paul Vallee, CEO of The Pythian Group, has a problem with a story I did recently based on a survey from Sentrigo Inc., which showed that two-thirds of Oracle database administrators had never ...

Oracle’s newest database management system places increased emphasis on green technology while simplifying application testing and making it easier to patch. Oracle released a major upgrade of its ...

Oracle has dropped the first quarterly critical patch update for 2009 -- with patches for 41 vulnerabilities in a wide range of database server products. The January 2009 CPU includes 20 new security ...

Oracle plans to begin issuing cumulative software patches for Oracle Database, E-Business Suite, Application Server, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Collaboration Suite on a quarterly basis beginning ...

If Oracle’s licensing terms never struck you as invidious before, you might soon change your mind. The upshot is that anyone who applies the latest patches and isn’t conscientious enough to determine ...