According to the Enterprise System Spectator's website Oracle is busy laying off a large number of employees. According to the article, 8000 people or 10-15% of the company's workforce will lose their jobs today. Apparently similar layoffs are happening at SAP, Infor and possibly several other companies.

Several Oracle employees confirmed these layoffs at LayoffBlog.com.

Answer: Although this may be a undervalued question, I got many a search for my blog with this question. This is where I wanted to address this question elaborately or rather in multiple ways.

I've been working on way to capture changed rows using ora_rowscn for part of an ETL routine. Here are some details of what I've tested and found.

By default, the ora_rowscn pseudo column reports the scn at block level. This means that rows sharing the same block will have the same ora_rowscn, and if one row were to be changed, then scn would be altered for both blocks.

Over a period of time, I have seen many database (backend) centric projects using huge amount of processing, I found most of them lacking Development Framework, To make it more clear I would say that Framework is not only limited to GUI like JAVA DOT.NET. It is certain sets of standards used before starting development projects, This presentation will support approach towards achieving this objective.

Once the standby database is setup using Data Guard and works properly, you may want to test switchover, or perform switchover to reduce primary database downtime during OS upgrades or hardware upgrades. (To set up a Physical Standby database, please refer to my OraFAQ blog “Oracle 10g – Manually Create a Physical Standby Database Using Data Guard”.)

A switchover allows the primary database to switch roles with its standby database. There is no data loss during a switchover. You can switch back to the original Primary database later by performing another switchover.

Recently I have noticed there has been considerable talk on the WEB about date logic; in particular talk about overlapping date ranges and how to detect them. I can't say why there is such an interest, but some people have turned to an undocumented feature (a function called OVERLAPS) to solve their problems. This article will describe date overlap, and show equivelant SQL that will allow you to avoid using this undocumented feature which as always is a good idea, because undocumented features in Oracle have propensity to change and/or disappear unexpectedly leaving those who foolishly realied upon them in unanticipated trouble after an upgrade.

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The extreme performance issues with PL/SQL String Functions and how to circumvent their usage using Straight SQL. The Object Oriented approach allows SQL to be virtually executed against "Anything" not just tables - data fields, variables, even a single character!

A relational database does not store data in a hierarchical way. Then how do I get the data in a hierarchical manner? Here we get to know about how to use the hierarchical querying feature which Oracle has given. This article talks about how you can interpret the hierarchical query conceptually and build hierarchical queries catering your needs.

Using hierarchical queries, you can retrieve records from a table by their natural relationship.

How to Identify OS or Oracle 64 bit or 32 bit on Unix
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It is very common question which version of oracle I need to install. 32 bit or 64 bit? As a 64-bit operating system can support either a 32-bit database or a 64-bit database. A 32-bit operating system cannot support a 64-bit database. So, version identification of the OS is necessary prior to install oracle.

Step-by-step instructions on how to create a Physical Standby Database on Windows and UNIX servers, and maintenance tips on the databases in a Data Guard Environment.

Oracle 10g Data Guard is a great tool to ensure high availability, data protection and disaster recovery for enterprise data. I have been working on Data Guard/Standby databases using both Grid control and SQL command line for a couple of years, and my latest experience with Data Guard was manually creating a Physical Standby Database for a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) half a year ago.