One of the great benefits of using Oracle products is their support for multiple programming frameworks. By supporting .NET, Java/J2EE, PHP, and C/C++ applications, all developers can use Oracle’s advanced database features, providing true flexibility for development organizations. Each of Oracle’s data access drivers is designed to maximize performance of its respective framework and to enable access to the latest database features.
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Globalization and ecommerce have fundamentally reshaped the competitive landscape, and forced companies to operate more efficiently. Mobile technology and broadband networks have enabled employees to work anywhere, and raised their expectations for easy access to centralized applications and corporate databases.
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Web 2.0 is generating an incredible amount of interest and subsequent momentum around services on the Internet. And many enterprise developers want to determine how these exciting new services can be leveraged within their companies. The nature of Web 2.0 services is to empower users to combine all the relevant information they can find into a single location so that they can be more productive in their work environment. In addition, end users can form ad-hoc associations with users inside and outside their organizations as part of a “social network”. And they need an easy way to track all these sources of information so that they become more productive while at the same time traversing all this new content.
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The Forest Service has the capability to access data residing in Oracle and other databases with Office 2000. Microsoft Access is part of the Office 2000 suite and has a strong ability to “link” to tables in other databases including Oracle. The purpose of this paper is to explain how to configure a PC for the linkage and illustrate how to make the connection. The primary benefit of using Access to manipulate data is its rich interface to quickly design queries, reports, and forms for data entry.
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This paper will examine the differences between the security posture of Microsoft’s SQL Server and Oracle’s RDBMS based upon flaws reported by external security researchers and since fixed by the vendor in question. Only flaws affecting the database server software itself have been considered in compiling this data so issues that affect, for example, Oracle Application Server have not been included. The sources of information used whilst compiling the data that forms the basis of this document include:
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The Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET is a powerful new “add-in” for Visual Studio .NET that makes it easier and faster for .NET developers to write Oracle applications. Available now as a free download on the Oracle Technology Network, it is tightly integrated with Visual Studio .NET and includes powerful features such as designers, automatic code generation and a PL/SQL editor.
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A potential security vulnerability has been discovered in Oracle Internet Directory (OID). OID release 2.1.1.0.0 is vulnerable to a potential buffer overflow problem which may permit unauthorized access to the operating system. Products Oracle Internet Directory (OID) release 2.1.1.0.0 On Unix platforms 1. Change the ownership of executable “ oidldapd”from root user to the UNIX user who owns the OID installation in the operating system. 2. Set the file permissions on “ oidldapd”to 710. 3. Change the ownership of executable “ oidmon”from root user to the UNIX user who owns the OID installation in the operating system.
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Introduction to Oracle Adapters for Files, FTP, Databases, and Enterprise Messaging This chapter describes the file, FTP, database, and enterprise messaging adapters that are provided with Oracle BPEL Process Manager. sdTranslator The adapters enable you to integrate BPEL processes with access to file systems, FTP servers, database tables, database queues (advanced queues, or AQ), Java Message Services (JMS), and Oracle Applications. See Oracle BPEL Process Manager Developer’s Guide for information about BPEL processes.
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