Oracle has a long history in Visual Studio and Windows shops, but getting Oracle, VS, and related Microsoft technologies to play together nicely can require a little bit of special effort on the ...

A database has both stored procedures and functions defined in it. Calling DatabaseMetadata.getProcedures( "foo", "bar", %) returns a Resultset that includes the ...

The "Sum" function in Oracle allows you to add up all data from a specified column and displays a result in your query results. You can use the multiple feature with the sum function to multiply the ...

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 ...

Enterprise-software giant Oracle has embedded social-networking functions into its latest CRM offerings, allowing the applications to emulate social-networking sites. At a briefing in the Philippines ...