Table of Contents - Summer 1996

Vol. 2 No. 2

Features

Configuring a Standby Database for High Availability By Steve Bobrowski
Available only with release 7.3 of Oracle7, a standby database is an offline database that exactly mirrors the primary database that is online and in use with applications. If you have a business that can tolerate only short periods of downtime for database recovery from catastrophic failure situations, now's the time for you to consider implementing a standby database site.

Defining a Secure Oracle Environment By Willard Baird
Snoopers are ubiquitous and unpredictable and they may even now be attempting to compromise your database. This article shows you how to evaluate the security of your Oracle database and protect it from unseen and unwanted visitors.

Developing Effective Oracle Data Warehouse and OLAP Applications By Don Burleson
In this article, Don Burleson looks at decision-support systems and data warehouses, star schemas, data mining and relational OLAP, and using Oracle 7.3 features with data warehouses.

OLAP Comes of Age: Oracle Express Objects By Dan Bulos
Welcome Oracle's first new product using IRI's Express technology since its purchase of IRI in July 1995: Oracle Express Objects. Dan Bulos takes an in-depth look at this new integrated development environment for creating OLAP applications in a Windows environment. An extensive must-read OLAP bibliography is included, provided courtesy of Steve Elkins.

Tuning Application Logic By Steve Bobrowski
Tips on how to tune the logic within your Oracle applications to achieve the level of performance that you need.

Departments

Input/Output By Kathleen O'Connor
Dirt Bikes, wild animal shows, and rollerblading.

Advertiser Index
How to contact this issue's advertisers.

Add-Ons and Updates By Kathleen O'Connor
New product announcements.