Increasingly, companies are considering public cloud computing solutions, including Oracle's on demand and other software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. However, the adoption of this new breed of applications introduces a technological divide between privately owned datacenters and third-party public clouds, resulting in an array of new challenges to overcome and a new level of management complexity to…

Too many Oracle shops start from scratch when beginning PL/SQL development, learning the hard way from novice developers, books, bugs and expensive trial and error. We will look in-depth at an open source framework that can save you 4 to 8 weeks of development time, and months of future refactoring and maintenance enhancements. It can…

The two main reasons for performance degradation in web application architecture are: 1)Excessive round trips between the database and the application server 2)Large pages sent from the application server to the client This presentation demonstrates a 100% "thick database" approach (virtually no code in the application server). Using this approach provided very good performance in…