The chapter, "Maintaining Oracle Standards" discusses "standards" such as Oracle's Optimal Flexible Architecture, Unix shell scripting, code and configuration basics. The new 11g Automatic Diagnostic Repository features, for diagnosing and repairing certain types of failures, are also shown here

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Essbase experts, Sarma Anantapantula and Joseph Gomez, introduce the users to Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and teach them to create their first Essbase database and first Essbase Application.

In the web services scenario, XML messages are exchanged between the client application and the web services. Certain essages contain critical business information and, therefore, the integrity of the message should be ensured.

This should be called a book actually.

PLSQL stands for "Procedural Language extensions to SQL", and can be used in Oracle databases.

In order to develop PL/SQL applications on Oracle XE, we are going to need to install a web server (Apache) and a PL/SQL gateway for Apache called mod_owa.

Flickr Services API is nothing new, and if you're using PHP, ASP.NET or any of the other major languages, there is plenty of documentation available to get you started with putting Flickr functionality in your web application.

I've put together a comprehensive example for paginating and sorting a table of data in a web page using PL/SQL. This example uses the all_objects table, so should be usable on any Oracle database.

Because PL/SQL does not have the same support for arrays that other programming languages have, handling checkboxes in HTML forms can be a bit trickier than you might expect.