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Oracle Database High Availability
Databases and the Internet have enabled worldwide collaboration and information sharing by extending the reach of database applications throughout organizations and communities. Both small businesses and global enterprises have users all over the world who require access to data 24 hours a day. Without this data access, revenue and customers can be lost, penalties can be owed, and bad press can have a lasting effect on customers and a company's reputation. Building a high availability IT infrastructure is critical to the success and well being of all enterprises in today's fast moving economy.

One of the challenges in designing an HA solution is examining and addressing all the possible causes of downtime. It is important to consider causes of both unplanned and planned downtime when designing a fault tolerant and resilient IT infrastructure. Unplanned downtime is primarily the result of computer failures or data failures. Planned downtime is primarily due to data changes or system changes that must be applied to the production system.
 
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Click Here to view the Technical Comparison of Oracle Database vs. IBM DB2 UDB: Focus on High Availability
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Oracle Business Intelligence
Oracle provides the technology foundation needed to build a complete and integrated solution for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Oracle Database 10 g , Oracle Application Server 10 g , and Oracle Developer Suite allow users to rapidly develop and deploy data warehouses and data marts with a complete and integrated array of reporting, querying, and analytic capabilities.

Oracle Database 10 g is an analysis-ready database with ETL, OLAP, and Data Mining built right into the data server where analysis takes place. Oracle Application Server 10 g comes with built-in portal and services that allow easy development and delivery of customized intelligent information to all. Oracle Developer Suite comes with tools to build and manage the data warehouse, to build applications, and to provide easy access and distribution of information across the enterprise.
 
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Grid Technology Center
Oracle 10 g allows companies to begin evolving their IT toward a grid computing model. From storage, to databases, application servers, and applications, Oracle's new technology addresses the requirements of grid computing.
 
Click Here to view the New Tech Whitepaper: Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) Cloning
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Oracle Information Integration
Information integration is an important feature of Oracle Database. Oracle provides many features that allow customers to synchronously and asynchronously integrate their their data including Oracle Streams, Oracle Advanced Queuing, replication, and distributed SQL. Oracle also provides gateways to non-Oracle database servers, providing seamless interoperation in heterogeneous environments.
 
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Oracle Spatial & Oracle Locator: Location Features for Oracle Database 10g
The location features in Oracle Database 10 g provide a platform that supports a wide range of applications-from automated mapping/facilities management and geographic information systems (GIS), to wireless location services and location-enabled e-business. The Oracle Database 10 g, Oracle Application Server 10 g , and Oracle E-Business Suite include and make use of location features to deliver unique business advantages to users.

Through Oracle Spatial and Oracle Locator , geographic and location data are managed in a native type within Oracle Database 10 g . Oracle Locator is a feature of Oracle Database 10 g Standard and Enterprise Editions that provides core location functionality needed by most customer applications to support a variety of location-based services (LBS) and 3rd party GIS solutions. Oracle Spatial is an option for Oracle Enterprise Edition that provides advanced spatial features to support high-end GIS and LBS solutions. Oracle MapViewer is an Oracle Application Server Java component and JDeveloper extension used for map rendering and viewing geospatial data managed by Oracle Spatial or Locator.

Oracle Spatial and Oracle Locator have been adopted as the preferred location platform by leading GIS and LBS vendors. Oracle Spatial and Oracle Locator have also been deployed by telecommunications, utilities, and government organizations worldwide.
 
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Oracle Database Manageability
Oracle10g introduces a sophisticated database that automatically adapts, monitors, diagnoses and fixes itself.  The new self-managing database reduces the costs of managing the IT environment with a simplified install, greatly reduced configuration and intuitive day-to-day administration. The Oracle Database 10g manageability features allow DBAs to become more productive, help their organizations reduce management costs, and scale to manage the Enterprise Computing Grid.
 
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Click Here to view the Oracle Database 10g and Oracle 9i Database Manageability Comparison

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Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 10 g is an option to the award-winning Oracle Database 10 g Enterprise Edition. Oracle RAC is a cluster database with a shared cache architecture that overcomes the limitations of traditional shared-nothing and shared-disk approaches to provide a highly scalable and available database solutions for all your business applications.
 
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Oracle Platform Security
Oracle Platform Security is the set of security capabilities and services implemented in the Oracle Database and Oracle Applicaiton Server. These consist of Database Security features, Application Server Security features, and the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure. Combined, these capabilities and services enable the development and deployment of secure e-business applications.
 
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XML Technology Centre
Whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or advanced XML user, the XML Center provides you up-to-date content and guidance to develop all types of XML and Web Service applications.