Oracle today announced the latest generation of its Exadata X10M computing platform, with up to three times higher transaction throughput and 3.6 times faster analytic query performance than the ...

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The death of SQL has been greatly exaggerated. With all apologies to Mark Twain, the demise of Structured Query Language (SQL), having been forecasted for a while, is far from a done deal. In fact, ...

I just started a new job a couple of weeks ago that requires me to pull a bunch of data out of an Oracle 8i server. For various reasons I can't use the Oracle tools (or the Oracle client), and the ...

Does Oracle have any tools that can help me predict the number of records in and/or the "cost" of executing a query besides explain plan? Depending on the number of predicted rows or cost of a query, ...

For the next release of its open source MySQL, Oracle is making a number of changes designed to vastly boost the speed of the open source relational database management system. Such a sizeable ...

Microsoft's Excel software is an indispensable tool for small businesses because of its flexibility and the ease with which you can set up spreadsheets. Though you can use it to manage files ...

You must watch out for many subtle and not-so-subtle traps when translating Oracle queries to SQL Server. Just as T-SQL is the language engine of SQL Server, PLSQL is that of Oracle. Both these ...

When Oracle Corp. acquired the rights to MySQL through its purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010, the company had a decision to make. Should it pursue a set of partnerships to retool the database ...