Oracle Corporation continues its cycle of redefining OLTP database performance with its purpose-built Exadata platforms. Last week the company continued the tradition, introducing its twelfth Exadata ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chief Analyst & CEO, NAND Research. Oracle announced the general availability of the Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale ...

Doing performance tuning on distributed systems is no joking matter. It’s much more complicated than on a single node server, and bottlenecks can pop up anywhere, from system resources in a single ...

For Oracle database administrators (DBAs), one of the most critical yet routine tasks is managing backups. Recovery Manager (RMAN), Oracle's native tool for backup and recovery, remains the go-to ...

Databases are the most common cause of poor application performance, making performance optimization critical for any production database, according to Guy Harrison, co-author of a new book, titled ...