Database systems are the backbone of contemporary data-driven applications, underpinning industries ranging from finance to scientific research. As data volumes surge and complexity increases, robust ...

Here’s the problem: Executives greenlight a big project and developers are raring to work on it, but it takes days or weeks for IT to provision a database to get started. Or developers dive in, but ...

Oracle Corp. Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison has repeatedly called the firm’s new Autonomous Database “the most important thing we have ever done,” and today he announced ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison explained the advantages of Oracle Autonomous Database by comparing use of this new technology to learning how to drive a self-driving car. “You know ...

“A picture is worth a thousand words”. This is as true for data as it is for art. With the advent of big data, there is a tremendous need to manage, interpret and communicate it effectively – because ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

Last week I jumped from the starting point of the newest U.S. anti-trust action against Google into a discussion about the legal and economic status of data. I would like to carry the discussion of ...