The latest release of Oracle Database (12.1.0.2) offers a unique set of features that portend increases in application workload execution, especially for analytics and data warehousing queries. This ...

Oracle Sunday opened its annual Oracle OpenWorld conference with the introduction of several new hardware systems highlighted by an in-memory database technology it claims improves database query ...

Traditionally, data in tables has been stored in row format. This is good for operations in which the whole row and many columns are accessed—as long as there are few rows. It’s not ideal for many ...