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 ...

If you close your eyes and imagine that you're about to start your digitally transforming cloud journey, then the words of Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder, CTO and executive chairman at today's ...

A database start up, NuoDB, reached out to me to talk about a project they were working on to address the need for extremely scalable, web scale, transaction oriented database engines. The ...

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 ...

Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison first introduced the company’s autonomous database at Oracle Open World last year. The company later launched an autonomous data warehouse. Today, it ...

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 ...

Why external consistency is so important for a hard real-time database. Maintaining a transaction timeline. The impact of a transaction-scheduling policy. A real-time database-management system (DMBS) ...

There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t hear or read about an organization seeing ginormous transaction log (.ldf) files, while the associated data (.mdf) file is at the size it should be when ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a ...

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 ...