As an Oracle performance-tuning expert, I frequently visit Oracle shops to improve system performance. Although Oracle offers many performance-tuning techniques, you can’t tune away a poor database ...

Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle SQL Developer Release 1.2 that features new capabilities to ease the migration and consolidation of third-party databases onto Oracle Database ...

Using the CONNECT statement is optional for some DBMSs. However, if it is not specified, the default values for all of the database connection arguments are used. Any return code or message that is ...

This section describes how to retrieve DBMS data by using the statements and components of the SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility to access DBMS data. The Pass-Through Facility uses the SAS/ACCESS ...

Database replication is a valuable tool that allows companies availability and scalability with their data. To help support customers in this area, Dell is releasing version 8.6 of SharePlex, its ...

OK, while I'm really bad about approving comments (mostly because the platform makes it so painful), I do want to answer a few of them here real quick. First and foremost because this is bothering me.

Microsoft Corp. strengthened its hand in the database market Thursday by releasing the first 64-bit version of SQL Server. The product should help Microsoft address a broader segment of the database ...