When I am working with an Oracle database, I still find myself using SQL*Plus for many quick and dirty database queries. In particular, I often look up constraints in SQL*Plus. In this post, I look at ...

In order to use materialized views, the Oracle DBA must set special initialization parameters and grant special authority to the users of materialized views. You ...

A key differentiating strategy for Oracle has been to make its databases and applications perform the best on its own storage systems—with features that are enabled only when implemented as "Oracle on ...

Larry Ellison, Oracle’s cofounder, executive chairman, and chief technology officer, has said Oracle’s new autonomous database ranks among “the most important things we’ve ever done.” That’s because ...