Oracle has responded to a former employee’s claim that a new in-memory processing option is turned on by default with the latest release of Database 12c, insisting that the process of enabling it ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced new cloud-hosted versions of its SQL Server database service as two older on-premises varieties finally will see the end of extended support Tuesday. Having transformed ...

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Let's kick off 2024 by checking in with the current status of some of Microsoft's more popular database options, like Azure SQL Database, Azure Managed Instance and more. Happy New Year's to my ...

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 ...

Modern scripting languages have come a long way toward achieving portability in the last couple of years. Even portable tools, though, benefit from platform-specific instruction. The Tk option ...