The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...

Last month we looked at various types of database recovery, how they work, and how DBAs need to prepare for recovery scenarios. This month, let’s delve a little deeper into the issues and decisions ...

Returning to the fundamentals of database management is crucial as the technical world continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Examining core database infrastructures, as well as the new technologies and ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...

Major upgrade to the ever-evolving Oracle Database brings JavaScript support, graph optimizations, in-memory enhancements, and dramatic improvements to JSON operations and in-database machine learning ...

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