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• Oracle Autonomous Database shifts IT focus to strategic planning

  This handbook looks at what Oracle Autonomous Database offers to Oracle users and issues that organizations should consider before using the automated cloud service. Continue Reading

• Oracle Autonomous Database features free DBAs from routine tasks

  Oracle Autonomous Database can automate routine administrative and operational tasks for DBAs and improve productivity, but migrating to the cloud has its share of issues. Continue Reading

• How to manage Oracle database upgrades and annual releases

  Oracle consultants offer tips and advice on upgrading databases, including new considerations created by the annual release schedule that Oracle is now following. Continue Reading

• How Oracle RPA systems can automate business tasks for users

  Robotic process automation software can be integrated into Oracle environments to help strengthen business operations by augmenting workers with software robots. Continue Reading

• Oracle cloud adoption and hybrid cloud adoption pros and cons

  More businesses are adopting cloud systems or thinking about it. But cloud and hybrid cloud setups have pluses and minuses that Oracle users should be aware of. Continue Reading

• Oracle Digital Assistant unifies use of enterprise chatbots

  With Oracle Digital Assistant, users are able to create digital assistants with multiple chatbots that handle different tasks to help increase worker productivity.Continue Reading

• object-oriented database management system (OODBMS)

  An object-oriented database management system (OODBMS), sometimes shortened to ODBMS for object database management system, is a database management system (DBMS) that supports the modelling and creation of data as objects.Continue Reading

• Oracle Database 19c new features and what users need to know

  Oracle Database 19c is the last update to the 12c Release 2 line of Oracle's database software. This handbook examines its new features and potential reasons to upgrade.Continue Reading

• Oracle 19c database software promises stability, compatibility

  Oracle Database 19c offers automatic indexing and support for external data partitions but carries upgrade issues like apps certification and index creation agreement.Continue Reading

• First take on Oracle 19c: 6 useful enhancements for DBAs

  Database administrator Brian Peasland lists some of the new and updated features coming in Oracle Database 19c that he thinks will be beneficial to Oracle users.Continue Reading

• Future of Oracle centers on the cloud, AI and automation

  Oracle deepened its embrace of cloud computing, AI software and IT automation tools in 2018. What can users expect from it in 2019? More of the same, most likely.Continue Reading

• Key new features coming in Oracle Database 19c

  With Oracle Database 19c, Oracle is aiming to boost the stability of its flagship software's latest generation. But 19c also offers DBAs a variety of added features.Continue Reading

• The real Oracle cloud strategy that may work vs. AWS and Azure

  Oracle's database software is at the heart of its efforts to move users to its cloud. And that strategy might work, despite Oracle's inauspicious standing in the cloud now.Continue Reading

• Why to give third-party Oracle database monitoring tools a try

  Oracle DBAs can use features in Oracle Enterprise Manager under database licenses. But third-party tools may aid efforts to monitor and tune database performance.Continue Reading

• DataScience.com set to drive Oracle cloud analytics efforts

  Oracle's cloud strategy includes machine learning jobs that differ from the usual SQL analytics. The company is turning to its DataScience.com purchase to fill the gap.Continue Reading

• What the 3 versions of Oracle Cloud at Customer offer users

  Oracle's Cloud at Customer service lets users run its cloud technologies in their data centers. Here's what users get in the different versions of the managed service.Continue Reading

• Oracle OpenWorld 2018 news, trends and analysis

  At its OpenWorld 2018 conference, Oracle tried to position its cloud platform as well-suited for enterprise uses. This guide compiles coverage of key developments from the event.Continue Reading

• Users look to Oracle Autonomous Database to lighten IT load

  Early users are kicking the tires of Autonomous Database, attracted by Oracle's pledge that the cloud technology will automate database administration chores.Continue Reading

• Updated Oracle Gen 2 Cloud aims to challenge cloud leaders

  With enhancements to its Autonomous Database technology and cloud infrastructure security services, Oracle is trying to gain ground on Amazon and other cloud rivals.Continue Reading

• Oracle Mobile Cloud helps place privacy engine on cloud

  For Virtual Artifacts, the decision to go with Oracle's cloud was tipped by Oracle Mobile Cloud and a related bot platform -- and the self-driving Autonomous Database.Continue Reading

• Q&A: Oracle adaptive intelligence strategy pervades apps

  From IT to HCM to sales, AI and machine learning capabilities have been added to a variety of Oracle's offerings through Oracle AI Apps. And the vendor says there's more to come.Continue Reading

• Breaking down AI-infused Oracle Autonomous Cloud services

  Oracle offers a variety of AI-infused cloud services that it says will automate common administrative and operational tasks for users. Here's a look at what's available now.Continue Reading

• How Oracle DBA responsibilities change with Autonomous Database

  Oracle's Autonomous Database automates basic tasks of database administrators. That may put some DBA jobs at risk, but many will shift to higher-level duties.Continue Reading

• Oracle 18c features give DBAs incremental database capabilities

  Oracle Database 18c is really another version of 12c Release 2 with a different name. It doesn't contain major new features, but it does expand functionality in various areas.Continue Reading

• Using Oracle 12c Unified Auditing to set database audit policies

  Oracle Database 12c's built-in Unified Auditing feature streamlines the database auditing process, including creation and implementation of audit policies. Here's how that works.Continue Reading

• MySQL Community Server vs. Oracle MySQL databases

  With various open source and commercial options available from Oracle, selecting a MySQL database can be confusing. Here's a comparison to help you decide which one makes sense for you.Continue Reading

• Ten reasons to do an Oracle database upgrade

  For every excuse made not to upgrade an Oracle database, there are overriding reasons to do so. Here are the top reasons organizations should move up to Oracle Database 12c.Continue Reading

• Oracle in the cloud holds possibilities for users

  Companies that want to keep up with the times have been making the push to the cloud for years. But, sometimes, they begin offering products without having figured out how to replicate in the cloud what they do on premises; other times, users are ...Continue Reading

• Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c R4 focuses on cloud, IT efficiency

  Oracle announced Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4, an upgrade that offers new features for managing both enterprise stacks and private clouds.Continue Reading

• Oracle avoids usual lock-in strategy for its OpenStack development

  Latest versions of Oracle Linux and VM will release with OpenStack integrated. OpenStack development is a chance for Oracle to support community.Continue Reading

• Willis develops app to put a personal touch back in voluntary benefits

  Part two of a two-part article: Willis uses PeopleSoft 9.1 to bring back the personal feel to automated insurance selection for voluntary benefits.Continue Reading

• Willis develops app for real-time voluntary benefit selection

  Part one of a two-part article: Willis uses PeopleSoft 9.1 to create real-time automated insurance selection for voluntary benefits.Continue Reading

• Database 12c puts Oracle private cloud deployments more in reach

  Pythian database consultant Marc Fielding explains how some of the new features in Oracle Database 12c can help enable private clouds.Continue Reading

• The case for commodity hardware vs. Oracle Exadata architecture

  A former Oracle sales rep does a 180 by pushing his company not to buy an Exadata system, but to upgrade existing data center infrastructure instead.Continue Reading

• Oracle data analytics tools target a spectrum of user needs

  In an Oracle Collaborate session on Oracle data analytics, an expert outlined the range of tools available -- from canned reports to big data analysis.Continue Reading

• Oracle RDBMS vs. NoSQL databases in the era of big data

  While NoSQL databases are a lower-cost, scalable alternative to Oracle RDBMS, they pose risks of data loss, says an expert at Oracle Collaborate 2014.Continue Reading

• Collaborate 2014: Gaining greater value from software investments

  In our Collaborate 2014 tweet jam, experts offer key insight into the software buying process -- and how to gain greater value from investments.Continue Reading

• OAUG Q&A: What's ahead for Oracle ERP systems and Fusion

  Alyssa Johnson, president of OAUG, discusses the future of Oracle Fusion Applications and their coexistence with cloud in this Q&A session.Continue Reading

• Oracle Professionals’ Challenges and Priorities Survey 2010

  Almost 450 Oracle professionals answered survey questions from SearchOracle.com this year on topics such as budget, database and application challenges, virtualization and support. Here are the results.Continue Reading

• Quest offers new Toad tools for Oracle Java development, cloud DBs

  Quest Software has released beta versions of two new Toad tools for Oracle users that focus on Java development and NoSQL cloud databases.Continue Reading

• Oracle demos Fusion Applications; Ellison talks up integrated systems

  Oracle executives demoed Fusion Applications at the end of the OpenWorld 2010 keynote on Wednesday. Meanwhile, CEO Larry Ellison dissed Salesforce.com some more and talked up Exalogic and Exadata.Continue Reading

• Oracle Exadata Version 2 interest booms a year after release

  While the first version of Oracle Exadata generated only a handful of customers, Version 2 has lured customers into spending millions to buy it. But what’s so special about it?Continue Reading

• Third-party tools for Oracle: Special report

  Learn about the options for third-party tools for Oracle databases and why Oracle third-party tools are growing in popularity.Continue Reading

• New Toad tool offers Oracle database development with Visual Studio

  Quest has released Toad Extension for Visual studio, a new database schema provider to improve Oracle database development.Continue Reading

• Oracle's free SQL Developer adds database migration tool

  Oracle SQL Developer is offering a new tool that lets users migrate data from Microsoft and MySQL databases to Oracle.Continue Reading

• System vs. object privileges

  What is the difference between system privileges and object privileges in Oracle?Continue Reading

• Service-oriented architecture: Realizing tangible benefit from SOA in the near term

  This introduction to service-oriented architecture (SOA) clarifies some basic terms, such as service and Web services, and provides an overview as to how your organization can begin to see benefits from SOA.Continue Reading

• Eight key Oracle developer tools

  Consultant Sridhar Bogelli provides a refresher on some of the key tools that developers use to customize Oracle E-Business Suite applications.Continue Reading

• Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) fundamentals tutorial

  New to database administration or development? Here's a quick guide that can get you started by providing background on the relational model and practical advice for working with a relational database management system.Continue Reading