Oracle is taking flak over the in-memory database (IMDB) option in Oracle Database 12c, released publicly on Wednesday. The trouble began when Kevin Closson, formerly the performance architect in ...

If you use Oracle in your business, you've probably come across triggers. These are sections of code that run in response to a particular event. For example, if you use Oracle to keep a database of ...

You may be aware of the old USERENV function, which returned session values such as the user’s session_id, language, and whether the user had DBA privileges. Although USERENV still exists for legacy ...