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 ...

Colleagues at one of the world's largest SIs have been testing the Amazon Oracle Relational Database Service - aka RDS (and not to be confused with SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions also aka RDS.) The ...

I'd like to eventually become a full-time database developer, and I'm leaning toward Microsoft rather than Oracle. Right now I am in a database application support position, supporting various ...

A comment by frequent contributor JesperFrimann last week caused me to take a closer look at licensing practices among major commercial database vendors other than Microsoft. All three of the big guys ...

Say what you will about Oracle, it certainly can’t be accused of failing to move with the times. Typically, Oracle comes late to a technology party but arrives dressed to kill. In the early 1990s, ...

Microsoft has an unfortunate history of inventing amazing new technologies and then getting left in the dust. Microsoft had smartphones before Apple, and e-readers before Amazon, but never made a dent ...