The Oracle SQL*Plus product has introduced some new features that have long been missing from this utility program, and some to support the new features. Here's a rundown of the new features in Oracle ...

Oracle has started shipping final versions of its "grid" database, a product launch that could spark more competition among database providers. The database giant made Unix versions of its ...

The database heavyweight ships the Unix versions of its much-anticipated 10g database, matches Microsoft on pricing and cuts the cost of its clustering features. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

TORONTO — A number of Oracle Corp. users are showing interest in the recently shipped 10g database, citing the software’s new manageability, usability and self-tuning features. In addition, because ...

Oracle 10g, due by year's end, will offer easier installation, management and tuning perks to make it more attractive to smaller, IT-constrained customers, company executives said last week. "One of ...

Oracle launched its Oracle 10G database this week and demonstrated slightly better benchmark scalability than SQL Server on a similar Windows-based configuration. The newest Oracle run on the ...

The company hopes this database release will better penetrate small businesses as well as the enterprises where Oracle is already strong. With the newly repriced Standard Edition One version coming in ...

Oracle’s Virtual Private Database (VPD) feature (also called Fine Grained Access Control) provides row-level security checking for DML statements such as SELECT. A PL/SQL policy function is associated ...