Oracle's Globally Distributed Autonomous Database caters to organizations with multinational operations and complex data-sovereignty needs. Oracle recently announced significant updates to its ...

Oracle announced the general availability of its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database, marking a significant enhancement in its database technology. Juan Loaiza, EVP, Mission Critical Databases ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

In the beginning, there were files. Later there were navigational databases based on structured files. Then there were IMS and CODASYL, and around 40 years ago we had some of the first relational ...

The relational database management system (RDBMS) held a stranglehold on enterprise data management from the mid-1980s through to the mid-2000s. For 25 years the question was never “should I use a ...