A common scenario for using Web services is in the creation of business-to-business (B2B) systems where you must expose some business functions as services using Web technologies that users access ...

Oracle has kept its lead as the No. 1 database software maker, but rival Microsoft is gaining ground in the highly competitive market, a new study shows. Oracle widened its lead to 33.8 percent of the ...

Oracle is hoping that new security, testing, and management features offered in Oracle Database 11g will lead users to migrate to the major release of the vendor’s database sooner rather than later. [ ...

The Database Administrator’s role is to design, support, monitor, maintain, and performance tune production databases while ensuring high levels of data availability. This individual is also ...

Oracle Corp. plans to release a free version of its database by the end of the year in a move to compete more effectively at the low end of the market. Oracle released a beta version of the product, ...

Oracle’s long-awaited 12c database is now available for download, according to the company’s official website. Download links for the product were available on the site as of late Tuesday. [ Read ...

Oracle SQL Developer allows you to connect and manage databases. It is probably the easiest way to run any query as it gives the result in a tabular format. However, we have also noticed that, in some ...

Hoping to reignite sales of its flagship database software, Oracle on Thursday released version 9i and introduced a new pricing plan. Oracle, which ranks first in database market share, has spent the ...

Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive editor and east coast bureau chief, serving as department editor for business technology and software covered by CNET ...

Oracle has merged the core capabilities of the Oracle Audit Vault and Oracle Database Firewall products, creating the new Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall product which expands protection ...