Mainframes are very much still vital for performance- and security-conscious use cases. To optimise TCO, AI and hybrid cloud can help them retain their advantages Continue Reading ...

The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB. MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of ...

ExcelTable is a pipelined table interface to read Excel files (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .xls, .xml), ODF spreadsheet files (.ods), and flat files (delimited or positional) as if they were external tables.

Elon Musk’s net worth reportedly tops $1 trillion after SpaceX’s Nasdaq debut, raising questions about valuation, AI revenue, and future IPOs. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it. We ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

Oracle has integrated modern Transport Layer Security (TLS) network encryption into its eponymous database product, and TLS usage no longer requires the Advanced ...

Hadoop has introduced a lot of agility into the world of analytics and data integration. Concepts such as schema on read and the radical flexibility of processing data stored in files have allowed ...

Database auditing is the activity of monitoring and recording configured database actions from database users and nondatabase users, to ensure the security of the databases. An administrator can ...

As Python 2 support soon is coming to an end (end of 2019), the Orapatch library has been reworked for Python 3 The main purpose of the module is to automate the patching process of Oracle database ...