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• Oracle Autonomous Database shifts IT focus to strategic planning

  This handbook looks at what Oracle Autonomous Database offers to Oracle users and issues that organizations should consider before using the automated cloud service. Continue Reading

• Oracle OpenWorld 2019 coverage: Oracle seeks loftier cloud perch

  This guide covers technology developments and other news from the Oracle OpenWorld 2019 conference, plus key trends for Oracle cloud, database and application users. Continue Reading

• How to create Oracle Multitenant database user accounts

  Database administrator Brian Peasland outlines the process of creating users in an Oracle Multitenant environment and details new views in the Oracle data dictionary. Continue Reading

• How to connect to a pluggable database in Oracle Multitenant

  Once you've created pluggable databases in an Oracle Multitenant system, the next step is to connect applications to them so they can be used. Here's how to do that. Continue Reading

• Creating an Oracle Multitenant container database and PDBs

  Database administrator Brian Peasland outlines how to create the container and pluggable databases that are at the heart of the Oracle Multitenant architecture. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • NetSuite
  • stored procedure
  • object-oriented database management system (OODBMS)
  • PL/SQL (procedural language extension to Structured Query Language)

  • distributed database
  • Oracle NoSQL Database
  • PeopleSoft
  • MySQL

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• NetSuite

  NetSuite is a business technology vendor based in San Mateo, California.Continue Reading

• stored procedure

  A stored procedure is a group of statements with a specific name, which are stored inside a database, such as MySQL or Oracle.Continue Reading

• Oracle Digital Assistant unifies use of enterprise chatbots

  With Oracle Digital Assistant, users are able to create digital assistants with multiple chatbots that handle different tasks to help increase worker productivity.Continue Reading

• object-oriented database management system (OODBMS)

  An object-oriented database management system (OODBMS), sometimes shortened to ODBMS for object database management system, is a database management system (DBMS) that supports the modelling and creation of data as objects.Continue Reading

• Oracle Database 19c new features and what users need to know

  Oracle Database 19c is the last update to the 12c Release 2 line of Oracle's database software. This handbook examines its new features and potential reasons to upgrade.Continue Reading

• PL/SQL (procedural language extension to Structured Query Language)

  In Oracle database management, PL/SQL is a procedural language extension to Structured Query Language (SQL).Continue Reading

• distributed database

  A distributed database is a database that consists of two or more files located in different sites either on the same network or on entirely different networks.Continue Reading

• Oracle NoSQL Database

  The Oracle NoSQL Database is a nonrelational, horizontally scalable key-value database, with multiple higher-level data abstractions that support data management as binary key-value pairs, JSON objects, and SQL-like tables.Continue Reading

• PeopleSoft

  PeopleSoft is an e-business software product line owned by Oracle.Continue Reading

• MySQL

  MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) based on SQL (Structured Query Language).Continue Reading