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• 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

• 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

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  • NetSuite
  • stored procedure
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  • distributed database
  • Oracle NoSQL Database
  • PeopleSoft
  • MySQL

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• 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

• Oracle Autonomous Database

  Oracle Autonomous Database is a cloud-based technology designed to automate many of the routine tasks required to manage Oracle databases, which Oracle says can free up database administrators (DBAs) to do higher-level and more strategic work.Continue Reading

• Oracle cloud services aim to pull users out of IT comfort zone

  Oracle has gone all-in on cloud computing and expanded its line of cloud services in the hopes users will make the jump. But there are issues to weigh first.Continue Reading

• Seven to-do items for managing an Oracle cloud migration

  Migrating Oracle systems to the cloud is a big initiative for any organization. Make sure you put a solid migration plan in place to help ease the transition and keep it on track.Continue Reading

• Oracle sees Autonomous Database changing DBA roles for the good

  The job duties of database administrators will likely change in organizations that use Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud, but in ways that are beneficial, according to Oracle.Continue Reading