After a long time coming, Oracle Cloud is unveiled as the database giant's entry into the market with a focus on social and custom infrastructure services.

Putting rivalries temporarily aside, the software maker pledges to work on a Microsoft Visual Studio tool that lets Windows applications access data in an Oracle database.

Although the SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility has always passed joins to the DBMS, it is now possible to pass joins to the DBMS without using Pass-Through. Beginning in Version 7, the LIBNAME ...

Looking to extend the reach of SQL into the realm of new data management frameworks, Oracle announced today Oracle Big Data SQL, an implementation of Hadoop based on the distribution created by ...

The database giant will join Hewlett-Packard and IBM in a European project aimed at advancing grid computing technology.