In the world of database architecture, the need to dynamically create complex objects conflicts with the demand for subsecond response time. Oracle's answer to this dilemma is the materialized view.

In order to use materialized views, the Oracle DBA must set special initialization parameters and grant special authority to the users of materialized views. You ...

On Thursday, Oracle founder and chairman Larry Ellison announced Oracle is building a "unified national health records database" on top of the thousands of separate hospital databases that exist in ...