With its January 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle gained the MySQL open source database management software (DBMS) platform for enterprise IT environments. MySQL is designed to let users ...

Oracle Database is the first database designed for enterprise grid computing, the most flexible and cost effective way to manage information and applications. Enterprise grid computing creates large ...

When Oracle recently launched a free version of its autonomous database, it ignited tens of thousands of sign-ups. These developers help us understand the huge reception.

Here are examples of how Oracle Autonomous Database frees database administrators from mundane tasks and lets them focus on higher-value work.

Major upgrade to the ever-evolving Oracle Database brings JavaScript support, graph optimizations, in-memory enhancements, and dramatic improvements to JSON operations and in-database machine ...

Wondering what's new from the Oracle Database develop­ment team? William Hardie, vice president of Oracle Data­base product management, shared the latest information about features and enhancements ...

Oracle has been shipping tools to enable database encryption for decades, with a feature they call “ transparent database encryption ” that’s designed to minimize the difficulty of use.

Oracle is marketing a version that is said to be “ autonomous ” because many of the jobs normally done by a database administrator can be handled by the code.