Seriously, is it just running a couple of scripts or is it more involved? We've got Oracle installed on RHEL 4. I'm sick and tired of our DBAs insisting on installing the patches during unsupported ...

Paul Vallee, CEO of The Pythian Group, has a problem with a story I did recently based on a survey from Sentrigo Inc., which showed that two-thirds of Oracle database administrators had never ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

Database giant Oracle has released a fix for a severe bug in Oracle Database Server on Windows. The Oracle Database Server bug, tagged with the identifier CVE-2018-3110, is about as severe as is ...

Oracle’s newest database management system places increased emphasis on green technology while simplifying application testing and making it easier to patch. Oracle released a major upgrade of its ...

Oracle probably worried some DBAs earlier this week when it released its Critical Patch Update but neglected its most critical database flaw of the quarter for 9.2.0.8 users on the Windows platform.

If Oracle’s licensing terms never struck you as invidious before, you might soon change your mind. The upshot is that anyone who applies the latest patches and isn’t conscientious enough to determine ...

Oracle plans to begin issuing cumulative software patches for Oracle Database, E-Business Suite, Application Server, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Collaboration Suite on a quarterly basis beginning ...

When technology turns a corner, as it has with Oracle Autonomous Database, people who work with that technology rightly ask what it will enable them to do. With the self-driving, self-securing, and ...