Life used to be so simple for Oracle. Back in the good ol' days, the company could build a great database, charge a king's ransom for it, and milk the maintenance stream forever. Rinse. Repeat.

Is your team responsible for developing scalable enterprise applications on Oracle, MySQL and other databases? Are you looking for efficient approaches to protect your data? Do you wish there was a ...

Traditionally, data in tables has been stored in row format. This is good for operations in which the whole row and many columns are accessed—as long as there are few rows. It’s not ideal for many ...