For in-database programming, Oracle Database 21c adds support for JavaScript, along with interfaces between JavaScript and Oracle Database types, SQL, and PL/SQL stored procedures.

How to Create a CLOB in Oracle. Oracle's namesake database management system has a data type called a CLOB, or Character Large OBject. Though the standard character data type, called CHAR, has a ...

For more information on these data types, see your Oracle Rdb documentation. LONG VARCHAR varying-length column for character string data, which has 16,383 characters. LONG VARCHAR is equivalent to ...

Oracle Globally Distributed Database allows data in the cloud to be stored across multiple physical databases in multiple locations while exposing a single database image to applications.

Oracle said the database supports nearly any data type, including JavaScript Object Notation, documents, media and vectors. It also supports relational, NoSQL and in-memory analytical data models.

Oracle Database 23ai has been updated with new features to support AI-based application development and other tasks.

The embedded Graal Multilingual Engine allows JavaScript data processing code to run inside the database – where the data resides – eliminating expensive network round-trips. In addition, users can ...

Here is a list of common wait types and techniques that every DBA (or wannabe DBA) should know. While there are many more wait types than listed here, understanding these will give you a leg up when ...

Oracle Database 21c is now available on Oracle Cloud, including the Always Free tier of Oracle Autonomous Database. The new release contains more than 200 new innovations, including immutable ...

Every column in a table has a name and a data type. The data type tells ORACLE how much physical storage to set aside for the column and the form in which the data is stored. ORACLE data types fall ...