Oracle is taking MySQL in a new direction: introducing an aggressively priced cloud service combining transaction processing and data warehousing, with the bonus of dispensing with ETL.

Oracle reaped $8.34 billion from database sales in 2007, giving it 37.6 percent of the $22.2 billion global market, according to IDC. The 2008 figures are not yet available, IDC said.

And that’s what Oracle is doing with MySQL Database Service,” said Edwin DeSouza, vice president of product marketing for MySQL at Oracle, in an interview with CRN. id.

Now I am not talking about updating from SQL 2005 to 2008 or from Oracle 10g to 11g, these do a good job 99% of the time in taking care of themselves. I am talking about moving a database from ...

Oracle raises the bar even higher with MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, taking on the complexities of analyzing enterprise data outside the database, but as if that data were stored natively within the ...

Oracle is formally getting into the data lakehouse business with the general availability of its MySQL Heatwave Lakehouse service today.. MySQL Heatwave is a managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS ...

This example accesses ORACLE data. First, you specify a PROC SQL CONNECT statement to connect to a particular ORACLE database that resides on a remote server. You refer to the database with the alias ...

Simultaneously, in big news for the corporate “enterprise” industry, database software giant Oracle said it had reached an agreement to acquire middleware giant BEA for $8.5 billion, a few ...