The Oracle SQL*Plus product has introduced some new features that have long been missing from this utility program, and some to support the new features. Here's a rundown of the new features in Oracle ...

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Oracle announced the availability of its Oracle 10g database on Tuesday and cut prices, in an effort to gain more customers among midsize businesses. As previously reported by CNET News.com, Oracle ...

The company hopes this database release will better penetrate small businesses as well as the enterprises where Oracle is already strong. With the newly repriced Standard Edition One version coming in ...

Oracle’s Virtual Private Database (VPD) feature (also called Fine Grained Access Control) provides row-level security checking for DML statements such as SELECT. A PL/SQL policy function is associated ...

Some people choose databases from Oracle Corp. because of their cutting-edge features, but Steve Helle, chief technology officer at Denver area database marketing firm NextAction Corp., wanted ...

Oracle has made the beta for Windows and Linux freely available as a 150-Mbyte download to anyone who registers online. Some VARs applauded the move. “This builds a larger base of support, ...

The database heavyweight ships the Unix versions of its much-anticipated 10g database, matches Microsoft on pricing and cuts the cost of its clustering features. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Aiming at the SMB (small to midsize business) market, Oracle is shipping a major upgrade to its database software and is cutting prices on lower-end versions of the product. The Unix and Linux ...