Taking aim at competitors including Amazon Aurora and Snowflake, Oracle has enhanced the MySQL HeatWave in-memory query accelerator in the Oracle Cloud’s MySQL Database Service by leveraging advanced ...

You must watch out for many subtle and not-so-subtle traps when translating Oracle queries to SQL Server. Just as T-SQL is the language engine of SQL Server, PLSQL is that of Oracle. Both these ...

Just a few years after the concept of structured query tools was first introduced, there are already dozens of vendors offering SQL capabilities for the batch processing platform, from small-time ...

Oracle is also following the AI trend – but not the hype: instead, the Group is releasing many specific functions in its existing offerings. Oracle's new offerings include GenAI agents with RAG ...

Smart contracts are touted as having the potential to do all kinds amazing things. But, to fulfill their promise, they need a way to communicate with the outside world. That is not so easily done. Due ...

Hi<BR><BR>I need to compare a date field to a varchar field that has a date stored as DDMMYYYY. I am unsure how to do this.<BR><BR>thanks ...