For obvious reasons, databases have always been up front and center to Oracle chairman and founder Larry Ellison, the prominence of the autonomous database at last week's Oracle OpenWorld gave Ellison ...

As if the role of database administrators in the IT universe was not important enough, many DBAs say growing concerns about database security have increased their workload and blurred their ...

When technology turns a corner, as it has with Oracle Autonomous Database, people who work with that technology rightly ask what it will enable them to do. With the self-driving, self-securing, and ...

"This isn't just an upgrade—it's a breakthrough. With our AI-powered DBA Agent, we're pioneering a future where databases optimize, secure, and scale themselves without human intervention," said ...

An oft-repeated story about database administration underscores both the necessity for database administration and the lack of understanding of a DBA's function: The CIO of Acme Corporation hires a ...

Many database administrators (DBAs) will go into 2018 wondering if “self-driving” databases will weaken their career prospects. More likely, 2018 will be a year that database technology leaps forward ...

For the past decade, the industry mantra has been "move to the cloud." Vendors, analysts, and executives have pushed relentlessly toward cloud-first strategies, promising agility, elasticity, and cost ...

Flying somewhere over Utah in a cramped regional jet, I started thinking about the good old/bad old days of being an Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) 15 years ago. The DBA has traditionally been ...