People often use the term “database” rather loosely, which can cause confusion about what a database is—and what it is not. A database is a system for storing and managing data, comprising both the physical hardware on which the data is stored and the software that organizes and contro...
Database as a Service (DBaaS) is emerging as a popular solution for this cloud migration. In 2022, an EDB survey found that 50% of participants planned to use a DBaaS for their Postgres cloud migration; 39% were looking into containers and Kubernetes, and 11% aimed to migrat...
Database security is the control and measures put in place for the protection of databases from malicious attacks. This is also the procedure that is followed to secure the database management system that accesses this data. Many organizations today overlook database security, and they forget that...
Learn what is a database schema, what are its components, how it works, what are its benefits and some basic rules that apply to database schemas.
In a denial of service (DoS) attack, the cybercriminal overwhelms the target service—in this instance the database server—using a large amount of fake requests. The result is that the server cannot carry out genuine requests from actual users, and often crashes or becomes unstable. ...
Oracle Database Instances If you have an Oracle database, you know that a database instance means a very specific thing. While the database includes the application data and metadata stored in physical files on a server, an instance is a combination of the software and memory used to access...
An Oracle database instance is built around a set ofcaches, called the system global area (SGA), that contain pools of shared memory; an instance also includes processes running in the background that manageI/Ofunctions and monitor database operations to optimize performance and reliability. Sepa...
Oracle is constantly adding new capabilities to the Base Database Service. This article provides a brief overview of the new features and enhancements made to the Base Database Service. It is organized by the date a particular feature or capability became available. Table 1-1 Whats New in Orac...
support for multimodel data and multiple workloads such as analytical SQL, machine learning, graph, and spatial in a singledatabaseinstance reduces the integration complexity and administration that is required with other providers, while still offering support for third-party integration and analytics ...
A relational database is a type of database that stores and provides access to data points that are related to one another. Relational databases are based on the relational model, an intuitive, straightforward way of representing data in tables.