Both Oracle and SQL Server have very well-established communities. While they are different, they are also similar in many ways. All DBAs worry about the performance and security of the data and the ...

Oracle closed security holes in Oracle Database Server versions 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.1, and 12.1.0.2. None of the vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely without authentication, ...

Oracle Database: This Critical Patch Update contains 13 new Security fixes for the Oracle Database Server divided as follows: 6 new security fixes for the Oracle Database Server.

The Oracle Database Server bug, tagged with the identifier CVE-2018-3110, is about as severe as is possible because it can not only give an attacker "complete control" over the vulnerable 11g, ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage at OpenWorld to introduce the HP Oracle Database Machine and the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server.

It turns out that Oracle has known about the bug since 2008 but it has come to the spotlight again now that a security researcher, Joxean Koret, has published a detailed advisory on the bug. He’s ...

Oracle’s Eric Maurice made the announcement on Friday afternoon. So if you’re running Oracle Database Server 9.2.0.8 on Windows you can rest a bit easier … once you’ve finished testing.

On the X10M machines, the link from the database server to this XRMEM on the storage server had a 17 microsecond hop. By tweaking the microcode and network stack in the X11M stack, Oracle has been ...

Oracle is warning customers about a vulnerability in the ubiquitous Oracle Database Server that can allow an attacker to gain complete control of the affected server. The CVE-2012-3132 ...

As Oracle did with Oracle Database 10g, Microsoft has added a tuning engine to SQL Server that optimizes performance founded on a knowledge base of best-practice tuning parameters.