Relational database management systems (RDBMS) rely on an optimizer (or relational optimizer) that transforms SQL statements into executable code. Before any SQL statement can be run by the RDBMS, the ...

Oracle SQL’s Unix-based database management systems offer the flexibility of choosing to run an enterprise database inside any operating system. Dedicated languages are only compatible with ...

Database administration includes responsibility for ensuring the ongoing operational functionality and efficiency of an organization's databases and the applications that access those databases.

Sybase on Tuesday announced enhancements to its enterprise-level relational database management system Adaptive Server Enterprise, which will improve its manageability and encryption capabilities.

SQL is a relatively simple programming and coding language used to manage data held in a database (or an RDBMS, or relational database management system, to give it its full and fancy name).