Why is there such pervasive abuse and misuse of database views today? Views are a helpful tool in building a business intelligence environment, yet many organizations establish practices that not only ...

I've installed Horizon View, VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product, dozens of times over the past decade. With each release, for the most part, the installation process gets easier and ...

The beauty and joy of a relational database is the concept of relational closure—everything is a table. Beyond the eponymous table, query results are also “tables.” Any query serves as a table to be ...

In order to use materialized views, the Oracle DBA must set special initialization parameters and grant special authority to the users of materialized views. You ...

How to query a LibreOffice database using the Query Design View Your email has been sent LibreOffice contains a very powerful database tool that is actually quite user friendly. Here's how to create a ...

When I am working with an Oracle database, I still find myself using SQL*Plus for many quick and dirty database queries. In particular, I often look up constraints in SQL*Plus. In this post, I look at ...

Chevin customers are using a new 'database view' function to help operations identify risks such as accidents, poor utilisation and more through enhanced vehicle and driver profiling. The FleetWave ...