This article explores the internals of materialized views and demonstrates how to precompute complex aggregates—having Oracle dynamically rewrite SQL to reference precomputed aggregate information.

This article continues the discussion of materialized views and discusses how to set up and configure your Oracle database to use this powerful new feature.

On Thursday, Oracle founder and chairman Larry Ellison announced Oracle is building a "unified national health records database" on top of the thousands of separate hospital databases that exist ...