The one, big database we rely on to make health care reform work won't really be one database, but many databases, whose contents will have to be matched to be useful.

How database virtualization works Delphix connects nondisruptively to databases — the ubiquitous repositories for enterprise data — and loads a compressed copy of the data into the Delphix ...

But it also does project-based work for law firms and other businesses that have accumulated large quantities of records over the years and need to transform the files into a more usable form.

In turn, necessary staffing and administrative support must be in place to ensure the database works properly. There is no point introducing a system that won't provide major benefits to the business.

Based on the Hippocratic oath, new database design takes consumer privacy into account in the way it stores and retrieves information.

Pluggable databases, which will allow multiple databases to run under one copy, will offer new advantages in efficiency, Oracle executives argued at OpenWorld ...