If you want to take a copy of one table and make a copy ofit in another schema (under another username), you can use the SQL*Plus COPYcommand, or a simple <code>"createtable foo as select * from other ...

Sharing database data throughout a company is crucial to the daily operations of most businesses. To facilitate this, the data doesn't reside on one person's desktop PC; instead, a database server ...

The latest version of Microsoft's flagship database, SQL Server 2005, introduces an enormous number of enhancements to the product's security, scalability, performance, and programmability features.

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

Database performance is rarely a single "fix it and forget it" task. SQL Server workloads shift over time. A sluggish ...