This article explores the internals of Oracle9i indexing; reviews the standard b-tree index, index-only tables, and how these indexes may increase the speed of Oracle SQL queries.

Oracle launched Exadata Database Machine X8 with an update that uses machine learning to tune the Oracle Autonomous Database and automate indexing. Exadata is part of Oracle's plan to popularize ...

Oracle and IBM aim to help customers rein in new applications not easily integrated with traditional data structure models.