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.

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 ...

Online privacy is complex, encompassing debates over law enforcement’s data access, government regulation and what information companies can collect. This chapter examines Americans’ perspectives on ...

Views can ensure that the input data sets are always current because data is derived from views at execution time. Since views can select data from many sources, once a view is created, it can provide ...

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 ...

Contrary to assertions that people “don’t care” about privacy in the digital age, this survey suggests that Americans hold a range of strong views about the importance of control over their personal ...

A database is required with View Composer as it holds information regarding the linked clones that View Composer creates. Recently, I had to configure a SQL Server Express database that resided on a ...