In the world of database architecture, the need to dynamically create complex objects conflicts with the demand for subsecond response time. Oracle's answer to this dilemma is the materialized view.

The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...

I want to query a table with a date field and an integer field for the count of records by hour and type. I plan to store each hour's count as one row. There are a fixed number of values to the ...