Every enterprise is battling vendor lock-in—constantly. Ask any IT leader about what keeps them up at night and vendor lock-in is certainly near, if not at, the top of the list. And while network, storage and compute have long been democratized by virtualization, one discipline has held out as the last bastion of vendor lock-in: […]
Introduction to Materialized Views
More often than not, the types of queries that use materialized views are both faster, and use fewer resources than those that are still processing queries directly to base tables. But the key to understanding the potential that materialized views bring with them involves first understanding as much about them as possible. What is a […]
RDX Eases Oracle Database Migration to PostgreSQL on AWS
RDX this week launched a set of tools designed to make it easier to convert applications running on an Oracle database to Amazon Aurora, an instance of an open source PostgreSQL database running on the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud that is compatible with Oracle databases. Announced at the AWS Summit event in Washington D.C., […]