Yin and yang, life and death, Clark Kent and Superman. Some concepts are so intertwined that it’s impossible to imagine one without the other. Transaction processing (TP) and relational databases ...

Online transaction processing systems are purpose-built to handle large numbers of transactions by large numbers of concurrent users, while guaranteeing the integrity of the data. Online transaction ...

Oracle Autonomous Database has been available since last March, letting early adopters get their hands on it. At a time when data is increasingly seen as a company’s most important asset, the ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) databases are purpose-built for handling analytical queries. Analytical queries run on online transaction-processing (OLTP) databases often take a long time to ...

When it comes to determining the cost of your accounts payable processing, don’t forget to factor in the time your staff spends processing invoices — time they could be spent working on other things ...