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.

The following example searches the SQL DICTIONARY.CATALOG rows for the SASUSER library and PROFILE catalog to find all catalog types of QUERY (saved SQL Query window queries). The name and description ...

VoltDB is one example—a distributed, in-memory, massively parallel NewSQL relational database that clearly shows that SQL can be made to scream.