This article explores the internals of materialized views and demonstrates how to precompute complex aggregates—having Oracle dynamically rewrite SQL to reference precomputed aggregate information.

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.

How to Create a CLOB in Oracle. Oracle's namesake database management system has a data type called a CLOB, or Character Large OBject. Though the standard character data type, called CHAR, has a ...