In order to use materialized views, the Oracle DBA must set special initialization parameters and grant special authority to the users of materialized views. You ...

Why is there such pervasive abuse and misuse of database views today? Views are a helpful tool in building a business intelligence environment, yet many organizations establish practices that not only ...

The beauty and joy of a relational database is the concept of relational closure—everything is a table. Beyond the eponymous table, query results are also “tables.” Any query serves as a table to be ...

Online privacy is complex, encompassing debates over law enforcement’s data access, government regulation and what information companies can collect. This chapter examines Americans’ perspectives on ...

Contrary to assertions that people “don’t care” about privacy in the digital age, this survey suggests that Americans hold a range of strong views about the importance of control over their personal ...