Insufficient disk space on database servers was the cause of Toyota car production grinding to a halt for 36 hours at 14 plants in Japan late in August. But just how does such a situation arise?

Most database implementations are anything but static. Once deployed, databases are queried, updated, loaded, unloaded, reorganized, and data is deleted and inserted from them on an ongoing basis.

Oracle released new versions of several of its engineered systems which provide tightly integrated hardware and software. The Exadata X6 Database Machine offers the latest Intel Xeon processors, ...