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Offering an alternative to popular scripting languages, Oracle on Tuesday is announcing availability of an upgrade to its free tool for building Web applications that access Oracle databases. Oracle ...

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New software could make databases much easier for laypeople to work with. The program's home screen looks like a spreadsheet, but it lets users build their own database queries and reports by ...