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Corruption or damage to MS Access files, MDB files, resulting in data loss, can be adverted through the use of Kernel for Access for recovery. Kernel for Access performs recursive scans of the corrupted database and extracts the structure of the database and table datra; providing a complete preview of the database structure and components […]

Oracle Applications Users Group Joins IOUG and Quest to Host COLLABORATE 11 Conference; brining more than 500 user-driven sessions that will feature tips, techniques, and best practices to give attendees the opportunity to find relevant information to optimize efficiencies in the work place. COLLABORATE 11 will be held April 10-14 at the Orange County Convention […]

Makani Networks announces plans for a wide-area data storage infrastructure for collecting, storing, processing, and mining vast amounts of data; overcoming many bottlenecks that have perpetuated since the 1970’s for relational databases such as the idea of one size fits all, lack of scalability, failure to provide peta- or exa- scale level data handling, and […]

A SQL injection exploit has provided hackers the ability to extract usernames and password hashes from MySQL.com this last weekend. From there, the extracted usernames and password hashes were posted to pastebin.com where most anyone could easily decipher the password hashes against dictionary matches. Claiming responsibility for the hack are grey-hat hackers TinKode and Ne0h […]

Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services 2.1.0 has been released; making; it is possible to generate PDF reports in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 & 2005 Reporting Services. Advanced features now supported include adding PDF bookmarks, using HTML tags, and XMP metadata. Additionally, new documentation pages and articles have been added to help guide users on how to […]

VeriStor Systems Launch VeriStor Clud Services; providing a fully-managed and on-demand virtual infrastructure for data replication and recovery, continuity, and secure archiving through both public cloud and hosted private cloud options. VeriStor Cloud Services resides in secure SAS-70/SSAE16-certified datacenters, is fully managed and monitored 24 x 7 by VeriStor Virtual Infrastructure and Storage engineers, and […]

DataStax has released a software distribution called Brisk that links Hadoop and Hive with the highly scalable column-based NoSQL database Apache Cassandra. Currently, the initial Brisk version contains Hadoop 0.20.2, Hive 0.7 and Cassandra 0.7.4. Brisk will also be available under the Apache open source license sometime in the next 45 days.

A vendor-neutral NoSQL conference (NoSQL Now!) will be held this August in San Jose, California; helping organizations find better, faster, and cheaper solutions to help manage their growing databases and data stores. The conference is designed to address all levels of attendees regardless of their technical understanding; catering to novice to expert and emphasizing design […]

A data archiving solution has been announced from Longtop Financial Technologies Limited to help organizations store and manage data for compliance purposes as well as query data in an effective way. The solution is able to manage petabyte level structured data with low cost yet high access efficiency.

McAfee to acquire Sntrigo for database security technologies, a suite that includes vulnerability management, database activity monitoring, database audit, and virtual patching. The integration of Sentrigo with McAfee is said to give customers the highest level of security for their database environments in a cost effective manner.

Continuent is putting on a webinar in which attendees can learn who to take advantage of Tungsten’s powerful multi-master capabilities for MySQL; showing how you can tackle problems of MySQL native replication that cannot move data from multiple masters into a single slave and support for masters in multiple locations. Topics of the webinar include […]

New versions, HiT ODBC/DB2 v6.2 and HiT OLEDB/DB2 v4.2, have been released from HiT Software; providing application access to IBM DB2 for z/OS and IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, Windows databases. The new features include full support for Microsoft Windows 7, Studio 2010, Office 2010 and Windows Server 2008 as well as support for IBM […]