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[From ENT News Online] The 11g release of Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio (ODT) includes a host of powerful new features that make Oracle and .NET development easier and faster. These features make it convenient for Microsoft Visual Studio developers to stay in Visual Studio for the entire development lifecycle. The article continues at […]

[From NetworkWorld] With the economy taking a dive many IT managers are concerned over spending and not too sure if they should upgrade their database applications to SQL Server 2008. The latest features and functionality included out-of-the-box with SQL Server 2008 will allow IT managers to save a tremendous amount of money and at the […]

[From Dr. Dobb’s] Although Oracle Forms is no longer a flagship development tool, Oracle continues to devote resources so users can store unstructured data such as videos, word documents, and XML documents. In this article, I show how you take advantage of unstructured data in the database — video, in this case — and access […]

[From Firebird] The major Firebird version currently in development is v.2.5. Its feature set is being finalized at the moment in preparation for entering the Beta stage of development. The start of the Beta cycle will be accompanied by a “feature freeze” rule. The v.2.5 cycle has presented more challenges than usual in the areas […]

[From TechRepublic Blogs] Almost all industries require some type of data auditing in one form or another. This is especially true in the financial and health care industries, where changes in data can have critical effects. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is a great example of how important data auditing is. Auditing data is important for processes other […]

[From Oracle Corp.] As part of its ongoing commitment to deliver value to leading retail businesses and help offer them competitive advantage, Oracle plans to deliver end-to-end business process integration for customers using the Oracle Retail Merchandising Suite and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial applications. The Oracle Retail Merchandising Integration Pack for PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials is […]

[From eWeek] Enterprises today are not limited to tape-based backups as their only means of data protection. A combination of tape backup, high availability and continuous data protection technology can now be used together to provide seamless protection against data loss, data corruption and system downtime. Knowledge Center contributor Doug Piper explains how tape backup, […]

[From SQLServer Performance] This article is part 2 of a 4 part series that introduces SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). This article shows how to use the Data Flow Task in SSIS. Data Flow The Data Flow Task (DFT), using the SSIS Pipeline engine, manage the flow of data from the data source adapters to […]

[From InformationWeek] Ingres and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) have teamed up to produce an open source software stack for developers who want to use JBoss Studio development tools to build an application that requires a transaction processing database. The article continues at http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/integration/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212700950&subSection=News

[From OTN] Physical standby databases provide a rock-solid mechanism for high availability and disaster recovery. In a nutshell, the physical standby database is a physical copy of the source (primary) database, and the redo entries from the primary database are applied to the standby database continuously (or periodically) over the network to keep it in […]

[From Search Oracle] With January 1 fast approaching, now is the time of year when people across the globe start thinking about their New Year’s resolutions. The same, of course, is true of Oracle customers. But deciding on which resolutions to make – and keep — is not always as straightforward as it seems. Is […]

[From Personal Computer World] All relational databases use SQL (Structured Query Language) to query the data. But when you think about it (and even when you don’t), SQL belongs to an odd class of computer language because it is used to tell the database what to do, but not how to do it. The article […]