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[From The Register] MySQL, the lovable little database engine that could – for reasonable values of could – is starting to feel the pain of being an open source project distributed by a large company. With a slower release cycle, community contributions are having a hard time making it into the mainline codebase, and an […]

This program will dynamically build and issue drop and alter statements in order to move all the tables in a database to new filegroups. The reasons for having tables in their own filegroups are: 1) It allows table level restore by doing a filegroup recovery with a log restore 2) If you’re not using RAID, […]

Six new webcasts are scheduled for January, covering such topics as “How to Save Money Now Through SQL Server”, “SQL Server 2008 Governance” and more. TechNet Webcast: What Is New in Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (Level 100) Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:30 AM Pacific Time Attend this webcast to learn about the […]

[From CNET News] Last week Oracle and Amazon Web Services held a webinar to outline how Oracle works on Amazon’s EC2, including database backups to the Cloud. Running Oracle on EC2 is not too thrilling, though it’s likely welcome for many organizations. The article continues at http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10128577-62.html

[From Techworld] There has been lots of interest in Oracle’s database machine, said CEO Larry Ellison, although he admiteed that the interest had not yet led to any sales. The company launched the Oracle Database machine and the Exadata Storage Server (both jointly developed by HP) in September, aiming them at customers looking for high-end […]

[From InternetNews] Rackable Systems has announced a portable datacenter that can be easily moved around and plugged into a regular wall outlet, but still is fully contained with all the hardware needed for a mini-datacenter. The article continues at http://www.internetnews.com/hardware/article.php/3792341/Rackable+Offers+Datacenter+on+Wheels.htm

[From InternetNews] With data breaches hitting the headlines regularly and reports that regulatory compliance will be tightened up considerably in 2009, monitoring database activity to maintain security is becoming more important than ever. The article continues at http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3791661/False+Intrusion+Alerts+Cost+Time+Money.htm

[From Redmond] Microsoft on Tuesday released the latest beta versions of its Code Analysis Tool and Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library for developers, a critical part of which is a tool to identify vulnerabilities to SQL injection attacks and other incursions. Both releases come just days after a zero-day flaw impacting SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft […]

[From EITPlanet] With server hardware getting more and more powerful, and prices dropping just as dramatically, companies, especially smaller ones, are seeing their options open up when it comes to buying database servers. This means that database administrators who are newer in the field are being asked to design increasingly powerful systems. When designing database […]

[From Microsoft Corp.] This article contains information about the bugs that are fixed in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3). SQL Server 2005 SP3 contains the hotfixes that were included in cumulative update packages for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 from cumulative update package 1 to cumulative update package 9. The article […]

[From Redmond] DataDirect Technologies this week upgraded its ADO.NET database drivers, which provide connectivity between .NET-based applications and DBMSes from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and Sybase. While critics question the need for third-party database connectivity tools when free options are available from DBMS providers, DataDirect says its connectors offer higher performance and are easier to develop […]

[From The Register] Yet another zero-day vulnerability has been identified in a popular Microsoft product, this time in its SQL Server database. The revelation comes as miscreants are stepping up attacks on a particularly nasty bug in the latest version of Internet Explorer. The SQL Server bug could allow the remote execution of malicious code, […]