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[From Internet News] Amazon.com’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) entity has put its Elastic Compute Cloud, widely known as EC2, into full production, and is moving to make it more attractive to the enterprise. With the release of EC2 into full production, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has introduced a service level agreement (SLA) and added support for […]

[From PHP Builder] Last week we discussed the use of the OCI8 extension and connection methods for using ADOdb to connect to an Oracle database. This week we’ll delve further into the ADOdb library and will disect some example code to get you up to speed! To connect to the database, the function ADONewConnection($Driver) is […]

[From Enterprise Storage Forum] As we noted in Part 1 of this series, database administrators are critical to the success of any disaster recovery scenario. There are many key roles that are critical to the success of the database administrator. A server administrator will have to install and set up the server. A system administrator […]

[From Oracle Corp.] Further extending its leading Identity and Access Management solution with products to help protect an organization’s information systems and Business Applications against phishing, pharming, trojans, key logging and proxy attacks, and insider threats, Oracle released Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 10g Release 3. The context-aware security software profiles behavior in real-time to detect […]

[From PHPBuilder] This article is for the developer who wants to use the PHP scripting language with an Oracle database to develop their application. PHP is one of the most commonly used scripting languages, as it is open source and has procedural as well as object-oriented capabilities. Oracle is a popular RDBMS and that’s the […]

[From ComputerWeekly] Microsoft has announced details of the next release of SQL Server. Codenamed Kilimanjaro, the database server will not be available until 2010. Ovum analyst Helena Schwenk said, “Kilimanjaro is an ambitious release for the company for two reasons. Firstly, it represents a more assertive move towards enterprise deployments, to put it on a […]

[From SQL Maestro Group] SQL Maestro Group announces the release of PostgreSQL Maestro 8.10, a powerful Windows GUI solution for PostgreSQL administration and database development. New features implemented in this version: The new version allows you to connect to remote PostgreSQL servers with restricted access via HTTP tunneling. Starting with this version it is possible […]

[From CA] CA, Inc. announces CA Insight Database Performance Monitor (DPM) r11.2.4, a product that enables business, operations, and database staff to better understand and manage database performance to maximize service availability. CA Insight DPM r11.2.4 provides centralized monitoring, collection, and alerting of current and potential database issues across major database vendors on Linux, UNIX […]

[From OTN] JavaServer Faces (JSF) provides a simple, declarative facility for controlling how an end user navigates from one page to another. Developers quickly realize, however, that they need to augment these basic navigation rules with custom code to implement real-world page flows requiring conditional page routing, page initialization logic, and transaction handling. In the […]

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[From MySQL AB] Unless you’ve been on a desert island lately, you probably know that the area of data warehousing/analytics/business intelligence (BI) is going gangbusters these days. Not many years ago, when industry analyst groups polled CIO’s on their top priorities, BI was #10. Then it jumped to #2 in 2006, and today it’s #1 […]

[From EMS Software Development] EMS Software Development announces the new minor version of EMS SQL Manager 2008 for SQL Server. Added support of compressed tables and indexes, field and file group filestreams, filtered indexes, and much more… You can download the newest version of the software. The article continues at http://www.sqlmanager.net/en/news/ems/mssql/1410