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[From Oracle Technology Network] The guide provides a walkthrough of installing an Oracle Database 11g Release 1 database on commodity hardware for the purpose of evaluation. If you are new to Linux and/or Oracle, this guide is for you. It starts with the basics and walks you through an installation of Oracle Database 11g Release […]

[From IBM Corp.] SAN FRANCISCO, CA – 16 Jan 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to deliver Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) support for Mac OS X Leopard. Through this collaboration, the planned IDS 11 “Cheetah 2” release will be available for Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard. The first beta version is available now […]

[From internetnews.com] Will Sun’s acquisition of MySQL darken LAMP? Despite generally positive reviews from the open source community, that remains one concern as Sun moves ahead with its its $1 billion acquisition of MySQL. As part of the deal, Sun has made much of the fact that it is acquiring the “M” part of the […]

[From Bainsoft] BDB is a software of database design and database deployment for Oracle, MS SQLServer, Access, MySQL, SQLAnyWhere and Sybase. It also supplies a complete database migration schedule across the database platforms. The article continues at http://www.bainsoft.com/NewsView.asp?/article/soft/html/200833.html

Practical Oracle Security By Josh Shaul, Aaron Ingram Published by Elsevier ISBN10: 1-59749-198-5 Published: Nov. 12, 2007 Dimensions 7 1/2 X 9 1/4 in Pages: 288 Buy this book Your Unauthorized Guide to Relational Database Security This book will help the DBA to assess their current level of risk as well as their existing security […]

by Kevin E. Medlin Abstract Database backups are one of the most important parts of a database administrator’s job. Backup strategies need to be reviewed on a regular basis. Backups themselves need to be tested frequently. This document offers one approach to database backups for Oracle 10g databases on Windows 32 and 64 bit servers. […]

[From MSSQLTips] In the latest installment of the SQL Server interview questions, we will outline questions suitable for a DBA interview to assess the candidates skills related to SQL Server system databases. In this tip, the questions are there to read, but the answers are intentionally hidden to really test your skills. Once you read […]

[From Acronis] BURLINGTON, Mass., January 10, 2008 — Acronis, Inc. (http://www.acronis.com), announced today a new family of backup and recovery software specifically designed for databases, including SQL Server, Oracle and MS Exchange. Initial shipments of Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server will be in the United States, with Europe and Asia/Pacific Rim releases later this […]

[From Packt Publishing] CodeIgniter (CI) is a powerful open-source PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. CodeIgniter is an MVC framework, similar in some ways to the Rails framework for Ruby, and is designed to enable, not overwhelm. This […]

[From Computerworld] January 07, 2008 (Computerworld) — Tens of thousands of Web sites have been compromised by an automated SQL injection attack, and although some have been cleaned, others continue to serve visitors a malicious script that tries to hijack their PCs using multiple exploits, security experts said this weekend. Roger Thompson, the chief research […]

[From Packt Publishing] This step-by-step, hands on guide will take you right into the Visual Studio 2005 Integrated Development Interface making you appreciate and understand how Business Intelligence Projects and Packages are created using the Visual Studio designer. The book has 20 chapters and 250 pages. It is really for the beginner who wants to […]

[From MSSQLTips] When inserting a row into a database table that contains an identity column, I need a way to capture the identity value generated by the database engine after it inserts the row into this table. What can I use to capture this value while also making sure this value is accurate? SQL Server […]