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Claire Hsu has nearly 10 years’ experience in database administration, architecture, engineering and development, ranging from SQL 7.0, 2000, 2005 and 2008 environments. Currently, she is a senior DBA for a global infrastructure team in an investment management firm located in New York City. She is certified in MCP, OCP 10G, MCTS and MCITP on […]

CipherOptics outlines strategy for supporting cloud connectivity and data security plan; helping customers migrate to public cloud infrastructures. Part of the plans include securing LAN extensions from the data center to public and private cloud infrastructures that will be based on their CipherEngine, a Group Encryption solution, and multi-layer encryption appliances. Also unveiled are plans […]

TeamSHATTER researchers, Esteban Martinez Fayo and Martin Rakhmanov, from Application Security, Inc. are credited by Oracle for finding 3 of 6 vulnerabilities in Oracle’s January Critical Patch Update (CPU). Vulnerabilities found included CVE-2010-4420 and CVE-2010-4421, part of Oracle’s Database Vault component and CVE-2010-4423 from the Cluster Verify Utility component. Worthy to note is that CVE-2010-4423 […]

Oracle’s quarterly patch release fixes 43 Oracle security vulnerabilities as well as 23 Sun software fixes. For the Oracle database server this update contains 7 security fixes that includes 5 for the database server where one vulnerability could be exploitable without authentication over a network connection, 1 fix for Oracle Secure Backup, also remote authentication […]

Ming Software releases new SQL editor, a lightweight intellisense-enabled database query tool for Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, or any ODBC compliant database; allowing users to easily edit SQL with autocompletion, hinting, syntax highlighting, formatting, as well as other features to help coders become more efficient. This SQL editor is free to try and carries […]

Business Intelligence offering from Jaspersoft is now certified with Ingres VectorWise with products being tested and delivering faster query response times than other database solutions with Vectorwise running on Jaspersoft. A co-certification of products enables corporate IT to build and deliver BI, analytics, and reporting quickly and affordably to business users.

Quest Software gains leadership in data protection with acquisition of BakBone; enabling them to provide a solution that includes virtual, physical, and application protection. This acquisition allows Quest to offer data protection across heterogeneous environments that is appropriate for small to large enterprises that will help lower the total cost of ownership and obtain world-class […]

In a webinar, Confio, with the help from Dean Richards, will outline how to tune Oracle SQL statements using response time analysis; using real-life case studies to help demonstrate. The webinar will be Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 2:00pm EST.

Quest Software has added a new wizard-based workload replay feature to Benchmark Factory; simplifying testing and safeguarding database performance. Along with the ability to benchmark test, users can capture production workloads and replay them in a test environment; helping to capture specific workloads and eliminating much of the guessing game often associated with rolling changes […]

RDC Software unveils release 7.1 of its database security suite, the Encryption Wizard for Oracle; offering a compatible data encryption solution for oracle 11g Release 2. The Encryption Wizard for Oracle is a transparent data encryption and security tool, now supporting multiple versions of Oracle from a single client and simplifying data encryption compliance. With […]

Koenig Solutions, offshore IT training in India, is now offering training for SQL Server 2008 failover clustering; providing HA support for SQL Server instances. The course should address continual operation of the SQL Server failover cluster including high availability that is achived through hardware redundancy, fail-over system, and policies.

Microsoft has developed SQL Compact Edition 4 (SQL CE 4), the next generation embedded database, intended for ASP .NET web application development and creating projects on top of Windows and providing a database when web sites don’t require a full data platform. SQL CE 4 is said to be good for databases of less importance […]