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The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) has created an advisory group of key MySQL thought leaders to help out MySQL customers; taking advantage and leveraging IOUG’s voice in the Oracle community and addressing interests and needs of MySQL users. Included in the group of thought leaders are: Sarah Novotny, Blue Gecko, Council Chairperson, Sheeri Cabral, […]

New Oracle Book by Packt for Creating APEX Applications, Oracle APEX 4.0 Cookbook, has been released that contains over 80 recipes for fast, secure, and modern web application development.The book will help integrate 3rd party applications like Google maps into APEX as well as enhance applications with stylesheets, plug-ins, AJAX, JavaScript, and jQuery.

New Razor Templates from TemplateMonster for Microsoft WebMatrix have been released that utilize a new Razor syntax, aimed at giving users an easy start with simple web site development and bringing together IIS Express, ASP .NET, and SQL Server Compact.

The European Commission (EC) is expected to update the EU Data Retention Directive, possibly reducing the current 6 to 24 months required for data archiving. The EC is expected to put out a full report that includes planned changes and while data retention is clearly not going away there will probably be reductions in the […]

SQLabs has released SQLiteConverter 1.5; allowing for the easy conversion of popular databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server to sqlite. SQLiteConverter has an intuitive features and will convert in just a few steps; making it a nice tool to convert between different databases to sqlite or backing up to a disk-based relational […]

Sentrigo will Host Webinar on the importance of database patch management; helping to share the importance of security, meeting compliance regulations, and improving database operations with proper patch management. The webinar will be on January 20,2011 at 11am PT and is titled “Overcoming Gaps in Patch Deployment”. Hosted by DBTA and feature Mike Stiglianese, former […]

Xeround takes their cloud database to Europe; extending their MySQL for the Cloud service. Organizations may now choose to run their database closer to where their applications run; geographically keeping applications and database in close proximity if desired to help decrease latencies. Additionally the new offering the new services will support multiple cloud providers over […]

Oracle has ended MySQL support for Windows 2000; upholding the MySQL support lifecycle policy that ends support for OS versions that are obsolete or have reached end of life. The discontinued support for all MySQL binaries for Windows 2000 will occur on January 6, 2011.

Black Duck Software has named VoltDB as leading open source database as well as one of the top 10 new open source projects for 2010. To note, VoltDB was the only database recognized by Black Duck in the open source leaders; evaluating open source projects by using a weighted scoring system that included commit activity, […]

While Oracle is said to still provide source code and limited product support for customers, the MySQL database on IBM i operating systems will no longer be provided. Last month, on December 7th, Oracle announced the end of life for MySQL binaries for operating systems that included i5/OS V5R4, IBM i version 6.1, AIX version […]

A new version of Hedgehog Enterprise Database Security Suite Release by Sentrigo will add data discovery and support for Sybase and MySQL support in Hedgehog DBscanner. As part of the release DBscanner will now perform about 4,000 checks for potential weaknesses such as operating system configurations and database setup. The data discovery has been extended […]

Application Security, Inc. and NEON Enterprise Software announce alliance; brining database activity monitoring for DB2 on IBM z/OS and enabling database audit policies for the support of critical audit requirements such as SOX and PCI DSS. NEON will deliver a native z/OS DB2 collector to help extend Application Security, Inc.’s DbProtect database SRC platform.