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Oracle has announced the SPARC Supercluster based on SPARC T3 and M5000 server; providing a complete infrastructure for Oracle RAC environments. The SPARC Supercluster will be available next calendar year and includes three configurations. “The SPARC Supercluster is a new family of general purpose machines that includes software, servers, networking and storage,” said Oracle CEO, […]

PureChoice Releases Major Update to PureTrac. The new release of PureTrac 5.0 offers advanced alerting and charting as well as a better dashboard and new performance benchmarks; easing the way organizations log, report, and view critical data. Key enhancements include built-in intelligence for alerts and notifications, compare features to help further trhe analyzing of data […]

Grid-Tools and Green Light Technology have partnered together to provide test data management for DB2/400 solutions to Latin America. Jaime Penagos, Project Manager for Green Light, said: “We are incredibly enthusiastic about working with the Grid-Tools test data management solution. We have been looking for this kind of technology for more than seven years.”

Ingres and NST partner to bring open source relational database and analytics to Japan. The partnerships was formed as NST selected Ingres because of their reputation and database capabilities; offering Ingres 10 and Ingres VectorWise to their customer base. “Customers around the world are realizing the value that business intelligence and analytics can bring to […]

Solix Technologies extends data management solutions to Middle East; responding by opening a new office to support rapid growth and ensure customer satisfaction. “Businesses in Middle East have been growing at exponential rates over the last several years leading to exponential data growth and number of application modernization projects. And we are excited to announce […]

From SQL Server magazine, Replay 4 from AppAssure Software gets “Editor’s Choice” for Microsoft SQL Server backup and recovery. “Our clients’ applications live and die by SQL,” said Danny Welch, corporate systems manager at American HealthTech in Jackson, MS. “I’d recommend Replay for SQL – it is the best backup product I’ve ever used. Nothing […]

The new PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook bBook from Packt gives readers information on how to manage PostgreSQL 9.0 production databases; breaking down administrative solutions into demonstrated and explained tasks. The book is said to provide everything a DBA might need to protect, manage, and run a healthy and efficient PostgreSQL 9.0 database.

Aspose.Slides for Reporting Services 3.6.0 has been released that has improved support for SQL Server 2008 R2 as well as new and improved features and bug fixes. New documentation pages, articles, and tips have been added, custom PowerPoint Rendering Extension, PPT/PPS/PPTX/PPSX Export,

Aster Data and Tableau Software Partner for Big Data Analytics and Visualization; providing an integrated solution for big data and BI reporting and data visualization. Aster Data’s nCluster will deliver data management and analytics and Tableau Software will provide big data visualization and rich analytics dashboards; providing a solution for both structured and non-relational data […]

New Version of SQL Manager for PostgreSQL from EMS Database management Solutions, now supporting PostgreSQL 9.0. EMS Manager for PostgreSQL is designed to help ease the work of DBAs and developers with creating and executing SQL queries, manage data more efficiently, as well as help with export and import, and creation of reports. New to […]

Not only did Navicat 9.1 for SQL Server get released but the complete Navicat family (MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite) gets upgrade. With Navicat Premium all Navicat family members are united into a single work environment; connecting to the common database platforms that include MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

SQL Sentry has released their SQL Sentry Plan Explorer for SQL Server for free; helping users improve working with SQL Server query plans. The tool builds upon SQL Server Management Studio’s graphical plan view but improves efficiency. Improvements from prior v6 version include cost estimates use color scaling, cumulative costs can be shown, new rendering […]