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SharePlex licensing for Oracle Standard Edition is among recent enhancements that also include simpler installation that has been clocked at 15 minutes and a new SharePlex for Oracle online community with how-to videos and user forum. “Using SharePlex for Oracle, database downtime on planned maintenance that used to take four hours has been completely eliminated, […]

Talend Open Profiler helps users understand data relationships, structure, format, as well as accuracy of data. The free download can help you with examining data as well as statistics about the data, run metadata discovery, produce statistics on data, define custom metrics, improve communication of data quality for data governance.

Create, view, and modify databases from a mobile device with HanDBase from DDH Software. HanDBase has been very popular on many mobile platforms such as iPhone and iPad but is now designed and optimized for a wide variety of Android devices. “For over 12 years, HanDBase has enjoyed consistent praise on mobile devices for its […]

Administering MongoDB is usually a simple task. From taking backups to setting up multinode systems with replication, most administrative tasks are quick and painless. This excerpt is extracted from ‘MongoDB: The Definitive Guide’, published by O’Reilly Media, Inc. MongoDB: The Definitive Guide ByKristina Chodorow, Michael Dirolf Publisher:O’Reilly Media Released:September 2010 CHAPTER 8: Administration Administering MongoDB […]

Ingres Database 10 enables easy migration, through newly added features, to Ingres from proprietary databases such as Oracle, Microsoft, and Sybase. Also supported are multi-versioning, performance, column encryption, partitioning, and fast bulk loading. “Over the past year, we’ve seen a great deal of merger and acquisition activity in the database space, resulting in customer concerns […]

HiT Software Releases New Versions for Application Access to IBM DB2 with new features that include support for Microsoft Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, Office 2010, and Windows Server 2008 as well as full support for 32-bit and 64-bit IBM System iV7R1, New C# Toolkit in HiT ODBC/400 developer edition for SQL management. “We have […]

Voltage Security, Inc has released a new version of Voltage SecureData that will now help customers with data security and compliance on the Teradata data warehouses without the side effects of adversely affecting storage or performance; specifically those operations around extract, transformation, and load (ETL) operations. “With Voltage’s innovative data protection technologies, corporations using Teradata […]

IBM and ANTs Software will unveil IBM DB2 Skin; showcasing compatibility with Sybase ASE(DB2 SQL Skin) at the upcoming IBM Information on Demand Conference in Las Vegas. Over six sessions the product availability and trends in migration will be covered. “We are thrilled that DB2 SQL Skin will have a very high level of exposure […]

SkySQL provides software, services, and support for any version of MySQL as well as branches like MariaDB. A SkySQL Enterprise subscription will include a MySQL Server, MariaDB server, the SkySQL Enterprise Monitor, SkySQL Visual Editor, and SkySQL Technical Support. As part of the SkySQL launch, any customer who purchases a 2011 subscription will also receive […]

Talend v4.1 now supplies data stewardship and data matching to their data management solution; continuing to meet a customer’s needs to resolve duplicate data and quality issues. The data stewardship feature offers a data steward to identify attributes for a master record from duplicates, simple tools for implementation, and easily define business rules as well […]

A new demo kit, from DBSophic, is now available that is based on Microsoft’s AdventureWorks database for SQL Server administrators and developers to use; helping DBAs and developers experiment and realize the benefits of workload tuning. Workload tuning allows DBAs to tune and optimize an entire databases’ workload automatically, much different than the traditional way […]

Seminar series will provide “Best Practices for Database Security, Informaiton Governance & Compliance”; taking place in Houston, TX., Atlanta, GA., and Chicago, IL., starting this October 20, 2010. Find out, from Jeffrey Wheatman, from Gartner, all about database activity monitoring and how it addresses security and compliance challenges. Backing up Mr. Wheatman will be Ron […]