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Student editions of MacA&D and WinA&D offered at attractive prices for anyone enrolled at a university; allowing students to work with full-featured support of software design methods just like professional developers would. Current database design skills can be improved by drawing data models with SQL details, triggers, constraints, etc. as well as generating code for […]

Evident Software announces availability of ClearStone 4.5 for monitoring and managing all data tiers of applications that now covers Apache Cassandra, the open source distributed database management system, and Memcached, the open source data management architecture. To learn more, Evident Software will be presenting a webinar on the ClearStone 4.5 features at 2 pm EDT […]

Most DBAs don’t need a survey to realize they wished they had more time in the day, from the survey, respondents said they wish they had more time to: just had more time to tune fix poor SQL code monitor the database more learn new skills or technologies keeping skills up to date test new […]

Dbametrix, for a limited time, is providing a free trial for their remote database service WITH SLAs. In addition, Dbametrix has just launched a new DBA support service called ET support to help cut costs and save IT budgets with no hidden costs, no dependencies on number of instances, as well as what you’d expect […]

Now free from BEZ, BEZVisionFree can be used to capture transactional data and then be used to predict future performance impact of growth and changes in an Oracle environment. Many performance and utilization analytics can be viewed for companies to get a better understanding on their workloads running in an Oracle environment.

Queplix is hosting a webinar, “Thinking of Master Data Management? Don’t Do It” this Oct 12, 2010 that will explore how today’s master data management model puts companies at risk as well as incurs additional cost. “New, highly automated data virtualization solutions are shifting the current model of master data management to the benefit of […]

Aster data will be featuring Merv Adrian and Colin White of the BeyeNetwork in an upcoming webinar that will explore how to choose right solutions, develop and deploy, and take a best practice approach for meeting business needs and technology requirements for new analytic platforms. Learn about the new analytic platforms and how they can […]

A security update for PostgreSQL active branches and versions 9.0.1, 8.4.5, 8.3.12, 8.2.18, 8.1.22, 8.0.26 and 7.4.30 has been released to address a prevention of unauthorized privilege escalation that was seen by modifying “trusted” procedural functions. The fix also includes uptime, data integrity, and error handling issues. The fix also includes many internal documentation updates […]

Amazon Relational Database Service Announces Read Replicas; making the scaling MySQL databases easier as well as helping to provide improved performance for web applications. With read replicas, users can create copies of a MysQL instance and offer read traffic multiple targets. “We’ve moved our online game databases from self-managed MySQL servers to RDS with great […]

The MySQL experts at Percona are changing the way pricing is being done for MySQL support; offering a flat annual fee for enterprise level support instead of per-server or per-CPU. The support will cover unlimited database servers for a flat annual fee to help companies reduce support costs. “I’ve been very happy with Percona’s responsiveness […]

Idera’s “Secrets of SQL Server” webcast series will next concentrate on SQL Server analysis services; focusing on creating and using analysis services cubes to deliver advanced analysis. Stacia Misner, 25 year veteran of information technology, will take viewers through leveraging BI in SQL Server for improved reporting on business data. A two part series consists […]

A MySQL 5.1.50 derivative, MariaDB 5.2.2 gamma, has been released; increasing performance of the database engine with InnoDB threading as well as a plug-in concept for authentication modules. Also provided by MariaDB are virtual columns, not available in MySQL, and an OQGRAPH engine that enables processing of graphs in the database without any need to […]