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Being committed to its relationship with SAP and supporting their solutions as well as prioritizing serving the needs of customers, Attunity Ltd. has had its Attunity Stream 5.3, a change data capture solution, certified by the SAP Integration and Certification Center that it integrates with SAP solutions via the integration scenario for SAP BusinessObjects Data […]

Until the release of RAD Studio XE in early September, Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of multi-platform database tools and developer software, is releasing sneak previews of its new application development suite. RAD Studio XE will include Delph0069 XE, C++Builder XE, Delphi Prism XE, and RadPHP XE, plus new tools that this second preview has […]

Cloudera’s distribution for Hadoop (CDH) is being used by Rapleaf for data storage and analysis. Rapleaf, an information company that needed a platform able to quickly process large amounts of data, found what it was looking for in CDH. Easy to install and integrate, CDH is based on Apache Hadoop plus eight other open-source projects. […]

A step-by-step installation guide for Oracle 11g for Solaris is going to be released Database Specialists in September 2010. Written by Database Specialists’ senior DBAs, all of whom are Oracle Certified professionals, this guide is intended to help DBAs get installation done by providing information on the new software’s nuances, any installation issues, and answer […]

The beta version of Cassandra 0.7 NoSQL database system has been released to be tested by users for a month. Cassandra 0.7 includes three new features: Support for secondary indexes makes indexing columns in the Cassandra database possible, which in turn makes find a certain data group in a single column easier Rows containing more […]

Idera’s SQL admin toolset has been upgraded to 1.5, and now includes a new tool among its already rich set that enables analyses of indexes and patches, multi-queries, password checks, job editing, server configuration checks and more. The new Linked Server Copy tool allows DBAs to copy linked servers from one SQL Server instance to […]

Microsoft is offering four tools free-for-download for users of MySQL, Access, Oracle, or Sybase who are migrating their data to SQL Server. Providing safe and easy migration, these tools are a major part of the Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant program.

Devart’s comparison and synchronization tools for MySQL have been updated to version 2.20 for dbForge Schema Compare and version 3.00 for dbForge Data Compare. Each has been enhanced to give improved performance, and both are still easy to use with: New options for customizing comparison and synchronization Comparison reports able to be generated in HTML […]

The Teradata OLAP Connector from Teradata Corporation now connects with Microsoft Excel PivotTable. This provides access to real-time data so that users do not have to base their reports or analysis on stale data which may not give an accurate picture of the business’ operations. “The extraction and storage of data in Excel Workbooks have […]

Now available as a free download from Devart is dbForge Data Compare for Oracle, an automatic data comparison tool. dbForge Data Compare for Oracle is easy to use with a thoroughly designed graphical interface and wizards that provide quick, clear tools for fully controlling comparison and synchronization of Oracle databases. It also offers: Comparison of […]

Now available for free download is Aster Data Developer Express, an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes the development and deployment of MapReduce-enabled applications quick and easy. Developers and analysts can build advanced analytic applications capable of leveraging petabytes of data, but without needing to be an expert in distributed data analysis or MapReduce’s parallel […]

MongoDB 1.6 has been released. This open source, NoSQL system from 10gen has been updated with two new features, auto-sharding and replica sets. Sharding is the “ability to subdivide and spread a very large data set across many servers but still continue doing high-speed data updates and retrievals,” which speeds up response to queries and […]