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Stellar Phoenix Oracle Recovery 2.0 has just been released from Stellar Information Systems Ltd and now supports Oracle 10g and 11g databases. Phoenix Oracle Recovery is a results oriented application that contains an easy-to-use interface and has an option for users to manually select the damaged database for recovery. Oracle database components that can be […]

Teradata Corporation, which focuses on raising intelligence and achieving enterprise agility through its database software, data warehousing, and analytics, announced that its five-year goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent has been approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Leaders program. The greenhouse gas emissions intensity calculation is based on facility energy […]

Microsoft has released various Cumulative Update packages for SQL Server including Cumulative Update #3 for SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM, and Cumulative Update #11 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3). Every hotfix that has been released is included in the packages, and the KB article associated with the Cumulative Update package 3 for […]

The Complete Guide to Building Cloud Computing Solutions with Amazon SimpleDB. ‘Introducing Amazon SimpleDB’ is extracted from ‘A Developer’s Guide to Amazon SimpleDB’, published by Addison-Wesley Professional. A Developer’s Guide to Amazon SimpleDB By Mocky Habeeb Published Feb 9, 2010 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Developer’s Library series. ISBN-10: 0-321-68597-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-321-68597-1 Amazon has […]

Amazon Web Services is offering a new service to users of its cloud-based Relation Database Service in which database instances can be reserved in a specific region for portions of one or three years. These Reserved Databases Instances cost $227.50 for one year and $350 for three years; an hourly usage fee is still required, […]

Stonefield Query Version 4.0, a self-service business reporting solution from Stonefield Software Inc. is now available. Stonefield Query is designed to be easy to use so that casual users, such those that aren’t especially skilled or familiar with database design and SQL commands, can quickly get the information they want and turn it into reports, […]

Now available from Vertica Systems is FlexStore for Flash which uses Fusion-io’s flash-based memory tier to store the most frequently accessed data in a database to significantly improve performance. “FlexStore enables Vertica customers to deploy a hybrid of solid-state and traditional disk on industry-standard servers for the highest performing analytics platform on the market – […]

Users of the Apache CouchDB database need not worry about data loss anymore. CouchDB version 1.0.1 is now available; it fixes the bug that caused data loss in version 1.0.0’s default configuration, as well as some replication bugs, plus also including new support for replication through HTTP/HTTP proxy servers and the ability to audit deletes. […]

Josh Berkus, CEO of PostgreSQL Experts and database consultant of 12 years will be speaking at the next CouchCamp this September 8 – 10; giving his insight on relational and non-relational database technology. Mr. Berkus will be providing his insight into the different types of databases and explain differences and similarities so that users might […]

The new version of Sybase, Inc.’s database replication product, Sybase Replication Server, is currently available. Sybase Replication Server 15.5 benefits users by: Providing real-time analytics from ASE to Sybase IQ with continuous change data capture technology Reducing transaction latency through HVAR technology which provides high-volume transaction replication Improving performance in heterogeneous database environments operating Sybase […]

Microsoft’s SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) is now available for MySQL; and the existing Assistants for Oracle, Sybase, and Access have been updated to version 4.2. The SSMA toolkits were designed to make the complex process of manually migrating databases easier, which also reduces the accompanying time, cost, and risks. SSMA for MySQL v1.0 works […]

Now, for the first time, Red Gate tools and HyperBac technology have been combined into one complete backup and restore bundle. The SQL Backup and Restore Bundle includes SQL Backup Pro and SQL Hyperbac, both of which compress and encrypt SQL Server backups, and now come with flexible licensing; but differ in that Hyperbac provides […]