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“R users will now be able to process, visualize and model terabyte-class data sets in a fraction of the time of legacy products-without employing expensive or specialized hardware,” says Revolution Analytics of its Revolution R Enterprise software with newly added “Big Data” analysis. The framework for multi-core processing of these big data sets is part […]

Users of FileMaker Pro who are often out and about yet still want their databases with them might want to try FileMaker Go. FileMaker Go is a mobile database application for the iPhone or iPad allowing access to databases on a FileMaker Server through Wi-Fi, 3G, iTunes file sharing, or even by opening the database […]

MobiForms Advanced Edition is now available with support for the full development lifecycle of Google Android mobile database apps. With its Developer and Sync Server, MobiForms provides: Definition of database replication rules and synchronization with a master database which may be Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Sybase, SQL Server, or others, as well as with ERP packages […]

With the contributing factors of release procedures, code reviews, and testing, the Apache CouchDB developers have put out a warning of a bug in the Apache CouchDB 1.0.0 that could lead to data loss. The bug is specific to CouchDB 1.0.0 where users have set the “delayed_commits” value to true. Developers are saying that once […]

Join Quest Software for their monthly webcast series: Strategies for Sanity in Database Management, 45-minute panel discussions that present customer cases and offer solutions in a panel discussion format. Featured presenters will include Oracle ACEs, SQL Server experts, well-known bloggers, and Quest technical experts. Current schedule just let out includes: August 12 – Database Virtualization […]

Join Leonard Lobel for a free demo that showcases the new “beyond relational” features for SQL Server 2008. Mr. Lobel specializes in Microsoft-based solutions and has experience that spans many business domains; often speaking and training in addition to his principal consultant role.

In order to provide broad protection for sensitive data Imperva will bring their leadership in data security monitoring and combine with ActiveBase’s data masking solution; allowing such things as dynamically masking sensitive data that is presented within application screens and tools without altering applications or databases. “Having ActiveBase dynamically mask sensitive data presented within application […]

The open source database MongoDB introduces new automatic sharing for horizontal scalability and high availability through replica sets with version 1.6.0; allowing users to distribute data across many nodes and enabling auto failover and recovery of nodes within or across data centers. “With built-in support for horizontal scalability, version 1.6.0 allows our users to build […]

Learn how to standardize data quality with an online tutorial from Talend this August 11, 2010; learning how to: Identify non-standard attributes Use substitution to standardize data Address standardization and address cleansing Implement custom standardization rules

The new release of Dynamsoft’s SQL Server-based SCM tool SCM Anywhere introduces a web client for the issue tracking module; giving team members that don’t require IDE or the version control piece. The new release also has a new installation method that allows SCM Anywhere server to be set up as a system service via […]

The DB2Night Show kicks off this Friday the 6th and is a great educational opportunity for those of you in the IBM DB2 LUW world. Hear from top IBM Toronto developers as they give tips, techniques, and user experiences. The next three shows of the new season include: Episode #24: “DB2 LUW Oracle and Sybase […]

ChronicDB has announced a new version 3.0 of their software that provides an easy approach to database replication for PostgreSQL. Currently available on Linux but plans are to support other databases and operating systems. A free version is available.