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ManageEngine launches a comprehensive SQL Server monitoring solution to help ensure optimum functionality and resolve performance problems. SQLDBManager Plus is agentless monitoring, provides a holistic view of databases, and helps DBAs understand usage patterns for capacity planning. The tool also allows DBAs to troubleshoot, resolve bottlenecks, and in general keep on top of SQL Server […]

Three sessions focused on FileMaker Go fo iPhone and iPad will be added to the FileMaker Developer Conference; providing information about optimizing FileMaker Pro databases for iPhone and iPad. This is the largest annual get-together of FileMaker database developers, trainer, and users and will take place August 15-18 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & […]

Noa Bar Yosef, Senior Security Strategist for Imperva will be the featured speaker for a webinar entitled “Top 10 Database Security Threats and How to Stop Them” this August 4, 2010 at 11:00am PDT. In this webinar, Imperva’s own research organization, the Application Defense Center, will talk about the top 10 most dangerous threats they […]

Helping to facilitate compliance and data retention requirements and lightening database load for improved responsiveness as well as reducing outages, Sortware AG has release a data archiving tool for Adabas. The tool will remove stale data from production databases and store it in long-term archives; helping many companies with retention requirements for HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel […]

Developed and maintained by the SQLite Consortium, which includes Mozilla, Adobe, and Oracle, the embedded relational SQL database management system, SQLite 3.7.0, now has write-ahead logging instead of a rollback journal. This provides better performance, more concurrency, and more sequential disk I/O operations. This looks like a option as the old rollback-journal is still being […]

O’Reily open source convention has announced the availability of DB Relay that enables easy database access for web application development. With DB Relay, standard technology and simple infrastructure enable a cost effective development of intranet tools to interact with databases; eliminating the need for proprietary software installation on multiple clients. DB Relay utilizes JSON over […]

Learn how you too can stamp out common database errors from an SQL Expert’s playbook and learn a lot about relational databases along the way. ‘Ambiguous Groups’ is extracted from ‘SQL Antipatterns’, published by the Pragmatic Bookshelf. Title: SQLAntipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming Author: Bill Karwin Publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf ISBN-10: 1-934356-55-7 ISBN-13: […]

Together, Teradata and ESRI will enable customers to integrate business and geospatial data into a single data where they may perform advanced analytics and provide geospatial intelligence. “The unique combination of geospatial power from ESRI and the marketing-leading Teradata database engine offers customers a new, advanced ability to solve business problems,” said Randy Lea, vice […]

Canonical’s release of a virtual appliance will run IBM DB2 Express-C on Ubuntu; enabling customers to easily set up public and private clouds. In addition, Canonical offers Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud which uses a version of open-source Eucalyptus cloud software so that customers can build their own private clouds.

The EU gave unconditional regulatory approval for SAP’s $5.8 billion takeover of Sybase; giving the world’s largest maker of business software the ability to take the fourth biggest provider of database software to new heights. “The (European) Commission’s investigation confirmed that horizontal anti-competitive effects are unlikely to occur in any of the relevant markets, notably […]

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Heroku addes NoSQL data stores to help accelerated cloud development. Added were CouchDB, MongoDB, Membase/Memcached, and Redis; giving Heroku’s customers some of the most sophisticated NoSQL database services for web application development. “SQL databases have become the proverbial hammer in search of a nail. At the same time many cloud web applications […]

The UKOUG is always a high-quality conference with top quality speakers who share their expertise about Oracle databases, products, and technology in general. A call for papers is open until Monday, August 2nd. What people say about the UKOUG Conference Series: “An event to learn, get experienced and increase productivity from the Oracle Experts!” Flowserve […]