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As stated by Team SHATTER’s Alex Rothacker, Although CVE-2010-0902 is rated by Oracle with a CVSS score of 6.0, this is the most severe vulnerability included in this CPU and should be patched immediately. The vulnerability allows full takeover of the database management system (DBMS) and possibly the server. In certain cases the CVSS ratings […]

Through their wholly-owned subsidiary, Sheffield Acquisition Corp., SAP has extended their offer to acquire Sybase, Inc. for a price of $65 per share until 9pm ET on July 26,2010. This particular offer was to expire on Julty 16, 2010 but is being extended because of certain conditions to the tender offer have yet to be […]

Open source consulting service and support company, credativ, has announced short courses for database development and database administration to help companies seeking to reduce the huge annual maintenance fees from commercial database companies; offering training in PostgreSQL as the alternative. Credativ is also planning on bundling support hours and contracts with the courses for companies […]

Microsoft says the first public SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) will launch soon and will work within ASP .Net Web applications; giving developers a lightweight database alternative. Using SQL CE eliminates the need for any setup or install; simplifying and quickening projects.

Available for free download, CouchDB 1.0 is now available for free to help developers meet the needs of mobile data through a faster and easier to use as well as more reliable and scalable foundation. New features and improvements include: Speed — writes are 300% faster for large documents, compared to the previous release Microsoft […]

Bloudera and Netezza have teamed up to provide connectivity between Netezza data warehouse appliances and Apache Hadoop. Cloudera will be building a connector that allows for data movement and transformation between the Netezza appliance and Cloudera’s Distributed for Hadoop. “Hadoop is a powerful complement to Netezza systems. Maximizing the interoperability between Netezza and Hadoop and […]

Many people thought that the acquisition of MySQL by Oracle was going to kill the prospect of an open-source database. In fact, a recent study suggests that most MySQL users are either neutral or positive about where the database is headed. Of the 130,000 surveyed by Jaspersoft, 47% weren’t thinking of switching databases and only […]

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For covering database and other IT-based logs with log and security event management there is no better place to look than LogRhythm according to Bloor Research, who recently published an independent research report on LogRhythm’s platform. For their report, Bloor Research evaluated integration, real-time analysis, forensics and compliance monitoring, infrastructure, performance and scalability. “LogRhythm scores […]

“With SQLDBManager Plus, DBAs can now stop worrying about day-to-day SQL server performance and instead focus on critical tasks, such as database design,” says ManageEngine. SQLDBManager Plus takes the weight off DBAs by being an agentless monitoring solution for Microsoft SQL Server that helps track usage patterns, keep performance up, and identify possible problems among […]

When made available through an early access program, SQL Source Control was tried and praised by many developers, and now this tool that allows developers to source control a database from within SQL Server Management Studio has been released by Red Gate. SQL Source Control keeps detailed track of changes and reduces change-management overhead as […]

DBAs are among the top categories in an increase in IT employment. Despite the general lack of new jobs in the economy, U.S. IT employment is up about 5% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ quarterly survey, and the number of IT pros working is the third-highest quarterly IT employment figure for the past […]