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Devart Team’s OraDeveloper Tools version 2.60 is now available as a 30-day trial download or under license which also includes a one 1-year subscription for updates and customer support. OraDeveloper Tools 2.60, which simplifies Oracle database application development along with querying and manipulating data, now adds support for Visual Studio 2010.

With attacks as an ever looming threat, protecting data should be high on the priority list. Oracle’s Critical Patch Update for July 2010 contains 13 new security fixes for Oracle Database Server, over half of which address vulnerabilities that could be remotely exploited without requiring a username and password. Two of these vulnerabilities, one for […]

Team SHATTER (Security Heuristics of Application Testing Technology for Enterprise Research) as pulled together the top 10 database vulnerabilities, recently posted on the Net as a slide show, and gone one step further and started a series of blog postings to give further detail; keeping you up to date on trends, risk, and remediation. Currently […]

Calpont Corporation’s MySQL-compatible analytical database solution, InfiniDB Enterprise Edition 1.5, is now available. Easily scaled to any database size, InfiniDB 1.5 helps users manage their data with improved analysis and report performance, along with fast parallel-stream data loading. Query performance has been enhanced as well; it now includes increased user concurrency and faster join operations, […]

BE-Theory LLC’s Friendly SQL version 1.6 has just been released. Friendly SQL is an Oracle Database Client which features include a SQL Editor, Visual Database Browser, Data Export Wizard, and requires no configuration at setup. This version 1.6 of Friendly SQL includes a new TNS connection engine which functions more efficiently with Oracle RAC and […]

Now available is Oracle Coherence 3.6, a distributed in-memory data grid product that is also a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Says Grid Dynamics, “The new features in Oracle Coherence 3.6 will help solve the scaling challenges that are quite typical in large, complex, mission-critical applications. We believe this new release of Coherence will […]

Idera has announced the inclusion of a new webcast in their “Secrets of SQL Server” series titled “Introduction to SQL Server Common Language Runtime (CLR) Extensibility”. In this webcast attendees will learn from Michael K. Campbell the CLR pitfalls, best practices, and how to extend SQL Server with CLR functionality. “Michael’s extensive knowledge of SQL […]

Microsoft Access Database System will, with Microsoft’s July security update, get a security fix that addresses vulnerabilities in Access 2003 and Access 2007 and applies to Offic versions: Office XP Service Pack 3, Office 2003 SP3, 2007 Microsoft Office System SP1 and 2007 Microsoft Office System SP2. This fix is rated as critical and look […]

Available immediately is the new e-Course for Sybase ASE DBAs from ISUG and eLearnIT titled ASE performance and tuning with MDA tables; offered to be pragmatic combination of practical and theory-based skills for Sybase DBAs. “Our new e-Course marks our first foray beyond PowerBuilder into the broader range of Sybase product offerings. Specifically working with […]

After nine month review process, iQSonar releases Oracle Licensing solution to help companies manage their Oracle software license risk; ensuring they are properly licensed for software they use. “Oracle licensing is complex. As a result Oracle customers sometimes pay for software that is not being used, or are unintentionally using software they haven’t paid for”, […]

Today, Microsoft released a community technology preview (CTP) of service pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2008. This CTP has cumulative updates to SP1, up to update package 8; fixing some issues that were reported by customers as well as tweaks to the SQL Server 2008 R2 utility, support in SQL Server Management Studio fo […]

We all hear of insider threat but seeing the outcome when someone gets caught often eludes the general public. Now, in a recent ruling, Steven Jinwoo Kim of Houston has pleaded guilty to not only issuing malicious commands against an Oracle database but also copying and saving sensitive information. For his not so bright actions, […]