DatabaseJournal.com Staff

Database Vulnerability of the Day is a new campaign from Application Security, Inc.’s Team SHATTER (Security Heuristics of Application Testing Technology for Enterprise Research) to provide DBAs, CISCOs, and everyone in-between tips to secure their databases. Application Security is posting one of the Top 10 Database Vulnerabilities every day on Twitter (@TeamSHATTER) at 10am EDT.

Amazon Web Services’ Relational Database Service has been updated so that users can now manage it using the free Amazon Web Services Management Console, allowing the user to launch or modify a database instance in their browser. The Management Console will also allow snapshots of the database to be taken, which can then be archived, […]

Confio’s Ignite for SQL Server, with database monitoring and response-time analysis, has been selected as a finalist in the Best of TechEd North America 2010 award. “At Confio, our mission is to build database performance tools that fix complicated and costly database bottlenecks,” said Don Bergal, chief operating officer for Confio. “We’re thrilled to be […]

Sybase, Inc. has just announced that Sybase IQ 15.2 is scheduled to be generally available on June 11, 2010. Sybase IQ 15.2 is a column-based analytical database system with: Text Search and Analysis – allowing users to search for important data in unstructured formats such as e-mail and file systems, and retrieve relevant documents through […]

Many IT companies have large amounts of data that are growing rapidly across several data warehouse, and are becoming difficult to control. But an integrated, high performing architecture of multiple, independent data warehouses doesn’t have to be just an ideal. Improving Performance with Oracle Data Warehousing from Information Management is an eBook which presents a […]

By Peter Dobler The slogan “Bigger, Better, Faster” was always the driving force behind the database technology evolution. The latest release of Sybase ASE 15.5 is no exception. Sybase ASE 15.5 introduces many new features and several highly anticipated improvements to features introduced in previous Sybase releases, and the most exciting new feature is the […]

AppDetectivePro, by Application Security, Inc., has been chosen by Citigal, Inc. to assess and audit its clients’ databases for security, risk, and compliance. AppDectivePro is agentless, providing for rapid implementation and quick benefits, and also discovers, examines, reports and proposes fixes for database security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Says Cigital, “AppDetectivePro’s, automated database scanning capabilities significantly […]

Technology support for Oracle’s Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting 4.0 release has been improved, including support of Oracle Database 11g in the Insbridge SoftRater calculation engine. Among other enhancements, this upgraded support is to improve performance and system efficiency. Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting continues to have an open architecture and provide support for […]

The ESF database migration toolkit standard software utility will convert different types of database formats including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Access, SQL Server, Excel, Lotus, dBase, and Text. Simple conversion can be done through wizards that connect users to the main database and allow for choosing tables and converting and copying to destination databases. A demo is […]

Migrating from Oracle Database to SQL Server provides a feature rich environment at lower cost.   Migrating from one technology platform to another is not always an easy task.  Microsoft provides a free SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for Oracle that makes the process easier. The first step in any migration is to determine how to […]

Couchio has launched their hosted CouchDB beta program for developers and anyone who might want to store data. The Apache CouchDB is open source and free and designed for replication and disconnected use. Beta participants will be limited to 200, selected by Couchio, and can take advantage of the pre-version 1 beta release. “We wanted […]

Is your organization contemplating migrating your MySQL databases to Microsoft SQL Server?  If so, before you start that migration you need to understand all the issues and develop the steps you need to go through to make your migration successful.   Many different approaches and issues need to be understood and overcome to have a successful […]