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On Thursday, May 27th at 1:00pm ET, a live webinar to educate companies about the challenges and opportunities of database deployment in a cloud computing environment will be jointly hosted by Sentrigo, Inc. and Blue Gecko. In their sessions, industry experts from both companies will talk about critical topics such as: Best practices for deploying […]

In an attempt to ease the burden of migrating from Sybase to IBM DB2, IBM has launched a tool, SQL Skin, to help companies migrate from Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise to DB2. IBM has also claimed that many companies have already moved from Oracle to DB2, with the Sybase acquisition many more will follow, and […]

Tracker Corp has now found a data center host for its SaaS solutions in OpSource. OpSource will be providing superb security to Tracker Corp’s data with data encryption class 3 SSL certificate RSA key length of 1024 bits, continuous multiple layered security monitoring with 30,000-point system scans daily, and multiple integrated data centers plus encrypted […]

A new release of CA Database Management Solutions for IBM DB2 for z/OS is out, designed to deliver efficient management of complex DB2 systems through simplified database administration and quicker resolution of database performance issues. Also intended to reduce the cost and effort of maintaining DB2 for z/OS environments, new features included in this release […]

Leader in intelligent remote database administration services, dbaDIRECT has developed ONguard Automation Platform, an application enabling efficient and effective continuous database administration through monitoring, auditing and improving the work and processes of database administrators. Built into the Automation Platform, ONguard Quality Assurance protects against human and system errors by periodically checking modified database parameters for […]

SecureSphere Virtual Appliances, providing the same best of class security protection, compliance and risk management for virtual databases and servers as its hardware counterpart, is now available from Imperva. Helping reduce costs by allowing a company to install it on any hardware running VMWare ESX it chooses, SecureSphere Virtual Appliances also provides: Flexible, fast deployment […]

If you’re a database architect, data architect, or SQL developer and want to participate in technical sessions providing real-world information, then DataRage 2010 might be what you’re looking for. DataRage 2010 is a free, virtual conference series hosted by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc held May 25-27. Top industry experts and practitioners will present introductory to advanced […]

Simplify the monitoring of queries in Oracle Database with Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM). Learn how to analyze query related activity and reach a definitive conclusion of database performance. This document simplifies the monitoring of queries in Oracle Database with Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM). The purpose of this paper is to show quickly how we can […]

Last month, the O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo brought together the MySQL community despite the uncertainty about MySQL’s future. Many of the conference participants recognized that opportunity still exists as the conference highlighted the latest MySQL and related technologies for DBAs, developers, and managers. Edward Screven, Oracle’s Chief Architect; Slava Akhmechet, RethinkDB; and Kaj Arno, […]

Two of Oracle’s Database Security solutions, Oracle Audit Vault and Oracle Database Vault, have been chosen by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited to secure its Crude Oil Import Tender application. Oracle will be protecting the classified data stored in this critical e-application by securing access to this data, and enabling HPCL to audit all database activity. […]

EnterpriseDB has worked together with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) to develop Postgres-XC (eXtensible Cluster) which is a write-scalable synchronous multi-master Postgres database cluster with both read and write-scalability. Though still in early development, PostgresXC has important working features such as proven scalability and Global Transaction Management. Global Transaction Management improves data-read and data-write […]

A new version of dbForge Data Compare for SQL Server (2.00) has been released that now delivers three times faster data comparison and synchronization as well as a new capabilities that include: Better performance; 3 times faster comparison and 2 times faster synchronization Support native SQL Server backups; giving the ability to compare any combination […]