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Available as a free trial or in the full version is Navicat for MySQL, an application to aid in administrating and developing MySQL database. Navicat works with MySQL versions from 3.21 upward, and also includes a graphical user interface that is easy to use. Other features that Navicat for MySQL offers are: Support for events, […]

PrimeKey Solutions, a company providing open source security software to many key public and commercial clients worldwide, has now migrated its technology to Ingres Corporation’s database and will be using the database to store its critical encryption and security data. Ingres open source database was chosen because of its increasing popularity, low total cost of […]

Sometime in the third quarter of this year, users of Oracle Database 11g will be able to begin building private clouds using a set of integrated switching and storage solutions from Brocade and EMC.

Toad Extension for Visual Studio is a new database schema provider that allows use of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 for coding against Oracle databases. This tool from Quest Software helps offer Oracle developers complete application lifecycle management, and control their objects inside Toad Extension by checking in and out of source control, receiving immediate feedback […]

A new update for the Essential PowerBuilder Series training course from eLearnIT LLC has now been released. Support for Sybase PowerBuilder version 12 Classic is immediately available, and the course now includes lab exercises and solution sets for Sybase PowerBuilder versions 11.5 and 12.0 Classic.

If virtualization licensing wasn’t already difficult enough, should your company be contemplating virtualizing SQL Server 2008 R2, it might just have gotten harder. The problems center around the new Datacenter Edition which customers must buy if they want to have unlimited virtualization rights. However the Datacenter costs double what the Enterprise Edition for SQL Server […]

In addition to Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0, Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus is now being used by Florida State University. Oracle BI Suite EE Plus took over the job of reporting on PeopleSoft Enterprise from various third-party BI vendor and legacy tools, and now benefits FSU by: Shortening the time required to produce […]

In today’s world of hackers and known security vulnerabilities, you need to make sure your database systems are not open to attack.  In the old days, it was somewhat common practice to assume your system was secure until someone identified a security hole.  However, today you need to be more proactive in making sure your […]

Data warehousing has been around for a number of years.  In those years, we have seen a lot of evolution happen in both software and hardware that supports data warehousing.  More and more features are being added to new database management systems to increase performance and streamline the data warehouse development lifecycle. There has been […]

Transferring data between applications is done all the time.  Sometimes, the data transfers are done once, other times they are done repeatedly so the most up to date information can be obtained.  Sybase offers the Data Transfer Utility to help with migrating data between applications. Building processes that perform data transfers are time consuming to […]

Licensing of SQL Server has always been a little confusing.  Prior to installing SQL Server 2008 in your environment, you need to make sure you understand how the product is licensed.  Nobody intentionally wants to violate Microsoft’s licensing policies.  However, sometimes it is just too confusing to understand all the different licensing requirements for each […]

SimplyAccess.net has recently developed a custom version of Simply Orders, their MS Access order database, for Centric Photo, a digital process and presentation lab offering services ranging from digital reproduction to website development to many options of printing. SimplyAccess.net satisfied Centric’s needs with an order entry program that provides easy selection of the many options […]