DatabaseJournal.com Staff

According to the Advantage Professional Job Index, the growth of IT jobs is slowing down in Australia. While the IT industry did better than others, in that group of job ads, database development and administration registered the biggest drop of 13.1 percent. On a whole, however, the industry is still up 18.33 per cent from […]

Ever wonder where in the world the visitors of your website are so that you can display native languages, currency, or customize the page in another way to provide better service? Well, available for immediate download is IP2Location, a geolocation database product that uses a visitor’s IP address to find facts like country, city, Internet […]

A free community edition of Citrus Technology’s Citrus Replay, a data analysis and data quality tool, has been released with support for MySQL and Firebird databases and providing all the features of the professional edition.

Ingres Corporation and Bendigo Partners, LLC have together entered a partnership to promote the use of Ingres VectorWise, database technology that delivers the performance required to analyze today’s exploding quantity of customer data to enable profit maximization within the financial services industry. Ingres VectorWise is built on the open source Ingres Database, and can quickly […]

Though only released in March 2010, InfoDome is already being used by thousands, regardless of skill level, who enjoy its simplicity and powerful browser-based database solution. InfoDome allows users to import data and create databases with customizable forms and reports, also allowing these databases to be managed and shared from anywhere through the web while […]

By Robert Schneider This article investigates how the newly-available In-memory Database (IMDB) and Relaxed Durability Database (RDDB) in Sybase ASE 15.5 offer new techniques for supporting performance-intensive applications while not mandating any deviations from traditional Sybase development practices. Introduction With the release of version 15.5 of its Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database platform, Sybase offers […]

Oracle’s Technology Network has release an Oracle by example tutorial on using Microsoft Excel with the Oracle database 11g; showing how easy it is to perform BI analysis and reporting. Connectivity is made possible with Simba’s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP data connectivity product. Simba’s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP enables the use of ad […]

Database administrators can now quickly produce high quality SQL code with Rapid SQL XE just released by Embarcadero Technologies. With a single user interface, Rapid SQL XE provides support for heterogeneous database environments, along with support for Embarcadero InterBase, and the open-source Firebird database. Some other features that Rapid SQL XE includes are: Embarcadero ToolCloud […]

Brent Ozar, one of Quest Software Inc.’s SQL server experts, has achieved the SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master certification. Ozar is one out of 5 people outside of Microsoft to achieve SQL MCM certification, and also part of a very small group who passed it on the first try. “The best part of earning […]

New from Mertech Data Systems is the beta release of BTR2SQL. This database connectivity driver for MySQL allows Btrieve/Pervasive transaction engine users to run applications without source level changes and support multiple databases with the same source base.

On Monday, IBM made another acquisition, this time Cast Iron Systems, a data-integration company focusing on connecting on-premise systems with cloud-based software. Indeed, IBM has picked a good company to buy as Cast Iron has already built integrations for many top SaaS products, and the technology would seem to be increasingly appealing to more companies.

“We needed a reliable, flexible, scalable and secure infrastructure as the foundation to our new application,” said EFU General Insurance Limited, and so EFU picked the Sun Oracle Database Machine. Besides being the foundation data and storage infrastructure for EFU’s insurance application, Oracle will enable EFU to offer customers quality services through the web, along […]