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Contrary to the original beliefs of some, Oracle is increasing investment in MySQL and has already begun adding new features to the open-source database. Oracle’s goal is to make MySQL more competitive with Microsoft’s SQL Server by improving MySQL’s performance and features, and consequently strengthening Oracle’s new foothold in the market of small to mid-sized […]

Craig S. Mullins, data management strategist and principle consultant for Mullins Consulting, Inc. will be presenting a webcast titled DB2 SQL Development Best Practices; offering participants an opportunity to touch on aspects of DB2 application performance and refresh personal SQL development knowledge. The webcast is to offer: guidance on applying best practices to DB2 application […]

LogicMonitor has just released a new set of enhancements to its data center monitoring system specifically aimed towards their customers who use Percona MySQL builds. These enhancements first check to see whether Percona MySQL builds are in use. If they are then monitoring automatically extends reporting to include the extra statistics from Percona. LogicMonitor’s web-based, […]

Putting a stake in the ground and proving an investment in MySQL development, Oracle has announced a new release of MySQL Cluster; introducing MySQL Cluster Manager and MySQL Cluster Connector for Java. Cluster Manager will help enable DBAs to quickly respond to SLAs while Cluster Connector will help improve development cycles. Also improved is database […]

Learn about the new database development features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio 2010 Database Development builds on Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition and includes features only available in a GDR (General Distribution Release) and power tools. New features include TSQL Intellisense, Code Analysis, a specialized Server Project template, and deeper database project configuration. […]

3PAR, with this latest co-development with Oracle, has become the the first storage vendor to bring ASIC-accelerated space reclamation. In the environments that use ASM, Oracle’s Database’s integrated file system and volume manager and 3PAR Thin Provisioning deleting a tablespace or database, adding disks to an ASM disk group can result in unused disk space. […]

Quest Software, today, has announced the launch of an Oracle Toad extension for Visual Studio as a database schema provider; supporting application lifecycle management for Oracle in Visual Studio 2010 and helping Oracle developers and Visual Studio development teams combine efforts. In particular, the Toad extension for Visual Studio will bridge the gap where support […]

When you are running a business what is your number one asset?  Is it how much money you have in the bank or the amount of inventory you have in your warehouse? Could your employee be your number one asset?  Well I suppose it really depends on your type of business, but normally your customers […]

The number of data security breaches we hear about is growing every year.  There probably are many more that are not reported or that go undetected.   Protecting your data may not be a choice, but instead might be mandated by law.  In order to protect your company’s most valuable asset, its data, you need to […]

The DBArtisan family of heterogeneous database administration tools gained a new member with DBArtisan XE. From Embarcadero Technologies, DBArtisan XE maximizes database performance and availability by: Supporting multiple database platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2 and more from a single interface Providing on-demand tool manageability with Embarcadero ToolCloud, which also saves time and […]

The final release of SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse appliance, expected in the first half of 2010, appears to have been pushed back as Microsoft has said it is still gathering customer feedback. Instead, the final community technology preview has been released which offers a hardware choice with appliances planned for IBM, Dell, […]

By switching over to Oracle 11g and RAC, HealthSouth, a provider of inpatient rehabilitation services, has improved the performance and availability of their PeopleSoft applications. Specifically, with an upgrade of Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise applications and enterprise warehouse, HealthSouth was able to automate processes, accelerate reporting and planning, consolidate reporting, and deliver a highly available and […]