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Peter Evans, a Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Expert, Targit Certified Professional and industry recognized independent consultant specializing in delivery of applications utilizing primarily but not exclusively Microsoft technologies and in delivery of solutions to non standard cases. He enjoys explaining the methods he has employed in over sixteen years industry experience including work for […]

MyLivePage, a world-wide social networking site with five million users, is using MySQL appliances from Schooner Information Technology, Inc. MyLivePage’s growing amount of users demand high-quality service for media rich file and image sharing, and Schooner’s MySQL appliances support this by offering: Efficient scaling of the data center to meet increased demand Improved throughput and […]

Not everyone believes that Oracle’s acquisition of Sun means MySQL’s death, but rather that it will remain alive and well, a group which includes MySQL’s co-founder David Axmark. Their main reason being that Oracle and MySQL are generally in two different markets – MySQL in the web and Oracle in enterprise. Said David Axmark, one […]

In the release of Toad 10.1, the Toad Data Modeler is being made available for free across all editions of Toad for Oracle. Toad 10.1 also contains features to maximize productivity while following a logical and automated workflow of regular tasks performed in Toad.

Do you have to be a big company, to take advantage of virtualization?   The answer is no.  More small and medium size businesses are considering virtualization.  If you are a Microsoft shop, it is now much easier to implement virtualization with Window Server 2008.  Server 2008 comes with Hyper-V, Microsoft’s solution to virtualization. There are […]

As Data Warehouses evolve, new processing paradigms and procedures are developed to meet this evolution cycle.  To meet the ever-changing needs of Data Warehouse, software vendors are always implementing new version of existing products, or coming out with entire new tools.  To meet today’s Data Warehouse needs Oracles has released Oracle Warehouse Builder Enterprise ETL […]

Creating a short video, either by yourself or with a team, of 2 minutes or less, that highlights the importance of database security could fatten your purse by $2,000. And possibly a little fame. All entries need to be submitted through the video smackdown contest website on YouTube and have a deadline of November 15, […]

Denise is a data architect with several years experience in the deployment of data architectures at major healthcare insurance companies and state government. She is a certified PMP that has designed and deployed a number of data solutions ranging from transactional to decision support within various architectural and project management frameworks. She has also spearheaded […]

After being informed of his termination, former employee of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Douglas James Duchack, was indicted for trying to corrupt a database of terrorism suspects at TSA’s Colorado Springs Operations Center. After his job was terminated last October, Duchack allegedly place malcode into Colorado Springs Operations Center server containing data from the […]

TechWeb’s Intelligent Enterprise 2010 Editors’ Choice Awards has named Aster Data, a provider of data management and processing platform for big data and analytics-intensive applications, as the “Company to Watch” in the Information Management category. “Aster Data is focused on enabling organizations to more easily harness the power of big data” said Tasso Argyros, CTO […]

Drpudatabase.com, a product related website and leading provider of easy to use, cost effective database conversion applications, has released an updated version of the tool to convert MS Excel to MySQL database. This tool, which works on all major versions of MySQL and Excel: Accurately converts entire or selected portions of MS Excel records without […]

Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is choosing Cassandra over MySQL saying that they plan to open source all of their work on Cassandra. Digg’s system needs to support allot of interaction with their 40 million uses a month, so they need something that can give fast reliable near-real-time information and have the ability […]