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Starting in March, Oracle has increased the cost associated with certification exams. While this is said to be the first increase in cost since the program began, many database professionals are not too happy. With not all costing currently available, it has been reported that the cost of a MySQL Certified Associate exam has doubled […]

Altova, a Massachusetts based company with dozens of industry product awards, launched in mid-February its MissionKit 2010 Release 2 so that it now supports DB2/400, in both i5/OS V5R4 and IBM i 6.1, as a data source and target for the first time. System i shops may be most interested two of the MissionKit products: […]

Oracle SQL Developer 2.1.1 comes with or without JDK support. It is shipped with JDK 1.6_1 but one can use any JDK 1.6.11 or above. It has third-party database drivers for Sybase, SQL Server and MySQL and version control systems Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Serena Dimensions or Perforce.

by Jeff Garbus The Sybase ASE Resource Governor provides you with a mechanism to limit the resources a given process may request or acquire. If you have very heavy resource drains, it may be that adding this tiny bit of overhead can reduce whatever is currently stressing your system. If you’ve ever been responsible for […]

One month from their acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle is still promising to improve upon MySQL. And Oracle does have a successful track record with acquiring open-source databases. Even so, PostgreSQL is gaining popularity as more migrations, just over 3000 more than before the Sun acquisition, and inquiries by potential customers. The European Commission helped […]

Oracle Database 11g provides a data warehouse and business intelligence system that is scalable and performance oriented in a single platform environment.   Oracle Database 11g provides best of breed data warehouse and data mart solutions that will scale to 100’s of terabytes of data.   Oracle Database 11g also includes leading ETL tools, like Oracle Warehouse […]

In these economic tough times, we all need to think of ways to improve our company’s bottom-line.  There are many ways to do this.  One of those ways is to improve data quality.  This white paper explores how deploy some best practices related to data quality can reduce expenses for your organization. Many different factors […]

NeoTechnology has released version 1.0 of its Java-based graph database following the property graph model – Neo4j. Graph databases do well with high volumes of complex, interconnected low-structure data which change rapidly and require frequent querying. Neo4j represents data with nodes, similar to an object instance and with a unique ID; relationships or edges, which […]

Twitter is changing there database from MySQL to a NoSQL database in the form of Apache Software Foundation’s Cassandra project. Ryan King, an engineer at Twitter, told the blog MyNoSQL that the MySQL servers are “quickly becoming prohibitively costly to operate.” and ”We need a system that can grow in a more automated fashion and […]

SQL injection attacks have been around for many years and, I guess, we should breath a sigh or relief that there is a decline in its use. Maybe hackers are just getting tired of exposing vulnerabilities through this method, maybe databases HAVE gotten more secure, or maybe SQL injection has just been around long enough […]

Ingres President/CEO Roger Burkhardt has gone on record that they hope to move Ingres’s VectorWise database performance technology to beta in March. Burkhardt has said that VectorWise has achieved a 10-100X improvement in performance for workloads. The technology has in alpha for the last month and is scheduled for Q2 general availability.

Teradata profits have risen from previous years and are predicted to continue and stock prices are almost at all-time high. Teradata is doing well, yet Gartner says that Teradata faces three major challenges in their quest to keep top spot. Other mature database management systems, like IBM DB2, Microsoft’s SQL Server and Oracle’s flagship database, […]