DatabaseJournal.com Staff

This year’s Collaborate, put on by IOUG, may prove to be one of the best events for database professionals that IOUG has ever done. This year, because of the acquisition of Sun, Oracle will be bringing together in one place, not only past Oracle products we have grown to expect, Sun products such as servers, […]

Noted by Andy Feit, Sentrigo vice president of marketing, security issues for Oracle and Microsoft are quite different. Oracle may have more patches and more data and more vulnerable to attack while SQL Server is often departmentalized. But as we know both databases need to be secure and clearly is the push for adding support […]

The dbForge Schema Compare for MySQL, v2.00 has been released. The new updated features included many helpful tools for automate schema and data synchronization along with many other features like: The Command Line Launch for Data and Schema Synchronization Tools. Schema Comparison Reports Text Comparer Improvements Improved Data Editor Automatic Connection Recovery and many more

At the O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo this April 12-15, 2010, look for Eward Screven. Eward Screven, Oracle’s chief corporate architect and leader of the MySQL business, will be speaking and answering questions regarding MySQL current and future state along with Oracle’s plans for MySQL in the future.

As an option to Oracle 11g, Oracle Data Mining helps users integrate and build BI application with predictive information—giving good reason for Forrester Research to state that Oracle is a leader in predictive analytics and data mining (PA/DM). From Forrester, Senior Analyst James G Kobielus stated that “Oracle provides a PA/DM solution portfolio that is […]

Quest Software is hosting a free SQL Server training on Wed, March 3, 2010, from 7:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET. This Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) training will be in eight 45-minute sessions ending with live Q&A. DBAs of any level will receive expert advice, information, tips, and tricks to help them in an organizations […]

What is to be believed to be the world’s largest OLAP Oracle database (510 TB) has been continuously running for two years. Subex Limited runs an Oracle-based revenue management solution on Dataupi’s data warehouse appliance—delivering data-intensive telecommunications applications as a managed service.

The latest version of the data migration software for the Windows platforms, the Data Exchange Wizard ActiveX 3.6.3 from DB Software Laboratory has been released. Working directly with Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Interbase, Firebird, PostgreSQL, ODBC Ole DB, as well as with support for flat files, MS Excel, MS Access and DB files, Data […]

DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Server 2008 hosting service, has announced support for Microsoft IIS Database Manager 1.0—providing a method to manage local and remote databases and improving user experience with the integration of a SQL Server backup and SQL Server restore solution. Additional functionalities include management of tables, views, stored procedures, and data. Said Saad Ladki, […]

Improving on their connectivity to SAS, a SAS/ACCESS interface engine has just been announced that provides direct connectivity between SAS and Aster Data’s nCluster—allowing customers to take advantage of Aster Data’s SQL-MapReduce. Said Tasso Argyros, CTO at Aster Data: “Our vision of enabling richer data analytics and big data management for the enterprise is advanced […]

When you think of corporate assets, you normally think about things like, stock inventory, cash, accounts receivable, and other things that appear on your company’s annual financial report.  While these are important to every company, you also need to think about your employees, and your corporate data.  Your corporate data is what gives your company […]

Data privacy is important. You need to protect your data not only in the production environment but also in your testing, and possibly your development environment. More data being managed by IT and the desire by management to provide quick turn around on IT projects has lead to private and confidential data being housed in […]