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Deanna Dicken is an architect with approximately 20 years of IT experience. In that time she has worked on many large-scale, mission-critical applications and has been involved at all phases of the lifecycle. She has also contributed to three SQL Server MCSE books, co-authored Learn SQL in a Weekend, and tech edited many other titles. […]

The Emerging Markets Development Survey is a comprehensive research series on developers and IT managers in the regions of China, India, Brazil, Eastern Europe, and Russia. This survey covers topics such as platform use, database development, wireless development, and others. According to the new survey, Microsoft SQL Server leads as the most used database in […]

It has been confirmed that Sybase is acquiring Aleri. This merge will help both companies. Sybase will provide solid financing for Aleri’s redevelopment program—providing Sybase with a CEP engine they can take across other verticals. Senior vice president of Sybase, Raj Nathan said, “With this transaction, Sybase positions itself as a clear market leader. We […]

The first Big Data Summit, held in New York City last year, was such a success that Aster Data has announced that there will be a second Big Data Summit. This Big Data Summit will be held on February 18 in the San Francisco Bay Area (Westin Hotel, Burlingame). The event will be sponsored by […]

Netezza, a small company based in Massachusetts, and NEC from Japan are partnering together to build database computers—directly competing with Oracle’s new-found hardware / db software combo. NEC will build the database computers using NEC blade servers and the Netezza Software; allowing companies to store and analyze corporate data. Netezza hopes to earn greater profits […]

EnterpriseDB, the enterprise Postgres company has announced that they will be the exclusive Platinum corporate sponsor of the PostgreSQL community’s semiannual conference, PG East 2010 (taking place March 25-28, 2010 at the Radisson Plaza Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)—enabling the conference to be extended an additional day to include more training sessions, greater end-user participation, […]

At a recent security conference, David Litchfield, researcher at NGS Consulting, offered up a demonstration that exposed how a user could bypass Oracle Label Security and take complete control over an Oracle 11g database—granting himself system level privileges. And while Litchfield has devoted ample time finding such security vulnerabilities in Oracle, Litchfield is reportedly moving […]

After an increased amount of new SaaS customer installations last year, Continuent, Inc. decided to give more attention to the MySQL SaaS data management market. As such, Continuent has found that its Tungsten solution is a great match for SaaS vendors and leading Eero Teerikorpi, CEO at Continuent, to comment that “The key needs of […]

With a beta release of VectorWise due out sometime Q12010, Ingres has released alpha code for VectorWise and is claiming 10 to 15 speedier than the competition. The claim to this heightened level of performance is VectorWise’s ability for SQL to access the compute power on multi-core chips as large blocks of data are served. […]

Regardless of the hype and paranoia over MySQL’s future, regardless of the viability of MySQL compared with other open-source databases, one thing is certain Oracle now manages MySQL’s future. And, as far as I’m concern, Roger Burkhardt, CEO of Ingres, takes a more healthy position—believing that Oracle will shape MySQL to fit its business needs […]

McObject, with its open source and object-oriented embedded database system for Java ME has now been incorporated as an important piece in the Professional Intelligent Charge Capture software by MedAptus, a leader in healthcare charge capture technologies. This software for BlackBerry smartphones manages charges, patient demographics, handles scheduling, and application configuration data, improving doctors’ mobile […]

Calpont, a provider of high-performance analytic database solutions, has announced the launch & availability of both enterprise and community editions of InfiniDB. With InfiniDB Enterprise Edition, Calont provides a MySQL-based warehouse database that provides scale-up and scale-out MPP capabilities. Matt Aslett, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Software at The 451 Group had this to say about the […]