DatabaseJournal.com Staff

While yesterday’s webcast was to outline Oracle’s future plans for Sun Microsystems, it also included a flurry of quotes by Larry Ellison attacking IBM. With Oracle now being a software-hardware company, who else but IBM would they want to belittle? It’s interesting, almost flying to old-Sun defense, Ellison threw out hardware comments like: “You would’ve […]

Available on SourceForge and the Continent website, Tungsten 1.2.2 is now available for download. While much of the release contains bug fixes, the open source version now supports a new Tungsten Connector capability for MySQL called pass-through mode—allowing Tungsten to proxy connections by transferring network blocks directly and speeding up throughput by as much as […]

The whole world was watching as Oracle laid plans for Sun products. On the plate and to everyone’s concern was the future of MySQL. But during the webcast Oracle executives said the company’s acquisition of Sun’s many top-notch technologies will allow the combined company to offer “complete, open, integrated systems.” This is what many analysts […]

Go to oracle.com/otn if you’d like to start using OTN mobile. As the announcement states, “maybe it’s a little late, but we’ve finally managed to get OTN homepage for mobile phones out there”. Well, I gave it a quick try and OTN really needs our help here. Personally I’d much rather get a news feed […]

Oracle Corporation has announced today that the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. is now complete. Now don’t miss the 5 hour webcast event today that begins at 9:00 AM Pacific time. Details are available at www.oracle.com/sun.

Stephen Wynkoop, founder and editor for SSWUG.ORG – the SQL Server Worldwide User’s Group has put out a question/consideration for subscribers—offering to track trend-type items on their servers. SSWUG would provide a script to run and in return SSWUG would provide a place (on SSWUG servers) to house that information and then provide online tools […]

The acquisition of Sun by Oracle clearly will create a powerful combination. While many have thought, or feared, Oracle might silently do away with MySQL, others see this as a weapon that can be used to hit Microsoft where it hurts—taking on Microsoft in the low-end database market. There seems to be a general consensus […]

As an entry-level data warehouse appliance with a $125,000 price tag, Netezza enters the thick of the data warehousing market—ready to take on Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. The rational for this entry seems to be that “We’re seeing customers starting to graduate to the need for high-performance data warehousing and data analytics,” says Phil […]

At the heart of every organization is a database.  The database is the lifeblood of each company, and when it is down revenue dollars are lost, as well as customers.  Keeping your database up 24×7 is critical to the success of your business.  With SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has enhanced its high availability and scalability […]

The new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provide money to support designing and implementing new ways of transmission and storage of electronic health care data.   This new law requires there to be significant change in privacy and security regulation related to electronic health records.  These new requirements will help stop snooping incidents from happening by […]

Intevydis is happy, surely they are as they release more database vulnerabilities, to announce and release DBJIT Professional. Currently it has about 50 modules designed to be used with Immunity CANVAS. There are tools and/or exploits for: IBM DB2 IBM Informix PostgreSQL MySQL MSSQL Oracle, Oracle TimesTen MaxDB Lotus Domino Server

In an effort to upgrade to a clusterd environment and modernize IT, Georgian College beefed up with Oracle 11g and RAC—helping Georgian College improve the performance, availability, and scalability of its Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise applications. The college deployed a four-node (Dell M600s with Dual X5450 4-core Xeon Processors and 64 GB RAM ) Oracle database […]