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[From Oracle Corp.] To help companies mitigate supply chain and compliance risk, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle Global Trade Management. By automating and orchestrating cross-border transactions, Oracle Global Trade Management enables companies to efficiently manage and control trade compliance activities related to imports, exports and other types of regulatory, legal and company-mandated policies. […]

>>Script Language and Platform: VBScript This script finds the number of process instances running on a server. Usage: cscript MonitorTask.vbs “distrib.exe” “2” “c:taskmonitor.log” “MyServer” parameters Explained “distrib.exe” = ProcessName “2” = Number of Instances that we are looking for “c:taskmonitor.log”= Log File Location “MyServer”= Servername Result: Type “c:taskmonitor.log” you will see the following results : […]

A new Critical Patch Update is due out tomorrow, January 12, 2010 that fixes 10 new security vulnerabilities across eight database components that include: Application Express Application Builder Core RDBMS Listener Oracle Data Pump Oracle OLAP Oracle Secure Backup Oracle Spatial Oracle Universal Installer The fixes include one vulnerability for Oracle Secure Backup and two […]

Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) conducted a web-based survey in 2009 of 175 North American security professionals that focused on their company’s database security and regulatory compliance policies. This research revealed that many large organizations remain severely vulnerable to compliance failures and data breaches. Furthermore, ESG is of the opinion that the research results indicate a […]

Microsoft has announced that, for the Windows Azure platform, you can now upgrade your Community Technology Preview (CTP) accounts of the Windows® Azure™ platform to paid commercial subscriptions. And if customers upgrade during the month of January all usage for that month will be at no charge with billing all billing and SLAs begging in […]

We’ve probably all heard by now the campaign to thwart the acquisition of Sun by Oracle; more importantly the handing over of MySQL to Oracle. But have we all forgotten about PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL has been and still is coming along quite nicely with an 8.5 release scheduled for the first quarter of 2010. Unfortunately, as […]

Through the Microsoft Download Center, you can download the Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure (a cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server technologies) November CTP (32-bit) which is essentially a plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 Professional SP1 and the tool SQL Azure Data Sync Tool for SQL Server. What the Redmond […]

The Auditor General of Alberta has selected and standardized on Application Security Inc.’s AppDetectivePro for their database audits—providing the Auditor general an automated audit and reporting functionality to evaluate their governmental databases. Said the Auditor General of Alberta, “It is critical that we are able to efficiently evaluate whether government databases have effective security and […]

Embarcadero has added more graphical capabilities to the 2.0 release of DB Optimizer 2.0.—helping to reduce the complexity of SQL tuning and profiling for developers and DBAs. With this release, Embarcadero has incorporated graphical tools like Visual SQL Tuning (VST) diagram and an Index Analysis feature to enable developers and DBAs to quickly understand the […]

The Needham Growth Conference is an annual event and forum for attendees to hear from senior management teams with fields that include Clean Technology, Communications, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure, Industrial & Diversified Growth, Internet & Digital Media, Medical Devices, Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment and Software & Services sectors. This conference is one of the largest of […]

The key to auditing your data is having the knowledge of who is accessing your data, or who is trying to break-in and steal your data.    Break-ins or attempted break-ins are not the only thing you need to worry about tracking.  You also need to monitor inappropriate use by those individuals that do have legitimate […]

Database security is a hot topic. But having your database audited can be a scary time if you are unprepared. For instance, do you really know what and audit is composed of? Do you know the tools available to an auditor? Well, if you know you should be concerned, and you know you should, but […]