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Getting extreme performance out of your system is important.  As the number of customers you have grow and the load on your database increases you need to make sure you still deliver your services at the same speed or faster to be competitive.  Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) In-Memory databases make it easy to achieve […]

Looking into the future, for 2010, Entrepreneur Corner gives us a brief synopsis of what to look for in the database market: For the bulging database market controlled by Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft there is no change expected as they will continue to controll Oracle will keep its promises for the EU in regards to […]

Security in 2009 became a huge topic regardless of budget cuts. One thing is for sure there was, and still is, plenty of movement in the security sector. Looking back at 2009, we saw some a number of acquisitions and these would be the top 7 as noted by eWeek. McAfee Buys MX Logic Trend […]

Along with cloud computing, dark traffic, social networks, industrialization of hacking, scareware, localized attacks, attacks on virtualized environments, windows 7, and mobile maleware, data breaches will continue to cause havoc within businesses, government departments, and for regulators in 2010. While it was reported that many of the data breaches in 2009 were unintentional (don’t ask […]

The amount of data businesses are storing today is substantial. Computers are getting faster, and so are traditional rotating disk drives. Still the speed at which we can retrieve data from old rotating disk technology can’t keep up with the ever increasing thirst for reading data by today’s applications. Therefore, we need to start looking […]

While an official release is expected for an Oracle Schema Compare from Red Gate, there currently is an early access release available. While only working with Oracle 10g & 11g, the key points of this compare/synchronization product will be: Automate database comparisons Synchronize databases Provide high quality and ease of use Save hours of developer […]

The DB2Night Show: Dear IBM If you’ve never heard of The DB2Night Show, basically has the simple mission of building a fun and interactive community around DB2 LUW through a series of episodes that include fun stuff, education, tips, and special guests. Guests on this next show, January 8, 2010 at 10am CENTRAL, from IBM […]

Continuent, the provider of Continuent Tungsten which provides users to manage dynamic database replication has announced the availability of Continuent Tungsten 1.2.1 for MySQL and PostgreSQL. This release provides the following improvements/enhancements: Support for replication of binary data using MySQL statement replication, as well as greatly improved character set handling New management “recover” command that […]

>>Script Language and Platform: Oracle Unix script/ Awk command for performing repetitive jobs, like creating directories from u01 u99 on an unix server. As a DBA, many a time, I have to loop through a set of numbers for creating directories, sub directories and temporary files on unix servers. The following shell script executes a […]

It would seem that the European Commission’s (EC) three month (to date) investigation has some screaming that there exists some form of monopoly rooted in evil and throwing the whole database universe out of balance. While we all seem to like pointing fingers at Oracle, I personally like the point put out there by Ed […]

Recently, a comparison of performance for a DB2 database was done between a Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array and traditional hard disks. Both standard and advanced queries with complex logic was performed to observe any performance gains with the F5100 Flash Array. From Shu’s blog, The testing environment was built using a Sun Fire X4275 […]

Interesting to me, but did you know that 72% of MySQL ISV/OEM customers use Windows for development AND 59% deploy on Windows. At least this was the recorded figures in a recent 2009 survey. Because of this a new guide has been written that points to the reasons why MySQL on Windows is more popular […]