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SAP: Days of the database are numbered
News Demand for cloud computing and faster access to data will lead to a future where companies don't need a database, says top SAP executive.
Tags: Databases, Cloud computing, Data Management, Database, SAP AG, Berlin, Vienna, Cloud computing, data management, top executive
Amazon's in-cloud database gets MySQL option
News Net retailer's cloud-computing effort is getting more sophisticated with the arrival of a database service with which more people will be familiar.
Tags: Databases, Web services, Database, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Information Technology, Web Service, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Server
Facebook database outage cut off about 150,000
News Downed Facebook database left a small but vocal percentage of its userbase without access to the social network for as long as 10 days.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Facebook, Social Networking, Database, Phone, network, Web 2.0, Web sites, photograph
UK authorities deny prototype intercept database
News Security experts understand that a prototype centralized database has been built, to test whether all U.K. citizens' communications information can be stored.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Privacy, Security, Booth, Database, Spokesperson, U.K., Web, Home Office, Privacy
Oracle sends out update to Database 11g
News Oracle Database 11g Release 2 focuses on consolidating hardware and virtualization, and arrives two years after the database software was originally launched.
Tags: Databases, Database management, Storage Management, Tool, Storage, Server, data warehouse, Oracle Corp., Databases, Database management
Microsoft rolls out SQL Azure Database preview
News Database component of Microsoft's cloud platform is now available as a free trial until the service goes fully live in November.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft Windows, Cloud computing, Microsoft SQL Server, RDBMS, Database, SQL, Web Application, Community Technology Preview, Cloud computing
Google helps form 'white space' database coalition
News The search giant and a few other technology firms are helping the U.S. Federal Communications Commission come up with a database for services in the unused slivers of spectrum.
Tags: Open source, Web sites, Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Google Inc., TV, Wireless Broadband, Database, Spectrum, Wireless
Report: Some UK govt databases may be illegal
News A quarter of U.K. government databases could contravene European human-rights laws, according to an independent body of experts.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Databases, Regulations, DNA, Security, Report, Home Secretary, Government Database, European Court, Database
UK police database: 'A major weapon in crime fight'
News A Logica-headed consortium has been awarded the US$113 million contract to deliver the first phase of the Police National Database.
Tags: Databases, Logica, Database, Michael Bichard, Impact Program, consortium, England, Silicon.com, U.K., information management
One million people's details could be culled from UK database
News The European Union rules the United Kingdom has violated human rights by keeping DNA details and possibly fingerprints of about 850,000 people suspected of a crime.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Database management, DNA, Crime, Home Secretary, European Court, Database, European Union, Steve Ranger
XML database doubts
News As XML becomes an increasingly important data interchange format, it makes sense to look at new ways of storing information directly in XML and using XML-based tools for data query and manipulation. However, what those tools will look like is still very much up in the air.
Leaders of the database pack
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Program the database, not the code
News There's no question that I'm a fan of the data-driven approach. The basic idea is to embed programmatic concepts into a database rather than into the source code.
Oracle, IBM zero in on database security
News Security is an area that both Oracle Corp. and IBM are focusing on as they develop their next-generation database products.
Ellison touts large databases
News Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison made a pitch for large databases this week at the E-Gov conference in Washington, D C.
