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Researchers to offer tool for hacking Oracle DBes
News During their upcoming presentation at Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences, security experts will release tool that can be used to break into Oracle databases.
Tags: Business applications, Databases, Vulnerability, Database, Tool, SQL, SQL Injection, e-mail, hacking, Oracle Corp.
Microsoft researcher stores digital life
Insight newsmaker Senior Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has been recording his life for a decade. He talks about the ideas behind the project, what the future holds, and why he wants a database.
Tags: Databases, Data Management, Storage software, Microsoft Corp., WinFS, Conference, File System, Database, Memory, Digital Equipment Corp.
Philippine govt dumps IBM, heads to Oracle-HP
News Country's pension agency ditches IBM and starts migration to system running Oracle database and HP servers, ending months of tensed relationship with Big Blue.
Tags: Database management, Databases, Service level management, Local Government, Database, SAP AG, Oracle Corp., CTO, Service level management, Databases
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
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
Facebook acknowledges access problems
News Some members of the social network claim to have been unable to access their accounts for several days now; it's a database problem, Facebook says.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Database management, Databases, Facebook, Database, CBS Interactive Inc., Web 2.0, Web sites, e-mail
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., Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., Web Service, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Server
Oracle has customers over a barrel
News As CEO Larry Ellison tries to extend the company's reach into hardware, more corporate clients fret about its high prices and tough tactics.
Tags: Databases, Customer resource management (CRM), Cost control, Customer support, software company, Stock, Sun Microsystems Inc., Customer, audit, Oracle Corp.
Consider alternatives to RDBMS
Techguide Applications are far too complex to force into the inherent limits of the relational database management systems model. Justin James encourages developers to explore their options.
Tags: Databases, Database management, Software engineering/development, RDBMS, database management system, Tool, Storage, Developer, Justin James, Programming
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
Web 2.0 fuels open source database boom
News Forrester has found that databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL are gaining momentum through new markets, despite lack of movement away from existing proprietary installations.
Tags: Web 2.0, Open source, Databases, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft SQL Server, Open-source Database, Database, stored procedure, Environment, Web 2.0
IBM extends solidDB database-accelerator tech
News The company has announced that its database acceleration cache software will soon work with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase.
Tags: Data Management, Databases, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Corp., IBM DB2, Database, Informix Dynamic Server, Informix Software, Server, Sybase Inc.
Setting up CDC in SQL Server 2008
Techguide Change Data Capture is a new native feature in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition. Here's how to use it to easily set up data auditing on your SQL Server system.
Tags: Databases, Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Microsoft SQL Server, Table, Database, Raleigh, stored procedure, auditing, Chapman Co.
Reviewing SQL Server permissions
Techguide Find out the importance of database permissions, and how you can use internal SQL Server system views to easily identify which users have access on your system.
Tags: Servers, Server platforms, Database management, Databases, Microsoft SQL Server, Login, Database, Permission, Windows Login, TestLogin
Policy-Based Management in SQL Server 2008
Techguide New to SQL Server 2008 is Policy-Based Management, which gives administrators more control over their database procedures.
Tags: Servers, Databases, Microsoft SQL Server, Database, Policy, Database Table, stored procedure, DDL, Condition, Facet
