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There is an increasing need to store and manipulate complex data in relational databases. Complex data is imminent not only in multimedia applications for the Web, but also in specialized […]

When you combine the various DB2 4.1 COPY utility performance enhancements, the result is that expected elapsed time reductions can be substantial. Perhaps the largest and most important performance enhancements […]

Enhancements and new functions abound in DB2 V4. This tremendous new release should satisfy many of the priority 'wish list' items submitted to IBM, plus a few more. This article […]

Informix Plumping BLOB Support for Future User Needs Informix Software Inc. is expanding support for BLOBs in anticipation of increased user demand for multimedia data storage and management. The company […]

In Paradox 4.0, just about everything is faster than in earlier versions: queries, reports, PAL commands--everything. They're faster not only on a single-user PC, but also on a network. Optimizing […]

Microsoft has addressed key shortcomings in the Sybase SQL Server line by adding cursor support and event alerters to SQL Server version 4.2. (The jump from version 1.11 to 4.2 […]

CASUAL DB2 DISCOURSE STILL AN ELUSIVE QUEST When the relational model first gained popularity in the early '80s, its proponents emphasized its ease of use. In particular, Structured Query Language […]

Enterprise databases have a daunting to-do list. How will they cope with new demands? Winning isn't everything. Fifteen years ago, the emerging relational database man-agement systems (RDBMSes) were fighting to […]

Byline: Brandon Butler Oracle had a busy couple of weeks at the end of June, rolling out a new version of its database software and announcing partnerships with Microsoft, Salesforce.com [...]

Microsoft has a thing about big numbers. Its Windows operating system runs on tens of millions of PCs, the company likes to point out, and shipments of Windows NT servers […]

Byline: Chris Cumming One issue with using Big Data is determining the best way to temporarily handle large data sets to analyze them. Attunity (ATTU) has upgraded a product that [...]

Oracle has issued a fix for a security weakness in its database product that was disclosed at the Black Hat security conference in July in Las Vegas. At the conference, [...]

CA Technologies announced new releases of its CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS and CA Mainframe Chorus role-based workspace to help customers as they upgrade to the latest [...]

Data security solutions specialist Imperva announced enhancements to SecureSphere Database Activity Monitoring 9.5, a database audit and protection solution, and released Scuba by Imperva 2.0, a free database vulnerability scanner. [...]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the release of Apache Cassandra 1.1, the highly scalable open-source distributed database. Cassandra 1.1 handles massive data sets across community machines, large server clusters [...]

Designed for agile data management, Delphix redefines virtualization for enterprises through creation of new virtualization layer for data. Program can migrate virtual databases to Exadata, and sync with Exadata as [...]

Microsoft has been working for years to get more of its software into the data center and cloud infrastructure markets with System Center and the Azure platform, and now it's [...]

Oracle released 78 security fixes across its database and other products in its portfolio as part of its Critical Patch Update.January's Critical Patch Update contains two fixes for the Oracle [...]

Even as Oracle fixed numerous flaws across multiple products in January's Critical Patch Update, security experts criticized the company for the low number of database fixes and claimed the company [...]

Oracle has updated its Oracle Database Firewall product to improve enterprise database security and help enterprises block both malicious insiders and SQL injection attacks from gaining access to the data. [...]

Application Security updated its database-activity-monitoring tool with threat blocking that responds to suspicious database activity. The enhancements to DbProtect version 6.3 include the ability to block real-time attacks and unauthorized [...]

Byline: Michael Otey Ready or not, here it comes! The next release of SQL Server, code-named Denali, is right around the corner. For most companies, Microsoft is churning out new [...]

Oracle is pitching new integration in its update to Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler as an answer to the collaboration needs of development teams. In version 3.0, Oracle has added [...]

Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL 5.5 with a number of enhancements aimed at improving performance and scalability and a focus on Windows. The company unveiled the release candidate [...]

ParAccel is pushing high-performance analytics in the latest version of its database. In PADB (ParAccel Analytic Database) 3.0-due for general release later this month-organizations can expect a number of enhancements [...]

Mobile applications that are derived from existing desktop or server software face the challenge of being viewed as mere adjuncts to the product, rather than as tools that stand on [...]

Data warehousing and business intelligence supplier Teradata has unveiled a slew of products in anticipation of a huge increase in the amount of data that companies will collect, store and [...]

IBM has released an updated version of its Informix database with an emphasis on improved performance. In Informix 11.7, IBM is touting a number of performance enhancements. 'There are quite [...]

Byline: Jon Brodkin Microsoft released the second service pack for SQL Server 2008 this week, with support for up to 15,000 database partitions, updates to reporting and management tools, and [...]

Microsoft released an update to SQL Server 2008 with new improvements around reporting and management. SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) includes updates for Reporting Services integration with SharePoint [...]

The latest version of open-source database PostgreSQL is now available, this time bringing with it new hot standby and replication capabilities. In 9.0, users can find more than a dozen [...]

Aster Data has included a column data store in the latest version of its flagship data analytics server. Added to Aster Data nCluster 4.6, the column data store will present [...]

Model CEL-350 dBadge features Insight(TM) software, which is engineered to accelerate and facilitate workplace noise dosimetry. This database program, using MYSQL engine, holds downloaded results from CEL-350 dBadge measurements as [...]

WORLDWIDE COMPUTER PRODUCTS NEWS-September 8, 2010-Red Gate releases latest version of database compression solution(C)1995-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS http://www.m2.com Red Gate, a provider of database compression solutions, today announced the launch of [...]

With Representative Payee product, AccuFund Accounting Suite v4.01 enables users to generate banking transactions, make deposits from multiple client accounts at same time, hold deposited funds until checks have cleared, [...]

Oracle has delivered a new version of its distributed in-memory data grid product, Oracle Coherence 3.6, Announced in mid-July 2010, Oracle Coherence 3.6 is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware [...]

Oracle pushed out 59 security patches July 13, including 13 for its database portfolio. Six of the 13 database vulnerabilities are for the Oracle Database server. Four of these can [...]

Oracle has delivered a new version of its popular database development tool, Oracle Application Express 4.0. Mike Hichwa, vice president of software development at Oracle, said June 23, 'This latest [...]

With eXtremeDB® v4.1, developers of products with search and other text-processing functions can provide custom character sorting sequences for data stored as text, including ones that include a particular language [...]

Sybase has released an updated version of its Advantage Database Server software with a focus on performance and developer productivity. Inside Sybase Advantage Database Server 10 (ADS), the company has [...]

Sybase is touting new full text search and query federation capabilities in the latest release of its Sybase IQ database. Building on last year's update, in Sybase IQ 15.2 the [...]

Oracle issued on May 17 a new edition of MySQL Enterprise, the first major upgrade of the open source relational database since Oracle completed the acquisition of MySQL's former parent, [...]

McObject has updated its flagship embedded database with a host of new features intended to improve performance, reliability and security. In ExtremeDB 4.1, McObject has added hooks to 'enable developers [...]