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Oracle tool to rein in database admins

Database administrators don't always need access to the information in the databases they're managing, so Oracle has created a tool to protect it. Read more »

IBM seeks to ease database burden

IBM next week will release a major revision of its DB2 database, providing fresh ammunition in the ongoing battle for supremacy in the database marketplace. Read more »

Microsoft's Visual Studio courts database pros

Microsoft has added a database-oriented tool to Visual Studio Team System, an application development suite designed to bolster the company's sales to large corporations, the software giant said on Wednesday. Read more »

South American hacker exposes privacy flaws

An anonymous hacker has posted six million details of Chilean residents online in a bid to highlight data-protection problems in the country. Read more »

MySQL introduces Community Server database

Open-source database company introduces two offerings, one for corporate customers and one for developers. Read more »

Database servers get a new yardstick

After 14 years measuring the world's most powerful servers, the TPC-C speed test is being supplanted by a new benchmark. Read more »

Patched Oracle database 'still vulnerable'

The latest update for Oracle 10g Release 2 does not plug a hole that allows published attack code to run, according to a security researcher. Read more »

Oracle Database 11g on Linux released

Oracle has announced the availability of its Oracle Database 11g on the Linux platform and new capabilities for its Enterprise Edition offering. Read more »

Firebird database readies SMP release

The open source project, which was created when Borland open sourced Interbase in 2000, is due to release a version of its database with full SMP support allowing enterprises greater scalability. Read more »

Oracle to offer free database

Oracle intends to release a free version of its database, a reaction to the growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source databases. Read more »

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Introduction to Policy-Based Management in SQL Server 2008

New to SQL Server 2008 is Policy-Based Management. This new technology allows for defining polices to ensure your database guidelines are met. This article gives an overview of this new technology. Read more »

Reviewing SQL Server Permissions

This article looks at the importance of database permissions and how you can use internal SQL Server system views to easily which users have access on your system. Read more »

More New SQL Server 2008 Features

Microsoft updates SQL Server on a pretty regular basis. Its newest version, SQL Server 2008, includes some new features not found in older versions. Here's a list of some of them. Read more »

Using Mirrored Media Sets in SQL Server 2005

Mirrored Media Sets is a new feature in the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server 2005. It enables the creation of redundant copies of a backup file to reduce the possibility of a backup device malfunction. Here's how you make it work. Read more »

Creating and managing a Mysql database with phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a graphical user interface (GUI) developed in PHP, for creating and managing MySQL databases. Read more »

Switching Oracle Portal to a new database is easier than Oracle Tech Support says

If you do not have to support an Oracle Portal, consider yourself lucky. We recently ran into a problem that forced us to quickly move to a new metadata database. Read more »

Handle errors in the data tier with SQL Server

Exception handling is a standard part of every .NET application. The try/catch block allows you to catch exceptions and control application execution from that point. Many errors occur during database interaction, but a lot of developers are unaware of handling errors within the database tier. This week we examine error handling in your database code with SQL Server and T-SQL. Read more »

Get your feet wet with Sun's tiny Java DB

Java DB is a lightweight database management system (DBMS) that is written completely in Java. It only needs 2 MB of memory, and it makes it very easy to embed a fully functional database directly into your application. Java DB is also standards-based, supports SQL and the JDBC API, and easily integrates with J2EE. Beginning with the release of Java 6, Sun started packaging Java DB in the JDK. Read more »

Web application security frameworks (WASF), Part 2: Database lookup

Often, you will want parts of your Web application to be exclusive to certain users. This access distinction requires the use of Web application security frameworks. Continuing our series on Web app security, we explore the database lookup framework. Read more »

Oracle Tip: Use DBCA to clone a database

Resident Oracle columnist, Scott Stephens shows how to use DBCA to clone a database. Read more »

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