Lisa Vaas

OpenLink Software Inc. next week will release Virtuoso 3.10, an upgrade to its cross-platform virtual database for SQL, XML and Web services. Virtuoso 3.10 introduces the ability to expose, as a SOAP- and WSDL-compliant XML Web service, its Query Template feature. Query Template enables XQuery-based queries to be stored in XML-based template files. Also new […]

Sleepycat Software is rolling out an update of its Berkeley DB open-source embedded database thats geared to serve as a sturdy base for Berkeley DB XML, the companys first native XML data store. Both Berkeley DB 4.2 and the general-availability release of Berkeley DB XML will be out in June, said officials of the Lincoln, […]

Database administrators committed to Oracle Corp.s namesake database gathered last week at the International Oracle User Group conference in Orlando, Fla., and discussed the impending beta release of the companys next big database upgrade. Oracle officials declined to comment on the update, which is provisionally known as Oracle10i, although the Redwood Shores, Calif., company said […]

Application Security Inc. is upgrading DbEncrypt for Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server database to enable it to lock down databases faster and tighter. DbEncrypt for SQL Server 2.1, which will be unveiled this week, takes far fewer round trips between its encryption engine and a SQL Server database, resulting in a fivefold-to-tenfold performance increase over earlier […]

A select group of enterprises running memory-hungry applications are welcoming the arrival late last month of a 64-bit database from Microsoft Corp. SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) runs on 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003. Officials at Microsoft, in Redmond, Wash., cited Transaction Processing Performance Council results that ranked the database running with Windows […]

Oracle Corp.s plan to offer a single-browser-based view in its Oracle Enterprise Manager is being greeted with glee by users, particularly in light of a major Oracle database vulnerability discovered last week. Andy Mendelsohn, Oracles senior vice president of database and application server technologies, outlined a vision of a self-managing database during his keynote on […]

Bluestream Database Software Corp. has released an upgrade to its native XML database that features smoother handling of collaborative content management with XML and binary data. XStreamDB 3.0 has a new resource manager that enables content management via integration with Web or print authoring and publishing software. It now supports Corel XMetaL for XML content […]

The unemployment rate for electrical engineers shot up to an unprecedented 7 percent in the first quarter of 2003, up from 3.9 in the fourth quarter of 2002, according to the U.S. Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rate stands a full percentage point over the quarterly figure for all workers. The BLS […]

The arrival last week of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s Opteron processor heralded the rollout of high-end database software from leading developers. That will be a boon to enterprises that need to process huge volumes of data rapidly, as is the case with companies running business intelligence, customer relationship management and financial transaction operations, according to […]

Database management tool vendors Embarcadero Technologies Inc. and DataMirror Corp. are introducing product updates that promise to save a precious commodity: database administrators time. Embarcadero, of San Francisco, this week is rolling out three plug-ins that work with DBArtisan 7.2, the latest update of the companys database administration software. The three tools, Space Analyst, Performance […]