Lisa Vaas

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 […]

Organizations looking to pinpoint the location of potential customers, create better delivery routes or site retail outlets in the most desirable spots are increasingly demanding better access to geospatial data to help them do those things. Application developers such as Oracle Corp. and Environmental Systems Research Institute, known as ESRI, are responding with increased support […]

Command Prompt Inc. has bolstered SSL support and added support for a slew of capabilities in Mammoth PostgreSQL, its commercially supported distribution of the open-source PostgreSQL database. New features in Mammoth PostgreSQL 7.3.2, standard and deluxe editions, include support for schemas and namespaces, enabling users to create objects in separate namespaces so that two people […]

IOUG Live! conference attendees on Monday were greeted with two pieces of good news: that Hewlett-Packard Co. is chopping an incremental 20 percent off of hardware when customers purchase Oracle Corp. software with HP hardware, and that Oracles Oracle9i database is easier to use than IBMs DB2. The news was announced at keynotes that kicked […]

Oracle Corp. is developing a tool to help customers self-manage licensing compliancy, according to Jacqueline Woods, vice president of Global Pricing and Licensing Strategy. Woods spoke with eWEEK about the licensing tool on Friday, prior to delivering a keynote address at the third annual Tabor School of Business Conference at Millikin University, in Decatur, Ill. […]

Oracle Corp. aficionados gathering next week at the IOUG Live! 2003 conference in Orlando, Fla., are expected to discuss the impending beta release—and perhaps even the beta code itself—of the companys next big database upgrade. Oracle officials declined to comment on the database update, which is provisionally known as Oracle 10i although the Redwood Shores, […]

DBAssociates is rolling out an easier way to back up Microsoft Corp. SQL Server databases. The news comes from Edgewood Solutions LLC, a Merrimack, N.H., consultancy and partner of DBAssociates, which is based in Melbourne, Australia. The software tool, SQL LiteSpeed, compresses and locks down data with 128-bit encryption as the data backs up. Edgewood […]

Microsoft Corp.s fast and powerful SQL Server 2000 for 64-bit database was unleashed Thursday at one of the companys biggest product launches ever, the Windows Server 2003 launch taking place in San Francisco and attended by some 2,500 people. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was joined at the launch even by Intel Corp. President and Chief […]

FileMaker Inc., a subsidiary of Apple Computer Inc., is giving away a FileMaker-to-Keynote tool that lets users transform FileMaker Pro 6 database data into native presentations for Apples new Keynote presentation software. The tool uses the XML/XSLT support thats built into FileMaker Pro 6 to extract text, graphics and chart data from FileMaker Pro 6 […]

Database vendors are all over 64-bit. Oracle Corp. and Computer Associates International Inc. on Tuesday embraced Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s release of its new 64-bit Opteron chip, with each company separately announcing support for the 64-bit architecture in their flagship databases. Meanwhile, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday is expected to announce support for 64-bit in SQL […]

MySQL AB has introduced new features in Version 5 of its namesake open-source database to make it a serious option for enterprises. The developer released the source code for MySQL 5 at its first-ever user conference in San Jose, Calif., earlier this month. The intent behind the new features in the upgrade—particularly support for stored […]