Lisa Vaas

Heres the joke in Oracle Land: Whats the proper way to manage SQL Server performance disruptions? Answer: Turn it off. While Microsofts DBMS has done some slick work recently on TPC benchmarks, its still the butt of jokes like that to many Oracle pros. And you have to admit, it has deserved snickers on the […]

Sybase inc. is tackling TCO with the latest version of its enterprise DBMS: Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.1. The update, due this week, has new features aimed at improving the total cost of ownership of ASE through better manageability and 24-by-7 uptime, according to Sybase officials, in Dublin, Calif. One such feature is dynamic sizing of […]

Software developers versant Corp. and Poet Holdings Inc. are merging to provide a line of object-oriented databases to power a broader range of applications than either could on its own. The combined company, which will be known as Versant and was formed last week in a stock swap valued at $26 million, will work on […]

IBM has patched recently uncovered security vulnerabilities in its DB2 Universal Database, but the process it followed has left some security researchers wondering if the company is too tight-lipped on the subject. One researcher is security company Application Security Inc., which last week found two holes in DB2. These follow two major vulnerabilities, reported Sept. […]

Sybase Inc. is tackling TCO with the latest version of its enterprise database, Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.1, released next week. New goodies are aimed at better manageability and at keeping the database up 24×7. One such self-management feature is dynamic sizing of caches, a capability that will spare DBAs (database administrators) from having to shut […]

IBMs DB2 UDB enterprise relational database has two more holes, adding up to a total of six reported within the past three weeks. The two most recent security vulnerabilities were reported on Thursday by security firm PenTest Ltd. The first is a stack-based overflow vulnerability found in DB2s Invoke command. Normally, the Invoke command triggers […]

With skyrocketing IT unemployment as a backdrop, the U.S. Congress let the H-1B visa limit drop back to 65,000 on Tuesday. The limit on H-1B visas had been boosted to 195,000 in 2000 in response to companies that claimed they couldnt hire enough domestic talent to fuel the dot-com bubble. Even then this assertion was […]

Two major databases have sprung security leaks. The security firm Application Security Inc. reported this week that IBMs DB2 Universal Database and MySQL ABs MySQL open-source database have a total of three vulnerabilities that range from low- to high-risk levels. The first DB2 weakness is a buffer overflow in db2dart. This entails a UDP service […]

Versant Corp. is hooking up with SolarMetric Inc. to get JDO (Java Data Objects) technology into its Versant object database, officials announced on Tuesday. Versant, of Fremont, Calif., will resell SolarMetrics flagship product, Kodo JDO, and will OEM that product in order to deliver JDO functionality. JDO is an industry standard that enables the use […]

IBM Tuesday put out four tools to help with the programming, data mining and replication monitoring of its DB2 Universal Database, company officials announced. The data-mining tool is WebSphere Studio Plug-in for DB2 Intelligent Miner, a graphical front-end for DB2 Intelligent Miner Scoring/Modeling. It allows users to add data-mining abilities to applications. Officials said in […]