Lisa Vaas

Microsoft Corp. has put out hot fixes for two known bugs in its SQL Server database software. The first bug is explained in a Microsoft online article entitled “FIX: Cannot Remove Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine After You Upgrade to MSDE 2000 SP2”. According to the article, users who originally used a particular build […]

Microsoft Corp. has consolidated the database security tools that shield SQL Server 2000 and MSDE 2000 installations from the Slammer worm. SQL Server 2000 SQL Scan, SQL Check and SQL Critical Update are now available in a single download, the SQL Critical Update Kit, which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Web site. The kit […]

With the goal of getting crashed databases up and running more quickly and more reliably, BMC Software Inc. announced Tuesday that it has integrated its database backup and recovery product, SQL-BackTrack, to Veritas Software Corp.s NetBackup backup tool. BMC, of Houston, announced it will participate in the Veritas Enabled Program to drive collaboration efforts between […]

Sybase Inc. on Monday released a performance monitoring tool for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.0.3, the companys enterprise-class relational database management system. The tool, BMC Software Inc.s ASE Performance Monitoring Option-DBXray for Sybase, is designed to simplify database management through a performance dashboard that allows DBAs (database administrators) to monitor the health of a system, […]

When Julie Harris, IT director for Iowas Keokuk County, attended HIPAA Academy classes in January to achieve certification as a Certified HIPAA Professional, she was surprised to find herself surrounded by career changers, many of them IT professionals looking to retool themselves as health care experts. Maybe she shouldnt have been. At a time when […]

Progress Software Corp. is giving its ObjectStore embeddable database enhancements in speed, reliability and flexibility. The Bedford, Mass., developer this week will release ObjectStore 6.1, the first upgrade of the object-oriented database since Progress acquired it in its October purchase of Excelon Corp. ObjectStore 6.1 has more enterprise features, including increased availability and clustering and […]

UnitedLinux LLC on Friday announced it has completed certification of UnitedLinux 1 with Oracle Corp.s Oracle9i Database and its database clustering technology, Oracle9i Real Application Clusters. The move follows fast on the heels of Oracles recent announcement that it had submitted Red Hat Inc.s Linux Advanced Server for a Common Criteria (ISO 15408) evaluation at […]

Government and defense IT salaries spiked 7 percent in 2002, likely as a reaction to terrorism, a looming war and the push for homeland security, according to a recently released salary survey from online IT job site Dice Inc. This, however, was the exception: There are few sectors of IT in which salaries are growing. […]

IBM on Thursday rolled out two new certification exams designed to get DBAs certified on DB2 Universal Database 8 faster and, for a limited time, at half the usual price. The new exams include the DB2 8 upgrade exam, which enables database administrators to quickly update their certifications with one, simplified test of only 30 […]

Microsoft Corp. has made available for download Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for SQL Server, which allows users to read and write to any SQL Server database installation from BizTalk Server 2002. BizTalk Server already uses SQL Server as its underlying message store. With the adapter, organizations will be able to do things like receive an electronic […]

Two database management software vendors—Embarcadero Technologies Inc. and Quest Software Inc.—are expanding support for additional platforms, thus enabling database administrators to manage multiple database platforms from a single console. Embarcadero last week began offering deeper support for IBM databases in updates of DBArtisan and Rapid SQL—its database administration tool and integrated database development environment, respectively. […]

NetIQ Corp. aims to make defragmenting tables in and general management of Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server database easier with an update to its SQL Management Suite of tools. SQL Management Suite 2, which NetIQ will release this week, includes updates of three of its core applications: DiagnosticManager, ConfigurationManager and RecoveryManager. A fourth application, AppManager, was […]