Database Software and DB Hardware - News, Trends and Analysis

DB2 to Widen Reach Again

Matthew Hicks | April 29, 2002

IBM's Universal Database 8.0 aims to improve ease of use, adds self-management capabilities.

Keeping database performance tuned when workloads are relatively predictable is hard enough; pity the poor database administrator who must react to the chaos of infinitely variable queries flowing in over the Internet at unpredictable rates.

Oracle Bows Out of jCert

Lisa Vaas | April 26, 2002

Oracle Corp. has left jCert, a skills testing and certification-focused consortium of Java vendors.

Sybase Adds More Sun Cluster Support

Matthew Hicks | April 24, 2002

DB2 Upgrade Takes On Manageability

Matthew Hicks | April 23, 2002

DB2 Version 8, which is almost ready for beta testing, will focus on continuing its evolution as much more than a relational database with improved ease of use and manageability.

Databases Target Ease of Use

Matthew Hicks | April 22, 2002

Oracle, CA, Vision Solutions and Expand Beyond unwrap enhancements.

Striving to Make Systems Self-Managing

Matthew Hicks | April 22, 2002

IBM's autonomic computing initiative seeks support for new standards.

Flaw Threatens SQL Server

Dennis Fisher | April 18, 2002

The flaw, which affects SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, is in the way that extended stored procedures validate input to the database. The procedures are external routines that that in SQL are used for some helper functions

Database Holy Grail: Ease Of Use

Matthew Hicks | April 17, 2002

Oracle, CA, Vision Solutions and Expand Beyond all are releasing tools and features that they say will make a DBA's job a lot easier.

Tools to Ease Integration

Dennis Callaghan | April 15, 2002

Oracle, Siebel enterprise application suites add features to connect multivendor environments.

Software Puts Database Backups to Use

Matthew Hicks | April 15, 2002

Oracle Corp., Quest Software Inc. and Solid Information Technology Corp. are each rolling out software that not only enhances database backup but also helps make the stored data more useful.

Yukon to Add Run-Time, XML Support

Matthew Hicks | April 15, 2002

Microsoft is bringing its next SQL Server release, code-named Yukon, in line with its .Net and Web services vision, with new data unification and integration technology.