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Sybase Licenses Query Processing Tool

eWeek Editors | November 13, 2001

Increasingly complex data is making writing SQL a nightmare for IT staff, but a new tool from Sybase Inc. promises to make the task easier for its Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5 database.

Oracle9i Update to Take Advantage of XML

Jeff Burt | November 13, 2001

Oracle Corp. early next year will release an updated version of its Oracle9i Database that will use XML to bring much of the relational work now done outside of 9i into the company's database.

MySQL 4.0: Teaser for 4.1

Timothy Dyck | November 12, 2001

MySQL Ab's MySQL has proved itself as a light, fast database for nonmission-critical applications.

Cast a Net to Catch Bugs

Timothy Dyck | October 29, 2001

If finding bugs in distributed applications feels more like luck than anything else, Cast's Cast Application Mining Suite 4.0 may be something to try.

Microsoft Links SQL Server, .Net

eWeek Editors | October 25, 2001

Users of Microsoft Corp.'s SQL Server 2000 database can now code from inside the .NET framework, with a new plug-in that gives a look at what's to come with the eventual successor to SQL Server.

Aureka Tracks Patent Data

Timothy Dyck | October 22, 2001

As much as we think software and business-process patents are harmful to the industry as a whole, patents are core to the R&D processes of many companies.

Database Rivals Vie in Open-Source Arena

eWeek Editors | October 22, 2001

NuSphere offers latest MySQL Advantage; MySQL sets namesake upgrade.

IBM to Announce Informix Server Bundles Tuesday

eWeek Editors | October 19, 2001

The chief of IBM's database division will announce on Tuesday new product bundles and consulting services around its Informix Dynamic Server.

A former U.S. President may someday live down the quotation "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." His sympathizers might include those who devise natural language database query systems.

NuSphere Making Moves in Open-Source Database Arena

eWeek Editors | October 13, 2001

On the heels of a product announcement from rival MySQL AB, NuSphere Corp. plans to up the ante in future versions of the open-source MySQL database.

BMC Rolls Out New Database Tool

eWeek Editors | October 10, 2001

New database monitoring software from BMC Software Inc. solves a common pet peeve: it not only alerts users of problems, it actually suggests solutions.

Tighter Control of Information

Jeff Burt | October 08, 2001

The more that data volumes grow, the more their root databases get complicated and the more difficult it gets to manage.

Ellison Talks 'Cheap' Cloud at Oracle OpenWorld

DAILY VIDEO: Oracle introduces Autonomous Database Cloud and robotic security; Oracle is injecting most cloud applications with artificial intelligence; Google kills the unpopular free article...

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Intel Processors, Storage Set New Dell Servers Apart

Dell’s latest Intel-based PowerEdge servers bring new levels of operational efficiency and flexibility while extending industry-leading reliability and uptime.