Databases to the Rescue at Oracle
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Strength in the software giant&#39;s mainstay product powered a healthy quarter. Weakness elsewhere shows why PeopleSoft is a target.
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PC Magazine - The open-source embeddable database now boasts multi-version concurrency control, no-downtime upgrades and a pre-built replication framework to simplify development of highly available applications.
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News about the launch of Oracle&#39;s next-generation database is sharing headlines this week with an alert about 46 patches that will be arriving next week to fix various vulnerabilities in Oracle software.
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Letter Can collective database licensing cure this tragedy of the commons?
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A tool to manage database changes and refactorings. All changes to a database are stored in XML files that are stored in version control with other source code. A graphical IDE is also available   LiquiBase 1.2 has been released. Major features include:      * Support for H2 database     * Support for InterSystems Cache` database     * Support for  change     * Improved error messages     * tag can contain a  tag     * Change log file references can be absolute     * SQL in  tag can be ; or 'go' delimited     * New clearCheckSums command in command line migrator     * Support for version 0.5 of the LiquiBase IDE and Eclipse Plugin  Many bugs have been fixed as well, including:      * Sybase support fixes     * Handle --defaultsFile correctly     * Handle command line parameters correctly on Windows systems     * Other bug fixes  Upgrading is simply a matter of replacing the liquibase.jar file. To take advantage of newer change log features, change your XSD declaration to:    Download LiquiBase 1.2 from:  http://www.liquibase.org/download.html
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(Source: Oracle)  Today, businesses of all sizes compete head-to-head for customers, suppliers,partners and - importantly - market share of mind. In order to compete successfully with larger, better-equipped organizations, midsize businesses are looking increasingly at the benefits of implementing fail-safe database management and storage systems. This white paper identifies the key decision factors in making the move to a high availability solution, and how clustered database software from Oracle - Oracle Real Application Clusters - provides midsize businesses with a fault-tolerant, scalable and cost-effective solution to their growing needs.
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Blog: After nearly a nine-month beta, Oracle Database 11g is set to launch Wednesday.
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At this organization, IT has one hammer for all nails: a big relational database and a rigorous development process. That works well for major applications, but it's not so great for simple apps.
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A Windows version of Oracle's flagship database, plus administrative tools, joins the Linux edition.
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Now certified on Mac OS X Server, Oracle Database 10g is the first database designed for grid computing and it offers a cost-effective way to manage enterprise information. Pairing it with Apple&#146;s powerful server hardware and software, customers get a robust, scalable database platform that&#146;s easy and affordable to deploy and maintain. [Dec 23]
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Ziff Davis - Sybase is offering a free version of its leading enterprise database management system for Linux.
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Oracle-compatible database can be "rented" by using Amazon.com's Web services infrastructure.
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Sybase has entered the cluster-database market with Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition.
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On his blog today, Mike Lively has posted about the work h's done to create a database extension for the popular unit testing software for PHP, PHPUnit.   For those that may not have read any of my previous postings on the subject the goal of this software is to extend the functionality of PHPUnit to allow using seed data to put a given database into a known state prior to executing each test. It also provides an easy mechanism to compare database contents with an expected dataset.   Mike has just completed the initial feature set for his project - more or less a port of DBUnit over to PHP. The post includes not only details about this initial release but also code that demonstrates its use. In his example, it's used to validate that a bank account has been created properly by comparng database information before and after the insert.
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In the first major release of its flagship product in several years, Oracle unveiled 11g on Wednesday. The Redwood Shores, California-based company said that the new database software contains more than 400 features for improving database clustering, data center automation, and workload management.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is convinced that had the intelligence community used a unified database from Oracle, the terrorist attacks on 9/11 would never have happened.
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An enhanced multi-threaded syslogd, supporting reliable syslog over TCP and RFC 3195, writing to MySQL databases, fully configurable output formats (with great timestamps), ability to filter on anything, and on-the-wire message compression.   Hi all,  Rsyslog 3.11.2 has just been released. Now it has the ability to convert text files into syslog. This is done by the imfile plugin, which monitors text files. A new libdbi-based output plugin has been written. This adds six additional databases (including Firebird and Oracle) to the supported database set. Also contains small bug fixes. Version 3.11.2 is a recommended release for all version 3 users.  Doc for new Modules:    http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-omlibdbi.html    http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-imfile.html  Changelog:    http://www.rsyslog.com/Article175.phtml  Download:    http://www.rsyslog.com/Downloads-req-getit-lid-79.phtml  I hope this release is useful. As always, feedback is appreciated.  Best regards, Rainer Gerhards