(Elizabeth Montalbano) Hewlett-Packard is now reselling support services for MySQL AB’s open-source database, an HP spokeswoman has confirmed.
Other News
Big Blue Offers BI Help to AIX Users
(Kathleen Ohlson) IBM introduced business intelligence software aimed to allow AIX users to archive, integrate and analyze vast amounts of historical data.
Advance America Finds Oracle
(Demir Barlas) Cash advance businesses are relatively new, dating from the 1990s, but a tough economic climate has allowed them to spread across the U.S. in a relatively short amount of time. Advance America, for example, has 2,600 customers in 37 states and is growing at the rate of four to five hu
Building Object-Oriented Database Interfaces in PHP: Abstracting Database Tables
(Alejandro Gervasio) Welcome to part two of the series “Building Object-Oriented Database Interfaces in PHP.” In the previous article, I offered complete coverage of the role that database interfaces play in Web applications, highlighting the immediate benefits of having a centralized mechanism for
Dispatching in a REST Protocol Application
(Joe Gregorio) In my last column I covered how to dispatch based on mime type. That’s only part of the dispatching story. The other two major pieces of information to use when dispatching are the HTTP method and the URI. Let’s look at the HTTP method first.
Security and the Data Warehouse
Data warehousing poses its own set of challenges for security: enterprise data warehouses are often very large systems, serving many user communities with varying security needs, and while data warehouses require a flexible and powerful security infrastructure, the security capabilities must seamles
Easy navigation to modify MySQL databases
(James F. Koopmann) This week I am going to look at a tool called EMS MySQL Manager put out by EMS. Here is a quick look at a screen from MySQL Manager. (click for a larger image)
FIX: You receive an error message when you use the sp_addalias or sp_dropalias procedures and the IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS option is set to on in SQL Server 2000 SP4
In Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4), you perform one of the following tasks: • You use the sp_addalias procedure to add an alias in the user database. • You use the sp_dropalias procedure to remove an alias from the user database.
Manipulating numeric values with .NET’s Convert class
(Tony Patton) Numeric values are a part of most applications, whether it is data entered by the user or values pulled from a backend data source. The need to convert from one numeric type to another often arises during development work. The .NET Framework provides numerous ways to perform the conver
IBM Cloudscape Version 10.1, New release!
(Susan Cline) The latest release of IBM Cloudscape, Version 10.1, a commercial release of Apache Derby, is now available for download. This article explains a few differences for this version of the release. Additionally, it helps you to select the proper installer version of IBM Cloudscape to downl