(Rodney Gedda) When popular children’s Web site Nickelodeon went through an upgrade and rehosting move late last year, the decision to stay with the open source MySQL database was apparent amid growing data and traffic demands.
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Oracle Aims To Overtake SAP in Market Share
While Oracle’s flagship database-software business remains strong, it has struggled in the market for software applications that companies use to manage accounting, human resources, manufacturing and other processes. SAP is the leader in that segment with an 18 percent market share.
Object-Relational Mapping with SQLMaps
(Sunil Patil) Nowadays a lot of work is going on in the object-relational (OR) mapping field, with Hibernate having seemingly taken the lead over other frameworks. But there is one problem with object-relational mapping tools: most database administrators seem not to be very comfortable with the que
NIST and NSA Release XML-Based XCCDF Specification for Security Checklists
The National Security Agency (NSA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have published Specification for the Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) for public review.
Content Manager OnDemand Backup, Recovery, and High Availability Case Study #2: International Financial Services Company
This document is the second of two documents in a series that present case studies for IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand solutions. This case study presents an international financial services company. It includes background information, the backup procedures, the high availability configuration, and
Dynamic defrag of all indexes for a given table
(Robert Davis) Running ‘DBCC INDEXDEFRAG’ on a table can be a big performance boost without the overhead of the full ‘DBCC DBREINDEX’ on high traffic databases. However ‘DBCC INDEXDEFRAG’ carries the overhead of having to specify each index by name or ID rather than just the table. This means your m
Unified Database Toolkit – Connection Definition
(Andre Vigneau) This is the second article relating to my Unified Database Toolkit. We have seen in the previous article, Unified Database Toolkit – Scheduling, a simple way to create jobs in Windows scheduler from within Microsoft database engine. But before we take a look at how this database tool
Cognos Announces Extended Agreement With IBM
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), announced it is strengthening its relationship with IBM through a new OEM agreement. Cognos is embedding strategic IBM middleware into a special edition of Cognos ReportNet. Cognos ReportNet IBM Specia
Oracle Session Tracing Part VI
(James Koopmann) Part VI in our series will show you how to access and generate reports off of the trace files we generated in Part V through the use of the TKPROF and trcsess utilities.
EII: Information on Demand
(Rajan Chandras) If the term “enterprise information integration” isn’t immediately clear, there’s a reason: EII is a broad notion that raises more questions than it answers. How do you know if EII is right for your organization? What are the challenges of implementing EII? Above all, what does