(Barbara Darrow) Ingres wants solution providers to know there’s a new channel program in town.

(Vance McCarthy) MySQL CEO Martin Mickos is always looking to the future, and not one to bugged by the past. OET had the chance to speak with Mickos about the immediate and long-term future of MySQL. Among the topics: relations with Oracle, a growing MySQL partner network, the dramatic uptake in MyS

(Jeremy Cole) If you’re not using replication, the only thing you have to worry about is MyISAM and InnoDB performance. There are a lot of things you can easily do to get more (or less!) performance out of either of them. So, you get your system tuned and handling 1500 updates per second, easy as pi

As the web continues to provide one of the most cost-effective ways for businesses to market and sell their goods & services, we will continue to see the investment in web-based applications rise. An inherent characteristic about the web and one of the most common technical issues businesses face wh

(Andrew Dunstan) My first article about PL/Perl discussed using triggers written in PL/Perl, and the second showed how to exchange data with the database and running database commands from inside PL/Perl. This final article in the series explores the improvements in PostgreSQL versions 8.0 and 8.1 a

(Kulvir Singh Bhogal) In the J2EE realm, data sources are Java objects that represent physical data storage systems such as relational databases. It is via javax.sql.DataSource objects that a J2EE application can retrieve underlying connections to the databases being represented by the DataSource ob

(Dana Blankenhorn) One of the biggest problems for those who want open source databasing is scaling.

(Harrison Fisk and Alex Davies) Performance is a very important topic when dealing with any database setup. One of the main reasons to use a cluster over a nonclustered database is the ability to get better performance and scalability compared to using a database that is confined to a single host. T

(Giuseppe Maxia) Installing a side instance of MySQL for testing purpose is a task that many administrators can perform without breaking a sweat. If you need to do that only once in a while, you need just to read the manual carefully, or to have some experience in this matter, and the task is accomp

(Jack Loftus) A surge in IT spending among small and medium-sized businesses is raising hopes among freeware advocates that a flurry of new open source products will spur the corporate use of Linux. (R)