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Database Management & Programming News, Articles & Tutorials for Database Administrators
Harvesting the Big Data Tsunami: The Path Beyond Hadoop for Big Data Analytics 10/23
Mike Lamble examines the current big data landscape and focuses on the analytics needed to make these exabytes actionable beyond simple Hadoop. In order to perform at Hadoop scale, today’s DBMS for big data analytics must meet specific requirements that are outlined in this article.
Database Recovery Options 10/22
Both application designers and database administrators sometimes take the simplistic view that regular backups of application data are sufficient for any recovery needs--a strategy that can easily backfire! Backup methods that meet the application’s and enterprise’s needs start with a sound recovery strategy that starts with database design.
Oracle Transportable Tablespace over SAN Snap 10/18
Often, production databases need to be copied over to development and other environments for performance tuning or testing. Alex Polishchuk discusses Oracle transportable tablespace (TTS), which allows fast data propagation from production to several other environments with large data volumes exceeding terabyte capacity.
Oracle 12c New Features 10/15
David Fitzjarrell reports on several of the new features offered in Oracle Release 12c, including some really BIG news…
Challenging MySQL Trigger Operations Made Easy 10/11
Rob Gravelle demonstrates how stored procedures can be used in conjunction with triggers to enhance their effectiveness. In doing so, he examines some of the limitations of triggers as implemented in MySQL as well as ways to circumvent them.
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control - Incident Manager - Part Two 10/08
Oracle has made great strides in providing tools and techniques for administrators to be able to take steps to proactively monitor their systems and one of the new features that has been introduced to help monitor (and in some cases streamline the monitoring) is Incident Manager.
Open Source Project Red Dwarf Brings Database as a Service to the OpenStack Cloud 10/16
Joint HP Rackspace venture is pushing forward at OpenStack in effort to enable a new world cloud database services.
Oracle Pushes both MySQL 5.6 and Oracle Database 12c Forward 10/02
Big week for Oracle as databases open and closed inch toward release.
Better Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2012 05/23
In addition to Big Data, Microsoft introduced components for integration, analysis and better reporting in SQL Server 12.
SAP Scaling Up Its Database Efforts 04/13
SAP is scaling up its database efforts, including the in-memory HANA and Sybase database technologies.
10Gen Takes Open Source NoSQL MongoDB Commercial with Red Hat 04/09
New partnership will expand the enterprise footprint of MongoDB.
Simplify with IBM's DB2 10 04/06
IBM's DB2 10, which will be available April 30, touts many new features, including adaptive compression and multi-temperature data management.
SAP to Challenge Oracle's Database Business? 03/16
Mark your calendars and prepare for fireworks. SAP to announce big database news in April.
Microsoft SQL Server Gets a Big Data Revamp 03/07
Improvements abound as Microsoft overhauls SQL Server to handle Big Data challenges for businesses.
Couchbase Moving Forward In 2012 01/20
NoSQL startup is gearing up for a major new database release.
Can you Make Money with a Cloud Database as a Service? 12/19
Xeround has raised millions for its database app technology as demand for cloud services ramps up.
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