ArtinSoft tackles database migration
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Application migration specialist ArtinSoft is planning tools to smooth customers&#39; transition from Oracle to Microsoft Corp&#39;s SQL Server.
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Blog: The database software maker has a new version out that can talk to other databases written in SQL.
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Letter Can collective database licensing cure this tragedy of the commons?
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Oracle announced the first major upgrade of its business applications in six years, and company officials vowed that migrating won't be as difficult as it was the last time around.
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(InfoWorld) - Open-source database vendor Ingres is hoping that its newly released Icebreaker database and Linux combination will help it win new customers and enter fresh markets. Formerly known asÂ Project Icebreaker, Ingres Icebreaker became generally available Tuesday and is the first new product from Ingres since itsÂ spin-off from CAÂ as an independent company in 2005. Icebreaker is a veryÂ tight coupling of the Ingres 2006 database with rPath's Linux distribution. The software includes only those components of rPath Linux needed to run the database, around 15 percent to 20 percent of the operating system, according to Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering at Ingres. The aim of the offering is to make it easier to install and manage the database and Linux combination as well as substantially cut maintenance and support costs, she said. Ingres will deliver patches and updates for both the database and OS in a single maintenance stream. Icebreaker includes support for virtualization technologies from the likes of VMware and XenSource, McGrattan added. "Icebreaker will take us into new markets and new use of the [Ingres] database," McGrattan said. In its first year as an independent company, Ingres focused on its existing customer base and ensuring their needs were being met, but the vendor's now ready to aggressively go after new business opportunities. Ingres is hoping that third parties will want to build applications on top of Icebreaker. Initially, those efforts will be around business intelligence (BI) and live reporting, McGrattan said, with the vendor in discussions with both open-source and closed-source BI players. As for other areas where Icebreaker might fit, McGrattan sees the combination as useful for companies moving to the SOA (service-oriented architecture) development model as well as in the on-demand market. "We think Icebreaker is also the perfect platform for SaaS [software-as-a-service] vendors," she said. At present, Ingres has no specific partners to name in that area. A natural ally could be Salesforce.comÂ since Ingres uses the vendor's hosted CRM (customer relationship management) internally. Ingres plans to build out a series of other appliances on top of Icebreaker, McGrattan said, with details to come later this year. A previous attempt in the industry to launch a database appliance, Oracle's Raw Iron project, sunk without a trace after a trumpeted November 2000 launch at the Comdex computer show where the database vendor touted a partnership with hardware vendor Compaq. The operating system for Raw Iron was a mixture of Linux and Sun Microsystems' Solaris Unix OS. By contrast, Ingres is positioning Icebreaker as unfettered to any particular hardware, leaving the choice of server up to the user, McGrattan said. Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, Icebreaker runs on any x86-compatible Linux server. Over time, it's possible Icebreaker may be offered pre-installed on specific servers, but Ingres isn't currently in talks with any hardware providers, she added. Icebreaker is available free under the GPL or users can purchase a maintenance and support subscription for the combination at the same price as paid maintenance and support for the Ingres 2006 database, McGrattan said. Â
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Blog: Database issues are hampering some upgrades to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1.
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Computer Associates International Inc has announced that the open source version of its Ingres database management system is now available with enterprise-level support options for Linux and Microsoft&#39;s Windows.
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The most advanced, fully featured, stable, Open Source SQL-compliant database server available, bar none.   Today the PostgreSQL Global Development Group releases the long-awaited version 8.3 of the most advanced open source database, which cements our place as the best performing open source database. Among the performance features you'll be excited about in 8.3 are:      * Heap Only Tuples     * BGWriter Autotuning     * Asynchronous Commit     * Spread Checkpoints     * Synchronous Scan     * "Var-Varlena"     * L2 Cache Protection     * Lazy XID   8.3 also has a lot of cool features for PostgreSQL DBAs and developers, including:      * CSV Logging     * SQL/XML     * MS Visual C++ support     * ENUMs     * Integrated Tsearch     * SSPI & GSSAPI     * Composite Type Arrays     * pg_standby   There are many, many other features included in this release. Visit the features list and the features matrix for more information, and browse the release notes to see the more than 300 patches that went into the release. You can even visit the press page.  Or just go ahead and download and install 8.3:  http://www.postgresql.org/ftp   All of the more than 200 contributors to 8.3 are excited and relieved to deliver this version after 15 months of work. Upgrade, and enjoy the new features and faster performance!
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The leading vendors in the data warehousing market are running scared of new entrants to the market that are offering data warehouse appliances (i.e. pre-integrated hardware, software, storage combinations) that can offer greatly superior performance at a significantly lower price.  In this white paper we will dispel the 'fog of war' that currently pervades the data warehousing landscape, dismissing those question marks that are irrelevant and gratuitous, but highlighting any genuine issues that need to be addressed.
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TechWeb - The vendor is offering free data migration to SalesForce.com and Siebel customers and a 1-gigabyte storage upgrade for paying customers.
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The code, which was open-sourced in April, will be used for the administration tool that connects to the MySQL database.
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Why a standard single-file SQL format is necessary and how SQLite can get us there.
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US software maker Microsoft has announced the availability of a combination of tools, prescriptive guidance, training and technical support for customers that are considering migrating from Novell NetWare to Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
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The company is shipping the open-source database for Linux and Windows to revive its usage. By Darrell Dunn. Computer Associates on Monday will take the next step in its open-source strategy with the announcement
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Adam Bosworth complains  about the current lack of quality and scalable databases in our industry.  "About five years ago I started to notice an odd thing. The products that the database vendors were building had less and less to do with what the customers wanted."  "It is this. Users of databases tend to ask for three very simple things:"  "1) Dynamic schema so that as the business model/description of goods or    services changes and evolves, this evolution can be handled seamlessly in a    system running 24 by 7, 365 days a year ..."  "2) Dynamic partitioning of data across large dynamic numbers of machines. A    lot people people track a lot of data these days. ..."  "3) Modern indexing. ...
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A little bit of cross-pollenization never hurt anyone. There's a lot to be learnt from .NET:  At the height of the dot-com boom in the mid-1990's, many companies burst onto the scene as Application Services Providers (ASPs) hoping to capitalize on the wave of Internet success stories, and rake in some loot. Aside from the unfortunate market collapse that followed, ASPs had other issues to deal with such as training staff to effectively build and manage a secure, reliable and highly available operation.  Today, Web-enabling architecture is prevalent, particularly since Web services have become a staple for most applications, and the growing pains of ASPs past are feeding businesses everywhere with a hunger for successful implementations for 24x7 applications. As Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) themes spread across organizations, applications are now reaching wider audiences than ever before. Gone are the days where you can sling some code, ship product, and cross your fingers.   The key points that i see addressed in this article:  You need to be able to handle long-running jobs, and you can do that by storing the job in a queue to be handled later by a background process. In the PHP world, this can be implemented by storing a queue of jobs in a database table or shared memory. Then you have a background process monitoring this table for new jobs to run.  Distributed processing to spread the load. COM+ is discussed. In PHP, we could use XML-RPC or SOAP to work with a set of distributed servers.  And when you have distributed processing, you might need to synchronize distributed transactions. This is something that's difficult to implement in PHP, and it is probably best to structure your design to allow only a single master software to perform data synchronization, instead of allowing multiple masters.  For example, in the typical PHP-distributed MySQL scenario, you would have one single master database which you write to, and multiple read-only slave databases to which the changes are replicated to.
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Open-Xchange plans to embed the MySQL database in its opens-source server.