Oracle uses Apple storage gear
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Apple Computer&#39;s rack-mounted storage system received a vote of confidence Monday, with database giant Oracle endorsing the Xserve RAID as part of an initiative to cut storage costs.
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Christopher Jones talks today on his blog about a bug he's just corrected and integrated into the release of the Oracle Instant Client that lets PHP correctly take advantage of the temporary LOBS functionality.   When PHP is done with the temporary LOB, it needs to tell Oracle to destroy it. If this isn't done, then the temporary LOB will hang around using DB space until the connection is closed. I just merged a fix worked on by Krishna Mohan and myself for bug 43497.   Example code is included showing two instances of its use - a normal use that frees the memory correctly and the other showing how to create the temporary lob to hold the data as needed.
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Blog: Sun says that Apple's forthcoming Leopard operating system will use the next-generation file system called ZFS
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Executive handbags A slanging match has erupted between Oracle and SAP as the Silicon Valley giant tries to burnish its business apps credectials.â¦
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Decide to do something about portable data storage now rather than later. Let your auditors and risk management staff know that 4GB dip sticks are here, and 1.6TB gel disks are around the corner.
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Premium product Rumours that Apple is working on a sub-notebook computer were given weight this week when a Wall Street analyst claimed the ultra-compact MacBook will use Flash storage.â¦
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Blog: Upgrades based on purchase history allows users to recover previously purchased and lost iTunes files
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âBento,â says Stephen H. Wildstrom  âtakes the essence of FileMaker Pro, a database-management program aimed at small- and midsize businesses, and marries it to Macâs new Leopard operating system. The result is a powerful organizing tool anyone can use.â
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Oracle has released the Windows version of its flagship 11g database, a few months after the company&#160;shipped the Linux version. Along with assorted performance improvements, the Windows release features beefed-up integration with Microsoft&#39;s platform on both the administrative and developer levels.Administrators can now execute backup and recovery jobs with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service, according to Oracle. The database also features tight links with Microsoft&#39;s Visual Studio integrated development environment, the company said.Even as Oracle adds richer support for the Windows platform into 11g -- a result of a working partnership between the two companies -- it is competing vigorously with Microsoft in the database market. Microsoft is set to launch&#160;SQL Server 2008&#160;in February.Other new features in 11g include:-- Oracle Real Application Testing. This enables customers to use real-life production workloads to test the effect of potential changes within IT environments, before actually conducting the change, the company says.-- Oracle Advanced Compression, which can compress data by three times or more, according to the company.-- Oracle Total Recall, a system for querying historical changes to data.Pricing information was not provided.
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A look at Oracle, ParAccel and Calpont A lot has been happening on the data warehousing front lately. Earlier this summer, Oracle announced its Information Appliance initiative and, in particular, a partnership with PANTA Systems. Then, more recently, ParAccel has announced a product re-positioning, Calpont is finally talking about its entry into the market, and both DATAllegro and Netezza have announced new product releases. In this article I am going to discuss Oracle, ParAccel and Calpont (for reasons which will become obvious) while in the second part I will direct my attention towards DATAllegro and Netezza.â¦
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Apple executives at WWDC said that Mac OS X Leopard will not use Sun's ZFS 128-bit file system, contrary to reports that surfaced last week. Apparently, somebody forgot to tell Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who told a conference that Apple would announce the switch Monday.
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It's the preferred tool for Mac OS X Server file sharing and user management. Ryan Faas gives you tips and tricks for how to make it work for you.
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FileMaker today announced the immediate availability of Bento, its stylish personal database. With an iTunes-inspired interface, Bento offers you an easy way to organizeâin one convenient placeâall your contacts, calendars, projects, events, media, and other data. Affordably priced at just $49 ($99 for a five-license family pack), Bento runs on Mac computers running Leopard.
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TechWeb - Oracle has launched software that the company says is designed to provide &quot;low-cost&quot; management of Office documents, PDF and image files, and other unstructured data.
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While Wednesday marked the official unveiling of Oracle Corp.&#39;s 11g database and a look at its new features, pricing and availability information was pretty thin on the ground. All the vendor would confirm is that the Linux version of 11g will ship this quarter, probably in August.
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Storage Expo Iomega punts a hard disk autoloader
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While Mac users get busy running Windows virtually, what's Apple got cooking? In Monkey Bites.