A database solution is more than database software
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Do people normalise database designs in phones? Blog I was interested to read Ian Murphy's story about SQL Anywhere. Despite the availability of embedded databases, it seems to me that the database (in the DBMS sense) hasn't really come to mobile devices like phones yet. This is largely because of resource constraints - they're back in the 1970s mindset before enterprise databases really took off, using clever file systems for data storage (remember VSAM?).â¦
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As strange as it may sound, in some cases, it may be possible to avoid database recovery entirely. You might even question the wisdom of building enormous monolithic databases. There are a growing number of examples of application environments that employ an architecture consisting of multiple smaller databases with a common parallel query layer, making protection as well as scalability easier.
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Ziff Davis - Opinion: Linux is profoundly shaking up the database market, hopefully to customers' benefit.
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This paper introduces some techniques for making backups without needing to stop the business applications. It also describes ways to simplify and reduce the cost of system operations.
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Open source doesn't necessarily automatically translate into better paid support for customers.  But it does offer a lot more options and aligns customers with vendors more tightly.
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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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Sun Microsystems hopes to make MySQL's open-source database more attractive to enterprise customers. But some existing MySQL users say Sun has a lot of work ahead of it.
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No alarm. No idea Leaked information from databases is becoming an increasingly serious concern, yet when it comes to plugging the wholes many organisations are running so many databases they hardly know where to start.â¦
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In the software business, you can't just sit around--there's always a new feature to add or the Joneses to keep up with.
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As important as a physical supply chain Readers may recall that I wrote last year about Silver Creek SystemsÂ®. At that time I extolled its capabilities for product data quality (matching, cleansing and classification) through the use of semantically-based content profiling and attribute identification. This is particularly relevant when information comes into the organization in unstructured formats as most conventional data quality tools have historically been limited to support for structured information.â¦
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(Source: Oracle)  Today, businesses of all sizes compete head-to-head for customers, suppliers,partners and - importantly - market share of mind. In order to compete successfully with larger, better-equipped organizations, midsize businesses are looking increasingly at the benefits of implementing fail-safe database management and storage systems. This white paper identifies the key decision factors in making the move to a high availability solution, and how clustered database software from Oracle - Oracle Real Application Clusters - provides midsize businesses with a fault-tolerant, scalable and cost-effective solution to their growing needs.
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MySQL developers turn to an unlikely source for database tool: Microsoft. Also: SGI visualizes Linux, and the return of Java veteran Kim Polese.
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Masala, an add-on to IBM's DB2 database, queries far-flung info sources on company networks.
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On his blog today, Mike Lively has posted about the work h's done to create a database extension for the popular unit testing software for PHP, PHPUnit.   For those that may not have read any of my previous postings on the subject the goal of this software is to extend the functionality of PHPUnit to allow using seed data to put a given database into a known state prior to executing each test. It also provides an easy mechanism to compare database contents with an expected dataset.   Mike has just completed the initial feature set for his project - more or less a port of DBUnit over to PHP. The post includes not only details about this initial release but also code that demonstrates its use. In his example, it's used to validate that a bank account has been created properly by comparng database information before and after the insert.
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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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The fragmented  software business is growing up.
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Back in the days of stone knives and bearskins applications were  things that were written in cretinous languages like COBOL that  ran on wierd 71 bit architectures and used messed up file formats like  JCL and VSAM files or whatever.  What's a 'Data Division'?  Some whiny  80s band from Manchester?      Of course today we are so much  smarter.  If you look at the evolution, from ML, to branched languages  to structured programming to OOP, and from 3270 applications, to PC  apps to client server to web apps, you can clearly see how the  applications programmer transformed himself from knuckle dragging  simian to homo sapiens. That's the stereotype, right?    We have a name for all that old stuff, a pejorative name:  'legacy'.[1]   I'm here to tell you that the web application is the new  legacy.