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Sybase breaks ‘new’ ground with ‘In-Database’ business analytics
Blog Sybase says that IQ 15.1 is the, “Only high performance column-based analytics server that supports hundreds of statistical and data mining functions, executed completely in-database and supporting hundreds of concurrent users at high performance...
[July 14, 2009, 14:00 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
A Deeper Approach to Transaction Performance Management
Blog I asked for a contact of mine who works for a database company that operates with this type of technology for some guiding words on this subject and here's what I got. DBMS vendors are reportedly building more ‘smarts’ into their database engines...
[January 26, 2009, 23:41 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Heterogeneous surveillance tools for blended data shops
Blog Software products are available that act as real-time monitoring tools capable of overseeing an ‘entire’ database environment. I told him that products like this are sold on the basis of ‘allegedly’ offering unattended event management to monitor...
[March 16, 2009, 7:00 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
IBM eServer xSeries 226 8488 (Xeon 3GHz)
Member Review Bought this server for extensive web-application hosting i.e.runs web server, email server and database too. With 2GB of ram this monster seems to run fine and is giving good performance. I got this server very cheap than its original price from...
[February 22, 2006, 9:42]
Oracle is not the only database
Blog DataDirect’s latest Connect 4.0 database drivers for Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) have been released in a new standard format that the company says will support application failover in any database, for the first time.
[September 1, 2008, 23:20 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Hyper-warped-visor-consolidation Confabulation
Blog Depending on the application, having a SQL server of some type or other could conceivably serve multiple database applications. Consolidation could be as simple as just moving a database application(s) onto a partially utilized SQL server and not...
[July 8, 2008, 2:38 in Homebrew Blog by Xwindowsjunkie]
Firefox flaw sparks a fiery debate
Talkback There's also the Open Source Vulnerability Database to research at http://www.osvdb.org Or the US-CERT Vulnerability Notes Database at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls The price is right (I don't have to buy XP and then install SP2 to get the latest fix...
About: Firefox flaw sparks a fiery debate
[January 7, 2005, 20:51]
Scaling in the Cloud - the secret pitfalls
Blog You get an increase in the number of demands for the database? This is particularly true when the application needs to provide high performance across a range of cloud resources, making overall performance contingent on a lot of unrelated factors...
[November 25, 2008, 11:44 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Massive but Agile: next-gen databases prepare for battle
Blog With backing from Intel, Ingres and VectorWise are attempting to build a database engine that derives an increased quotient of its power from modern hardware processor and storage performance. If there were a single database guru out there to...
[July 29, 2009, 13:38 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Windows 7 Search-Run
Blog Back in the days when Windows had a project name of “Longhorn”, one of its potential features was a relational database driving the file system, i.e. The performance advantage to users is minimal even on high performance hardware.
[May 26, 2009, 4:50 in Reviews Blog by Xwindowsjunkie]
Nokia E71 firmware update fixes camera
Blog Operator name database updated I installed it this afternoon, of course taking care to back everything up first so I could do a simple restoration afterwards (some people are suggesting it's better to manually resync everything so as to get optimum...
[January 13, 2009, 16:31 in Reviews Blog by David Meyer]
EPEAT greener IT product ratings
Talkback For more information on participating manufacturers and purchasers, and to search the product database, see www.epeat.net . For those looking to comply with the Socitm recommendations in short order, the EPEAT greener computer purchasing standard...
About: Socitm urges councils to go green
[December 7, 2007, 14:20 by greengirl]
In search of the perfect backup solution
Talkback If it comes to remote replication of a database, we have to consider the trade-off between system's reliability and performance. If CDP is a perfect backup functionality, it should be a part of DBMS rather than an independent storage solution.
About: In search of the perfect backup solution
[May 5, 2005, 20:00]
SiO2 is cheaper than Cu
Talkback High performance servers and storage already use fiber connections for "virtualizing" storage for network users and database systems. Some time back I attended an Intel presentation of what they thought the ultimate progression would be for inter...
About: Dialogue Box 7.7: A first look at USB 3.0
[December 18, 2009, 7:00 by Xwindowsjunkie]
Norton AntiVirus 2004
Member Review The auto-update works fine and every time I read a news story on a new virus, I manually check I have the latest versions of the database files. For the 10-15 machines I regularly maintain, I have experienced no installation problems, no noticeable...
[March 17, 2004, 8:40]
Data in space: no one can you hear you scream
Blog NASA’s own Intelligent Spacecraft Interface Systems lab works with data inside an integrated tool using an empirical database which computer science personnel are using to develop and validate computational models of human behaviour and human...
[August 26, 2009, 17:41 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Anyone who's used BitTorrent will know how it does things that nothing else can match: go to Oracle and ask for a database that can deliver gigabyte images from an exabyte store at 10Mbps. That's the sort of performance BitTorrent users get with a...
[October 27, 2006, 18:40 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
They can't be serious...
Blog Think we've got an uproar going on against the idea of a centralised database of medical histories just here in the UK? Fixing one problem can often lead to another," she continued, going on to say that if "assisted living" keeps people out of A&E...
[January 24, 2007, 13:50 in News Blog by David Meyer]
If software companies were movie stars…
Blog Amusingly, I was speaking to Sybase about this idea and they would rather be known as Ron Howard - and I quote, “Both went through a rough point, Ron had trouble transitioning from a childhood star to an adult actor and Sybase had trouble keeping...
[October 30, 2009, 7:46 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Patent nonsense revisited
Blog We decided that everything - word processor, graphics, spreadsheet - could be considered as special cases of a database which stored just two things: information contained in a small variety of data types, and interrelationships.
[January 29, 2008, 21:27 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
