7/02
Interviews with customers and vendors of open source and commercial databases provide a look at various aspects of what open source databases are offering today at a high level and how they stack up against their commercial counterparts from a business perspective. 3/06
You are probably still pumping data in and out of a database, just as we all
did a decade or more ago. That makes it all the more surprising that
mistakes are still being made that date back to the good old days of Windows
95 and before.
8/16
Jon Oltsik has spent some time lately speaking to database vendors and third-party security vendors about database security tools. Read on to see what he's learned so far.
3/08
Ian Gilfillan examines variety of open source database solutions.
4/21
As companies accumulate increasing volumes of enterprise data,
managing, accessing and storing this information cost effectively is one of the most critical IT challenges. As a result, the trend toward Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is giving rise to a class of solutions designed to help companies meet these goals, and database archiving is a critical component in any ILM implementation.
12/18
Since the building of data warehouses began, the perceived wisdom has been to maintain a separation between the data warehouse and the company's operational systems. Today, while this 'separatist' thinking still dominates among many data warehousing professionals, the approach is being questioned. Evolving wisdom is to consider alternatives to the implementation of a traditional warehouse solution, where operational systems are capable of living in harmony with the data warehouse.
12/08
Snapbridge Software reveals its patent-pending technology for real-time integration of large amounts of data from multi-data sources.
10/31
View Microsoft Access, Excel, Oracle, Foxpro, dBase, any ODBC enable database on Palm.
10/24
Learn how to use the DBI module to interface between Perl and relational databases.
10/20
This article discusses a solution to import MS Excel, MS Access, XML data to local or Remote MySQL databases by using a MySQL Admin Tool called Navicat.
10/08
Alexander Chigrik compares SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Access regarding price, platforms supported, features, and product limitations.
9/10
Alexander Chigrik compares Oracle 9i with DB2 Universal Database v.8.1 regarding price, platforms supported, features, and product limits.
7/15
Ian Gilfillan continues his series on the ADOdb class library for PHP. This month he examines some of the more advanced features such as, caching queries, getting more information about your results, limiting your results and transactions.
6/17
A common beginner (and not so beginner) mistake is to develop an application without any consideration of the future. All too often, applications remain tied to the wrong database, inflexible and not performing optimally. That's where using a well-designed database class library can make all the difference. This month Ian Gilfillan gets you up and running with a brief introduction to ADOdb, with more detail to follow in subsequent articles.
5/15
A DBAs true value is not only to maintain database order but also to provide technical
advantages to the company. Join James Koopmann as he breaks out of the cubical shell
with a mission to 'make an impact.'
