items tagged with Databases
Sequoia Voting System database laid bare but no secrets found
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-10-21 08:36:08
Liberal US shock-blog Daily Kos gained legal access to the database used by electronic voting machines produced by Sequoia Voting Systems. The Daily Kos sensationally claimed the database violated Federal voting law. A closer examination gives a different story.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-10-21 08:36:08
Liberal US shock-blog Daily Kos gained legal access to the database used by electronic voting machines produced by Sequoia Voting Systems. The Daily Kos sensationally claimed the database violated Federal voting law. A closer examination gives a different story.
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DB2 the go for SAP, crows IBM
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2009-09-16 03:17:48
IBM claims "hundreds" of SAP users are getting better performance at lower cost by adopting DB2 in place of Oracle Database.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2009-09-16 03:17:48
IBM claims "hundreds" of SAP users are getting better performance at lower cost by adopting DB2 in place of Oracle Database.
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Teradata takes the temperature of data to cut storage costs
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2009-08-25 18:38:07
Teradata claims its new technology for transparently using cheaper drives can reduce the marginal cost of data warehouse storage by a factor of 10. It works by taking the 'temperature' of data.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Storage
2009-08-25 18:38:07
Teradata claims its new technology for transparently using cheaper drives can reduce the marginal cost of data warehouse storage by a factor of 10. It works by taking the 'temperature' of data.
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Australian data breaches on the increase
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-10 22:01:04
Almost 70 percent of Australian businesses and organisations were hit by one or more data breach incidents in the past year, a major increase on the situation in the previous 12 months.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-10 22:01:04
Almost 70 percent of Australian businesses and organisations were hit by one or more data breach incidents in the past year, a major increase on the situation in the previous 12 months.
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Lucky 13 for Teradata users?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-02 23:38:51
Teradata claims the latest release of its software has nearly 100 new features and delivers significant performance improvement.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-02 23:38:51
Teradata claims the latest release of its software has nearly 100 new features and delivers significant performance improvement.
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Mobile medicines info for health professionals
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-07-14 04:53:42
Australian mobile marketing company, m.Net, has partnered with medical information company, MIMS, to develop a mobile version of the MIMS medicines information resource for health professionals.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-07-14 04:53:42
Australian mobile marketing company, m.Net, has partnered with medical information company, MIMS, to develop a mobile version of the MIMS medicines information resource for health professionals.
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Keep your spreadsheets off my SharePoint; make your own database in minutes
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-25 19:37:00
Hey you! Stop loading spreadsheets into Microsoft SharePoint. Excel may be simple to set up but you can do things differently for better results. You won’t have problems with concurrent edits and you won’t be dragging files across a WAN. Make your own SharePoint database in a couple of minutes.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-25 19:37:00
Hey you! Stop loading spreadsheets into Microsoft SharePoint. Excel may be simple to set up but you can do things differently for better results. You won’t have problems with concurrent edits and you won’t be dragging files across a WAN. Make your own SharePoint database in a couple of minutes.
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Not all databases are created equal
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-05-11 03:09:17
Software companies hurt their products by writing database engines when they’re not a database company, and by marketing teams who don’t understand why the database is important.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-05-11 03:09:17
Software companies hurt their products by writing database engines when they’re not a database company, and by marketing teams who don’t understand why the database is important.
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Book review: Programming Microsoft LINQ
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-03-01 00:06:58
LINQ promises programmers the ability to query data from any source within Visual Basic or C#. "Programming Microsoft LINQ," from Microsoft Press, is a tremendously detailed and helpful guide to the .NET Framework 3.5's LINQ implementation, within Visual Studio 2008.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-03-01 00:06:58
LINQ promises programmers the ability to query data from any source within Visual Basic or C#. "Programming Microsoft LINQ," from Microsoft Press, is a tremendously detailed and helpful guide to the .NET Framework 3.5's LINQ implementation, within Visual Studio 2008.
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MySQL forks: Monty splits from Sun
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-25 07:38:11
Sometimes open source projects "fork." Disagreements over direction cause a splinter group to hive off and maintain their own separate code base. This is going to happen with well-known heavyweight FOSS staple, MySQL, after the original author quit Sun Microsystems earlier this month.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-25 07:38:11
Sometimes open source projects "fork." Disagreements over direction cause a splinter group to hive off and maintain their own separate code base. This is going to happen with well-known heavyweight FOSS staple, MySQL, after the original author quit Sun Microsystems earlier this month.
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Why 90% of production databases aren't indexed properly
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-18 05:55:42
Database design isn’t rocket science but, at the same time, it is a craft which must take into account how the database will be used. More often than not this doesn’t happen and businesses everywhere are losing billions of micro-seconds on underperforming databases due to simple lack of care.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-18 05:55:42
Database design isn’t rocket science but, at the same time, it is a craft which must take into account how the database will be used. More often than not this doesn’t happen and businesses everywhere are losing billions of micro-seconds on underperforming databases due to simple lack of care.
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Open source and open standards: the new economics of IT
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-11 22:36:01
Is open source part of the answer to the financial crisis? Ingres thinks so.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-11 22:36:01
Is open source part of the answer to the financial crisis? Ingres thinks so.
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IBM and Sybase cosy up to offer cheap data warehouse in a box
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2008-11-09 22:26:35
They may not have any customers in Australia yet but database specialist Sybase and big iron juggernaut IBM promise that a deal is not far away for a new cut price data warehouse appliance they have just announced.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2008-11-09 22:26:35
They may not have any customers in Australia yet but database specialist Sybase and big iron juggernaut IBM promise that a deal is not far away for a new cut price data warehouse appliance they have just announced.
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