| 30 Software - DataBase Resources |
| 10 essential MySQL tools for admins |
| MySQL is a complex system that requires many tools to repair, diagnose, and optimize it. Fortunately for admins, MySQL has attracted a vibrant community of developers who are putting out high-quality open source tools to help with the complexity, performance, and health of MySQL systems, most of which are available for free. |
| August 1, 2011 |
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| Argentum Software |
| Argentum Corporation - Cataloging Software, Backup Software, Database Software. |
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| Convert MySQL to MSSQL |
| MS Access to MySQL converter tool safely converts the database tables or records with password protected records. |
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| Couchbase Improves NoSQL Performance |
| CouchDB open source NoSQL database get a major tech infusion geared around speed. |
| June 17, 2011 |
| Couchbase Unleashes Open Source NoSQL Database |
| What happens when you bring together two open source database technologies? In the case of vendors Membase and CouchOne, you end up with a new company called Couchbase and a new product called the Couchbase Server. |
| March 16, 2011 |
| CouchBase, SQLite Launch Unified NoSQL Query Language |
| Hoping to unify the growing but disparate market of NoSQL databases, the creators behind CouchDB and SQLite have introduced a new query language for the format, called UnQL (Unstructured Data Query Language). |
| July 29, 2011 |
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| Database DebunkIing |
| Site dedicated to dispelling fallacies and misconceptions prevailing in the database industry. |
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| Database Normalization and Table structures |
| Normalisation is the term used to describe how you break a file down into tables to create a database. There are 3 or 4 major steps involved known as 1NF (First Normal Form), 2NF (Second Normal Form), 3NF (Third Normal Form) and BCNF (Boyce-Codd Normal Form). |
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| Database Research at Waterloo |
| Research areas include traditional relational database systems, complex objects, geometric data, text, and real-time data. |
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| Database Research Group, University of Maryland |
| Information on people, projects, courses and database-related events and activities. |
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| David Consulting Group |
| DCG services include software metrics, software process improvement and outsourcing. |
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| Drizzle Pours Down Open Source MySQL Database Fork |
| Nearly three years later, Drizzle is now Generally Available (GA), as a new open source database that takes a different path than its MySQL roots. Drizzle originally had the backing of Sun, but I don't think that Oracle ever really cared for it. |
| March 18, 2011 |
| Drizzle: Big-Data-happy MySQL fork debuts |
| Drizzle -- a lightweight fork of Oracle's MySQL database for cloud computing -- has been released by open sourcers. |
| March 16, 2011 |
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| Erlangen University Department of Database Systems |
| Research projects include data warehousing, scientific database management, workflow management, and distributed data. |
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| Five Things You Need to Know About MySQL |
| Rumors of its demise have been greatly exaggerated. Open-source advocates feared that Oracle, which gained ownership of the open-source MySQL database through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, would choke off its development in order to protect the proprietary Oracle 11g database. That hasn't happened so far, as evidenced by two significant MySQL updates this year alone that provided features like additional scalability and better performance on Windows. |
| May 26, 2011 |
| First look: Oracle NoSQL Database |
| Oracle's take on the distributed key-value data store is fast, flexible, and enterprise-grade serious |
| November 16, 2011 |
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| Google Adds Cloud-based SQL Database to App Engine |
| Google has created a relational database for its cloud-hosted App Engine application development and hosting platform, a much-requested addition, the company said on Thursday. |
| October 06, 2011 |
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| Hadoop finds niche alongside conventional database systems |
| The growing need for companies to manage surging volumes of structured and unstructured data is continuing to propel enterprise use of open-source Apache Hadoop software. |
| August 22, 2011 |
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| Microsoft Adds Hadoop Support to SQL Server, Data Warehouse |
| Microsoft is responding to the "Big Data" movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse platform. |
| August 9, 2011 |
| Microsoft brings Hadoop option to SQL Server |
| Microsoft customers running SQL Server are getting a taste of really big data processing through an injection of Hadoop. |
| August 31, 2011 |
| MySQL Hits New Development Milestone |
| Oracle is making the open-source MySQL database more stable and feature-rich through a shift in development philosophy, MySQL Vice President of Engineering Tomas Ulin said during a keynote address Monday at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. |
| October 03, 2011 |
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| NSA open sources Google database mimic |
| The US National Security Agency is open sourcing a distributed "NoSQL" database based on Google's proprietary BigTable platform. |
| September 6, 2011 |
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| Oracle further commercializes MySQL database |
| Only Enterprise Edition customers have access to new scalabilty, security and authentication features |
| September 16, 2011 |
| Oracle gives sneak peek at MySQL 5.6 features |
| Oracle on Monday announced a sneak peak at features slated for MySQL 5.6, the next version of its open-source database, that focus on improved scalability, integration and performance. |
| July 25, 2011 |
| Oracle goes after Microsoft SQL Server with MySQL |
| Oracle is making a fresh run at Microsoft's SQL Server, claiming on Tuesday that its open-source MySQL database offers up to 90 percent cost savings over SQL Server along with blazing performance on Windows. |
| March 15, 2011 |
| Oracle's 'Exadata mini' would aim for midmarket |
| If Oracle follows through on its midmarket Exadata box, the company would garner an extra $1 billion to $2 billion in revenue. |
| September 19, 2011 |
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| PostgreSQL 9.1 Syncs the Open Source Database |
| Next version of PostgreSQL includes new in-memory caching and synchronous replication features. |
| May 2, 2011 |
| PostgreSQL devs lift open source database to enterprise heights |
| The release of the first beta of version 9.1 of the open source PostgreSQL database has opened a new era in enterprise-class reliability and data integrity that can compete with the big names, say its developers. |
| May 6, 2011 |
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| SQL Queries -- beyond TRUE and FALSE |
| Most of the SQL novices are more accustomed to thinking in terms of two-valued logic (TRUE, FALSE) in SQL. But SQL uses three-valued logic -- TRUE, FALSE and UNKNOWN. It means that the value of an expression may be TRUE, FALSE or UNKNOWN. Confused? |
| August 20, 2011 |
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| Temporal Database Concepts |
| Defines a wide range of terms and concepts specific to the temporal database research community. |
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