BigDataOnCloud + FreeDB2 » SQL Server http://freedb2.com Big Data, Hadoop, free databases and a whole lot of Cloud Computing Thu, 10 May 2012 22:49:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Top 3 ways to return TOP 10 rows by an SQL query http://freedb2.com/2010/07/14/top-3-ways-to-return-top-10-rows-by-an-sql-query/ http://freedb2.com/2010/07/14/top-3-ways-to-return-top-10-rows-by-an-sql-query/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:01:03 +0000 Leon Katsnelson http://freedb2.com/?p=1273 Limiting amount of data returned by a database to an application is probably the easiest and the most effective way to improve performance your application. DB2 provides 3 ways of accomplishing this. You can use DB2 SQL FETCH FIRST n ROWS syntax. You can use SQL syntax of another DBMS like MySQL, Oracle or Sybase, or you can do this in a database independent way by using the capabilities provided by the database API you are using in your application code. [...]

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]]> http://freedb2.com/2010/07/14/top-3-ways-to-return-top-10-rows-by-an-sql-query/feed/ 7 Free DB2 vs Microsoft SQL Server and Talking up Cloud on the DB2Night Show http://freedb2.com/2009/12/02/free-db2-vs-microsoft-sql-server-and-talking-up-cloud-on-db2night-show/ http://freedb2.com/2009/12/02/free-db2-vs-microsoft-sql-server-and-talking-up-cloud-on-db2night-show/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:27:45 +0000 Leon Katsnelson http://freedb2.com/?p=1041 The next DB2Night Show episode on Friday December 4 (10am Central) will be a no holds barred comparison of the IBM DB2 Express-C and Microsoft SQL Server Express and we will throw in Oracle XE for good measure. We will also talk about Cloud Computing and its impact on database professionals. This is a must see episode so register now. [...]

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]]> http://freedb2.com/2009/12/02/free-db2-vs-microsoft-sql-server-and-talking-up-cloud-on-db2night-show/feed/ 4 DB2 Express-C helps Russian ISV improve performance 5-10 times http://freedb2.com/2009/09/23/db2-express-c-helps-russian-isv-improve-performance-5-10-times/ http://freedb2.com/2009/09/23/db2-express-c-helps-russian-isv-improve-performance-5-10-times/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:14:32 +0000 Leon Katsnelson http://freedb2.com/?p=891 If you spend any time in the fast growing Russian IT market there is one name you will no doubt be familiar with. I am not talking about Microsoft, Oracle, HP or even IBM. A company with a very short name “1C” is an icon of the Russian IT economy. Founded in 1991, 1C helped the newly formed Russian companies to get proper accounting and other financial management footing to be able to compete on the local markets and to enter and, in many cases, lead in the global economy. 1C is a major software distributor and an award winning game developer. If you like combat [...]

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]]> http://freedb2.com/2009/09/23/db2-express-c-helps-russian-isv-improve-performance-5-10-times/feed/ 1 Microsoft announce free Office 2010 … kinda http://freedb2.com/2009/07/15/microsoft-announce-free-office-2010-kinda/ http://freedb2.com/2009/07/15/microsoft-announce-free-office-2010-kinda/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:51:17 +0000 Leon Katsnelson http://freedb2.com/?p=589 Cloud based version of Microsoft Office 2010 is supposed to be a free offering. Will Microsoft really set Office free or will it cripple it like it did with SQL Server Express to protect revenue. [...]

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]]> http://freedb2.com/2009/07/15/microsoft-announce-free-office-2010-kinda/feed/ 1 Database Security: DB2 vs MySQL and how to make a million … http://freedb2.com/2009/07/10/database-security-db2-vs-mysql-and-how-to-make-a-million/ http://freedb2.com/2009/07/10/database-security-db2-vs-mysql-and-how-to-make-a-million/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:35:16 +0000 Leon Katsnelson http://freedb2.com/?p=554 I recently blogged about Oracle killing one of its recent acquisitions a company called Virtual Iron. I posed a question if the same fate awaits MySQL. This proved to be a popular post and there was no shortage of comments. One particular comment identified what the person believes is a shortcoming of DB2:

The way DB2 manages users — via the OS — is a large hurdle for people coming from MySql (or any other DBMS for what that matters). DB2 express will never flourish before they provide user management like MySql and MS Sql have.

Brad Perkins replied that [...]

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]]> http://freedb2.com/2009/07/10/database-security-db2-vs-mysql-and-how-to-make-a-million/feed/ 8 Microsoft SQL Server under attack http://freedb2.com/2009/05/22/microsoft-sql-server-under-attack/ http://freedb2.com/2009/05/22/microsoft-sql-server-under-attack/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 05:23:16 +0000 Leon Katsnelson http://freedb2.com/?p=449 Arbour Networks knows a thing or two about internet security as their gear is used by most top tier ISPs. They run an interesting internet threat analysis service at http://atlas.arbor.net/. I’ve been watching it for the past couple of weeks. During this time Microsoft SQL Server has consistently been the top attack target. Not only has SQL Server been a consistent target, it has been a target for over 50% of all attacks.

SQL Server under attack

Now, I don’t want to come across as bashing SQL Server. I am not one of those people who will claim that Microsoft [...]

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]]> http://freedb2.com/2009/05/22/microsoft-sql-server-under-attack/feed/ 1 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP3 out on Microsoft Update http://freedb2.com/2009/03/20/microsoft-sql-server-2005-express-edition-sp3-out-on-microsoft-update/ http://freedb2.com/2009/03/20/microsoft-sql-server-2005-express-edition-sp3-out-on-microsoft-update/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:08:49 +0000 Leon Katsnelson http://freedb2.com/?p=345 The nice part about Microsoft SQL Server Express is that unlike Oracle XE, you can count on getting updates. There hasn't been an update to Oracle XE since, well never, and that is despite the fact that it has a gazillion security vulnerabilities that have been addressed in the paid versions of Oracle database. [...]

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]]> http://freedb2.com/2009/03/20/microsoft-sql-server-2005-express-edition-sp3-out-on-microsoft-update/feed/ 1 The demise of the open source fanatic http://freedb2.com/2008/08/03/the-demise-of-the-open-source-fanatic/ http://freedb2.com/2008/08/03/the-demise-of-the-open-source-fanatic/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:02:29 +0000 Leon Katsnelson http://freedb2.com/?p=61 I spent the last week in Portland at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention also known as OSCON. We were part of the IBM exhibit talking to people about DB2 Express-C. OSCON is an interesting conference. Basically it is a big lovefest for the open source guys. Imagine about 2500 geeks all assembled in a single place for a week to talk about free software. The best part for me is that OSCON is not fixated on Linux. There were plenty of tutorials and talks on PHP, Python, Django, Ruby on Rails and of course databases. As one would expect there [...]

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