As the open source faithful have gathered in Portland for the annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) Canonical, the company behind an ever popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, announced that it has paired up the latest version of the free DB2 Express-C v9.7 with the latest version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to deliver a free enterprise-grade cloud database appliance.
Not that kind of an appliance
Database appliances, especially for data warehousing, are all the rage. These database appliances deliver a package of hardware and database software that are put together and optimized by the DBMS vendor. Most of [...]
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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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This really interesting article just crossed my desk. It looks like Oracle’s latest SEC filing is a pretty good indication of massive layoffs still coming as a result of the SUN acquisition. There is no way to tell which part of the business the layoffs will be in but I wonder if MySQL is affected. MySQL is not exactly a cash cow for Oracle and the business seems to be drying up as many loyal MySQL customers are heading for alternative sources of support for MySQL. It is not really cool or fiscally responsible to get support for [...]
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Late night television has been almost a competitive and turbulent as database market of late. We have the whole Jay Leno vs. Conan O’Brien – The Tonight Show dilemma. Then there is Oprah Winfrey announcing end of her show. And then there is Charlie Sheen talking about quitting Two and a Half Men; now this one will hurt.
But I digress. Scott Hayes of Database-Brothers Inc. has decided to combine his love for databases and passion for good entertainment to start a DB2NightShow.com. The format is more like Tonight Show but there is no band. The jokes are [...]
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Larry Ellison has quite the reputation for shooting his mouth off . Ever since Oracle acquired Sun he has been on a tear driveling out half truths on a regular basis. I suspect he is doing this just because he can; he is Larry Ellison after all. So what if he gets fined $10K by TPC. That is a trivial expense compared to the marketing value his “rants” generate.
Well, we decided to poke some fun at Oracle. Why? Just because we can. [...]
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